Tess Gallagher
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Paleontologist that specializes in Diplodocus skin. Currently working at Edelman Fossil Museum
My attempt at designing my own australovenator that I forgor to post from awhile ago.
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Mabus
4 days ago
Giraffatitan Xenomorph
#sketch-a-day
#art
#ink
#xenovember
#xenomorph
#dinosaur
#giraffatitan
#PaleoArt
#CreatureDesign
#CreatureArt
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Getting all around good news today 😁
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Alexandria Stone
12 days ago
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
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Manuscript accepted with minor revisions!!🥳
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Small Tyrant
10 days ago
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Dr Dave Hone
10 days ago
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...
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Natalia Jagielska
17 days ago
Had the pleasure of working on the press release image for this groundbreaking research!
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Riley Black - When the Earth Was Green out now 🌱
17 days ago
New dates on fossils from New Mexico reveal a community of dinosaurs that were thriving right before the asteroid strike, including 80-foot-long, 30-ton giants like Alamosaurus. I’ll tell you more in my latest for NatGeo. 🧪
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New evidence reveals dinosaurs were thriving right up to the moment the asteroid hit
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dinosaurs-thriving-extinction-asteroid-new-mexico
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Natalia Jagielska
21 days ago
👉👈
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Nova
24 days ago
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Hello! For those who haven't seen yet, I've uploaded a video about how I made a 3D torvosaur model!
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Modelling a 90s Low Poly Torvosaurus!
YouTube video by Nova Stein
https://youtu.be/KSKrdG1CZ40?si=rwG8aFgpQUrC1wt6
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Huge congrats to my colleagues for getting the sauropod volume funded!! BUT they have just 3 more days to reach their stretch goal to fund paleoart!! 146$ is all they need. This volume will likely describe several new species so paleoart is a big must!
experiment.com/projects/rea...
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Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea
We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...
https://experiment.com/projects/reassessing-the-evolutionary-family-tree-and-biogeography-of-the-iconic-sauropod-group-diplodocoidea
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I’m opening paleoart commissions for detailed pieces! Dm me for a quote.
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Camarasaurus 🌲🦕
26 days ago
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Camarasaurus sketch
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Benji Paysnoe
about 1 month ago
Refining my digital sculpting skills with a sauropod! Camarasaurus sp. Thank you
@tessasaurus.bsky.social
for your help with integument possibilities!
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Galeamopus 🦕
about 1 month ago
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Dramatic Dryptosaurs 🦖
about 1 month ago
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blep
about 2 months ago
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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸
about 2 months ago
More rough sketches: this time some wee sauropodlets
#paleoart
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the fun part about making your own models is that you get to play around with them heheh
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DinoCon
3 months ago
Check out this awesome video that Tom Fishenden captured for us of DinoCon 2025! It was an absolute blast and we will see you all again in 2026! (updates still to come!) To find more of Tom’s work, see the links in the comments.
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DinoCon 2025
YouTube video by DinoCon UK
https://youtu.be/Oqh-wCEdcuQ
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MechMonster
3 months ago
Shoutout to certain dinocon ppl for getting me to appreciate (and perhaps become mildly obsessed with) sauropods. Like, what the hell. What cool, weirdass giant critters they were! "Extreme engineering" on another level for real
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Alberta Claw
3 months ago
#DinoConUK
@tessasaurus.bsky.social
: On the skin of Diplodocus
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Jeanne Timmons
3 months ago
More on work on sauropod skin by
@tessasaurus.bsky.social
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arstechnica.com/science/2022...
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Zoe Tunnell
3 months ago
EVERYONE SHUT UP TREMORS IS ON YOUTUBE FOR FREE
youtu.be/GHB9pqO5tCs?...
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Tremors
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
https://youtu.be/GHB9pqO5tCs?si=P9RkK829UWwtZI5T
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Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University
3 months ago
Love was literally in the strata this past weekend! 💍🦕 One couple unearthed something extra special with a surprise proposal in the quarry, while an epic bachelorette party brought the celebration to the museum halls. EFM is so lucky to be part of moments that make both history and memories.
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Darren Naish
3 months ago
Not counting today, FOUR DAYS until
#DinoConUK
. Tickets will be on sale for one or two more days for what's guaranteed to be the UK's - almost certainly Europe's - largest dinosaur-themed event since the end of the Cretaceous. Info:
www.dinocon.co.uk
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Darren Naish
3 months ago
This time next week,
#DinoConUK
will be in full swing. Be sure to follow (and use) the # if you want to keep up with developments. We will encourage people to share news on social media throughout the event. See you there :)
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Joanna Kobierska
3 months ago
Cave lion turnaround
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3 months ago
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SaurianCYH
3 months ago
Caihong (idk what those plants are don't come for me)
#paleoart
#sciart
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What are they talking about it?
3 months ago
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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus
4 months ago
that thing they say about Teto fans is true btw, we're all mentally ill i call this piece: "Vile Ripe Plant Ovary Meets Her Doom to a Kaatedocus" - 2025
#teto
#tetokasane
#paleoart
#dinoart
#dinosaurart
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Gabriel Ugueto
4 months ago
Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart
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Cary Woodruff
4 months ago
New paper day! Phil Bell led a great study on some *INSANELY COOL* titanosaur tracks our expedition found in Mongolia. The scales in particular are extra awesome - they're like little pyramids, and they *may* have helped with scratch digging and/or walking on sandy surfaces!
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Lizah van der Aart
4 months ago
Has threatening your experiments ever worked?
#science
#academiccomic
#phdlife
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DinoCon
4 months ago
🦕DinoCon is happening this time NEXT MONTH!!! Get your tickets now and don't miss out on our first year!🦖
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reject modernity, return to rugose rex 🦖
4 months ago
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Dr Matt Dempsey
4 months ago
I don't think I ever shared the fully edited breakdown reel of my T. rex model. I've changed the texture maps a bit since compiling this (dirt pass and proper roughness maps), but I don't really feel like re-rendering the whole walk cycle again, especially not in this heat...
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I met a celebrity today. Haddy the Hadrosaurus, in Haddonfield NJ
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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone
4 months ago
At one point the Nazis announced over the radio that when they caught her they were going to rend her into 309 pieces and she got all excited that they knew "her score"
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Sewell NJ, 72 million years ago gift for a coworker featuring Mosasaurus Hoffmannii and Enchodus
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Laura Helmuth
4 months ago
Do you ever stop and think about how there used to be pterosaurs? A fun new study shows that pterosaurs used to eat plants (they'd been expected to be carnivores) & like modern birds, they had stones in their gullets called gastroliths that help break down plants 🧪
@science.org
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Pterosaur died with belly full of plants—a fossil first
New discovery confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants
https://www.science.org/content/article/pterosaur-died-belly-full-plants-fossil-first?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=DailyLatestNews&et_rid=148647149&et_cid=5670388
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Skeleton Crew Paleo
4 months ago
Exciting new research out today in Nature on the evolution of theropod wrist bones by Skeleton Crewmembers James & Alex!! Tune in to our livestream at 8pm et TONIGHT to learn more as we play a topically relevant board game (Wingspan) together! Art by Henry Sharpe; link to paper in the next post.
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A reminder that I will be presenting at
@dinoconuk.bsky.social
on August 16th. I'll be exploring the scaley, diverse textures of Diplodocus and kin, and also touch upon the science behind fossil color patterning 🌈🦕
4 months ago
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Dr Matt Dempsey
4 months ago
Final(?) layout
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Another example on how sauropod scales would have been more visible than we think is the lovely Astrodon mount at
@thefossilpark.bsky.social
. The scales here are 1-2cm wide, smaller than the 3-5cm polygonal scales we know sauropods had, and yet they're surprisingly visible. A very short 🧵1/ ?
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