Martiniii
@martinisaurus.bsky.social
A guy who never grew out of his dinosaur obsession, and talking about it constantly. 23, MD resident, SSBU Bayonetta main, LoL Eve, Nilah, Sera, Gwen, L(G)BT, Paleontology enthusiast. ASK ME ABOUT WHALES!!!
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Martiniii
@martinisaurus.bsky.social
· Feb 16
As today is world whale day, I've prepared something wonderful for you all! This is Squalodon, namely the species S. whitmorei, the largest member of the genus! It has a comparatively shorter and wider rostrum than S. calvertensis, and a larger body size too! (6-8m(?) max!)
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Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Vampyronassa, Allodesmus, Papiliomaris and Pterodactylus.
Vampyronassa, Allodesmus, Papiliomaris and Pterodactylus.
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Vampyronassa, Allodesmus, Papiliomaris and Pterodactylus.
Vampyronassa, Allodesmus, Papiliomaris and Pterodactylus.
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Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation)
Recent extensive fieldwork in the Densuş-Ciula Formation in Haţeg Basin has led to the discovery of several important high-diversity bonebeds. Among the excavated locations, site K2 is by far the most...
dx.plos.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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But - we find the two species of Quetzalcoatlus as not closely related! That is, the huge type species Q. northropi and the smaller Q. lawsoni are not each other's closest relatives - Thanatosdrakon and several unnamed specimens get in the way. What does this mean???
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
But - we find the two species of Quetzalcoatlus as not closely related! That is, the huge type species Q. northropi and the smaller Q. lawsoni are not each other's closest relatives - Thanatosdrakon and several unnamed specimens get in the way. What does this mean???
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Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
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Tetralophodon, considered to link a gomphothere grade with true elephants
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Tetralophodon, considered to link a gomphothere grade with true elephants
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Presentation: Slides in English, Live Drawing, Zoom Link will be shown here:
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October 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Presentation: Slides in English, Live Drawing, Zoom Link will be shown here:
freunde-bspg.de/veranstaltun...
freunde-bspg.de/veranstaltun...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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'You're adopted'
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
'You're adopted'
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)
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Have you seen the Hatzegopteryx gliding across the sky or fighting others on the ground for their fresh kill, since its TLC? What has been your favorite moment with the flying colossus?
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #hatzegopteryx #dinoTLC
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #hatzegopteryx #dinoTLC
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Have you seen the Hatzegopteryx gliding across the sky or fighting others on the ground for their fresh kill, since its TLC? What has been your favorite moment with the flying colossus?
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #hatzegopteryx #dinoTLC
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #hatzegopteryx #dinoTLC
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𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴-
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴-
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September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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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Nanotyrannus lives yall!
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nanotyrannus lives yall!
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November 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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After a month or so, we return to the Kem Kem with this adorable critter - the metre-long Araripesuchus! There are many species of Araripesuchus, but the one here is A. rattoides, which sports protruding teeth on the front of the lower jaw.
Size comparison below ⬇️
#sciart #paleoart
Size comparison below ⬇️
#sciart #paleoart
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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In the latest patch, we got more Distant Call updates including Achillobator and Metriacanthosaurus. Here’s an example of their broadcasts and how distance affects their sound. Which of the two calls is your favorite?
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #distantcalls #audio #achillobator #metriacanthosaurus
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #distantcalls #audio #achillobator #metriacanthosaurus
Distant Calls: Achillobator and Metriacanthosaurus Broadcast!
YouTube video by Path of Titans
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In the latest patch, we got more Distant Call updates including Achillobator and Metriacanthosaurus. Here’s an example of their broadcasts and how distance affects their sound. Which of the two calls is your favorite?
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #distantcalls #audio #achillobator #metriacanthosaurus
#pathoftitans #dinosaurs #distantcalls #audio #achillobator #metriacanthosaurus
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And one without the typo...
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
And one without the typo...
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So, after teasing us with the press release for the last few hours, the new 'Nanotyrannus is valid, like pretty convincingly this time' paper is Finally online!!!
#paleontology #tyrannosaurus #taxonomy
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#paleontology #tyrannosaurus #taxonomy
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles
New evidence answers the question about whether some fossils are Tyrannosaurus rex juveniles or a different species, with implications for decades of published science.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
So, after teasing us with the press release for the last few hours, the new 'Nanotyrannus is valid, like pretty convincingly this time' paper is Finally online!!!
#paleontology #tyrannosaurus #taxonomy
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#paleontology #tyrannosaurus #taxonomy
www.nature.com/articles/d41...