Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus, and Helicoprion.

Reminder for those attending the annual meeting: There’s an app for that! Check your email for “There's an app for 2025 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting!” to find the access link and instructions. #2025SVP

DINOVEMBER 2025 Day 1-4 #dinovember Velociraptor 🦖 Spicomellus 🦖 Corythosaurus 🦖 Ceratosaurus

No dinosaurs underwent a conceptual transformation as significant as the one undergone by troodontids. We went from creepy monsters, often presented as nightmarish parallels of and terrors to our own ancestors, to a rich and diverse assemblage of toothy quasi-birds. Palaeontology is truly awesome.

An odd bony fish from the Kem Kem, Concavotectum. I'm still very out of my element with illustrating fish, but this fella had some very fun shapes to work with. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

No secret that there's a lot of amazing stuff at AMNH. Some of my favorites are these massive chimneys recovered from hydrothermal vents of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, more than a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

studying godzilla heads to find the commonality in his features that best show his character, what makes a godzilla look like godzilla

Sophie is pretty extraordinary: both as a fossil (I believe still one of only 3 substantially complete Stegosaurus ever found) and as a display. The mount by Brock Sisson really captures the vibe an angry, cornered, not-especially-bright reptile.

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia. #Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

Pterosauria tree (vintage edition) ~ 🦅🌳 . Alongside my ‘black edition’, I have also tested how my pterosaur illustration would look with a ‘vintage’ natural history illustration background’ . What do you guys think? Which version do you prefer? The black or vintage background? #paleoart

Nanotyrannus Went back to working on this during flocking #paleostream #paleoart #sciart #backinhell

Nanotyrannus basks in the light of a new day.

PREHISTORIC PLANET : ICE AGE OUT NOV 26 only on Apple TV! … #paleoart #pleistocene #megafauna

Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream! Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!

Tonight’s flocking #Paleostream sketches (it’s been a hot minute): Nanotyrannus in the woods, Pteranodon over Protosphyraena, Phosphorosaurus + sturgeon lunch, and Helicoprion. #paleoart #sciart #cretaceous #permian #backinhell

There are many things to be said about James Watson. Nearly all of them bad. Like, much worse than you'd think

This Christmas season, give the gift of TYRANT® to somebody you love (& who loves dinosaurs)! Restocked the folks at WowCool, live link in top of comments, below...

#FossilFriday José Bonaparte and Carnotaurus sastrei (Photo by Louie Psihoyos). bit.ly/2bRsAAd 🧪⚒️🦖

Barinasuchus arveloi: as an animal, you just cannot get any cooler than this #paleoart

So here's what one of the bookshelves near the desk has looked like over recent months

This pair of Long-tailed Silky-flycatchers are never far apart as they roam the grounds of Paraiso Quetzal in Costa Rica's highlands. #birding I took these pictures les than an hour ago. I can hear a Lesser Violetear Hummingbird chirping constantlyu as I type this. Pura Vida.

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #GarWeek so check out these 50 million year old #gar fish from #Utah at the Science Museum of Minnesota! This genus, Lepisosteus, goes back to the Cretaceous and is still swimming today! Thanks to @bellmuseum.bsky.social & @garlab.bsky.social for hyping these cool #fish!

For #FossilFriday, please enjoy some very, VERY old evidence of parasitism, preserved in fossilized shells of brachiopods that lived ~500 million years ago in what's now southern China. These kleptoparasites—food stealers—built mineralized tubes on filter-feeding hosts & slurped up their food 🧪

What do we know about the last surviving dinosaurs, living right before the asteroid? And is Nanotyrannus a tiny tyrannosaur species or juvenile T. rex? Lindsay Zanno & I talk through the big questions with Ira Flatow on today's @scifri.bsky.social ! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/din...

sculptured for the Museum of Natural History in Magdeburg www.naturkundemuseum-magdeburg.de

The 6-ish metre long Kem Kem crocodylomorph Laganosuchus represents a bizarre lineage known primarily from their elongated, flattened, U-shaped heads. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.

Transphobia is an entire entertainment industry – they create and consume its content like football. Hatred as a lifestyle choice. Its better funded than your favorite hobby. They hate us recreationally. Hating us is what they do with their free time.

A new post about the three #newspecies of toad we have just described from Tanzania, feat @christianthrane.bsky.social, Simon Loader, @alicepetzold.bsky.social, John Lyakurwa, and Michele Menegon! 🧪🐸🇹🇿 www.markscherz.com/archives/6208

Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

The focus of this paper was larger-scale phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary trends. We leave it to further studies to support - or even potentially refute - our results before taking taxonomic action. But watch this space for more… @rv-pegas.bsky.social

Two new #Spinosaurus-themed things just arrived at Tet Zoo Towers. Congrats @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social for the release of what looks like a very well designed book. #dinosaurs

New Blog Day! 📣👻 Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇 www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...

It’s a minor thing, but I hope Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age emphasises that birds are dinosaurs this time. It’d make a great way to create a bridge between the two time periods, and make for some shock-wow factor for lay audiences where that’s still surprisingly poorly understood.

Let's see how many views the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #AppleTV trailer has had at YouTube.... hmm, 140K. If you haven't seen it www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv... oh, this does NOT show all the animals we feature by the way. Such a thrill to help bring this together, you're gonna love it :)

There’s a bill pushed by Republicans in the US congress that would deny me future federal funding for research because I’ve co-authored papers with scientists in China in the past 5 years. 🙄

Ouranosaurus #paleoart

If you don’t have a copy, now’s the time! Mesozoic Art II is a must-have for those with an interest in prehistoric life, it’s a visual feast with so much breathtaking artwork that it’s unreal. No better volume on contemporary palaeoart exists, especially when paired with the first Mesozoic Art book!

Nice way to start the day: www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-...

Brief shoutout to this awesome little channel I discovered recently! They’re doing an entire video series recreating the history of life on Earth…with plushies! They’re currently up to the early Permian. Really neat and creative stuff. Definitely worth checking out!

IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age! I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together! #PrehistoricPlanet youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...

Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.

WELCOME BACK, MIRAGAIA 🥳 new material from portugal - along with a review of prior material - has led costa et al. to conclude that miragaia is distinct from dacentrurus, listing over a dozen differences between the genera repositorio.lneg.pt/entities/pub... (art by @ferrutxoart.bsky.social)

WOW. Be sure to check the episode preview images on Apple’s website for a TON more surprises. There is SO much in this series.

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On the coast of Pliocene California, a Homotherium pounces upon a newborn Herpetocetus morrowi. These are Cetotheres, small baleen whales that thrived during the Miocene/Pliocene. For the sabertooth, such a tiny calf so close to shore is a rare treat. #paleoart #sciart #pliocene #california

I won't ever fault anyone for saying "Velociraptor is the size of a turkey" for the sake of clarity/synthesis, but as much as inevitable this comparison has become, it's misleading. Meat farm animals have very different body composition from what you'd expect from a wild animal of the same mass.

Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.

A swingin’ seafloor hotspot! 🎶 This #Ecosde2Cañones footage fr the Patagonian shelf break is an excellent example of collective foraging behavior. Fish & other creatures navigate deep-sea currents to access an area rich w/nutrients — these vital energy hubs at the interface of shelf & open Ocean.