Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
@paleodaniel.bsky.social
Geologist & Vertebrate Paleontologist ⚒️
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo - USP
Ecosocialist scientist ☭🌎 EN - PT
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo - USP
Ecosocialist scientist ☭🌎 EN - PT
RIP Dr Jane Goodall 🐒
Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back
#janegoodall #hope
Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back
#janegoodall #hope
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
RIP Dr Jane Goodall 🐒
Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back
#janegoodall #hope
Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back
#janegoodall #hope
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
Stunning amber deposits hold insects from the time of the dinosaurs
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
www.newscientist.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
The spectacular Tupandactylus navigans being displayed at the University of São Paulo’s Geoscience Museum 🏛️
#paleontology #decolonizescience
#paleontology #decolonizescience
May 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The spectacular Tupandactylus navigans being displayed at the University of São Paulo’s Geoscience Museum 🏛️
#paleontology #decolonizescience
#paleontology #decolonizescience
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
A crise climática já está aqui 👇
Impactos socioeconômicos e na saúde da crise climática
Este artigo documenta as principais preocupações e descobertas que tratam da crise climática global e seus profundos impactos em diversas esferas da vida
tinyurl.com/hsea2c59
Este artigo documenta as principais preocupações e descobertas que tratam da crise climática global e seus profundos impactos em diversas esferas da vida
tinyurl.com/hsea2c59
Impactos socioeconômicos e na saúde da crise climática
Este artigo documenta as principais preocupações e descobertas que tratam da crise climática global e seus profundos impactos em diversas esferas da vida
tinyurl.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A crise climática já está aqui 👇
May 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration
Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic m...
www.science.org
March 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars
astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography
astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography
Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars - Astrobiology
A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the site of an ancient sea, providing further evidence that the planet ...
astrobiology.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars
astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography
astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕
This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups!
Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups!
Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
SVP Futures Award – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
vertpaleo.org
February 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕
This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups!
Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups!
Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
Triste é aquele que, dentro do sistema capitalista, busca um trabalho com função social
February 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Triste é aquele que, dentro do sistema capitalista, busca um trabalho com função social
🚨Croc paper alert!
Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!
Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology
Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!
Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology
Anatomical description and systematics of a new notosuchian (Mesoeucrocodylia; Crocodyliformes) from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil
Notosuchians comprise a clade of mostly terrestrial crocodyliforms generally found in Cretaceous Gondwanan deposits. They evolved into many forms and some species show convergences with mammalian f...
www.tandfonline.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🚨Croc paper alert!
Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!
Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology
Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!
Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology
Essa obsessão do governo com a margem equatorial é o “drill, baby, drill” da centro-esquerda brasileira
Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo
Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática
Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo
Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática
February 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Essa obsessão do governo com a margem equatorial é o “drill, baby, drill” da centro-esquerda brasileira
Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo
Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática
Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo
Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática
#FossilFriday - Mariliasuchus amarali Carvalho & Bertini 1999, a small sphagesaurian (sensu Ruiz et al., 2021) that helped start the current boom in notosuchian research back in the late 90s 🐊
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#FossilFriday - Mariliasuchus amarali Carvalho & Bertini 1999, a small sphagesaurian (sensu Ruiz et al., 2021) that helped start the current boom in notosuchian research back in the late 90s 🐊
Needless to say a US occupation of Palestine is yet another war crime…
It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine
It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine
February 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Needless to say a US occupation of Palestine is yet another war crime…
It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine
It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine
Deepseek is actually excellent news for the climate 🌎
Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries.
Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models
It is obvious now that we don’t need this
Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries.
Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models
It is obvious now that we don’t need this
January 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Deepseek is actually excellent news for the climate 🌎
Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries.
Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models
It is obvious now that we don’t need this
Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries.
Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models
It is obvious now that we don’t need this
Viva a América Latina 🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇧🇷!
January 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Viva a América Latina 🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇧🇷!
Deported Brazilians reported being handcuffed, beaten, choked and some received death threats by American agents during the flight, even within Brazilian air space
This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…
This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…
January 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Deported Brazilians reported being handcuffed, beaten, choked and some received death threats by American agents during the flight, even within Brazilian air space
This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…
This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…
Remember the early 2010s, when the space/science community on the internet was filled with re-edited Cosmos videos, awesome science songs by Melodysheep and healthy amounts of skepticism?
You know you’re in trouble when Carl Sagan is replaced by Elon Musk …
You know you’re in trouble when Carl Sagan is replaced by Elon Musk …
January 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Remember the early 2010s, when the space/science community on the internet was filled with re-edited Cosmos videos, awesome science songs by Melodysheep and healthy amounts of skepticism?
You know you’re in trouble when Carl Sagan is replaced by Elon Musk …
You know you’re in trouble when Carl Sagan is replaced by Elon Musk …
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.
January 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.
Something ...small...is coming 🐊
Croc lovers rejoice! for a brand new fossil species is about to emerge from Brazil, and its not what you think...
#crocodylomorphs #paleontology #paleontologiabrasileira
Croc lovers rejoice! for a brand new fossil species is about to emerge from Brazil, and its not what you think...
#crocodylomorphs #paleontology #paleontologiabrasileira
January 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Something ...small...is coming 🐊
Croc lovers rejoice! for a brand new fossil species is about to emerge from Brazil, and its not what you think...
#crocodylomorphs #paleontology #paleontologiabrasileira
Croc lovers rejoice! for a brand new fossil species is about to emerge from Brazil, and its not what you think...
#crocodylomorphs #paleontology #paleontologiabrasileira
Being a geologist and a planetary science enthusiast, it’s been sad to witness the space community degenerate into far-right Musk bros…
January 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Being a geologist and a planetary science enthusiast, it’s been sad to witness the space community degenerate into far-right Musk bros…
These horrific California fires show that absolutely no one is safe from the climate breakdown
And to the tech bros and CEOs out there: bunkers are not gonna save you either
#climatecrisis
And to the tech bros and CEOs out there: bunkers are not gonna save you either
#climatecrisis
January 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
These horrific California fires show that absolutely no one is safe from the climate breakdown
And to the tech bros and CEOs out there: bunkers are not gonna save you either
#climatecrisis
And to the tech bros and CEOs out there: bunkers are not gonna save you either
#climatecrisis
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
O colapso socioambiental alcança escala planetária
O colapso atual não é nem local nem seletivo. Ele está golpeando mais imediata e duramente os países pobres, mas ninguém está a salvo
O colapso atual não é nem local nem seletivo. Ele está golpeando mais imediata e duramente os países pobres, mas ninguém está a salvo
O colapso socioambiental alcança escala planetária
O colapso atual não é nem local nem seletivo. Ele está golpeando mais imediata e duramente os países pobres, mas ninguém está a salvo
buff.ly
January 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
O colapso socioambiental alcança escala planetária
O colapso atual não é nem local nem seletivo. Ele está golpeando mais imediata e duramente os países pobres, mas ninguém está a salvo
O colapso atual não é nem local nem seletivo. Ele está golpeando mais imediata e duramente os países pobres, mas ninguém está a salvo
Reposted by Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
Boa parte dos problemas que temos hoje decorre do fato de que os tech bros leram cyberpunk na adolescência e não entenderam que o gênero é uma crítica.
January 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Boa parte dos problemas que temos hoje decorre do fato de que os tech bros leram cyberpunk na adolescência e não entenderam que o gênero é uma crítica.