Brontops
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Ornithischian dinosaurs of the world...and other stuff
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Whooooaaaa, this is extremely neat!
And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙
In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material.
🔭🧪
And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙
In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material.
🔭🧪
For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.
Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
🔭 🧪 ☄️
Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
🔭 🧪 ☄️
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Whooooaaaa, this is extremely neat!
And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙
In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material.
🔭🧪
And spectropolarimetry (which is the best, and what we used in my first paper too!) is at its core 💙
In a nutshell: astronomers used the polarization of light to study the shape of a supernova explosion before it interacted with surrounding material.
🔭🧪
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Forelimb morphology of the early short-tailed avialan theropod Confuciusornis: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 🪶🧪 (📷Duan et al.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Forelimb morphology of the early short-tailed avialan theropod Confuciusornis: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... 🪶🧪 (📷Duan et al.)
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Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP
A new, exquisitely preserved skull of a basal neornithischian from the Morrison Fm www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A new, exquisitely preserved skull of a basal neornithischian from the Morrison Fm www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
M. W. Maisch, L. S. M. Maisch 2024 Neubewertung von „Plateosaurus“ ornatus von Huene, 1908 – ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed? Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 180. Jahrgang
May 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
M. W. Maisch, L. S. M. Maisch 2024 Neubewertung von „Plateosaurus“ ornatus von Huene, 1908 – ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed? Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 180. Jahrgang
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"Oh, my God"
"What is it?"
"It's a birdcage"
"For what?"
My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)
"What is it?"
"It's a birdcage"
"For what?"
My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)
February 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Oh, my God"
"What is it?"
"It's a birdcage"
"For what?"
My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)
"What is it?"
"It's a birdcage"
"For what?"
My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)
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Restos de anquilossauros de uma nova localidade do Campaniano-Maastrichtiano no norte da Patagônia, Argentina doi.org/10.1080/0311...
Ankylosaurian remains from a new Campanian–Maastrichtian locality in Northern Patagonia, Argentina
In South America, the fossil record of thyreophorans is scarce compared with that of Laurasian landmasses. The earliest finds date back to the first half of the twentieth century and consist of an ...
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Restos de anquilossauros de uma nova localidade do Campaniano-Maastrichtiano no norte da Patagônia, Argentina doi.org/10.1080/0311...
Leaving this here for no particular reason... #spinosaurus #theropoda
February 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Leaving this here for no particular reason... #spinosaurus #theropoda
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I made another discovery today: a new (old) instance of the Demonic Elongated Quetzalcoatlus! And It's attacking London! Apparently it is from Look and Learn, a British educational magazine for children published in 1982.
February 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I made another discovery today: a new (old) instance of the Demonic Elongated Quetzalcoatlus! And It's attacking London! Apparently it is from Look and Learn, a British educational magazine for children published in 1982.
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more progress....almost done with the head details
February 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
more progress....almost done with the head details
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Thinking about ankylosaur cervical spines (neck armor) today in the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social collections. How many morphs are there? What bones are homologous? Can I just have ONE articulated animal?!?
January 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thinking about ankylosaur cervical spines (neck armor) today in the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social collections. How many morphs are there? What bones are homologous? Can I just have ONE articulated animal?!?
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The ginkgo-mimicking hangingfly Juracimbrophlebia, from Jurassic China. Places like the Haifanggou Formation are known for an insane quantity of full-body insect fossils, some of which even preserve color patterning
#paleoart #sciart #entomology
#paleoart #sciart #entomology
January 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The ginkgo-mimicking hangingfly Juracimbrophlebia, from Jurassic China. Places like the Haifanggou Formation are known for an insane quantity of full-body insect fossils, some of which even preserve color patterning
#paleoart #sciart #entomology
#paleoart #sciart #entomology
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"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social !
uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺
uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺
January 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social !
uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺
uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...
🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺
Unveiling the Eotrachodon: Alabama's Newest Dinosaur Comes to Life at McWane
YouTube · McWane Science Center
youtu.be/CmCSdCoFKPM?... #ornithischia
YouTube · McWane Science Center
youtu.be/CmCSdCoFKPM?... #ornithischia
Unveiling the Eotrachodon: Alabama's Newest Dinosaur Comes to Life at McWane
YouTube video by McWane Science Center
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Unveiling the Eotrachodon: Alabama's Newest Dinosaur Comes to Life at McWane
YouTube · McWane Science Center
youtu.be/CmCSdCoFKPM?... #ornithischia
YouTube · McWane Science Center
youtu.be/CmCSdCoFKPM?... #ornithischia
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Denmark's #Evolutionsmuseet Knuthenborg, home to the famous #Lokiceratops fossils and the 97%-Complete Camarasaurus, appears to be readying itself for yet another key specimen...
The original announcement was posted 5 days ago, so we may expect to hear news very soon...
The original announcement was posted 5 days ago, so we may expect to hear news very soon...
January 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Denmark's #Evolutionsmuseet Knuthenborg, home to the famous #Lokiceratops fossils and the 97%-Complete Camarasaurus, appears to be readying itself for yet another key specimen...
The original announcement was posted 5 days ago, so we may expect to hear news very soon...
The original announcement was posted 5 days ago, so we may expect to hear news very soon...
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December 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Great Yingshanosaurus skeletal by @slvrhwk.bsky.social www.deviantart.com/slvrhwk/art/... and a translation of the original paper t.co/YZCaUZoG9E
Yingshanosaurus jichuanensis Skeletal by SlvrHwk on DeviantArt
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January 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Great Yingshanosaurus skeletal by @slvrhwk.bsky.social www.deviantart.com/slvrhwk/art/... and a translation of the original paper t.co/YZCaUZoG9E
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#FossilFriday A few more views of the holotype brain case of the giant Albian nodosaurid Peleroplites. CEUM 26331
January 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#FossilFriday A few more views of the holotype brain case of the giant Albian nodosaurid Peleroplites. CEUM 26331
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January 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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I know....., we have growth series of 2 species of large iguanodontion that get pretty big and two fused up sacra in this size range. A 3rd small taxon in the bone bed escalates the taxonomic complexities. Need to pull together the associated skeletons.
January 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I know....., we have growth series of 2 species of large iguanodontion that get pretty big and two fused up sacra in this size range. A 3rd small taxon in the bone bed escalates the taxonomic complexities. Need to pull together the associated skeletons.
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I'm absolutely exhausted due to all the fossils this #FossilFriday. @stupond.bsky.social and I spent Tues & Wed unpacking and cataloguing an ankylosaur.. 357 bones... while @valdosaurus.bsky.social , Ricardo and I spent Thur& Fri working on an iggy from Sussex.. another new species, maybe.
January 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm absolutely exhausted due to all the fossils this #FossilFriday. @stupond.bsky.social and I spent Tues & Wed unpacking and cataloguing an ankylosaur.. 357 bones... while @valdosaurus.bsky.social , Ricardo and I spent Thur& Fri working on an iggy from Sussex.. another new species, maybe.
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The Triassic of India is pretty under sampled so always good to see a new taxon!
A New paratypothoracin aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic Dharmaram Formation of India and its biostratigraphic implications: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A New paratypothoracin aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic Dharmaram Formation of India and its biostratigraphic implications
The Upper Triassic lower Dharmaram Formation of India has yielded a highly diverse archosaur-dominated fauna that included a paratypothoracin aetosaur Venkatasuchus armatum, a plateosaurian sauropo...
www.tandfonline.com
January 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Triassic of India is pretty under sampled so always good to see a new taxon!
So, we have a late Cretaceous Lagerstätte...in Africa!? Finger crossed for further development www.palaeosa.org/uploads/4/5/...
January 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
So, we have a late Cretaceous Lagerstätte...in Africa!? Finger crossed for further development www.palaeosa.org/uploads/4/5/...