in anticipation for next month, lemme flex

Introduce a three-headed dragon to the scenario, and things will either improve significantly, or get much, much worse

Reconstructed skull of Eunotosaurus africanus, an early reptile from the Permian of southern Africa. 🐢 Long hypothesized to be an ancient ancestor of turtles, recent work led by @semifossorial.bsky.social shows this curious creature is instead a 'turtleized' millerettid. (1/🧵) #FossilFriday

It's Pride Month, so I made this illustration. Yeah, it's because there are rainbows—that's the whole point of the tribute. It's not like I racked my brain over it, but whenever I want to show support or celebrate these things, I always get this “I-don't-know-what-to-do” feeling.

I’m excited to be able to share this news with you all. I’ve been commissioned by University of Nebraska State Museum to illustrate a book telling the story of Archie - the famous (and largest) Columbian mammoth. (1/4)

MEGALOSAURUS representation over the decades⌛ #megalosaurus #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaurs #theropoda #crystalpalacedinosaurs

Moving on from the big and beefy to the small and scamper-y, we have the metre-and-a-half-long Pseudhesperosuchus! This lanky little guy is an early crocodylomorph - a group that includes modern crocodilians and kin. Size comparison below ⬇️

WOW. This unfinished diorama hall is retrofitted into a meta-exhibit about museum dioramas—how they’re made, their history, and their shortcomings. Do not miss!!!

So, some news: www.popsci.com/science/pbs-... We made a tv show! 🎉 #scicomm #paleontology

🦖🌋👀 www.popsci.com/science/pbs-...

While criticizing the quality of recent paleontology documentaries, remember: it could always be worse

Doing my best to make every new taxon I author at least as good a name as the Iron Hog (Aulacephalodon kapoliwacela)

Beaks of the Permo-Triassic: a morpho-functional analysis at the dawn of a novel structure in tetrapod evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This grumpy fella is Jachaleria, the only dicynodont known from the Los Colorados Formation! I always think of dicynodonts a bit like modern hippos or rhinos - big, beefy, and easily annoyed. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

NEW: Meta backing KOSA further exposes what we've been saying all along: KOSA isn't about Big Tech accountability. It's actually a gift to Silicon Valley giants, letting them continue data harvesting while leaving their predatory business model untouched. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

Today’s four random pieces of palaeoart: Donna Braginetz’ Struthiomimus, Diana Magnuson’s Megalosaurus, William Scheele’s Cladoselache, and Anthony Rao’s Diplodocus!

In which it turns out the taxon that I am leaning an argument in this paper heavily on has not been seen in the wild since 1996

Pterosaurs of the Western Interior Seaway! These prehistoric reptiles are known from fossils found in the Great Plains in places which were once covered by a shallow inland sea during the late Cretaceous period!

The main utility of AI is revealing the suckers of our society

This month, SVP stands in proud support of our LGBTQIA+ community. Complex and expansive expressions of gender and sexuality are as natural as they are ancient. It is imperative to protect the rights of all people, celebrating the diversity that strengthens our society. Art: @emmalerae.bsky.social

my current mental state Mesozoic Mind from Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time (1987) performed by Charmer

🚨 New Paper 🚨 - Landi et al. present a morphometric study on the morpho-functional diversity of beaked terrestrial tetrapods across the Permo-Triassic ⬇️ Great to see this published & have been a part of this project! #Paleontology #Ecomorphology #Triassic #Science dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala...

#TrilobiteTuesday Ever wondered what the underside of a trilobite looked like? The answer can be found in this model trilobite I stumbled across languishing on a desk in the NHM last week.

Has it been estimated at what point in the future the oil fueling the La Brea tar pits will stop seeping to the surface?

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

DINOSAURS ARE COOL TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT

#Sciart #Paleoart #Dinosaur Ancestors and Descendants

Continuing with the first episode of Surviving Earth (which premiered last Thursday on NBC/Friday on Peacock) here is another look at one of the animals for which I created the concept design. Meet the super cute Elph borealis, a small Late Permian dicynodont

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Alpha male 👎 Beachmaster 👍

Please take the time to contact your representatives and demand that KOSA and other bills are OPPOSED You dont need a big script, you just need to say "i dont want this, oppose these bills" www.congress.gov/members/find...

Avian dinosaurs rock.

This is one of those things that kills me. The stuff that people accept from AI art would get any professional fired

real photo of me, @skyemcdavid.com and @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social at svp last year

Live Cymbospondylus reactions #SurvivingEarth

#FossilFriday In honor of #SurvivingEarth, the giant gorgonopsian Inostrancevia

I’m a fan of this piece by Felipe Elias, most of all for being a speculative interpretation of how two real fossils came to be. In this case the holotypes of Spectrovenator and Tapuisaurus; the former was found underneath the latter.

The captain of the time pirates has a tapejarid on her shoulder

I largely agree with this! While I do love it when these projects try their best to reconstruct their animals, it is not inherently harmful if the animal has the wrong number of fingers. However, there *are* tangibly harmful layers to this form of sci-comm which I'm much more wary of. (1/3)

thinking about her ❤️ Jurassic Park was released in theaters on this day in 1993.

Johanna Gabriela Ottilie “Tilly” Edinger dedicated her career to studying ancient brains. It saved her life

The old Morrison Planetarium projector is one of the coolest looking things ever. The absolute contraption

After Project Hail Mary, any alien in a serious sci fi film that’s any more humanoid than a worm on a string will be somewhat of a disappointment

The movie would be better if the guy just died and the movie just followed an anthropophagous sperm whale with nefarious motives the entire time

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

More Moropus content, today at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

Major new paper for #paleoart by Terras et al. on extra-oral tissues (lips, cheeks etc.) in Triassic archosauromorphs. They conclude what a lot of us have been saying for a while now: lipped mouths should be the starting point for restoring fossil reptiles. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some of y'all might like this thing my friend did:

Music that gets you doing a theropod style walk

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