🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis
@yutytyrant.bsky.social
Enjoys Dinosaurs, paleontology in general, Dune, Doctor Who, Godzilla/Kaiju, Transformers, and steam trains
CEO of the Camp Cretaceous fanclub
LGBTQ+, Persian
CEO of the Camp Cretaceous fanclub
LGBTQ+, Persian
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ursus arctos priscus
From Late Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia, the steppe brown bear is an extinct subspecies weighing up to a ton with a more carnivorous diet. Its validity is beary controversial, with some suggesting it being indistinguishable from modern brown bears
From Late Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia, the steppe brown bear is an extinct subspecies weighing up to a ton with a more carnivorous diet. Its validity is beary controversial, with some suggesting it being indistinguishable from modern brown bears
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ursus arctos priscus
From Late Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia, the steppe brown bear is an extinct subspecies weighing up to a ton with a more carnivorous diet. Its validity is beary controversial, with some suggesting it being indistinguishable from modern brown bears
From Late Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia, the steppe brown bear is an extinct subspecies weighing up to a ton with a more carnivorous diet. Its validity is beary controversial, with some suggesting it being indistinguishable from modern brown bears
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Bootherium bombifrons
From Late Pleistocene North America, the 400kg "ox beast" was a relative of the modern muskox adapted to warmer climates (huh, usually it's the other way around, lol). It had a thicker skull with a longer snout and fused horns high on its skull
From Late Pleistocene North America, the 400kg "ox beast" was a relative of the modern muskox adapted to warmer climates (huh, usually it's the other way around, lol). It had a thicker skull with a longer snout and fused horns high on its skull
January 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Bootherium bombifrons
From Late Pleistocene North America, the 400kg "ox beast" was a relative of the modern muskox adapted to warmer climates (huh, usually it's the other way around, lol). It had a thicker skull with a longer snout and fused horns high on its skull
From Late Pleistocene North America, the 400kg "ox beast" was a relative of the modern muskox adapted to warmer climates (huh, usually it's the other way around, lol). It had a thicker skull with a longer snout and fused horns high on its skull
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The junior novelization of Chaos Theory Season 4 is out today! Will you be checking it out? 🦖
January 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The junior novelization of Chaos Theory Season 4 is out today! Will you be checking it out? 🦖
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
From Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Kenya, "Thorbjarnarson's crocodile" was the largest ever "true" crocodile at up to 7 meters long. With a broad snout, it was capable of eating early hominins whole
Art by Sobek1926
From Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Kenya, "Thorbjarnarson's crocodile" was the largest ever "true" crocodile at up to 7 meters long. With a broad snout, it was capable of eating early hominins whole
Art by Sobek1926
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
From Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Kenya, "Thorbjarnarson's crocodile" was the largest ever "true" crocodile at up to 7 meters long. With a broad snout, it was capable of eating early hominins whole
Art by Sobek1926
From Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Kenya, "Thorbjarnarson's crocodile" was the largest ever "true" crocodile at up to 7 meters long. With a broad snout, it was capable of eating early hominins whole
Art by Sobek1926
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lycosuchus vanderrieti
From Middle to Late Permian Karoo Formation, South Africa, "wolf crocodile" is a genus of middle sized therocephalian known from complete skulls and a few postcranial remains. It shows double canines,likely the result of being fossilized mid tooth replacement
From Middle to Late Permian Karoo Formation, South Africa, "wolf crocodile" is a genus of middle sized therocephalian known from complete skulls and a few postcranial remains. It shows double canines,likely the result of being fossilized mid tooth replacement
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 AM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lycosuchus vanderrieti
From Middle to Late Permian Karoo Formation, South Africa, "wolf crocodile" is a genus of middle sized therocephalian known from complete skulls and a few postcranial remains. It shows double canines,likely the result of being fossilized mid tooth replacement
From Middle to Late Permian Karoo Formation, South Africa, "wolf crocodile" is a genus of middle sized therocephalian known from complete skulls and a few postcranial remains. It shows double canines,likely the result of being fossilized mid tooth replacement
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lesmesodon spp.
From Early to Middle Miocene Germany and France, "tooth from Messel" was a genus of weasel sized proviverrin hyaenadont. It includes 3 species; L. behnkeae, L. edingeri, and L. gunnelli. They were hypercarnivorous, feeding on early horses
From Early to Middle Miocene Germany and France, "tooth from Messel" was a genus of weasel sized proviverrin hyaenadont. It includes 3 species; L. behnkeae, L. edingeri, and L. gunnelli. They were hypercarnivorous, feeding on early horses
January 1, 2026 at 7:52 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lesmesodon spp.
From Early to Middle Miocene Germany and France, "tooth from Messel" was a genus of weasel sized proviverrin hyaenadont. It includes 3 species; L. behnkeae, L. edingeri, and L. gunnelli. They were hypercarnivorous, feeding on early horses
From Early to Middle Miocene Germany and France, "tooth from Messel" was a genus of weasel sized proviverrin hyaenadont. It includes 3 species; L. behnkeae, L. edingeri, and L. gunnelli. They were hypercarnivorous, feeding on early horses
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Wishing everyone a great, Chaotic-in-a-good-way 2026! 🦖 🎆
Hopefully, your fireworks are less... incendiary 🔥
Hopefully, your fireworks are less... incendiary 🔥
December 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Wishing everyone a great, Chaotic-in-a-good-way 2026! 🦖 🎆
Hopefully, your fireworks are less... incendiary 🔥
Hopefully, your fireworks are less... incendiary 🔥
Thus ends 2025 in my corner of the world. A year good for paleomedia, but... interesting for the real world
Here's to 2026 being better. Happy new year, everyone! 🎆 🦖
Here's to 2026 being better. Happy new year, everyone! 🎆 🦖
December 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thus ends 2025 in my corner of the world. A year good for paleomedia, but... interesting for the real world
Here's to 2026 being better. Happy new year, everyone! 🎆 🦖
Here's to 2026 being better. Happy new year, everyone! 🎆 🦖
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lokotunjailurus emageritus
From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene northern, southern, central, and eastern Africa, "clawed Turkana cat" is a homotherin sabre-toothed cat about as tall as a lioness but more cursorially adapted and with a large grappling dewclaw
Art by Mauricio Anton
From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene northern, southern, central, and eastern Africa, "clawed Turkana cat" is a homotherin sabre-toothed cat about as tall as a lioness but more cursorially adapted and with a large grappling dewclaw
Art by Mauricio Anton
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lokotunjailurus emageritus
From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene northern, southern, central, and eastern Africa, "clawed Turkana cat" is a homotherin sabre-toothed cat about as tall as a lioness but more cursorially adapted and with a large grappling dewclaw
Art by Mauricio Anton
From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene northern, southern, central, and eastern Africa, "clawed Turkana cat" is a homotherin sabre-toothed cat about as tall as a lioness but more cursorially adapted and with a large grappling dewclaw
Art by Mauricio Anton
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Caviramus schesaplanensis
From Late Triassic Kössen Formation, Switzerland, "hollow branch" is a small pterosaur with teeth strangely suited for mastication; fanged ones at the front of the jaw and cusped ones at the back. It was likely a generalist omnivore
Artist unknown
From Late Triassic Kössen Formation, Switzerland, "hollow branch" is a small pterosaur with teeth strangely suited for mastication; fanged ones at the front of the jaw and cusped ones at the back. It was likely a generalist omnivore
Artist unknown
December 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Caviramus schesaplanensis
From Late Triassic Kössen Formation, Switzerland, "hollow branch" is a small pterosaur with teeth strangely suited for mastication; fanged ones at the front of the jaw and cusped ones at the back. It was likely a generalist omnivore
Artist unknown
From Late Triassic Kössen Formation, Switzerland, "hollow branch" is a small pterosaur with teeth strangely suited for mastication; fanged ones at the front of the jaw and cusped ones at the back. It was likely a generalist omnivore
Artist unknown
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Tapinocephalus atherstonei
From Middle Permian South Africa, "low, depressed head" is a species of 2 ton dinocephalian therapsid with a barred-shaped body, short snout, and dome shaped, pachyostotic skull used in headbutting for mates or territory
Art by Farabin
From Middle Permian South Africa, "low, depressed head" is a species of 2 ton dinocephalian therapsid with a barred-shaped body, short snout, and dome shaped, pachyostotic skull used in headbutting for mates or territory
Art by Farabin
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Tapinocephalus atherstonei
From Middle Permian South Africa, "low, depressed head" is a species of 2 ton dinocephalian therapsid with a barred-shaped body, short snout, and dome shaped, pachyostotic skull used in headbutting for mates or territory
Art by Farabin
From Middle Permian South Africa, "low, depressed head" is a species of 2 ton dinocephalian therapsid with a barred-shaped body, short snout, and dome shaped, pachyostotic skull used in headbutting for mates or territory
Art by Farabin
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pelagornis spp.
From Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Europe, North, and South America, "pelagic bird" is a pseudotoothed bird related to pelicans that filled an albatross niche. One species, P. sandersi, has the longest wingspan of any bird at 6.4 meters
Art by Liz Bradford
From Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Europe, North, and South America, "pelagic bird" is a pseudotoothed bird related to pelicans that filled an albatross niche. One species, P. sandersi, has the longest wingspan of any bird at 6.4 meters
Art by Liz Bradford
December 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pelagornis spp.
From Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Europe, North, and South America, "pelagic bird" is a pseudotoothed bird related to pelicans that filled an albatross niche. One species, P. sandersi, has the longest wingspan of any bird at 6.4 meters
Art by Liz Bradford
From Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Europe, North, and South America, "pelagic bird" is a pseudotoothed bird related to pelicans that filled an albatross niche. One species, P. sandersi, has the longest wingspan of any bird at 6.4 meters
Art by Liz Bradford
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Gnathomortis stadtmani
From Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Colorado, "jaws of death 💀" (hell yeah!) is a genus of 10 meter long mosasaur originally considered a species of Prognathodon. Its teeth were likely hidden by gum tissue when not attacking
Art by DehautNathan
From Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Colorado, "jaws of death 💀" (hell yeah!) is a genus of 10 meter long mosasaur originally considered a species of Prognathodon. Its teeth were likely hidden by gum tissue when not attacking
Art by DehautNathan
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Gnathomortis stadtmani
From Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Colorado, "jaws of death 💀" (hell yeah!) is a genus of 10 meter long mosasaur originally considered a species of Prognathodon. Its teeth were likely hidden by gum tissue when not attacking
Art by DehautNathan
From Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Colorado, "jaws of death 💀" (hell yeah!) is a genus of 10 meter long mosasaur originally considered a species of Prognathodon. Its teeth were likely hidden by gum tissue when not attacking
Art by DehautNathan
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Manipulonyx reshetovi
From Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, "manipulating claw" is a new alvarezsaur with "hands down" some of the weirdest dino hands; two tiny fingers, dermal ossicles, and spiky osteoderms in addition to the giant clawed finger
Art by @rlatkdwls on X
From Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, "manipulating claw" is a new alvarezsaur with "hands down" some of the weirdest dino hands; two tiny fingers, dermal ossicles, and spiky osteoderms in addition to the giant clawed finger
Art by @rlatkdwls on X
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Manipulonyx reshetovi
From Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, "manipulating claw" is a new alvarezsaur with "hands down" some of the weirdest dino hands; two tiny fingers, dermal ossicles, and spiky osteoderms in addition to the giant clawed finger
Art by @rlatkdwls on X
From Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, "manipulating claw" is a new alvarezsaur with "hands down" some of the weirdest dino hands; two tiny fingers, dermal ossicles, and spiky osteoderms in addition to the giant clawed finger
Art by @rlatkdwls on X
We found Santa Claws!
(Lapworth museum)
(Lapworth museum)
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We found Santa Claws!
(Lapworth museum)
(Lapworth museum)
🦌 🎅; Daily Paleo 🦌 🎅; Sinomegaceros spp.
Oh deer, Rudolf really let himself go... From Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Central and east Asia, "Chinese great horn" is a genus of prehistoric deer of up to 500kg with flat and broad branches and robust, pachyostotic mandibles
Art by Rudolf Hima
Oh deer, Rudolf really let himself go... From Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Central and east Asia, "Chinese great horn" is a genus of prehistoric deer of up to 500kg with flat and broad branches and robust, pachyostotic mandibles
Art by Rudolf Hima
December 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🦌 🎅; Daily Paleo 🦌 🎅; Sinomegaceros spp.
Oh deer, Rudolf really let himself go... From Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Central and east Asia, "Chinese great horn" is a genus of prehistoric deer of up to 500kg with flat and broad branches and robust, pachyostotic mandibles
Art by Rudolf Hima
Oh deer, Rudolf really let himself go... From Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Central and east Asia, "Chinese great horn" is a genus of prehistoric deer of up to 500kg with flat and broad branches and robust, pachyostotic mandibles
Art by Rudolf Hima
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄 🎅
Have a great festive time, and beware the Krampus that lurks in the dark... ❄️
Have a great festive time, and beware the Krampus that lurks in the dark... ❄️
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄 🎅
Have a great festive time, and beware the Krampus that lurks in the dark... ❄️
Have a great festive time, and beware the Krampus that lurks in the dark... ❄️
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We wish everyone a very merry Christmas Eve, hopefully spent with loved ones! 🦖 🎅
Just make sure to have ADS on so Santa doesn't run into... obstacles... on his way
Just make sure to have ADS on so Santa doesn't run into... obstacles... on his way
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We wish everyone a very merry Christmas Eve, hopefully spent with loved ones! 🦖 🎅
Just make sure to have ADS on so Santa doesn't run into... obstacles... on his way
Just make sure to have ADS on so Santa doesn't run into... obstacles... on his way
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Peltephilus spp.
From Oligocene to Mid Miocene Argentina, the horned armadillo is a genus of xenarthran known for its head scutes that developed into horns. The upper teeth on the anterior side of the upper jaw were sharp and passed beyond the lower jaw teeth
From Oligocene to Mid Miocene Argentina, the horned armadillo is a genus of xenarthran known for its head scutes that developed into horns. The upper teeth on the anterior side of the upper jaw were sharp and passed beyond the lower jaw teeth
December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Peltephilus spp.
From Oligocene to Mid Miocene Argentina, the horned armadillo is a genus of xenarthran known for its head scutes that developed into horns. The upper teeth on the anterior side of the upper jaw were sharp and passed beyond the lower jaw teeth
From Oligocene to Mid Miocene Argentina, the horned armadillo is a genus of xenarthran known for its head scutes that developed into horns. The upper teeth on the anterior side of the upper jaw were sharp and passed beyond the lower jaw teeth
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Sahonachelys mailakavava
From Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, "quick mouthed frog turtle" was a small turtle with a flat head and gracile jaws. Its enlarged hyoids and lack of teeth suggest a unique suction feeding lifestyle
From Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, "quick mouthed frog turtle" was a small turtle with a flat head and gracile jaws. Its enlarged hyoids and lack of teeth suggest a unique suction feeding lifestyle
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Sahonachelys mailakavava
From Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, "quick mouthed frog turtle" was a small turtle with a flat head and gracile jaws. Its enlarged hyoids and lack of teeth suggest a unique suction feeding lifestyle
From Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, "quick mouthed frog turtle" was a small turtle with a flat head and gracile jaws. Its enlarged hyoids and lack of teeth suggest a unique suction feeding lifestyle
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mixosaurus spp.
From Middle Triassic Italy, Switzerland, and China, "mixed lizard" is a genus of icthyosaur up to 2 meters so named because it's thought to be a transitional form between earlier eel shaped icthyosaurs and later dolphin shaped ones
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
From Middle Triassic Italy, Switzerland, and China, "mixed lizard" is a genus of icthyosaur up to 2 meters so named because it's thought to be a transitional form between earlier eel shaped icthyosaurs and later dolphin shaped ones
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mixosaurus spp.
From Middle Triassic Italy, Switzerland, and China, "mixed lizard" is a genus of icthyosaur up to 2 meters so named because it's thought to be a transitional form between earlier eel shaped icthyosaurs and later dolphin shaped ones
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
From Middle Triassic Italy, Switzerland, and China, "mixed lizard" is a genus of icthyosaur up to 2 meters so named because it's thought to be a transitional form between earlier eel shaped icthyosaurs and later dolphin shaped ones
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
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Check out the Camp Fam's official application forms for Camp Cretaceous 🦖
December 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Henodus chelyops
That's... flat, lol. From Late Triassic Germany and Portugal, "one tooth" is a meter long turtle-like placoderm and the first of its kind not to be found in marine deposits. It had a single tooth in each side of the mouth, the rest replaced by baleen-like barbs
That's... flat, lol. From Late Triassic Germany and Portugal, "one tooth" is a meter long turtle-like placoderm and the first of its kind not to be found in marine deposits. It had a single tooth in each side of the mouth, the rest replaced by baleen-like barbs
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Henodus chelyops
That's... flat, lol. From Late Triassic Germany and Portugal, "one tooth" is a meter long turtle-like placoderm and the first of its kind not to be found in marine deposits. It had a single tooth in each side of the mouth, the rest replaced by baleen-like barbs
That's... flat, lol. From Late Triassic Germany and Portugal, "one tooth" is a meter long turtle-like placoderm and the first of its kind not to be found in marine deposits. It had a single tooth in each side of the mouth, the rest replaced by baleen-like barbs
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Kaatedocus siberi
From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, "small beam" is a relatively small diplodocid at an itty bitty 14 meters long. Its well preserved neck has been used to argue that diplodocids had dorsal spines and held their necks upright
From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, "small beam" is a relatively small diplodocid at an itty bitty 14 meters long. Its well preserved neck has been used to argue that diplodocids had dorsal spines and held their necks upright
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Kaatedocus siberi
From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, "small beam" is a relatively small diplodocid at an itty bitty 14 meters long. Its well preserved neck has been used to argue that diplodocids had dorsal spines and held their necks upright
From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, "small beam" is a relatively small diplodocid at an itty bitty 14 meters long. Its well preserved neck has been used to argue that diplodocids had dorsal spines and held their necks upright
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Europejara olcadesorum
From Early Cretaceous Spain, "European tapejara" is a species of small tapejarid with a 2 meter wingspan known from a crushed skull. It shows the longest dentary crest in proportion to lower jaw of any pterosaur
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
From Early Cretaceous Spain, "European tapejara" is a species of small tapejarid with a 2 meter wingspan known from a crushed skull. It shows the longest dentary crest in proportion to lower jaw of any pterosaur
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Europejara olcadesorum
From Early Cretaceous Spain, "European tapejara" is a species of small tapejarid with a 2 meter wingspan known from a crushed skull. It shows the longest dentary crest in proportion to lower jaw of any pterosaur
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social
From Early Cretaceous Spain, "European tapejara" is a species of small tapejarid with a 2 meter wingspan known from a crushed skull. It shows the longest dentary crest in proportion to lower jaw of any pterosaur
Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social