Not Your Mastodon! (it's Notiomastodon)

Adding to the collection of theropods with weird hands described this year. Duonychus, Mexidracon and the already posted Manipulonyx.

A group of Dinanomodon guoi is feeding beside a stream. Nearby, two Moschowhaitsia lidaqingi, large carnivorous therocephalians, are looking for an opportunity to hunt. Across the stream, a pair of Turfanodon jiufengensis are resting.

Since Dinanomodon guoi is only known from a compele cranium, I using Turfanodon jiufengensis (a close-reletive taxon of Dinanomodon) as a reference to reconstruct its postcranial region.

Officially announced that I will not update my X account.

This is an animal I'd really love to see if we get another season of Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. It's the perfect blend of familiar and bizarre!

Getting excited... for #FossilFriday ! Our Morrison Ankylosaur monograph may be published online in a week. Hopefully, this will lead to a fix in many ankylosaur phylogenies. A dozen known Morrison ankylosaur sites spanning 4 states. Who would have think it 35 years ago?

”Bloody Mary” Nanotyrannus #sciart

King of all the antlers. #Prehistoricplaneticeage #Megaloceros #ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

"No species in Prehistoric Planet last forever" #prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts #ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

We'll close out this #FossilFriday with the obvious choice of Nanotyrannus. I couldn't share this CT scanning session at the time (June 2023) but can now. @jgn-paleo.bsky.social brought the holotype Cleveland skull he had on loan, and CMNH VP curator Caitlin Colleary & I joined in the fun!

Making some fresh models to sharpen my 3D skills, and what better subject to do that than our lovely brazilian Pleistocene megafauna? #SciArt #artbyjulio

Waning Hours

New filter-feeding pterosaur dropped and it was found in dinosaur vomit!

Navigator of the River Lethe #Nanotyrannus

And one without the typo...

A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social

White-lipped Deer a.k.a. Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris) quick sketch

Why do mammals need so many face muscles 😭

Forgot to announce I have a new paper out this week! Animals that are more front-heavy have thicker, differently shaped forelimb bones to deal with the extra load. Limb bones alone may thus be useful proxies for body shape - but posture complicates things. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

松本市四賀化石館の催しです シガマッコウクジラの化石を３Ｄデータ化へ　化石館が作業公開に合わせ１３～１５日に催し www.shimintimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...

ISCHIGUALASTIA CONCEPT ARTWORKS FROM #SurvivingEarth CREATED BY GABRIEL UGUETO AND RAUL MARTIN!!! TRIASSIC ENJOYERS FINALLY EATING GOOD!!!

steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis giganteus) I recently read Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen that recounts in dramatic fashion the voyage of Steller, the discovery, subsequent extinction, and the discovery of the skeleton of one and how it ended up In Helsinki. A wonderful book you should read.

Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️

#fossilfriday Brontothere skulls from the Eocene of the White River Badlands on display at the @alfpaleo.bsky.social museum in Claremont, CA. One of these (suspect it's the middle one) was collected by a teenage Malcolm McKenna before his career in vert paleo took off!

STERNERG'S EARTH-STERNBERG

Qilin tungurensis (formally Palaeotragus tungurensis) have a new genus name now! Mainly based on the holotype and paratype AMNH 26582/26583, the part of horn core based on the refered IVPP V33851.

Postschizotherium intermedium, a large Pliohyracids with a hippo-like head. For almost a hundred year, people can only learn about this animal through its skulls and teeth. With no any thing about the postcranial, it's very hard to accurately reconstruct the entire body shape. 1/

Sketchy sketch of Australopithecus afarensis #sciart

Milan Giant Rostrum Spinosaurus cf. aegyptiacus MSNM V4047

Sexual dimorphism in Paranthropus robustus

Small giraffid Bramiscus

Le Petit Prince #Khankhuuluumongoliensis #Khankhuuluu #mongoliensis

Glimpses from the skies of Niobrara

Mahajungasuchus insignis

Deinosuchus hatcheri or Phobosuchus riograndensis

Corythosaurus intermedius

corythosaurus

Death pose dinosaurs

wip

Duonychus tsogtbaatari doodle

Sauropod studying time

Misc troodontid ideas #sciart

Heron-like tracks from the Dunvegan Formation (Cenomanian), British Columbia: evidence for convergence in avian foot morphology: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Granger's paracerathere wip

Idiophyseter merriami. #sciart #paleoart