Les noms communs quel bonheur, ça me fait penser à tout le bordel des noms communs anglais des arachnides où y'a plein de trucs qui sont appelés spiders mais qui en soit pas, genre les solifuges en "camel spiders" ou les amblypyges en "whip spiders"

Merci !😊

And I like these 2 a lot too^^

Thanks to @lea-rtemis.bsky.social for the photoshoot, best birthday ever😊

For more details, I recommend you to watch this video made before the paleoctober, and you'll have waaayyy more information on the organisms that made the list this year !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTt...

And to end this, this #paleoctober2025 's novelty : non-animal & non-plant organisms !!🦠 We welcomed to the list the mushroom Archaeomarasmius, the (maybe) ameba Melanocyrillium and the "dunno what this is" Diskagma, an organism that could be one of the first non-aquatic lifeforms in Earth history !

You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿

Arthropods were a big chunk with whatever is Cambropachycope, the early scorpion Eramoscorpius🦂, and of course insects with the stickbug wannabe grasshoper Eoproscopia🦗, the ancient mosquito relative Libanoculex🦟, and the nonetheless largest fossil beetle from Dynastinae, Oryctoantiquus !🐞

Always good to have some molluscs, and we did in the old ones this year with only paleozoic species : An early relative of chitons in Protobalanus, a possible really really old gastropod with Bellerophon🐚, and we even drew Plectronoceras, the oldest cephalopod to date !🐙

Aquatic animals aren't that much talked about but the fossil record is full of such species (especially invertebrates my beloved), like the freshwater coelacanth relative Allenypterus🐟, the spiraling graptolite Cyrtograptus and one of the most frequent fossil corals of the mesozoic, Isastrea !

Our own synapsid lineage wasn't left out, from the depth of the early permian with Eothyris and Sphenacodon to much more recent periods during which lived the bone-crushing dog Epicyon🐕 or Cainotherium (the perfect mix between an ungulate🦙 and a rabbit🐇)

Reptiles aren't just dinosaurs and crocs tho : we had this years Varanus sivalensis (a komodo dragon lookalike from India🦎), the giant ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan, one of the largest turtle to have ever lived with Meiolania🐢, and the iconic high-crested pterosaur Nyctosaurus !

Crocodile lineage is often overlooked but produced sick species through time, like the efficient runner Sebecus, or the giant flat-headed caiman Mourasuchus
Really, if you think dinosaurs are cool, I beg you to look at extinct crocs, they may not fly but some of them are really something !🐊