Hațeg island

Our ground sloth paper made it into a @pbseons.bsky.social video!!!!! youtu.be/Cjrt7qlGhl8?...

More support for ancient archosaurs possessing lips! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Juvenile Stephanorhinus hemitoechus observing a dragonfly.

It's that time again! #Spinosaurus www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yutyrannus talked dumb and got the thumb.

Happy Birthday Mary Anning 🦑 A pioneer. Without formal education. From working class background. Becoming breadwinner at a young age. Reshaped how we see the world. Now, globally recognised as the lady that started it all. Thank you, Mary, you're an inspiration.

Drivers and mechanisms of convergent forelimb reduction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Commencement speakers praising AI and getting booed is becoming a genre, and I’m here for it.

The most thoughtful piece on this that I have read so far

Woollies

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.