Olof Moleman
@lordtrilobite.bsky.social
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He/him/they, artist, palaeontology enthusiast. Hadrosaurs are the best dinosaurs
#noai
The king the river wakes to a new day.
#spinosaurus
#sciart
#paleoart
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Tyler Keillor
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#FossilFriday
& happy to see coworker & coauthor Erin Fitzgerald’s culmination of fierce fieldwork, ace preparation of difficult material & great paint job on the display-skull, out now w/ Spinosaurus mirabilis, debuting @ Chicago Children’s Museum on March 1
#SciArt
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Nothosaurus skull almost done I think.
#sciart
#paleoart
13 days ago
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Mark Witton
14 days ago
In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis.
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.
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New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs
Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516314-new-fossils-may-settle-debate-over-mysterious-sail-backed-spinosaurs/
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24 days ago
fr.pensoft.net/article/1736...
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Locomotor reassessment of Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) using osteological correlates
Large ornithopod dinosaurs have been successively described as quadrupeds, bipeds and facultative bipeds. Here we study the case of three ankylopollexians (Iguanodon bernissartensis, Ouranosaurus nige...
https://fr.pensoft.net/article/173614/
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Darren Naish
24 days ago
Why this new 'spiny dragon' dinosaur found in China is such a huge deal ... a new article at Discover Wildlife
www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/ha...
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Why this new 'spiny dragon' dinosaur found in China is such a huge deal | Discover Wildlife
The Iguanodon-like dinosaur had a covering of hollow spikes, according to new research.
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/haolong-dongi-china
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Tess Gallagher
25 days ago
If I were to sell my artwork as stickers, which one would you be most willing to get? Keep in mind that i will probably remove the melanosome image from the Diplodocus one
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Adding details to the Nothosaurus snoot.
#Blender
26 days ago
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I made this to honour this cool new dinosaur.
add a skeleton here at some point
27 days ago
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This is wild.
add a skeleton here at some point
27 days ago
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Sculpting in more details on Nothosaurus.
about 1 month ago
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Slowly but surely sculpting in details and fixing proportions on my Nothosaurus skull sculpture in
#blender
#sciart
#paleoart
about 1 month ago
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key-lime pie
about 1 month ago
Stand up, fight back.
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Ankylosaurus magniventris skull diagram.
#sciart
#paleoart
#paleontology
about 1 month ago
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RJ Palmer
about 2 months ago
Catching up with what James Gurney, the Dinotopia artist, is up to these days. Pathetic.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
about 2 months ago
The internal crest anatomy of Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) - Dudgeon - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The internal crest anatomy of Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae)
The supracranial crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaurids have long been a focus of study due primarily to their extreme morphology. The external anatomy of lambeosaurine crests is understood to be highl...
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70125
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Orribec
about 2 months ago
#PortfolioDay
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Bob Nicholls Art
about 2 months ago
NEW ARTWORK TO START 2026 Here's "Deep Blue Buffet," commissioned by The Etches Collection. Featured, from the Late
#Jurassic
Kimmeridge Clay, are
#SeaRex
#Hybodus
#Hypsocormus
#Metriorhynchus
#Aspidorhynchus
&
#Allothrissops
#SciArt
#PaleoArt
#MarineReptiles
#Pliosaurs
#Pliosaurus
#JurassicWorld
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Prof Susie Maidment
about 2 months ago
Out in
@nature.com
today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature
New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09897-w
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Just before the end of the year. Here's my finished
#Ankylosaurus
magniventris skull sculpture, 3d printed at 1/6th scale. Sculpted in
#Blender
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#SciArt
#Paleoart
#Paleontology
2 months ago
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Tess Gallagher
3 months ago
While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.
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Aline Ghilardi
3 months ago
⚒️🧪Feliz
#FossilFriday
! Happy Fossil friday with Bakiribu returned to Santana do Cariri! (Where Irritator, Mirischia and many others should be):
#IrrititatorBelongstoBR
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Ville Sinkkonen
3 months ago
Corythosaurus
#sciart
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
3 months ago
Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity - Sharpe - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity
Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non-crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non-crested” hadrosaur is known to ha...
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70098?fbclid=IwY2xjawOX4BJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF4RU1GSGZGRVJZbkdzMHNNc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlfYCvUjUw185Ne2aW5TlcpgpVMXHMVKBPQpFhxcdXA8vHVIGevaF7OnwqOS_aem_ZFdsD7BHiJwgqdH2u3ERFw
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The Shadows of 2026💙💛
3 months ago
Artists:
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Anthony is covered in chalk
3 months ago
Happy
#MosasaurMonday
from Eustace, the holotype skull of Jormungandr walhallensis discovered in North Dakota by the NDGS. We were tasked with taking this not-quite-complete skull (right) and digitally restoring it for display at the NDGS as well as a library just a few miles from the dig site 🧪
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Joschua Knüppe
3 months ago
And here the results from the Solnhofen
#paleostream
! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
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Michael Haslam
3 months ago
Seals singing in a sea cave
#Orkney
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Joanna Kobierska
4 months ago
Steppe lion enjoys the last days of summer. But mornings are getting colder, winter is coming.
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Professor John R. Hutchinson
4 months ago
#DAWNDINOS
paper! We built a 3D musculoskeletal model of ~1 kg Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Gracilisuchus. Forelimbs were a challenge. Nice articulations of ribs, vertebrae & osteoderms made a good torso & neck. Probably quadrupedal, plantigrade & not fully erect limbs.
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
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Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae)
A three-dimensional biomechanical model of the musculoskeletal system is used to analyse the potential locomotor functions of the small (~1 kg) Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Gracilisuchus stipan...
https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.70067
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Jordan Bestwick
4 months ago
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
https://c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate
4 months ago
Be weary of the beardogs! These swift pack hunters are not to be taken lightly. New update (backers only) posted to our Kickstarter! Link in thread
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Ville Sinkkonen
4 months ago
Rex, all hail the king
#sciart
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Aline Ghilardi
4 months ago
You can see Bakiribu fossil in 3D! Access it here:
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
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Ole Zant
4 months ago
Diplodocid bones galore and aplenty at the Oertijdmuseum. Here some photos from a while ago of the construction of Aurora (a composite of two specimens). The skeleton was on display elsewhere for a month and is now being mounted in the Oertijdmuseum. Photos of that coming soon.
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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD
4 months ago
Our latest research on hadrosaurid tail injuries as possible sex indication was announced by
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
, how COOL is that?????
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Aline Ghilardi
4 months ago
🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩 🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳 The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22983-3
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Claude ✡️🦖🦕
4 months ago
🚨PTEROSAUR NEWS🚨 a warm welcome to bakiribu waridza, a filter-feeding ctenochasmatid from the early cretaceous romualdo formation of brazil. described by
@alinemghilardi.bsky.social
et al., it is recovered as a sibling taxon to the 'flamingo pterosaur' pterodaustro (art by julio lacerda)
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Skye McDavid
4 months ago
While going through ptero collections with
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey
@bgs.ac.uk
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪
4 months ago
Barinasuchus arveloi: as an animal, you just cannot get any cooler than this
#paleoart
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪
4 months ago
Ouranosaurus
#paleoart
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Darren Naish
4 months ago
Yes, the
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
trailer is out today...
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Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kvwp9aIyM
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Skye McDavid
4 months ago
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD
4 months ago
Our controversial paper is finally out in
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
! As part of my PhD dissertation at
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
in 2021, the last chapter was dedicated to a specific pathological pattern in hadrosaurid tails!
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Denver Fowler Ph.D
4 months ago
CLUMSY MALE DINOSAURS INJURED FEMALES DURING MATING: Our new paper (Filippo Bertozzo et al. 2025), shows that a common tail injury seen in duckbilled dinosaurs was probably caused by heavy male dinosaurs clumsily crushing the spines of females during mating. /1
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Forgot tags :3
#SciArt
#PaleoArt
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Happy
#hadroween
everyone! Here's two
#Olorotitan
fighting for dominance.
4 months ago
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Steve Brusatte
4 months ago
Nanotyrannus is real. For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex. But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species. Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/30/researchers-discover-nanotyrannus-tyrannosaur-species-in-duelling-dinosaurs-fossil
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
4 months ago
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...
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The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/science/nanotyrannus-tyrannosaurus-rex-fossil.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.ktbs.d78QocGQJcsE&smid=bs-share
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