Milo Gaillard
@milogaillard2.bsky.social
25/male/autistic/aspiring paleontologist. I also like animals, dinosaurs, video games, movies, and I work out.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Share to scare a Nanotyrannus denier
Happy Halloweeeeen! 🎃
Happy Halloweeeeen! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Share to scare a Nanotyrannus denier
Happy Halloweeeeen! 🎃
Happy Halloweeeeen! 🎃
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ok beloveds, brace yourselves: nanotyrannus is a valid taxon
napoli and zanno have confirmed that the "duelling dinosaurs" tyrannosaur is in fact nanotyrannus lancensis, and the specimen known as 'jane' is a new species, n. lethaeus
(art by anthony hutchings)
napoli and zanno have confirmed that the "duelling dinosaurs" tyrannosaur is in fact nanotyrannus lancensis, and the specimen known as 'jane' is a new species, n. lethaeus
(art by anthony hutchings)
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ok beloveds, brace yourselves: nanotyrannus is a valid taxon
napoli and zanno have confirmed that the "duelling dinosaurs" tyrannosaur is in fact nanotyrannus lancensis, and the specimen known as 'jane' is a new species, n. lethaeus
(art by anthony hutchings)
napoli and zanno have confirmed that the "duelling dinosaurs" tyrannosaur is in fact nanotyrannus lancensis, and the specimen known as 'jane' is a new species, n. lethaeus
(art by anthony hutchings)
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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...
The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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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This #FossilFriday is also Halloween. And since everyone is talking about it, I give you... THE RETURN OF NANOTYRANNUS FROM THE BEYOND THE GRAVE!!! A recent paper brought back the validity of this taxon. So here's a photo of Jane, now referred to as Nanotyrannus in the paper.
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This #FossilFriday is also Halloween. And since everyone is talking about it, I give you... THE RETURN OF NANOTYRANNUS FROM THE BEYOND THE GRAVE!!! A recent paper brought back the validity of this taxon. So here's a photo of Jane, now referred to as Nanotyrannus in the paper.
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For generations the Univ of Leicester has been a global leader in geology, Earth science & climate research
Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block
Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs
Sign this to stop this madness:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block
Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs
Sign this to stop this madness:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
For generations the Univ of Leicester has been a global leader in geology, Earth science & climate research
Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block
Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs
Sign this to stop this madness:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Now *the entire program* is on the chopping block
Some of the world's best paleontologists are facing layoffs
Sign this to stop this madness:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
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Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🚨 "If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy" 🚨
If they can gut paleo there, it can happen where you live, too
📣 SAVE PALEONTOLOGY AT LEICESTER 📣 SIGN THE PETITION! 📣
If they can gut paleo there, it can happen where you live, too
📣 SAVE PALEONTOLOGY AT LEICESTER 📣 SIGN THE PETITION! 📣
Leicester has long been one of the leading universities nationally for palaeontology & geology - this would be a terrible loss, as would the loss of other subjects such as modern languages:
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🚨 "If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy" 🚨
If they can gut paleo there, it can happen where you live, too
📣 SAVE PALEONTOLOGY AT LEICESTER 📣 SIGN THE PETITION! 📣
If they can gut paleo there, it can happen where you live, too
📣 SAVE PALEONTOLOGY AT LEICESTER 📣 SIGN THE PETITION! 📣
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Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira) - Engelman - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira) - Engelman - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
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Latest Beast of the Week is Nanotyrannus because of course it is.
prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/11/nano...
prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/11/nano...
Nanotyrannus: Beast of the Week
This week we will be learning about a dinosaur who's identity has been the subject of a lot of debate or decades. Check out Nanotyrannus !...
prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Latest Beast of the Week is Nanotyrannus because of course it is.
prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/11/nano...
prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/11/nano...
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So last week I got to go to SVP for the first time in a decade. It was great to catch up with so many old friends and colleagues and talk about old times and new research. I felt like a proper scientist for the first time in ages. Here's me posing next to one of my posters under dreadful lighting.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
So last week I got to go to SVP for the first time in a decade. It was great to catch up with so many old friends and colleagues and talk about old times and new research. I felt like a proper scientist for the first time in ages. Here's me posing next to one of my posters under dreadful lighting.
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The paleo community is mourning the passing of giant. Philippe Taquet passed away on Sunday at 85. I was honored to meet him in his Paris office in 2007. Later that year, we published on a sauropod from his beloved Gadoufaoua in Niger, Africa, & named for him—Sereno et al. 2007: bit.ly/3WZLKdF 🦕
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The paleo community is mourning the passing of giant. Philippe Taquet passed away on Sunday at 85. I was honored to meet him in his Paris office in 2007. Later that year, we published on a sauropod from his beloved Gadoufaoua in Niger, Africa, & named for him—Sereno et al. 2007: bit.ly/3WZLKdF 🦕
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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
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Here, have some megafauna with names that start with O. Olorotitan and Ocnotherium (the latter is the ground sloth in the foreground).
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here, have some megafauna with names that start with O. Olorotitan and Ocnotherium (the latter is the ground sloth in the foreground).
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an insult to scientific illustrators who put time and work into accurately communicating results of research in a visual form
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
an insult to scientific illustrators who put time and work into accurately communicating results of research in a visual form
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
an insult to the researchers whose work is being bastardized here
an insult to the funding bodies who support research for it to be disseminated to the world
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Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Will do! Here are some further comments regarding the problems of a literal interpretation of the data thus far: eartharchives.org/articles/is-...
Is the tyrannosaur feather debate really over?
There is something about dinosaurs that inspires sensational news stories. It’s not uncommon to see a trove of articles coming out about whether or not Tyrannosaurus and its relatives had feathers or ...
eartharchives.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will do! Here are some further comments regarding the problems of a literal interpretation of the data thus far: eartharchives.org/articles/is-...
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More on this to come into the future. The 2017 paper's conclusions fail to account for the diversity of extinct and extant dinosaur integument, extant animal thermoregulation, and taphonomy among other things....
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
More on this to come into the future. The 2017 paper's conclusions fail to account for the diversity of extinct and extant dinosaur integument, extant animal thermoregulation, and taphonomy among other things....