Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

YouTube has started rolling out AI text summaries of videos underneath the videos themselves. What purpose does this serve? Who asked for this? Just more evidence that the AI hype machine is a solution looking for a problem

Almost done with Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age and while there have been so many stunning sequences, I do gotta say this may take the cake Showcases how incredible the models are but also I'm always gonna love the whole "extinct animal in modern setting to really show the scale"

I feel the meme potential of #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge has yet to peak. Seriously though, those Scimitar Cats are perfection 😍

Anyone else feel like those heavy brass flourishes in the soundtrack of the Megalania scene were deliberately Godzilla-coded? #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge ##PrehistoricPlanet youtu.be/AhKMMo5caRY?...

Thoroughly enjoyed #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge . Here are some spoiler free highlights #prehistoricplanet

Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!

The thing that really took me by surprise in this clip is what a strange-looking animal Homotherium actually was. I don't think previous documentaries have done justice to its odd proportions

Counting down the hours, here's my final predicitions / wishlist for as-yet unseen species in #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge . Almost guaranteed there are critters featured that didn't even cross my mind #PrehistoricPlanet

This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks

I decided that if I was going to encourage my soon-to-be-born child to follow their dreams, I had to lead by example & do it myself

I love that the Smilodon doesn't just look like a lion with big teeth. It's got a wierd, thick face which is totally true to the skull structure

Babe, wake-up. Long-necked nothosaur just got published www.nature.com/articles/s42...

University of Leicester's Geology & Palaeontology staff & facilities are at risk. Show your support c.org/62xyDQSX7X

I'm so glad we're burning the energy of a small city & depriving neighbourhoods of their water supply for utterly useless results

say it with me, cat owners: BIG STRETCH! #prehistoricplanet

🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣 Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost! Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Missing SVP already

(1/2) So ends #2025svp . What an amazing experience! So many wonderful people doing incredible work. Plenty of inspiration for my own science & outreach projects. Plus it's always nice to spend quality time in my home city. Until next time, whenever that may be ❤️🐋🦕🦣❤️ @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Day 2 of #2025SVP is go! Lots of mammal talks & posters today, lovely stuff 🦣🐋🐅 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

I’m at the annual paleontology conference. Here’s how people today have described their work: “I basically study swamp monsters” “I’m a dinosaur orthodontist” “Dead bird bird watcher” #2025SVP

One day to go to #2025svp ! Plenty of presentations to check out, but I'm also on a mission to meet new friends & colleagues, foster research & outreach collaboration, set up field work & lay the foundations for postgrad endeavours. Say hi if you spot me! ❤️🦖🦕🦣 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

The inspiration for the black fur of the giant fossa featured in #PrehistoricPlanet has me wondering how many other animals in the show have been influenced by indigenous wisdom & cryptid sightings. Article by @tetzoo.bsky.social share.google/kJ5HeqfsCyed...

Shattered my phone screen 3 days before SVP. Nicely done, butterfingers

Years of work and collab with an incredible team at #BBCStudios #AppleTV @framestore.bsky.social ... involving so many camera operators, writers, producers, effects people, artists and others, #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge is out on #AppleTV Nov 26th. A definitive vision of Ice Age wildlife worldwide.

Fully double-checked & updated #PrehistoricPlanet list thanks to the trailer & promo images. A few predictions come true, a few surprises too

My jaw genuinely dropped when I saw this image. It is literally, 100% my mental image of what Homotherium looked like. Absolutely perfect. 10/10. No notes.

the #prehistoricplanet: ice age trailer is here, and not a moment too soon! but you won't have seen the following four animals in the trailer: psilopterus 🪶 arctotherium angustidens 🐻 gigantopithecus blacki 🐵 aenocyon dirus 🐺

Hell yeah

Since it's now confirmed the Dwarf elephants are Stegodons, I've added Megalochelys & Leptoptilos r. to the wildcard category

New image of the Prehistoric Planet Snow Sloths from the AppleTV website. Image text also confirms these are Megalonyx

🦕We’re delighted to announce that DinoCon 2026 will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Sat 25th & Sun 26th July, 2026!🦖 Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW! More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk

Nanotyrannus is real. For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex. But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species. Isn’t science fun?! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I have an itchy feeling the Prehistoric Planet Ice Age trailer will drop any moment, so here's my largely vibes-based predicitons / wishlist.

The text on these resources also confirms the elephant bird & a 'giant otter' (Enhydriodon?)

Got an extinct critter you'd like to see in motion? For the next 2 weeks I'll be taking commission requests at a discounted rate for palaeo walk cycles that you can use in your own projects! DM or email to discuss details

Got an extinct critter you'd like to see in motion? For the next 2 weeks I'll be taking commission requests at a discounted rate for palaeo walk cycles that you can use in your own projects! DM or email to discuss details

Except Maize (the plant we get corn from which dominates American farming) uses C4 photosynthesis, which means it stores carbon in its cells & releases it gradually for photosynthesis. You can flood it with CO2, but it won't grow any quicker. These f'ing idiots

There was an NFT cartoon starring people’s NFTs and I kept replying to clips they posted and saying nice things like “wow how funny!” and “Great Animation!” and they blocked me because they knew I couldn’t possibly be genuinely saying that

Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed: www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...

Today's museum theme is "finding things I didn't know we had", including a monkey holding an orange & a 70m long tapeworm bottle in formalin over 100 years ago. I'll spare you an image of the actual specimen, because it's grim

The unbelievable cuteness is tempered by knowing Prehistoric Planet's taste for baby massacres youtu.be/9i0Re9vWqBE?...

From the first year of my studies to my current, final modules, my utter loathing of self-assessment tasks remains undiluted

Sloth World, Part 1! There are a LOT of sloths, let's look at some recent developments... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10... #mammals #fossils #xenarthrans

Ozzy's passing has ignited the spark of wanting to play music, so I've had a fun evening of playing classic Sabbath & Dio riffs. Nice to see the old power chord divets coming back into my fingertips

Oh cool, now we can add cosying up to oppressive, human-rights violating regimes to the list of black marks against Colossal that won't at all stop people believing their BS mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2025...

A wild @tetzoo.bsky.social unexpectedly appeared in the window of the city library today

No matter how much you hate AI, you probably don’t hate it as much as Werner Herzog or Hayao Miyazaki and I think their hatred is beautiful

Palaeo folks! What's the most comprehensive, convenient source online for global temperatures & temperature proxy over time data for use in studies? Not looking for graphs, just want values & dates I can plug into a spreadsheet

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet