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Ankylosaurus on a peaceful springtime stroll 🌸🦕 Spring is almost here…even if it’s still cloudy and cold where I live…but that’s not stopping me from drawing some bright, blooming scenery!

The Tetrapod Zoology podcast lives again. Yes, episode 95 is here: It's Been Haulong? A year and a half of catchup! #TetZooCon regenerates into #DinoCon, 20 years of TetZoo, Haolong, Spinosaurus (URG!), and much more meandering and tangentiality... tetzoo.com/podcast

#Archaeology Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social A New History of the Maya with Dr David Stuart Dr David Stuart joins Flint to chat all things Maya, with a look at his new book The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JfA...

The Discovery That Changed Paleontology Forever The Burgess Shale was first discovered in 1909 by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who stumbled upon its rich fossil beds almost by accident. Canada’s Burgess Shale: Strange Fossils From Life’s Earliest Explosion 🧪 discoverwildscience.com/canadas-burg...

New #DAWNDINOS paper! We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Women as founder burials is definitely A Thing in prehistory #Matriarcha

Two-billion-year-old rocks in China suggest mountain building from Earth’s first supercontinent led to a planetwide burst of erosion. https://scim.ag/4sawOqx

I had a few errands to run at London's Natural History Museum this morning. There is so much amazing stuff there I always notice and appreciate something new, so here's a thread on things I saw...

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

It's true -- a 10th Anniversary special edition, with substantial new content! #dinosaurs #books

Gastornis/Diatryma meets one of their non-flightless neighbours, the stem-parrot Cyrilavis Originally made as gift art for @kulindadromeus.bsky.social

Rex Time #sciart

Really happy to see this collaborative work led by my student Ayken Askapuli published now in @pnas.org Ancient DNA from a Golden Horde tomb!

Moa

It was great to talk to John Platt about my book Ghosts Behind Glass. Read through our convo here: therevelator.org/extinction-g... #extinction #envhist

🐬 The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, . New York, J.H. Carmany;1874.. [Source]

A Cretaceous horse. #YearOfTheHorse

You have to take a look, it's important

A gibbous view of Earth showing North America on April 16 1972, via Apollo 16 while on trans-lunar coast phase. flic.kr/p/2rWEDHq

I love it when new archaeological research is coupled with beautiful photographs of the artifacts. Exciting work on the exceptional Younger Dryas-age organic technologies of some of North America’s first peoples. www.johnhawks.net/p/complex-fi...

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

Mammothssss

Coming out soon! You'll even find me in there talking about gar and how they made it through the extinction that toppled the dinosaurs.

Assortment of creatures - extinct & extant- flat style (Approximately to scale)! #paleoart

Like and repost if you want more goth punk bimbo heathcliff.

The one rule regarding dinosaur integument is that we should never underestimate its diversity

Uintatherium is one of my favorites fossil beasts. It’s been called many other names. During the Bone Wars, paleontologists Leidy, Marsh, and Cope named fossils of the same Eocene mammal multiple times - ‘Uintamastix’, ‘Loxolophodon’, ‘Dinoceras’, and more - before Leidy’s Uintatherium won out. 🧪

The Rite of Spring is such a spectacular sequence, easily the highpoint of Fantasia even if I put aside my biases. It's a comprehensive, spellbinding look into an imagining of the past that never was. Anyone interested in the history of palaeontology simply must watch it.

What I wouldn’t give for one more carefree childhood day browsing the Enchanted Learning Zoom Dinosaurs website. Take me back.

Red painted woman. A depiction of paleolithic homo sapiens inspired by the mammoth ivory figure from Dolni Vestonice

Dickinsonia, back when evolution was excited to make pancakes. Paleontologists are pretty sure Dickinsonia was an animal, a creature that lived in the sea around 550 million years ago. The flat, ripply organism adhered itself to the floor with mucus and grazed on mats of microbes. Slick. 🧪

Ooh, I like these. They look like real animals, while still being the weirdos they were.

I think the 3rd series is locked in and I'll hopefully get them done for ECCC. Albertosaurus and Magpie Utahraptor and Barn Owl Torvosaurus and Turkey Vulture Sinosaurus and Red Junglefowl Giganotosaurus and Chilean Flamingo

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

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🏺 Loved this fresco when I was a child with a Minoans fascination but it's not so much 'restored', as mostly imaginary. Look closely, only one figure has substantial original parts, and all the heads are made up! The real fragments however share precise costume elements with more complete frescos.

Homo erectus KNM-ER 3883 #sciart

How to get into nature.

Welcome to the Amazing #Doraemon Circus. Based on a suggestion from @killdeercheer.bsky.social. #TADC #ドラえもん

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

Some wax models of Cretaceous cephalopods for your enjoyment.

An Apatosaurus meanders through a lush glade in the ancient Morrison. #sciart #paleoart

An enormous thanks to Darren for sharing some of this book’s contents. It is every bit as exciting as I hoped and I simply must find my own copy eventually. If anyone happens to own one and is willing to sell or knows of one for sale, please let me know.

Getting back into the swing of ungulates after a bit, here are four rhinos: Parvorhinus, Uintaceras, Megacanodon, Aprotodon qiui #paleoart #sciart

I firmly believe that art- art made for kids, art for adults, keeps us sane and grounded. Making art. Seeing art. Sharing art. Make art that represents the world you wish to live in, teach art and model the kindness you want to exist in the world. Art is an act of rebellion and resistance.

Messy start

Happy New Year! Today we're channeling our 2000s-era edgelord atheism and reviewing The Rap Guide to Evolution, an album and associated series of music videos by artist Baba Brinkman 🧪🏺 youtu.be/CzP7ZmgyFIg