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My new short film Jurassic Ward is out!! I had a lot of fun working on this, I hope y’all have as much fun watching it as I did making it!

"...if you can eat grass you can handle almost any other type of vegetation. This opened a variety of habitats to #mammoths, & so we find their fossils in almost every #Pleistocene habitat in southern California..."🦣 - Dr. Alton Dooley Jr life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/mammoths-in-...

Happy centennial to the legendary Sir David Attenborough. Out of my favorite Attenborough moments, this one is in the top three easily. It never gets old seeing the superb lyrebird pulling off these vocalizations! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB7...

Ah yes, a beaked proboscidean, why not. Truly the animal of all times.

Really lovely mid-2000s Chinese palaeoart pieces

New Art! "Firecracker" Nanotyrannus lethaeus. #paleoart #prehistory #prehistoricplanet #dinosaur #dinosaurart #sciart #tyrannosaur #nanotyrannus #art

The KSL also reported on our recent work published in @commsbio.bsky.social and what Misha can teach us about forensics and paleoecology: kslnewsradio.com/utah/misha-h... Our original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Otodus megalodon #paleoart commission!! (definitely not a generalized ginormous lamniform) i love how silly sharks look

Life-sized Microraptor! Done with alcohol markers

Easy.

Who’s a good boy? Bear sized carnivore Inostrancevia is showing its impressive teeth. They lived some 250 million years ago, and were the apex predators of their time. This illustration was made for an upcoming new book. More will follow soon! #SciArt #paleoart #gorgonops #animalart #animaldrawing

It has come to my attention that walking with composer Benjamin Barlett has passed away. His music paired with spectacular visuals captivated a generation of paleo enthusiasts. May he rest in peace.

Mesonyx #paleoart #mesonychia

This earth day tradition of mine will never be ogre. #Shrek25

Well, well, well. Look what was spotted a week before it hit shelves at my local Barnes and Noble.

New paper out in Geodiversitas! 🦣🦴 Ever wonder what the inside of Deinotherium giganteum looks like? Find out about it here: geodiversitas.com/48/7 Big thanks to the Budapest HNHM for providing access to this unique material! With Prof. Mihaly Gasparik & @segesdimartin.bsky.social

Oof one day ill finish this. Mammuthus columbi

Commission for @tyrannonerd.bsky.social

Speculative primitive spinosaurid inspired by megalosaurids and Monolophosaurus Colors based in Potamites montanicola suggested by my friend @cascoclauda.bsky.social as usual c: #paleoart for @edgescience.bsky.social !!

Results from the #paleostream! Don Juan (still unnamed rat fish relative), Muttaburrasaurus, Lystrosaurus (baby) and Bakonydraco!

Homotherium hadarensis ambushing unfortunate Australopithecus afarensis #Sciart

here's what we sketched during this week's #Paleostream flocking: Brachiosaurus, Centrosaurus, Rauisuchus, and Muttaburrasaurus #AusPalaeo

Just a reminder that we have yet to find feathers for *any* Hell Creek theropod, even for the ones that are likely to have them. All we have are scales.

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

#FossilFriday Hadrosaurus foulkii skeleton at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia

This #FossilFriday it only seems appropriate to spotlight the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences, oldest natural history museum in the Americas and currently in budgetary peril. 🧵 Thread to follow, with links to support the museum. First: Thomas Jefferson's fossil collection...

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University was my core natural history museum growing up. It is also by far the nearest one to me, and the most fundamental in Philadelphia, but faces funding issues today. Please support it by signing. c.org/7zdSm5pbqX

The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 — over 200 years ago — and it's been underfunded ever since. At a time like this when NSF budgets are being slashed and the museum is receiving little institutional support from Drexel, we deeply appreciate you spreading the word: c.org/Rkpyfx9HRN

a semiaquatic lifestyle for the proboscidean moeritherium appears to be confirmed by a new study on its enamel microwear by semprebon, sanders, and uttecht 🐘 vindicating its portrayal in 'walking with beasts' almost 25 years ago www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Needle Maw

ENHYDROSS: A New Mechanistic Model Supports the Trans‐Oceanic Dispersal Capability of Terrestrial Vertebrates - Pantelides - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am pleased to announce the discovery of Palusgnathus katzenbergi gen. et sp. nov. from the Carboniferous of Scottland. It preserves the earliest known amniote eggs showing the distinctive germ layers.

Your annual reminder that in this day and age, posting hoax paleontology (and other science) "discoveries" on April Fool's Day **will be misinterpreted by MANY people** unless the discovery is incredibly absurd.

And just like that, another long-held hypothesis in paleontology bites the dust. Or at the very least unless future studies contest this one. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First time having to work on two manuscripts at once. One is now in the oven, now to get back to prepping the other one.

After getting back into Spinosaur Tales, I was thinking "oh man, an Animal Farm reference would be so good for a header for a section on Spinosaurus terrestrial locomotion ('Four legs good, two legs bad')." Witton and Hone were reading my mind to say the least.

#FossilFriday musings: A recent revisiting of a 2021 paper on #mammoth genetics, and the recent uptick in Colossal talk in the paleo community has got me thinking about some stuff. A brief thread: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another trip around the sun completed.

This!

IT IS FRIDAY MY DUDES A look at the 2025 Rebor #Beelzebufo is now up at the TetZooTowers_collection TikTok, check it out! Yup, #PrehistoricPlanet similarities might be apparent... vm.tiktok.com/ZNRmvW6K7/

l just watched the first episode of #TheDinosaurs on Netflix, and already found 3"subtle" Jurassic Park references.

It is very late summer in North America during the Jurassic period, and ginkgo leaves have begun fallen upon this group of Stegosaurs, one of which carries on its thagomizers an important reminder that life in this era was cheap, and natural selection acts at incredible speeds.

Well... the thing is out. Spinosaurus mirabilis, here we go again! #paleoart #sciart #spinosaurus

Wake up, a new species of #Spinosaurus just dropped! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first time (to my knowledge) that we can confidently say that hadrosaur's cause of death to be a tyrannosaurid attack. Very exciting! peerj.com/articles/207...

A great podcast about the Horner debacle, and the mistreatment of women in the field. The account of the Hunyh incident and the "it's not my place" response was truly haunting.

That sexual selection is one of the primary drivers in evolution is well established. Studies of Mesozoic #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs, however, have been dominated by the view that the variation, extravagance and diversity seen in these animals is not due to the pressures of sexual selection, but...

The null hypothesis suggests you weren't in North Dakota with Epstein, Maxwell, and Kennedy Jr. Let's test this hypothesis looking at the "actual evidence". I'd say the null hypothesis has been rejected.

Regarding events of last week in SVP and the wider vertebrate paleontology community.