Preach sister

Imagine driving down the Miracle Mile in 1967 and seeing this in your rearview mirror... Fear not, it's just sculptor Howard Ball in a VW towing one of his fiberglass mammoths to be installed at the La Brea Tar Pits.

We finished prep on the Tylosaurus that we excavated in May! 28 linear feet of murder lizard.

🌵 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. [Source]

Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France ... New York, H. Baillière; [etc., etc.]1855. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32068772) #nature #illustration #art

Tired: clastic corrections Wired: pinniped pedantry

Whittaker's Hill, by Clarence William Anderson American, 1891-1971 1931 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12641

Geologists when an astronomer gets confused about what counts as “sand”

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. [Source]

Barred hamlets rise up together in a coital embrace. Rare amongst vertebrates, hamlets are simultaneous hermaphrodites, meaning pairs take turns mating with each other as male and female! Thank you for your service #coralcitycamera

Two old ichthyosaur artworks exhibited in #Birmingham (UK): the 1996 piece was my very first acrylic painting for a museum, & the 2016 piece was my very last acrylic painting for a museum (I now paint digitally). #SciArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaur #MarineReptiles #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld #Alt4Me

Contemporary dinofandom is indeed tedious and often toxic, and I say this as someone whose first "published" piece (in the school paper, circa 1993) was a pedantic enumeration of scientific errors in Jurassic Park. But... 1/3

Morning manatees.

🐄 Holy (sea)cow! Published in the journal @peerj.bsky.social, an international team of paleontologists, including #NHMLA's Curator of Marine Mammals, Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe, identified the new species unearthed from an ancient dugong graveyard in Qatar: go.nhm.org/dugong

Slowly but surely sculpting in details and fixing proportions on my Nothosaurus skull sculpture in #blender #sciart #paleoart

I don't usually do #TrilobiteTuesday, but here's a rather nice large olenellid in an outcrop of Cambrian sediments in Gros Morne National Park, Western Newfoundland.

🚨Our new study is out! We've put AI to good use, to classify and identify dinosaur footprints! Dinosaur footprints are more common than bones. But to figure out which dinosaur made a track, we need to do the Cinderella thing, and match a footprint to a foot. And that's hard.

ICYMI 🦣 We're proud to announce the creation of the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research, which will be the scientific and research backbone of the reimagined La Brea #TarPits, bringing Ice Age research and the museum into the future! Learn more: go.nhm.org/reimagine

[Vintage VHS] The Sci-Fi Files: Living In The Future : 1627s

Be aware! digimorph.org/specimens/Pr...

A fat frog with full stomach (one of best evidences of amphibian on amphibian predation)

living the dream

2026 was crazy

Dead egg, I lie

Socrates Educational Video Advertisement A&E 1988-11-10 : 30s

This #FossilFriday we are pleased to have published the new younginid taxon Scyllacerta from the late Permian of South Africa 🇿🇦 This beautiful aggregation has the holotype and has been in the literature for 30 years as “juvenile Youngina”. Photo taken before scanning at the @esrf.fr

two black rooks hunch and darkly glare, watching for night, with absinthe eye

How many mergansers are there?

Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cows using tools!? 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 a new Kingdom? Next you’ll be telling me ancestral vertebrates had four eyes!

🦷 Traité élémentaire d'histoire naturelle A Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet: 1807. [Source]

I know it is like 3 or 4 novel interpretations old but I was always fond of the "rolled up liverwort" idea: coo.fieldofscience.com/2010/02/prot...

Welp good night ya’ll. #PenguinAppreciationDay. See: fossilpenguins.wordpress.com/tag/giant-pe...

Logging on to Bluesky for a sec before bed….

If you are celebrating #PenguinAwarenessDay and not following @ksepkalab.bsky.social aka mr. penguin I don’t know what I else I can do for you.

Two more amazing Triassic reptiles. In this case from the Late Triassic Keuper Group of Europe. The huge phytosaur Nicrosaurus kapfii and one of the earliest plesiosaurs, Rhaeticosaurus mertensi Part of my book of Triassic Tetrapods (currently in preparation) #paleoart #sciart #reptiles

Started, going &c.

stopmakingsense : 7s

Rabbit, Sweden, 15th century

Textbooks tend to say it's William Buckland or Robert T. Bakker, who made modern dinosaurs. But what if I told you, palaeoart started in South Africa, was revolutionised by Nazi-fighting Polish women and illustrated by an Oxfordian homemaker and her pet tortoise? Let's rewrite the history 👇

Some display cases in the old brontosaur hall at AMNH (1956–1990)

Birds in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

Temptation of St Anthony

Panasonic Pics Dealer 1988 : 159s

Garden of Earthly Delights

#FossilFriday The Miocene pinniped Allodesmus gracilis @nhm.org