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.

Yet another strike against the "large dinosaurs can't have any fibrous integument" narrative. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A mammoth drawings from Arcy-sur-Cure cave,France. Outlined in red-ochre, this rotund, tuskless mammoth looks like a juvenile. At 28,000 years old, a product of the Gravettian culture, one of the oldest examples of cave art in Europe. The saddest mammoth from the Ice Age. 🦣😢🏺 #MammothMonday

Horner is famous in where I dig in Montana for telling a little girl that brought him a fossil to identify something to the effect of : I’d rather this thing turn to dust in the badlands than have you get it

The woolly mammoth, a mother and her child, venture past glaciers impossibly vast for today's world.

What Really Happened at Tanque Loma? #paleoart

Completely unsurprising as many have already said. Begging MOR to distance themselves from Horner's legacy akin to what AMNH has done with Henry Osborn.

*In epic movie guy voice*: "From the authors of the two greatest tyrannosaur books of the past decade comes...."

A very good review of a very good book. Plus, a lot of good information said on tyrannosaurid integument and nuances on how it would impact their thermoregulation.

This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵

Hot take: NIT (Nanotyrannus is Tyrannosaurus) is going to be the new BAND (birds are not dinosaurs).

Some people really do be like: "nah, our modern day image of dinosaurs is boring and stupid"...

The last bombshell paleontology discovery of a year of bombshell discoveries: Ammonites survived the K-PG extinction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2025 was a year packed with a multitude of discoveries, and I am grateful my first paper was among them. First order of business of 2026: Continue working on the sequel.....

shout-out to @literallymiguel.bsky.social for having his art featured in a new publication! the study by wilson and zonneveld describes feeding traces on the holotype of the bolivian glyptodont trachycalyptoides www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

People always draw Nanotyrannus attacking Juvenile Tyrannosaurus, so I am doing something different

A very Merr Chrismas to all you hoomans out there, from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age's Megalonyx family! Wishing you a safe and happy holiday! #PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #paleoart #groundsloth #Christmas #meme

Result from the Talara tar seeps #paleostream! Like the La Brea tar pits this was Pleistocene death trap, however these fossils come from Peru so everything has a south american flavor. This piece is set at the beginning of the rainy season, with new green beginning to sprout...

Excited to announce that my second manuscript, “Fossilised Melanosomes Reveal Colour Patterning in A Sauropod Dinosaur” has been published in @royalsociety.org !! Diplodocus scales are complex and diverse, and it turns out their color patterning was even more so. A 🧵🦕 1/26

In light of @tessasaurus.bsky.social's amazing paper on paleocoloration of the MDQ Diplodocus, I would *highly* recommend those interested to check out @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social's paleo color doc! they've done great work researching it and have been very responsive to sources I've found for it. 👇

Huge congrats to @tessasaurus.bsky.social et al. on this excellent paper regarding the first sauropod melanosomes! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

26 years of intense debate that boarded on blood feuds and this all could have been resolved if we just cut open the hyoids of CMNH 7541..... Incredible work!

I second this!

The final, formatted version of the Zanno & @jgn-paleo.bsky.social Nanotyrannus paper is out: Zanno, L.E., Napoli, J.G. Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This image is a recreation from the Late Pleistocene when this meme format was last relevant. #PrehistoricPlanet #IceAge #coproliteposting

Our findings brought to life: Different climates, different integument, all sloths 🦥. #PrehistoricPlanetlceAge

Having digested all five episodes of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge, I wanted to put together a thread of my 10 favorite segments from the series. Spoiler warning in case you haven't seen any of the episodes yet.

"But her real ice age superpower is taking life slowly. Because saving energy is vital when it's this cold." Best line of the first episode of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge.

What Colour Was T. Rex? - A Visual Ecologist Explains www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAhC...

“Well, why not call it The Big Chill? Or the Nippy Era? I’m just saying, how do we know it’s an Ice Age?” “Because of all the ice!” An @iflscience.com article on #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge ... www.iflscience.com/these-extinc...

New #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge clip! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAS7...

I feel the need to address some comments that have been popping up here and there regarding the #Eremotherium design for #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge. To people saying that our paper fully refutes a sparse coat of fur in this genus, here is what we actually say:

Nanotyrannus attacking a young Tyrannosaurus is super common in paleoart especially in the last few weeks. Won’t stop me from depicting it too. Enjoy the new #watercolor. #paleoart

Thank you, Reddit! #PrehistoricPlanet