Revamped skeletal drawing of a little known dinosaur named Velociraptor.

What happens to winter sports in a warming world, and how can those of us who love snow and ice use our voices to catalyze change? Read more in this Winter Olympics edition of Talking Climate.

Cowards. thehill.com/homenews/med...

Goth rhyolite ⚒️

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

Sarah B. Landry, her illustration of a feathered dinosaur(s) for the landmark publication "Dinosaur Renaissance" in the Scientific American, were the very first to be published.

Alice Woodward (1862–1951), a prolific illustrators known for her work in children's literature, and scientific illustrations. One of the few, prolific 19th century women credited in palaeoart.

The largest extinct volant bird Pelagornis could not meet the energetic demands of skimming url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

We need as much video as possible. Like this story about a citizen protester being arrested by ICE for following their instructions.

Revision of the longirostrine crocodylian Thoracosaurus isorhynchus from the Maastrichtian–Danian of northwestern Europe: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is an astounding example of the increasing intensity of rain storms. #climate #water

Time to update the trees!

Highly accurate, if not particularly precise... xkcd.com/3205/

#Geol204playlist For fossils and fossilization youtu.be/BDhJU_cNCZE?... via @YouTube

Locomotor reassessment of Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) using osteological correlates fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight: The Innovation www.cell.com/the-innovati...

When people claimed that AI is the new electricity, I thought of all of the quack uses for electricity in the early years, especially "cures." Same with radioactivity. Early users of electricity also burned a lot of buildings down until we learned where and when and how to make it useful AND safe.

Replace “Super Bowl Halftime Show” etc with “President”

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

You don’t “move on” from the largest sex trafficking ring in the world. You expose it. #StandWithSurvivors

The PSA comes as Congress gears up this week to hear from Ghislaine Maxwell and Pam Bondi.

Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Modern anatomy meets ancient bones: How virtual anatomy is transforming palaeoanthropological research - Aramendi - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Peter Houde, Spencer G. Lucas, Matthew Heizler, Julia Ricci, William J. Boecklen & Brian Hampton (2026) First Known Cranium of Cuvieronius (Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae) from North America Diversity 18(2): 92 doi: doi.org/10.3390/d180... www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18...

M. Le Neün et al. (2026) New insights into the domestication process of south American camelids at Telarmachay (Peru) from 9,000 to 4,500 years before present (BP) Quaternary Science Reviews 376: 109819 doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spotted hyaena spotted on island: the Upper Pleistocene hyaenas from San Teodoro Cave (Sicily, Italy) provide new insights on the palaeobiology, palaeoecology, and sociality of Crocuta Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 132(1): 101-130 riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RI...

Wilson, O.E., Gelfo, J.N., Zanesco, T. et al. Feeding the ‘fire beasts’: mesowear angles in bilophodont South American herbivores. J Mammal Evol 32, 50 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Scaling of internal joint distance in the elbow of small‐ to medium‐sized mammals: Implications for range of motion analyses - Scheidt - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Quantitative characterization of melanin-based feather colour using reflectance spectrophotometry url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea - Chia - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

United by chewing: Hunter-Schreger band-like pattern and wavy enamel in a fossil crocodile suggest functional convergence with mammals and dinosaurs url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

A new polyglyphanodontian lizard from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China implies a complex evolutionary history of the clade url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Wang, X., Huang, W., Fu, Q. et al. A new early permian fruit, Dengfengfructus maxima gen. et sp. nov., supports the pre-cretaceous origin of angiosperms. BMC Ecol Evo 26, 17 (2026). doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Nasal soft‐tissue anatomy of Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs - Tada - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Read it and weep. Literally.

F.J. Riguetti et al. 2026 New thyreophoran remains with stegosaurian affinities from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 56-79 peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/pe...

A new species of the enigmatic mammal Bondesius from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia: Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Fossil evidence of exceptionally large egg-clutches sheds light on reproductive diversity in Late Cretaceous crocodyliforms from Brazil: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huang, J., Wu, W., Mao, L. et al. Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur. Nat Ecol Evol (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...