Mignon Talbot, American paleontologist & geologist, died #OTD, 1950. She was the first woman to find and describe a dinosaur: Podokesaurus holyokensis, and the first woman to become a member of the Paleontological Society. wp.me/p3ihHu-NI #WomenInSTEM

gang, the trail cam is a treasure trove 🐻 🥰

Another orthographic brief I did for Evolution - this time, the basal proboscidean Numidotherium! I did two versions, one with a stylish hairdo - but in the end we went for a simpler approach! this guy sure is the animal of all time

Orangutan mothers take orangutan infants to playdates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#DinoConUK 2026 happens NEXT WEEKEND and it's just about sold out and fully booked. If you're still interested in joining us at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole (Sat 25th/Sun 26th), limited tickets are available. We look forward to seeing you there next weekend! Follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social ....

Well that's certainly one way to put it...

Today's four random pieces of palaeoart: @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social's Tyrannosaurus, Rod Ruth's Compsognathus, Michael Long's Varanosaurus, and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social's Tanystropheus!

Very cool, and important to have data for an early-diverging Anseriformes lineage: 3D musculoskeletal anatomy of Southern Screamer pectoral appendages: academic.oup.com/iob/advance-...

It is better to abstract non-mammalian synapsids to “protomammals” rather than “mammal-like reptiles” or even just “reptiles”. It’s not too arcane - if people know what a mammal is, they’ll know what a protomammal is. They were using this word on Discovery Kids, y’all

Last Weaponized Arm: Macroevolutionary Trends of Megaraptorid Manual Claw I and Forelimb Integration in medium- to large-bodied non-avian theropods academic.oup.com/jeb/article-...

Arizonasaurus, a sailed critter, one of the most interesting triassic crocs yet known, and with a wider head than its initial description reconstructed it as And the northamerican species of Boverisuchus, a tall headed ziphodont eocene eusuchian with terrestrial affinities

paleoart comm Chilotherium!

I haven't been over to their place much this yr, but Rufus and Rupert are doing OK. No colts, but seem to be doing well and I'm glad to see that! The pair of them. Big boy Rufus, he's a huge crane! A RWBB harassing Rupert. #birds #SandhillCranes

This is a nicely inflated Pleurocystites squamous cystoid from the Ordovician Bobcaygeon formation near Brechin, Canada. Cystoids are echinoderms, related to starfish and sand dollars, but went extinct at the end of the Devonian. #FossilFriday

The story of the first dinosaur of China is complicated. With the first named genus being Mandschurosaurus. Fished out of Amur River by cossacks, in 1902, in what was Russian Concession, now Heilongjiang. The largely plaster mount was put on display in St. Petersburg, described by Russian, Riabinin.

Introducing Suuwassea to Morrison Uncovered! Among the smaller sauropods of the Morrison, the graceful Suuwassea still weighs as much as an elephant. It is also the only confirmed dicraeosaurid from North America! #SciArt #paleoart

A Palaeopleurosaurus chases after some Leptolepis near a Seirocrinus raft, that also attracts ammonites and Stenopterygius. This scene takes place in what is now Germany, around 180 million years ago. In the Posidonia Shale, these and other animals are preserved in exquisite detail.

The origin of Cretaceous-Palaeogene impactor revealed by nickel isotopes | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Last night’s episode of Surviving Earth dealt with the Ordovician extinction and its aftermath. For this episode I was entrusted to create the concept design for Endoceras 9as you can see here), Telephina (the swimming trilobite) and Nerepisacanthus (the Silurian fish) #paleoart #SurvivingEarth

Today's four random pieces of palaeoart: Gerhard Heilmann's Stegosaurus, Zdenek Burian's "Dorudon" (Saghacetus), Rudolph Zallinger's Tyrannosaurus, and Franz Roubal's Styracosaurus!

#FossilFriday #SurvivingEarth The Ordovician armored fish Sacabambaspis (in the collections of the Department of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology)

Apparently the "boring billion" was actually exciting! We provide molecular evidence of complex Mesoproterozoic eukaryotic communities. So happy to see this out 🥳 Thanks to @phoebefossil.bsky.social , Hélène Morlon & @fburki.bsky.social for a lovely collab! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Dancers in fine feathers: the evolution of gestural display organization in lekking birds doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Ecology #Evolution

I'm becoming desperate to watch Big Cat Diary but apparently the only option to do so is to pay Amazon.

There's a general other aspect, I think, which is that people sort of vaguely assume all species were bigger and gnarlier in the past than they are now. And lots of things were! But also, crucially, lots of things *weren't.* (Including us!)

The small, basal coelurosaur #Compsognathus longipes and the lizard Schoenesmahl dyspepsia. The holotype of Compsognathus was found with Schoenesmahl in its ribcage, eaten shortly before the dinosaur's death. Schoenesmahl dyspepsia means something like: 'beautiful meal that is difficult to digest'.

A video from ReptiMax is up on his #Andrewsarchus figure, featuring me at the Natural History Museum, @treytheexplainer.bsky.social with the Walking With Beasts model and Kat / YourLocalFederalAgent. Also includes @dinoconuk.bsky.social mention as Max will be in attendance! youtu.be/M4IHGb4D1s0?...

A new diminutive Jurassic neosauropod from the Kaladongar Formation (Khadir Uplift) of the Kachchh Basin, western India: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Heading back early* from the big shindig to celebrate the restoration of Crystal Palace Park and the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social. I'm proud to have played a part in a huge effort to repair and restore the Dinosaurs... *Stupid trains.

Full article: Re-evaluating body size in the Middle Jurassic pliosaur Liopleurodon ferox Sauvage, 1873 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PeerJ First forelimb reconstruction and range of motion assessment of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Troodon formosus peerj.com/articles/209... @peerj.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest study highlighted on the cover of @science.org 🥳Combining a 3D dataset representing 250 taxa spanning the whole Cenozoic, 3D modelling & printing and material testing; we deciphered the form-function relationship in the lower 🦷 of mammals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’ve just encountered a real person who looked out into the smoke-choked air of our town, scoffed, and went on a three minute rant to a cashier that “it looks like this every night, this is just some bullshit to scare you!” This is how it looks right now.

Don’t know if I’ve ever posted it here, but I have a part of my website where I sporadically compile information and pictures of museums and museum history that don’t exist anymore. In case you wanna bookmark! zhejiangopterus.org/mh/

The key thing about this, by the way, is that you don't do this by ostentatiously trying to play to them: concessions will have to be extracted. But one of the concessions they get, unfortunately, is that we publicly pretend to believe them when they throw their extreme elements under the bus

Bite force estimates and morphological correlations of jaw muscles in parrots - Faillace - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

First-ever footage of a Barreleye Fish captured deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Ceratocaudia- One of the oldest Macronaria

Cross-section of Araucarioxylon arizonicum from the Late Triassic (~225 Ma). I beliebe the wood was fossilized through silicification—a combination of permineralization and gradual replacement by silica—preserving its anatomy in an amazing level of detail. #Paleontology #Tree #Fossils

I'm having some gnarly artblock, so I will share some of my work from Evolution! First up, here is the brief and early colour explorations did for our Coelophysis.

Spending time with my child always results in tier lists, alignment charts, and other silly but fun time wasters. Every placement here was meticulously considered, so please ask if you have questions. Positioning within a quadrant only kind of matters, as placement options were limited!

This paper is so freakin' cool. The authors use a combination of comparative anatomy, the fossil record, phylogenetic methods, and morphometric analysis to figure out how (and when) seals evolved "amphibious hearing" that uniquely enable them to effectively hear in both air & underwater

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Trent Reznor receives a psychic vision from a distant futurity, where the final surviving mammals are miniaturised cetaceans surviving in pocket ecosystems around hydrothermal vents. Nine Inch Whales

I haven't seen any discussions of this paper but it has some interesting implications for the function of Tanystropheus' neck, suggesting a much greater flexibility than generally assumed!

Mixing arthropod style chitinous armor into dragons was quite a rarity in this era, even more so in the western art sphere. I’ve never seen this piece before but really cool to see how ahead of the game Wrightson was.