No words to describe the experience of seeing an overhead corona aurora at THE SAME TIME as a total lunar eclipse--this happened last night on our aurora workshop. Crazy experience. The aurora was so bright and the snow glowed green under the blood moon.

At the tip of this arrow, there is a 290 million years old impression of a cloaca from a fossilised reptile of the Goldlauter Formation in Germany. It’s the oldest known butthole. #PaleoSky ⚒️

It is not required to be batshit crazy to be Orthodox; merely insane will be quite sufficient.

New specimen of Alnashetri shows it to be a late-surviving non-alvarezsaurid alvarezsaur retaining unreduced forelimbs and representing an independent evolution of miniaturization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 (📷Makovicky et al.)

I swear, people should hire me to illustrate YA dinosaur books. I'm tired of traced and copied art, AI, jarringly outdated info, dragons (for some reason?), or "it's a kid's book so it won't matter if the T. rex had 3 fingers" cases. I'm here to bring you tasty paleoart to the mainstream.

@csmfht.bsky.social I'm not sure if Tolkien is in your wheelhouse, but I thought you and your followers might appreciate that someone created Ancient Greek-style pottery for the Silmarillion! www.tumblr.com/mahtaniel/80...

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Also then he wouldn’t have any money, and I’d pay $2,000 to make that happen

Warhammer girl winter

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

For those interested in @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social's Formation pieces. I finally got around to updating the interactive map for them all! (unfortunately I am quite busy so updates can get sparse) montanoceratops.github.io/Formations/

Dimetrodon is honestly one of the coolest creatures ever and deserves more recognition

It’s tangential to his relationship with Epstein, but remember Jack Horner rose to fame by claim jumping Marion Brandvold. She found Egg Mountain and the baby Maiasaura, loaned them to Jack, and had to sue to get them back - returned in 2004.

One thing I keep thinking about is how Hereward the Wake was just a messy party boy until William’s thugs messed with his family. Then he launched a rebellion and nearly brought down the House of Normandy.

Okay so a D&D campaign where the party is primarily a group of Surveyors sent out to perform the first known geological survey of Faerûn would be a lot of fun.

(1) Long 🧵 Time. Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...

Very special #FossilFriday, pleased to announced that we have a new paper out on reconstructing the ecosystem of Dry Mesa Quarry in the Morrison Formation We used modern ecological techniques to quantity and model the ecosystem Feel sorry for the baby Sauropods 😞 🦕🦕 Sergey Krasovskiy +Pedro Salas

“So much for the tolerant left” - I AM NOT THE TOLERANT LEFT, I AM THE BASTARD LEFT WHO WANTS TO SET FASCISTS ON FIRE.

It'll be interesting to see how certain media outlets cover this, I think

Funnily, this 18th century drawing misinterpreted by European naturalists, with time, resembles an actual Chinese "chimera-like" bird-line dinosaurs, the scansoriopterygids.

Anyway time to go to work, haha. Rent's due every month, hahaha. Feels great and normal hahahahah

made this forever ago, it doesn't distinguish between "people who like lore" and "people who use knowledge of lore to claim they are better fans", and it should have 👍

Whenever someone remarks that any given bird 'looks like a dinosaur,' I need you to understand the monumental restraint it requires for me not to immediately reply like a smartypants with 'that's because it _is_ one.'

Excited to share our new investigation of Prototaxites! We found no support for a fungal affinity and instead suggest it is best considered an entirely extinct complex eukaryotic lineage Great team effort @transitionalform.bsky.social Corentin Loron, and many others! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm sorry, doing the right thing is going to require a modicum of moral courage, and these motherfuckers manifestly don't have it. You don't need to feel bad for them. They can all eat shit, and I hope they have nightmares about what they're doing until their dying day.

they should invent a lemon bar or a key lime pie that materializes when you want them

the other day my 8yo said Spanish was his third language. then he counted "uno, dos, tres..." all the way up to "nueve" and then said "uh, i forget." i said "diez?" and this kid straight up replied "diez nuts"

Coldest take of all time, but horseshoe crabs are funny little guys and I like them

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Trying to be someone who gives myself grace, failing at every turn and trying to extend grace to that too

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

@patrickwyman.bsky.social are you going to do any book signing events in Arizona? Especially in Phoenix or parts further north? (If you do, I promise to show up in either my Bronze-age garb or Scythian garb, your choice.)

Everyone loves a rebel song! With contributions from @asherelbein.bsky.social , @halduncan.com , @maybewill.bsky.social , and yours truly:

I like video games now ~ An indie game studio in South Africa Nyamakop's upcoming game, Relooted, is a heist adventure that allows players to steal back African artifacts from Western museums. Players are part of a rogue crew on a stealth mission to recover over 70 African artifacts,

current mood

Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven) archives.yale.edu/repositories...

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm

Thinking about starter Pokemon for California and cracking up thinking of a Western Fence lizard Grass/Fighting type that does pushups like the real ones do 🤣

Saws, scissors, and more, the oceans used to be full of huge ratfish relatives with amazing teeth. So what happened to them? I dive in over at Smithsonian Magazine. 🧪

CHECK OUT OUR SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S EDITION OF SORROWSCOPES! TELL YOU FRIENDS. TELL YOUR ENEMIES. TELL THE MONSTER INSIDE YOU THAT WILL NEVER BE SLAIN

New material of Ajkaceratops cements its identity as a ceratopsian, but adds a new wrinkle. It turns out that many european ornithischians previously classified as iguanodontians may actually be ceratopsians! New paper by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social et al., that I provided art for (link in reply).

Like the raptor says

I have a submission for @nytpitchbot.bsky.social if you're down. Editorial: I will support the conquest of Greenland only if the American Birding Association will thereby formally include it in within the Continental US listing category: I need Ivory Gull for my life list. By: Brant J. Chaffinch.

kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"