The fact that "edtwt" is not a bunch of people supporting each other in their eating disorder recovery journeys, but instead a frighteningly large community of very mentally ill girls in social competition with each other over who can eat the fewest calories is a genuine horror story to me.

I just read this passage in The Lost World (the Crichton one) describing the main villain, and it's hysterical how perfectly this describes Elon Musk.

So tiktoks now have little button thay just says "AI" on them 🙄 I'm scared to even find out what it does

I know it's like pretentious or w/e to imply other people have no inner lives but the concept of two people texting each other both using ChatGPT generated messages (which we all know is definitely happening) fills me with a deep feeling of contempt.

I kind of want to rant about how (though I like it) Pandora doesn't work at all as an Alien planet and only makes any sense as a planet that was terraformed from earth some time in the distant past. Though gauging from what I've seen on Twitter the spec-evo people might get mad at me.

Earliest Cenozoic ammonoids: Machalski, M., Olszewska-Nejbert, D., Landman, N.H. et al. Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark. Sci Rep 15, 45802 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Why did they even make Minya so busted? Like they didn't have to do that. Godzilla Junior isn't busted

Check out this piece by Jason Broughham from 2013 btw, he was cooking. He even describes it as having Ptilophyllum leaves.

Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands." Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."

Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.

Yoooo the teaser for a game I did creature designs for came out. Stay to the end to see my beautiful baby boy youtu.be/iUY6bFjivWU

A dear friend of mine has had an awful event happen right before the holidays - their home caught fire and they've lost so much. They and their pets are safe, but it's really been a massive blow to them. Anything helps - even just spreading the word. gofund.me/c7f1ff97f

Ngl I was expecting the new Tomb Raider dinosaurs to look worse considering the discourse on twitter. They are fine. Easily an improvement over previous entries in the series.

Corporations don't give you free stuff for naming your child after them anymore. Netflix would be a beautiful name for a baby girl but they don't respond to my emails.

I've been listening to The Hobbit audiobook and there is a line that directly implies that football exists in Middle Earth.

#Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern Last week, I attended the EMBO workshop in Vienna on early land plants and terrestrialisation. There, I presented my research on rhacophytalean evolution, focusing on a reappraisal of the genus Cephalopteris from the latest Famennian of Bjørnøya. 🌿🌿

I haven't had much time or energy to do illustrations for myself lately, but yesterday I finally got the drive and managed to do two. This is Edmontosaurus annectens, incorporating the new soft-tissue data, as well as some inspiration from the re-described Red Willow Edmontosaurin.

Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)

Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23

I am losing my mind at the tiny babies oh my god

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

Got aged like 50 thousand years today when my co-worker told me she STARTED year 7 in 2019. She's 19 now and graduated last year. Wtf do you mean 2019 wasn't like 2 years ago? I had to do the maths in my head like 3 times over.

I wanted to do something for this little guy (Zavacephale), especially because there are good plant fossils from the same formation he is found in, but this is all I had the energy for.

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Lmao rest in piss bozo

New dromaeosaurid, Shri rapax. What an amazing fossil!

Let me cook

I've seen lots of suggestions for what real prehistoric animal could have replaced the "mutadon" in Jurassic World Rebirth. Having seen the film now, I couldn't stop thinking what if it was a ground-dwelling predatory pterosaur, like has been suggested for Thalassodromeus.

Its my birthday today, and good news! You can celebrate by reading my fully illustrated new article on the prehistoric animals of Jurassic World Dominion, what we know of their life appearance & behavior, and how that compares to the film: jurassicparkterror.com/jurassic-par...

SURPRISE! Breeding is coming Update 15! 🥚🦖 Tune into this month's Dev Diary to learn more about fertility, courtship and the nesting system coming to Prehistoric Kingdom in August. ➡️Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4kmk8IW 📝Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM

I have been enjoying doing these environment sketches in what little time I have.

A few silly guys

Why are YouTube videos so long now? I keep seeing thumbnails I think look interesting and then see it is 1.5 hours... 2 hours... 3 hours long. No! Stop it!

Today I can share the Cretaceous angiosperms (for the Temperate and Tropical biomes) and Cretaceous Wetland plants I designed for Prehistoric Kingdom.

Sinners had extremely high expectations placed on it and it still somehow exceeded them. For one I didn't see anyone mention how good the music is??

I really like how these lines look and now I'm afraid to do anything else to them

They should invent a high protein tortilla that isn't a low carb fad bullshit one

A really fun interview by Rachel at IFLScience with our showrunner Kirsty, palaeontologist Nizar, and myself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmd...

Lowkey obssessed with the Rebirth rex

I can now share the "Jurassic Scrub" plants I designed/reconstructed for Prehistoric Kingdom!

I've already posted about this before but it is generally shocking how bad Google's AI overview they put on top of searches is. It isn't like it sometimes gets things wrong. It is ALWAYS wrong! You'd think they'd want to do something about that!

How does Andor have so much sauce?? Its crazy how much better it is than every other recent Star Wars thing.

No shade to the authors, it's not their fault I know, but God I hate textbook prices. Like what do you MEAN it's 230 buck for the kindle version??

Thanks to the current article I'm working on I've just written the same story about oviraptors being attentive parents rather than egg-thieves for what feels like the 50th time.

Green Low-Poly Video Game T.rex, my beloved.

I'm going to be crucified as a killjoy but I'm not impressed with the Predator Badlands trailer. I think the Predator design is bad and I hate all the fan boy masturbatory IP reference crap. I loved Prey for the record.

If I hypothetically _had_ to do a life reconstruction of Pyroraptor for a commission, do we think doing it as an unenlagiine or a generic mid-sized dromaeosaurid (eg. Tianyuraptor) makes more sense? I feel like amateur paleo people are bias towards the former just because it is more interesting.

Someone else pointed this out on Twitter first, but how Colossal are claiming they created the dire wolves is literally the method used in Carnosaur. In the book they are able to extract DNA from dinosaur fossils and then edit chicken genes to match the fossil samples.

Said on twitter, I am admittedly curious to see the skeleton of one of the Colossal Biosciences "dire wolves" compared to real fossil remains to see how close they actually got. Just quietly I suspect it's not close at all and they will look like big grey wolves, but I'd be happy to be wrong!

8am Velociraptor sketch, as you do.