All of Ian Malcolm's talk about how nature can't be contained and "life finds a way" is why Jurassic Park was doomed to fail is bullshit. The reason it failed is because Hammond spared some expense when paying Newman.

Meet Fanantenanirainy (or Fano for short), a male Archaeoindris residing at the Fort Worth Zoo. learn more about him below! ---- #paleoart #lemur #megafauna

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

I hate how much Danielle Smith reminds me of my former boss. They share a condescending smile that makes me want to barf.

Speedpainted Zavecephale, the newly described pachycephslosaur from Mongolia. It was a juvenile when it died but its dome was fully formed. #paleoart #dinosaur #Zavacephale #watercolor

How about we try valuing writing more. Try saying “Wow this is a skill and it’s cool some people get good at it” instead of thinking barely-functional autocomplete is going to do anything worthwhile.

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Albertosaurus dinosaur illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project. #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Tyrannosaurid #Albertosaurus #Paleoillustration #SciArt

Zygorhiza portrait (basilosauridae) Acrylic on canvas (black and white) On sale (dm if you are interested) #zygorhiza #acrylicpainting #blackandwhite #noir #paleoart #sciart #archaeocete #basilosauridae #cetacean

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

were baby tyrannosaurs just big emu chicks? Science can't prove me wrong

🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 We’ve just seen this, by creator “Menapian” - a 4,998-piece set of the Great Exhibition (1851) Crystal Palace - complete with a bonus Megalosaurus and Ichthyosaur… beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Taking a holistic view, Weaver and colleagues propose a bold interpretation: this shift in sedimentary environment is directly linked to dinosaur extinction. Large-bodied dinosaurs likely acted as ecosystem engineers, maintaining an open vegetation structure leading to extensive floodplains.

Hellboy really is one of the greatest comic book movies ever, huh?

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Inspiration - sky & heron☁️ #bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #art #animalart #decorative #originalart #birdwatching

A family of extinct camels (Camelops hesternus) is relaxing in the tree lines of Pleistocene North America. Made for the Ice Age Fossil State Park, Nevada, Las Vegas Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper #paleoart #paleoillustration #camelillustration #naturalhistoryart #animaldrawing

Relearning how to do this so have some Very Important #Mammals #sciart #artistsonbsky

I think at times like this we need to come together and remind each other what’s really important: the new baby fanaloka at the Nashville zoo

Beau and Yasha💙 #myart #beauyasha #yashanydoorin #beauregardlionett #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #mightynein

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Trans kids shouldn’t be forced to go out there and fight for their rights to exist because of bigoted adults like Danielle Smith or RFK Jr.

"The religious right has this view that children are their chattel." Which is precisely why the so-called "parental rights" movement is an existential threat to public education and future generations.

I watch Star Trek for the plot

Jote cabeza colorada / Turkey vulture _Cathartes aura_ #sciartseptember 8: niche #aves #avesargentinas #dibujo #drawing #sketch #sketchingnature #naturesketching #naturejournaling #naturejournal #wildlife #boceto #cuadernodebocetos #ebird #ebirdargentina

Introducing "Jagged Night." Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in white Prismacolor on black Canson paper. Reference photo by Eli Martinez at SDM Diving. 🦈💙 Let's know what you guys think!! #shark #animalart #fish #mako #marinelife #sciart #nature #fishart #animal #ArtYear #bskyart #art

Malagasy Paleofauna - Pleisto-Holocene Edition ⭑ ---- #paleoart #animals #extinct #megafauna

Colored portrait sketch of Troodon formosus, a troodontid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of USA and Canada. It was initially described by tooth as a lizard and then referred to pachycephalosaurids. Later it became clear that Troodon was a bird-like theropod. #paleoart #dinosaur

Jormungandr walhallaensis

This comic is extra funny considering that owls are known to snatch eagle chicks from nests in the middle of the night, right in front of their parents!

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿

Hatchling vs lightning, here’s illustration I made for the paper “Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage” by Smyth et al., 2025. Paper below👇

Panthera atrox and Camelops by Charles R. Knight. Painted in 1922.

Today you learned that Mullerornis wasn’t even a QUARTER the size of an Aepyornis maximus!!! They should be called “Hyrax Bird” and “Elephant Bird” respectively LMAO. ……. #paleoart #megafauna #madagascar #pleistocene

Day 6 of #SciArtSeptember: Prairie The adorable black-footed ferret with some prairie flowers. #Art #SciArt #AnimalArt

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Nēnē 🌋🪿🪶 #avianaugust

I do like what Cristin Milioti is doing, but DC was too cowardly to be comic accurate and cast a giant hot clocky trans woman to be Sofia Falcone

My long held belief is that the TOS Star Trek movies were additive and the TNG ones were subtractive. Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu all found new depth across those six TOS movies. In the TNG movies, Picard got violent and Data got an emotion chip, end of list. They stink.

“Milky Meadow” More than 10 million years ago, off the coast of what is now California, USA 🇺🇸, a momma Neoparadoxia cecilalina nurses her week-old calf with the rich, fatty milk that he will need to grow into a big, strong sea beast. …. #paleoart #latemiocene #megafauna #digitalart #extinct

Part of snw's issue is it includes a lot of conservative ideas that seeped into trek during the berman era along with some new ones without all the far more left leaning writers then in text challenging those elements with compelling foils. Its steeped in nostalgia, but thats only a partial memory.

Hey, paleo people, is there a reason that Gigantopithecus is typically reconstructed with orangutan-like cheek pads (other than phylogenetic bracketting)?

#SciArtSeptember 4 - Riverbank Many mammals across the world have evolved an otter-like body shape and lifestyle. Perhaps the oddest and one of the most obscure is the West African giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox). Not an otter, not a shrew, but a distant cousin of elephants!

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Permafrost mummies! All these creatures represent a real animal found preserved in the permafrost. There's something so fragile and special about the earth and ice reuniting us with an animal our ancestors would have been so familiar with, that shit makes me cry. #paleoart

A very important grizzly bear passed away at the Calgary Zoo recently. His name was Skoki, and he came to the zoo after becoming habituated to humans in his youth. I literally do not remember a zoo without him. Rest in peace, big guy.

I dont understand how this flagrant incompetence has been rewarded with consistently good polling. Albertans really care more about their perceived oil money than having a functioning government?