Teaser for SOME of the Tet Zoo merch we'll be selling at #DinoConUK

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN! With conference season and #TourDeKlaus2026 offically kicking off, there is only one question: Where will we meet? Comment below if you want to meet up to talk art or industry or about other nerdy stuff!💛 #gamesindustry #comics #art #gamescom #dinocon #animayo #etc #etc

More from the Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, it really is a shrine to Mesozoic marine palaeontology. So many fantastic pieces, and a beautifully designed building too.

Pronghorns are remarkably special hoofed mammals, but the group as a whole has a rich fossil record, full of surprises. I wrote about this lot back in 2021 and just had reason to do an editorial revamp. Check it out here... tetzoo.com/blog/2021/11... #mammals #fossils #fossilmammals

It should be obvious that #DinoConUK 2026 is going to be a brilliant event, above and beyond our inaugural meeting of 2025. We've now started announcing speakers and presenters, with David James Armsby and Tim Haines being our first announcements. Schedule and more info is coming soon, stay tuned...

After finishing at Kimmeridge we travelled to Torquay Museum, where they have local #Pleistocene fossils on show from the Devon caves Joint Mitnor and Kents Cavern, including hippo, hyena, cave bear, straight-tusked elephant, cats large and small, and numerous human tools. So much great stuff.

First SWALLOW of the year (for me) seen near Creech in Dorset yesterday. There are already numerous southern UK sightings made across early April 2026, earliest sightings of the year being from February 19th on Isles of Scilly. #birds #ukbirds

While at the Etches Collection museum yesterday, I looked for wildlife and.... a juvenile Slow worm! I photograph every individual I encounter, this is my first one for 2026 :) #herpetology #reptiles #squamates

More from the Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, it really is a shrine to Mesozoic marine palaeontology. So many fantastic pieces, and a beautifully designed building too.

Had a great time today at the spectacular The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life... Sea Rex the pliosaurid and so much more :)

I think I finished my shirt design for DinoCon! I don’t want to do a traditional black and white shirt though so please do leave feedback on which one of these you like more! 👀

what better way to advertise @dinoconuk.bsky.social than to interact at a social event with real life "dinosaurs" (lil newty)

I am honored to have our #cassowary #biofluorescence study highlighted in the National Geographic story that came out today! Thank you to writer, @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social and for having interest in our research! @tetzoo.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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Exciting news! Screenwriter, producer and director, Tim Haines, will be hosting a talk about the upcoming miniseries Surviving Earth at #DinoConUK 2026! Tim is best known as the creator for the incredibly popular BAFTA and Emmy award-winning series Walking with Dinosaurs.

Had a great time today at the spectacular The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life... Sea Rex the pliosaurid and so much more :)

Our giant paper on a small crocodyliform is out! We have a comprehensive atlas of the osteology and neuroanatomy of Koumpiodontosuchus. Amazing work from @christijanibarker.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social Mark Young Katy Rankin, et al @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

I enjoy the paleontological figurines posted by @tetzoo.bsky.social but actually double-took at this year's must-have (in)action figure in our local Tasmanian toyshop: a putrefying sauropod carcass. What child wouldn't love this. Anyway, it's a mood. #dinosaur #model #paleontology #toy

Morning dose of Southampton brutalism (Nelson Gate)

A final batch of sketches based on the adorable illustrations in "Dinopedia." Isn't that just the cutest Spinosaurus? (3/3)

More studies of some favorite Naish dinosaur art from "Dinopedia." This one's a two-page spread. (2/3)

I finally read @tetzoo.bsky.social 's "Dinopedia." The content is mostly an overview of dinosaur groups, but the book is a rare treasure trove of adorable Naish dino-illustrations. Here are some of my favorites... (1/3)

Our new giant ZJLS paper on the Wealden croc Koumpiodontosuchus is out, and thus.... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/4/... A great study led by @christijanibarker.bsky.social and @neilgostling.bsky.social

New research material day! @tetzoo.bsky.social I’m doing my homework!

I absolutely loved that book! Even if some stuff is of course rather outdated now, but still a great book about the natural history of crocs.

Our new giant ZJLS paper on the Wealden croc Koumpiodontosuchus is out, and thus.... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/4/... A great study led by @christijanibarker.bsky.social and @neilgostling.bsky.social

Happened to be going through some photos of trips to the Isle of Wight, and check out this summer 2022 scene from the south coast. Fantastic landscape...

Okay, I'm now better-informed. As I suspected, they sleep like normal canaries. They only strike this extreme, weird posture when they're alert, in 'show position'. A bit like most exhibition pigeons too.

Coming to Tet Zoo later today....

A long video on the #ReptiMax #Hatzegopteryx figure... with some cameo azhdarchid talk from myself... youtu.be/shxORqAJTVU?...

A long video on the #ReptiMax #Hatzegopteryx figure... with some cameo azhdarchid talk from myself... youtu.be/shxORqAJTVU?...

Our new paper on a tiny Wealden 🐊 is now out, with @tetzoo.bsky.social, @neilgostling.bsky.social and co. As a critical taxon close to the origins of the living croc lineage, we used microCT to build a comprehensive morpholgical atlas to reassess its evolutionary relationships. tinyurl.com/4t592crr

#BirdSky These are stunning birds!

This was such an amazing trip! So happy to have had @tetzoo.bsky.social make the trip across the pond to experience it with me!

I had to rearrange the top shelf again. See if you can work out why...

Back in 2023, I visited Florida and had the most incredible time with @thecassowarykid.bsky.social. Encounters with multiple live (captive) cassowaries, most of which had to be captured and moved to a new facility

Samba the #capybara is STILL on the run here ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks to announcements about the movie CAPTURING BIGFOOT, the online #bigfoot community has ramped up its normal in-fighting and disagreeing to nuclear proportions, with Facebook groups having massively increased engagement (this graph from CCTBR). Interesting timing in view of my own writing.

The nature of my work means that literature constantly gets moved about, buried and lost, moved again. Every now and again I have to try and rearrange things. It never goes well. ps it's 2026 and physical literature is STILL essential for this kind of research. The Internet is just about useless.

guess who is coming back this @dinoconuk.bsky.social !! see you all in Birmingham :)

Once more, to the valley

Hail fellow traveller in the 'has my office just exploded?' universe! Massively impressed and uplifted.

The nature of my work means that literature constantly gets moved about, buried and lost, moved again. Every now and again I have to try and rearrange things. It never goes well. ps it's 2026 and physical literature is STILL essential for this kind of research. The Internet is just about useless.

The desk today. Quite the time to be writing about this subject.

It's very likely that I'll finish this book chapter today (meaning that only THREE are left to do)... >if< I stay off social media. Oh.

Mesozoic Art II is all the rage these days but here's your reminder that MESOZOIC ART - the first one - is a truly spectacular and beautiful book too, and still on sale :) Text by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and me, published by @chiffchat.bsky.social #books #palaeoart #paleoart

Lots of action in #DinoCon community yesterday as vendor announcements started to be released. There will be a TetZoo stall - we're working on stuff, here are early views... follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social for info :)

I like it when birds visit the pond... my photos are always crappy and opportunistic, not planned. Look for the Blue tit :)

Mesozoic Art II is all the rage these days but here's your reminder that MESOZOIC ART - the first one - is a truly spectacular and beautiful book too, and still on sale :) Text by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and me, published by @chiffchat.bsky.social #books #palaeoart #paleoart

Lots of action in #DinoCon community yesterday as vendor announcements started to be released. There will be a TetZoo stall - we're working on stuff, here are early views... follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social for info :)