Sahelanthropus sketch

Sizing up the hidden beauty. Kalama tricornis, a lace bug, not rare, lives right among us. Colored pencils

Erythrosuchus and two Cynognathus

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: the giant Meganeuropsis hawks Dunbaria in Early Permian Kansas, reaching to trap it with long, spiny legs. This image is set at the coast to reflect the marine occurrences of Meganeuropsis and Dunbaria fossils - not all Carbo-Permian insects lived in swamps! #sciart

Megaloceros and Reindeer #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge

Tomorrow is another fieldwork day

Bomb Devil- Reze and Spinosaurus

Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) people! Late to the party but better then never! #paleoart #sciart #art @rlatkdwls.bsky.social @vyhrart.bsky.social @paleoart.bsky.social @hugopaleoart.bsky.social

Have learnt from Andrea Cau that French palaeontologist Philippe Taquet died yesterday, aged 85. Taquet published a substantial amount on north African and French #dinosaurs, including Ouranosaurus, spinosaurids, the dromaeosaurid Pyroraptor and much more.

Yesterday's Jinju Formation fieldwork

When I attended the conference in Fukui two months ago, I saw one of the Korean dinosaur enthusiasts there. I remember him because he appreciated my contribution to the research on fossils from his area, when a monograph about the Jinju Formation blattodeans was published. (1/2)

People always draw Juvenile T. rex attacked by Nanotyrannus, so I did something different.

Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

Why do people do this? An ornithischian, perhaps a thescelosaurid or maybe an elasmarian, with what I'm unlovingly and unflatteringly calling "Skeksi face," with all due apologies to Brian Froud and the Henson Company. #sciart, actually. No, really.

Quick sketch of Nanotyrannus lethaeus, based on Jane, ~45 minutes (slowed down towards the end because my cat likes to climb onto my lap when I'm using my drawing monitor.) #SciArt #Tyrannosaurus #Nanotyrannus #theropod #dinosaur #not-a-juvenile #bigger-arms

My infographic terror continues to spread! This time, prompted by nothing in particular (he lied) is the question of ontogenetic metaplastic transformation. Let's talk about #Pachycephalosaurus. #Dinosaur #Ontogeny #Paleontology Bri'is #Palaeontology #SciArt #metaplasia

From left to right, Nanotyrannus, Tameryraptor, Allosaurus anax

Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus, and Helicoprion.

Nanotyrannus lethaeus(“Jane”) sketch

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

Nanotyrannus hunting Triceratops

For most participants, the real meaning of evidence-based analysis in peer-reviewed literature hasn't set in yet. Whether they're arguing for the "right" conclusion or not, their goal is to win an argument and defend their feelings and aesthetic preferences.

When these kids argued (and will continue to argue) about Nanotyrannus or Spinosaurus or whatever else, the actual evidence isn't really in play. They take sides based on aesthetics—on the mental image of the prehistoric world that they prefer to envision.

Let me attempt to articulate something. As a former participant in the "teenage nerds talk about dinosaurs online" scene, I think some of us who follow paleontology as adults or do dinosaur stuff professionally care too much about the specifics of what's being discussed there. (cont'd)

Now we call a tyrannosaur on background as Nanotyrannus lethaeus.

Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.

sometimes I am reminded how juvenile and immature the online paleo community can be...

this should be considered a victory for evidence and proper evaluation of data and science. But I'm sure it'll be considered as vindication that wanting something to be true and arm waving about what someone else said they measured on a specimen no one else had seen, gave the *right* answer.

to be convinced. Now that has happened, people like me and @arctomet.bsky.social and @stevebrusatte.bsky.social are saying 'yes, this is convincing, Nano appears to be valid' *because* the scientific method was followed, and *not* because people *thought* that it was. In short...

that had already been dismissed or contradicted in the literature were the way to go and that we should have listened to them. But I and so many others always said that what we wanted to see was convincing data. Proper material, properly studied, with real measurements and testable data...

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

힘들다

Let's bring it home! Part Three of Hubrecht at the Lyceum!

Lotosaurus and Shansisuchus, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan

Koolasuchus cleelandi Illustration! In this Illustration, I have depicted a scene of koolasuchus making a desperate attempt to flee the dangers of a fellow Koolasuchus. The seasonal flooding has brought new hunting grounds, and so more competition and fights for those hunting ground rights #paleoart

#Sciart #Paleoart #Dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus, commissioned artwork

Excited to share our research on the evolution of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic! By analyzing 38 global fossil forests, we explored key parameters to better understand how these fossil forests developed over time. doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

Great new paper by Mannion & Moore 2025 on diplodocoid sauropods for #FossilFriday I love their latest phylogeny as it certainly supports the mass extinction of sauropods at the end of the Jurassic that is so well documented in eastern Utah. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

#FossilFriday Hesperosaurus holotype skeleton, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

Drepanosaurs have such character! Drepanosaurus, a Late Triassic arboreal reptile not closely related to anything living today. #Sciart

Dinosaur animatronics at the Fukui Station west.

To brighten up a wet and rainy #FossilFriday, here's my take on the recently described drepanosaur Mirasaura grauvogeli. It's shown among the conifer Voltzia, a plant found in abundance in the same beds as Mirasaura. The pointed sail shape is based on fossil data... #sciart #fossils #paleontology

I saw this blessed fish in Fukui last week @mosasaurologist.bsky.social

#FossilFriday Tambatitanis skeleton at the Tamba Dinosaur Museum, Japan

Taking a book to an international conference for autographs? Always best choice. Imagine any people who notice and follow your work abroad. This is how we become friends. At this visit in Japan for #2025ISAD, I took @getawaytrike.bsky.social's Dinopedia to Japan.

Finally I go to Fukui today