Adam Yates
@reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social
A palaeontologist and avid naturalist living in the red centre of Australia. Current research topics include all things Miocene: mekosuchines, meiolaniids and molluscs.
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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 10:49 AM
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.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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some of the "written" passages are completely unhinged, "Its discovery highlights Australia’s unique role in reshaping the boundaries between myth and science."
is it an all-year april fool?
is it an all-year april fool?
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
some of the "written" passages are completely unhinged, "Its discovery highlights Australia’s unique role in reshaping the boundaries between myth and science."
is it an all-year april fool?
is it an all-year april fool?
@jorgoristevski.bsky.social just alterted me to this absolutely horrible page of false AI slop being passed off as an educational page on the Queensland Museum website.
www.museum.qld.gov.au/learn-and-di...
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www.museum.qld.gov.au/learn-and-di...
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Drop Croc - Animals of Queensland | Queensland Museum
The Drop Croc is a purported species of prehistoric crocodile that scientists say once inhabited the lush forests of ancient Queensland. Unlike its modern aquatic relatives, the Drop Croc is believed ...
www.museum.qld.gov.au
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@jorgoristevski.bsky.social just alterted me to this absolutely horrible page of false AI slop being passed off as an educational page on the Queensland Museum website.
www.museum.qld.gov.au/learn-and-di...
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www.museum.qld.gov.au/learn-and-di...
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A couple more reptiles I want to appear in PhP Ice Age are Paludirex and Quinkana. Megalania and the saltwater crocodile weren’t the only large predatory reptiles of Pleistocene Australia.
Here I’m going to focus on Paludirex.
Here I’m going to focus on Paludirex.
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A couple more reptiles I want to appear in PhP Ice Age are Paludirex and Quinkana. Megalania and the saltwater crocodile weren’t the only large predatory reptiles of Pleistocene Australia.
Here I’m going to focus on Paludirex.
Here I’m going to focus on Paludirex.
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doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
new paper out now with @royalsociety.org on limb structure & function of the #fossil #kangaroo, Dorcopsoides fossilis, from central Australia. The oldest known macropodine (subfamily of all but one of living roos) & a fun glimpse into the great Late Miocene kangaroo radiation
new paper out now with @royalsociety.org on limb structure & function of the #fossil #kangaroo, Dorcopsoides fossilis, from central Australia. The oldest known macropodine (subfamily of all but one of living roos) & a fun glimpse into the great Late Miocene kangaroo radiation
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
new paper out now with @royalsociety.org on limb structure & function of the #fossil #kangaroo, Dorcopsoides fossilis, from central Australia. The oldest known macropodine (subfamily of all but one of living roos) & a fun glimpse into the great Late Miocene kangaroo radiation
new paper out now with @royalsociety.org on limb structure & function of the #fossil #kangaroo, Dorcopsoides fossilis, from central Australia. The oldest known macropodine (subfamily of all but one of living roos) & a fun glimpse into the great Late Miocene kangaroo radiation
Some new research on the Alcoota Wallaby has just been published. I've excavated scores of bones of this animal over the years - it is great to see them get some attention. Congratulations Isaac!
news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/11...
#Miocene #Alcoota #AustralianWildlife
news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/11...
#Miocene #Alcoota #AustralianWildlife
Little wallaby the 'first true roo'
Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of the continent’s most prolific marsupial groups. They […]
news.flinders.edu.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Some new research on the Alcoota Wallaby has just been published. I've excavated scores of bones of this animal over the years - it is great to see them get some attention. Congratulations Isaac!
news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/11...
#Miocene #Alcoota #AustralianWildlife
news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/11...
#Miocene #Alcoota #AustralianWildlife
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Check out this new paper about crocodylian, likely mekosuchine, eggshell fragments from the Eocene of Queensland. Great to see this material finally published.
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines
Alongside large madtsoiid snakes, the largest known lizards, thylacoleonid marsupials and a range of other terrestrial carnivores, the now extinct mekosuchine crocodylians were significant predator...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Check out this new paper about crocodylian, likely mekosuchine, eggshell fragments from the Eocene of Queensland. Great to see this material finally published.
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
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Some tideous studies for an upcoming illustration of a certain fragmentary Wakaleo Species, perhaps the youngest of them...
Credit to gtg141 on DeviantArt for the W. schouteni and W. oldfieldi skull reconstruction as helpful guides to doing my own reconstruction of W. alcootaensis.
#sciart
Credit to gtg141 on DeviantArt for the W. schouteni and W. oldfieldi skull reconstruction as helpful guides to doing my own reconstruction of W. alcootaensis.
#sciart
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Some tideous studies for an upcoming illustration of a certain fragmentary Wakaleo Species, perhaps the youngest of them...
Credit to gtg141 on DeviantArt for the W. schouteni and W. oldfieldi skull reconstruction as helpful guides to doing my own reconstruction of W. alcootaensis.
#sciart
Credit to gtg141 on DeviantArt for the W. schouteni and W. oldfieldi skull reconstruction as helpful guides to doing my own reconstruction of W. alcootaensis.
#sciart
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this has to be one of the cutest animals ever
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
this has to be one of the cutest animals ever
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New #watercolor - the skull that launched a thousand papers - Aetiocetus weltoni, the ~25 myo toothed baleen whale that likely had teeth and baleen - from the Oligocene of Oregon. I started this last winter and only finally finished it yesterday. 🐡 🦖🐬 #sciart #whaleontology #whalewednesday #art
August 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
New #watercolor - the skull that launched a thousand papers - Aetiocetus weltoni, the ~25 myo toothed baleen whale that likely had teeth and baleen - from the Oligocene of Oregon. I started this last winter and only finally finished it yesterday. 🐡 🦖🐬 #sciart #whaleontology #whalewednesday #art
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(Recent art) Ceratodus nargan Illustration!
Ceratodus is a wide spread prehistoric lungfish species that is related to the extant queensland lungfish. Here lies a species in the Early Cretaceous of Southern Victoria, Australia, in the Euremella formation.
#paleoart #sciart #illustraation #fishart
Ceratodus is a wide spread prehistoric lungfish species that is related to the extant queensland lungfish. Here lies a species in the Early Cretaceous of Southern Victoria, Australia, in the Euremella formation.
#paleoart #sciart #illustraation #fishart
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
(Recent art) Ceratodus nargan Illustration!
Ceratodus is a wide spread prehistoric lungfish species that is related to the extant queensland lungfish. Here lies a species in the Early Cretaceous of Southern Victoria, Australia, in the Euremella formation.
#paleoart #sciart #illustraation #fishart
Ceratodus is a wide spread prehistoric lungfish species that is related to the extant queensland lungfish. Here lies a species in the Early Cretaceous of Southern Victoria, Australia, in the Euremella formation.
#paleoart #sciart #illustraation #fishart
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Tiliqua frangens from a few years ago, planning to redo some of it soon
July 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Tiliqua frangens from a few years ago, planning to redo some of it soon
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Day 28 of #Croctober, we're racing towards the finish line
This is one of my favourite images of Dakosaurus for two reasons
Reason 1: it nicely shows just how enormous this animal got
Reason 2: it also shows how stupidly tiny its arms were
Photo by Sven Sachs ft. Joschua Knüppe
This is one of my favourite images of Dakosaurus for two reasons
Reason 1: it nicely shows just how enormous this animal got
Reason 2: it also shows how stupidly tiny its arms were
Photo by Sven Sachs ft. Joschua Knüppe
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Day 28 of #Croctober, we're racing towards the finish line
This is one of my favourite images of Dakosaurus for two reasons
Reason 1: it nicely shows just how enormous this animal got
Reason 2: it also shows how stupidly tiny its arms were
Photo by Sven Sachs ft. Joschua Knüppe
This is one of my favourite images of Dakosaurus for two reasons
Reason 1: it nicely shows just how enormous this animal got
Reason 2: it also shows how stupidly tiny its arms were
Photo by Sven Sachs ft. Joschua Knüppe
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Replica skeleton of Baru iylwenpeny on display at the Queensland Museum. This is part of the new Croc! exhibit. #MuseumCore #CrocQM
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Replica skeleton of Baru iylwenpeny on display at the Queensland Museum. This is part of the new Croc! exhibit. #MuseumCore #CrocQM
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The earliest appearance of gigantic lamniform #sharks has now been pushed back by ~15 Ma (upper Aptian, ~115 Ma) with the discovery of enormous cardabiodontid shark remains from northern Australia.🦈🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution - Communications Biology
The earliest appearance of mega-body size in sharks is pushed back by 15 million years with the discovery of new fossils from Northern Australia. Using a comprehensive dataset of living sharks to esti...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The earliest appearance of gigantic lamniform #sharks has now been pushed back by ~15 Ma (upper Aptian, ~115 Ma) with the discovery of enormous cardabiodontid shark remains from northern Australia.🦈🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Lets keep this going on Day 26 of #Croctober
Simosuchus was not the only notosuchian with complex teeth. Look no further than Pakasuchus, which straight up just mirrors mammalian dentition down to the grinding molars.
Illustrations by Smokeybjb and Zina Deretsky
Simosuchus was not the only notosuchian with complex teeth. Look no further than Pakasuchus, which straight up just mirrors mammalian dentition down to the grinding molars.
Illustrations by Smokeybjb and Zina Deretsky
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Lets keep this going on Day 26 of #Croctober
Simosuchus was not the only notosuchian with complex teeth. Look no further than Pakasuchus, which straight up just mirrors mammalian dentition down to the grinding molars.
Illustrations by Smokeybjb and Zina Deretsky
Simosuchus was not the only notosuchian with complex teeth. Look no further than Pakasuchus, which straight up just mirrors mammalian dentition down to the grinding molars.
Illustrations by Smokeybjb and Zina Deretsky
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This is also a great chance to plug Joschua Knüppe's Crocodile poster, which features (almost) every extinct croc knocking around in the Pleistocene
Tho be patient, as soon as the Lemuria project is over I'll pester him to add C. sudani, completing the set
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Tho be patient, as soon as the Lemuria project is over I'll pester him to add C. sudani, completing the set
t.co/xVzxczcgKr
https://252mya.com/collections/shop/products/crocodiles-among-us-poster
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October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is also a great chance to plug Joschua Knüppe's Crocodile poster, which features (almost) every extinct croc knocking around in the Pleistocene
Tho be patient, as soon as the Lemuria project is over I'll pester him to add C. sudani, completing the set
t.co/xVzxczcgKr
Tho be patient, as soon as the Lemuria project is over I'll pester him to add C. sudani, completing the set
t.co/xVzxczcgKr
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Also worth mentioning that Paludirex takes its name from the etymology of Pallimnarchus, which was a frequently used but poorly defined mekosuchine genus eventually regarded as dubious given that the lacklustre remains
October 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Also worth mentioning that Paludirex takes its name from the etymology of Pallimnarchus, which was a frequently used but poorly defined mekosuchine genus eventually regarded as dubious given that the lacklustre remains
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Paludirex is such a cool name! Credit goes to Adam Yates for coming up with the name Paludirex, he was one of my co-authors on that paper.
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Paludirex is such a cool name! Credit goes to Adam Yates for coming up with the name Paludirex, he was one of my co-authors on that paper.
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Princess Parrots Illustration!
A personal gift to my girlfriend. It has alot of symbolism and meaning. 2 Princess Parrots arrive at a lonesome young bovine skull. Admist the windswept views of the spinifex plains, a looming storm encroaches from the distance.
#birdart#birdillustration#Illustration
A personal gift to my girlfriend. It has alot of symbolism and meaning. 2 Princess Parrots arrive at a lonesome young bovine skull. Admist the windswept views of the spinifex plains, a looming storm encroaches from the distance.
#birdart#birdillustration#Illustration
October 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Princess Parrots Illustration!
A personal gift to my girlfriend. It has alot of symbolism and meaning. 2 Princess Parrots arrive at a lonesome young bovine skull. Admist the windswept views of the spinifex plains, a looming storm encroaches from the distance.
#birdart#birdillustration#Illustration
A personal gift to my girlfriend. It has alot of symbolism and meaning. 2 Princess Parrots arrive at a lonesome young bovine skull. Admist the windswept views of the spinifex plains, a looming storm encroaches from the distance.
#birdart#birdillustration#Illustration
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Skeleton (cast) of the giant flightless bird Dromornis from the Miocene of Australia. Part of a traveling exhibit on tyrannosaurs currently at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. #FossilFriday
October 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Skeleton (cast) of the giant flightless bird Dromornis from the Miocene of Australia. Part of a traveling exhibit on tyrannosaurs currently at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. #FossilFriday
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#Croctober Day 17
Remember Euthecodon from day 15?
Well the most recent fossils come from the Lake Turkana basin of Kenya, an environment it shared with the massive Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, an animal that may have preyed on our ancestors.
Photos by Yang Deming & Nick Perry
Remember Euthecodon from day 15?
Well the most recent fossils come from the Lake Turkana basin of Kenya, an environment it shared with the massive Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, an animal that may have preyed on our ancestors.
Photos by Yang Deming & Nick Perry
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#Croctober Day 17
Remember Euthecodon from day 15?
Well the most recent fossils come from the Lake Turkana basin of Kenya, an environment it shared with the massive Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, an animal that may have preyed on our ancestors.
Photos by Yang Deming & Nick Perry
Remember Euthecodon from day 15?
Well the most recent fossils come from the Lake Turkana basin of Kenya, an environment it shared with the massive Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni, an animal that may have preyed on our ancestors.
Photos by Yang Deming & Nick Perry
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Everyone posts pics of the toothy end of a Deinosuchus but nobody ever appreciates all the hard work we put into it's booty, including all those fiddly osteiderms
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Everyone posts pics of the toothy end of a Deinosuchus but nobody ever appreciates all the hard work we put into it's booty, including all those fiddly osteiderms