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Scott Watson
@scottysan.bsky.social
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Dinosaur enthusiasts and aspiring palaeontologist 🦖🦕
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davehone.bsky.social
Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?

Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!

terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s11e10-spino...
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
scottysan.bsky.social
Can’t wait for this!
davehone.bsky.social Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · Oct 29
If you want a preview of Spinosaur Tales, here's a quick video of me opening up my first copies. youtube.com/shorts/fhbXO...
Unboxing the first copies of Spinosaur Tales
YouTube video by Dave Hone
youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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logicaphotography.bsky.social
I see #BirdOfTheDay is #Heron
So thought I’d join in with one of my favourites from earlier this year.
#birds #ukwildlife
Grey Heron in breeding plumage set against a reed bed and bathed in golden light. The bird is to the right of the frame facing to the centre
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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logicaphotography.bsky.social
A #BirdOfTheDay set of 4 - #heron #birds #ukwildlife
Grey heron mid shake, stood on the bank of the river Grey heron profile facing left Grey Heron with a caught fish head first about to be swallowed. Grey heron with a caught dragonfly (possibly a common darter) held in its bill
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
the way academic conferences inspire me to commit intelligent acts of mass nerder (i.e., write scientific papers)
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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pablonotpicasso.bsky.social
And the color rough and ideation page! Thankfully straightforward of a painting, nice when that happens though rare!
October 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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pablonotpicasso.bsky.social
Velociraptor in acrylics as a gift! Also including my color rough in the next comment! #paleosky #paleoart #illustration
Acrylic painting of a velociraptor in partial light.
October 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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nadwgab.bsky.social
294 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Tennantite:
- A copper arsenic sulphosalt mineral
- The arsenic-rich phase of tetrahedrite
- Forms in hydrothermal veins and contact metamorphic deposits
- Named after Smithson Tennant (1761-1815), an English chemist #minerals
A group of twinned tennantite tetrahedra, mostly metallic grey in colour but partially coated with gold chalcopyrite. On dark grey galena. From Morococha, Junín, Peru. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London. A group of tetrahedral crystals coated with brown hematite. From Tsumeb Mine, Oshikoto, Namibia. Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
maybe the real geological / paleontological society meeting are the friends we made along the way
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
scottysan.bsky.social
I know the designs aren’t paleo accurate… BUT LOOK AT MY LITTLE DUDE😎🥰
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
scottysan.bsky.social
Just want a cup of tea with a Sinosauropteryx 😕
October 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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cypressure.ink
i heard Aquilops was starring in some movie soon? well, i know who's going to have my oscar vote #dinosaurs #sciart #jurassicworldrebirth
a digital illustration of an Aquilops, a small basal horned dinosaur, peeking out of a layer of ferns. he has a blue face with a white stripe across his cheek, a tiny hooked beak with a red crest, and large cute eyes.
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
I was at the Australian Botanic Garden at Mt Annan yesterday when this *huge* Lace Monitor crossed one of the lawns. Many birds followed, mobbed, and swooped it, but only the Masked Lapwings came close enough for me to get some action shots.
#birds #reptiles
Photograph of a Lace Monitor (aka Goanna), a very large lizard in the same family as Komodo Dragons (and it shows). The photo is focused on its face and neck, showing intricate scales of black, brown, orange, and yellow. It is generally darker above and light below, but there are many stark stipes of yellow and black. Wider photograph of the same Lace Monitor crossing a green lawn strewn with scattered leads. The monitor is poking its long forked tongue out. Wide shot showing the entire monitor at well over 2 metres (including tail). A Masked Lapwing is swooping down from behind the monitor. Shortly after the previous photo, the lapwing has circled around and is making a pass from the monitor's front. Its wings and tail are spread wide, its beak open, but it's still maintaining a relatively safe distance because it knows how bitey monitors can be. The monitor has turned its head to protect its eyes because it knows how pointy lapwings can be.
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
Eyes on the weekend... #FlyDay's here!

📷 @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social
A Robin flys straight towards the camera, wings fully outstretched and eyes locked ahead, its vivid orange-red breast glowing against a blurred green background, with the intense look of someone laser-focused on making it to the weekend.
October 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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tweetisaurus.bsky.social
After we published the new specimen of #Spicomellus a few weeks ago, we were contacted by George Blasing, who said he'd bought some on the commercial market, and wanted to return it to Morocco. It arrived last week. Thanks George for doing the right thing in the name of science!
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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brennanstokkermans.bsky.social
“The Bull”

This piece was done over the last year as a commission for the new card game “Zoic”
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Ginger Chicken
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
It's 'Caption this' Thursday!

Give us your best 👀👇

📸 Paul Browning
A Kestrel perches on a branch, eyes fully closed, with its head tucked deep into its feathers. Its soft plumage is fluffed and rounded, giving it a sleepy, cocooned look, like it’s trying to block out the world.
October 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Redpoll! 🍂

These tiny finches add a pop of colour with their red crowns and lively calls as they forage in flocks among birch and alder trees.

A winter treat from the north!
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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stievenvdp.bsky.social
Oh hey, it’s #PortfolioDay … again.

The less typical diorama stuff this time, annotated... and the thumbnails are going to suck.
Guanling formation biota. Diorama featuring a bunch of wildlife that lived there, daytime scene Diorama featuring a bunch of wildlife that lived there, nighttime scene. Skorpiovenator diorama detailing nesting behaviour and some ontogony
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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simonbarnettuk.bsky.social
Nature’s great isn’t it? Why are some people so resistant to protecting it?

Spotted yesterday…
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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garys79.bsky.social
Meanwhile
time.com/7325086/cora...
The World's First Climate Tipping Point Has Been Crossed
The world's coral reefs are dying—and will continue to unless global temperatures drop significantly.
time.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
This Blue Tit would like your attention, briefly.

📷 @aintright.bsky.social
A plump Blue Tit perched on a rough tree trunk, its feathers puffed up against the cold. The bird’s yellow chest looks bright and round, with a deep blue cap and white face framed by a bold black eye stripe. Its small, serious expression gives it the air of a tiny guardian of the woods. It looks as though it’s just confidently appeared in your feed.
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM