Fishing day

Scenarios are unfolding!!!

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

So cool!! 🐾 First reports of a probable #ankylosaurian (Thyreophora) trackway from the Jindong Formation (Cenomanian) of Goseong County, #SouthKorea Han Sang Yoon, Hyun Wook Kim, Jin-Young Park, Seung-Ho Jung, Dal-Yong Kong, Yuong-Nam Lee www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane. #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

More rough sketches: this time some wee sauropodlets #paleoart

Feeling particularly depressed today, have a happy Dearc to cure the ills

The 112-million-year-old samples provide a rare glimpse into the mysterious forest ecosystems of the supercontinent Gondwana. https://scim.ag/41YZEzy

I wanted to do something for this little guy (Zavacephale), especially because there are good plant fossils from the same formation he is found in, but this is all I had the energy for.

Take a moment to think about midcentury dinosaurs today

Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Sicily (Italy) - Strani - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

the fun part about making your own models is that you get to play around with them heheh

Baby alligator in the morning sun. Southeast Texas, September 2025 #Alligators #Herps #Reptiles #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Babies #TexasStateParks #NaturePhotography

Laughing Falcon at @casabentbill.bsky.social With its full crop, it was resting after eating a delicious snake. #birds #nature #raptors #costarica

3rd thread in my Cyonosaurus behind-the-scenes process: First cast out of the mold here turned out great! Sometimes the first time I fill a new mold, I’m learning how to work with it & it isn't always a useable cast, but no major defects this time. My son gave a hand demolding🙏

Hi, I am Viktor! Pleased to meet you, I entomologist and paleontologist originally from Ukraine, now working in Spain, after a decade in German academia. I study amber fossils, Jurassic of Australia, Insect decline, climate change in the pas, and gleefully use Synchrotrons. Languages: EN, ES, DE, UA

My newest #books - Dinopedia and Ancient Sea Reptiles - can be purchased directly from me (I sign them)... and stickers too :) Go to... tetzoo-store.sumupstore.com

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by... Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

Check out the remarkable variation in the Critically Endangered Anodonthyla theoi. It is restricted to a tiny area of littoral forest in SE Madagascar, and its habitat is extremely threatened by deforestation and fire. When the rains come, males emerge from tree holes and leaf axils to call. 🐸🧪

More to-scale pterosaurs, this time, Jianchangnathus, the cat-sized baby

An interesting bit of behaviour seen at #Birdworld yesterday: this rhea was very deliberately playing with this large feather, repeatedly balancing it on its head, throwing it back there if it fell off, and running about the enclosure in an excited state. #birds #ratites

Cliche/outdated idea of Jurassic plants & insects: a generic cockroach crawling on a fern of some kind A more nuanced, evidence-based & ecologically sound image: Mayfly perched on a horsetail

Amphicotylus milesi, from the morrison It resembles a gator, but its a basal neosuchian that converged on the ecology of modern crocs much earlier like other goniopholidids it had very weird pits on its maxilla, only 2 rows of big dorsal rectangular osteoderms, and an armoured neck and belly

Thinking about the history of strange and unique spinosaurid toys that have come and gone over the years, so many to choose from. I’m proud to own this Discovery Kids branded latex/foam Suchomimus from the very early 2000s, possibly the rarest toy in my collection as I’ve never seen another one!

I’m so grateful for this commission: sculpted a life-reconstruction of the gorgonopsid Cyonosaurus for researchers Arjan Mann & Naiomi Cookson this summer. Previous thread on the sculpture, here I’m starting the silicone mold. First few layers are thin so bubbles aren’t trapped at the surface detail

A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago

This summer I had the pleasure of collaborating w/ researchers Naiomi Cookson & Arjan Mann (Field Museum) to reconstruct a flesh-model bust of Cyonosaurus. After getting to meet the holotype, I started roughing out the skull armature. More of the process to follow! #paleoart

Quick sketch of Zavacephale rinpoche, a new pachycephalosaur from Early Cretaceous Asia #paleoart #dinosaur

I've published an article on the cutest new little dinosaur, the amazing Zavacephale... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/za...

Large penguin from the Tangahoe Formation (Pliocene of New Zealand), a member of the same genus as extant king and emperor penguins: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪🪶 (📷 @atennyson.bsky.social et al.)

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Three books and a whole lotta dinosaurs. dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1689...

It is finished!

This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n

1. Republicans are attempting to get the FBI to label trans advocacy as domestic terrorism. Project 2025's parent org is pushing it. It would not label all trans people as terrorists, but it would open the door for heavy surveillance and disruption. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The smell of tasty treats can make our mouths start to water. Recently, Emil Rindom & co showed that just the sight and smell of food can prime hungry pythons, getting their bodies ready to digest a big meal journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Spicomellus, can't believe i missed this i guest i was knocked out from working with bricks to have seen this absolute unit of an animal the length of the spikes around the neck also see wat other cretures you can make out thoughout the border ;> #art #paleoart #creaturedesign #dinosaur

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Thinking about returning to my Retrosaur Horror Project some time soon, or at least reposting the existing art. Are there any specific prehistoric species you’d want to see done in this style?

Mesozoic Art II virtual gallery event is happening tomorrow, see you there! eventfrog.de/de/p/fuehrun...

Five years ago, my second PhD paper came out: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... In it, I looked at the body mass of the recently extinct thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger) & found that it was only about half as big as popularly thought. Let's revisit the paper, & see where we are today. 🧪🧵 #evobio #Mammals

Majungasaurus

I miss the days when I could follow artists and scientists and geek out about fossils and comics and other nerdy stuff. I still try to do that. But I'm trying to balance staying informed and staying sane with everything falling apart. It just seems to be harder to do.

Helicoprion is a large eugeneodont shark, most famous for its buzzsaw-like jaw configuration. Depicted here hunting Mooreoceras. This painting is commissioned by the NPS and highlights fossil specimens known from Guadalupe Mountains Park, TX

A poor Sunkahetanka learns a hard lesson to stay vigilant during its hunt. Sespia is happy to escape in the commotion. This painting is commissioned by the NPS to depict species present in the Scotts bluff National Monument, Nebraska.

While it's easy to make friends with a passing herd, it still pays to watch for what's lurking in the shadows... This painting was commissioned by the NPS to showcase potential species that create the busy trackways from the Naturita Formation and Colorado National Monument.

The Green River Formation is rich in species diversity. This snapshot captures nocturnal animals emerging as their diurnal neighbors start to settle in. This work is commissioned by the NPS to highlight species found in the Fossil Butte Monument in Wyoming.

Micropernodus is fighting Proscalops for his share of the early worm while a passing Amphicyon looks on. This painting was commissioned by the NPS to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the John Day Fossil Beds site in Oregon.

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️