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Claude ✡️🦖🦕
@cascoclauda.bsky.social
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Claude, they/them, 25.
Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
maybe you have a point
text in image: Aaron is not considered a "normal son". His big sister describes him as a "smart, charming, dinosaur loving nerd", which fits him perfectly. He is obsessed with dinosaurs and has an overly-technical understanding of them.
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
engagement bait stolen from @restingdinoface.bsky.social
text in image: post this on your profile and let your followers associate you with a fictional character that you remind them of
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
grossness aside, the naming of bakiribu expands the taxonomic range of ctenochasmatids with filter-feeding adaptations, as it possesses long, thin, comb-like teeth very similar to its close relative pterodaustro
a figure from the paper showing the phylogenetic position and relationships of bakiribu
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
interestingly, both the holotype and paratype of bakiribu were found in what is interpreted as a carnivore regurgitalite - yes, vomit
a figure from the paper showing the known material from bakiribu in its vomit deposit
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
🚨PTEROSAUR NEWS🚨
a warm welcome to bakiribu waridza, a filter-feeding ctenochasmatid from the early cretaceous romualdo formation of brazil. described by @alinemghilardi.bsky.social et al., it is recovered as a sibling taxon to the 'flamingo pterosaur' pterodaustro
(art by julio lacerda)
a pair of bakiribu filter-feed in a shallow lake as a spinosaurid pursues a flock of them in the background
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
as promised, bonus kitty! i'm unsure exactly which taxon this is, as it appears to be quite a young cat, noted on apple tv's website to reflect the paper below, which is about smilodon fatalis, if that helps
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
possibly a young smilodon fatalis (identification pending) rubbing its sabre-teeth on a rock face
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #caturday! how many machairodontines are in #prehistoricplanet: ice age? at least five (bonus kitty in the reply) 🐱 palaeontologist and paleoartist mauricio anton revealed on his twitter that he consulted on at least some of these, and they look stunning
a group of white homotherins as depicted in the final episode of 'prehistoric planet: ice age'; the exact taxon has yet to be identified a smilodontin (which i think is megantereon, but that's just my speculation at this point) baring its teeth and roaring smilodon populator, the robust and bear-like of the machairodontines, stalking through grasslands homotherium is seen walking through the snow in the first episode of the show; we later see a group of them pursuing the woolly rhinocerus coelodonta in the trailer
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
look who it is 👀 psilopterus in #prehistoricplanet really looks @serpenillus.bsky.social's reconstruction brought to life
a still of the gracile terror bird psilopterus as depicted in 'prehistoric planet: ice age'; it has a yellow-tipped black beak, red around the nose, blue around the eyes, and mostly ivory feathers marked with a dark greyish-brown down the throat, and the same colouration on the forehead and a short feather crest/mane
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is barylambda, a pantodont from the paleocene and early eocene. despite looking like a cross between a ground sloth and a wombat, recent evidence suggests that barylambda was a stem-ungulate, related to modern hoofed mammals
(art by gabriel ugueto)
a pair of barylambda in an open woodland environment a mounted barylambda skeleton
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! this is whatcheeria, a carnivorous tetrapod from the early carboniferous. although its limbs were stout and robust, they were ill-suited for life on land, and likely spent most of their time in the water
(art by joschua knuppe)
art of whatcheeria lunging through a hole in a rotting log to capture a fish in its jaws a photograph of a pancaked aka compressed whatcheeria skull
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
also, moloch horridus is genuinely just living their best life here. good for them
a still of the thorny devil from the trailer; this genus is monospecific and very much still around in the modern day, yet here they are! what a creature
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
i'm really looking forward to how #prehistoricplanet tackles extinct species of extant genera such as leptoptilos and cryptoprocta 👀 visually, they're distinct from their living relatives in terms of colouration, but i'm curious to see their behaviour as well
a still from the 'prehistoric planet: ice age' trailer showing an as-yet unclear species of leptoptilos, likely one from the sundaland archipelago. it has striking and eerie pale blue eyes, something reminiscent of the design of the azhdarchid pterosaur hatzegopteryx in the prior seasons of the show another still image from the trailer, this time showing cryptoprocta spelaea aka the cave or giant fossa, which is depicted with predominantly dark grey fur in contrast to the chestnut-brown colouration of the living species, c. ferox
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
i'm also very curious about this still, which seems to imply gregarious behaviour for thylacoleo
a promotional still from 'prehistoric planet: ice age' depicting a trio of thylacoleo moving at speed towards the camera. i know they're lion-sized apex predators but they're soooooo cute and i want to boop them
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
i never thought i needed to see a giant terrestrial otter fight a sabre-toothed cat, but #prehistoricplanet has proven me wrong
three giant land otters face off against a solitary machairodontine; i think the cat might be megantereon, but it could be another different homotherin, and i am not 100% sure a close-up of two of the giant otters; if i had to guess, i would say enhydriodon, but again, not 100% sure
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
@sophiesaurus98.bsky.social IT'S HAPPENING, DROP BEAR IS REAL
a still from the trailer for 'prehistoric planet: ice age' of thylacoleo pouncing on its prey from a tree
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
bonus: elasmotherium, the siberian woolly unicorn 🦄 now looking rather more like the rhinoceros it was 🦏
a still of a blunt-horned elasmotherium standing in a meadow
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
the #prehistoricplanet: ice age trailer is here, and not a moment too soon! but you won't have seen the following four animals in the trailer:
psilopterus 🪶
arctotherium angustidens 🐻
gigantopithecus blacki 🐵
aenocyon dirus 🐺
a still of psilopterus (NOT TITANIS) the terror bird a still of the giant short-faced bear a. angustidens standing over a litoptern carcass a still of the orangutan relative gigantopithecus munching on a twig a close-up of a dire wolf
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
WELCOME BACK, MIRAGAIA 🥳
new material from portugal - along with a review of prior material - has led costa et al. to conclude that miragaia is distinct from dacentrurus, listing over a dozen differences between the genera
repositorio.lneg.pt/entities/pub...
(art by @ferrutxoart.bsky.social)
mirgaia walks through a fern field illuminated by fireflies
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
but who is leptostomia? well, @kakapojay.bsky.social can explain
art depicting a size comparison of the fauna of the kem kem beds in morocco, including a hilariously oversized leptostomia that towers over even the unnamed titanosaur native to the region
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
nothing more dangerous than a parrot who knows exactly how cute he is 🦜 #parrotsky
oscar the congo grey parrot looking wryly at the camera another photo of oscar in the same position, except his head is tilted slightly in a very cute manner
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
truly, hatzegopteryx fans cannot catch a break
a still of hatzegopteryx from 'prehistoric planet'. the pterosaur is looking at the camera
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
alanqa is an azhdarchoid from the kem kem beds, probably best-known for its eerie appearance in 'walking with dinosaurs' earlier this year; it is recovered outside of azhdarchidae, but within azhdarchiformes, and clades with xericeps, leptostomia, and argentinadraco
a still of alanqa standing in a dark forest from 'walking with dinosaurs 2025'
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
IT'S FINALLY HERE!
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social and @skyemcdavid.com's paper on azhdarchoid phylogeny and pterosaur gigantism is officially out, with some very intriguing results in the phylogenetic analysis 👀
short 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(art by @kiracuriee.bsky.social)
art of four giant azhdarchids left to right - cryodrakon, hatzegopteryx, arambourgiania, and quetzalcoatlus northtropi
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
"but hyenas look more like dogs than cats" oh? then explain THIS 🫵 peak cat behaviour
a photograph of a very polite-looking spotted hyena loafing like a housecat another photo of a spotted hyena loafing like a housecat
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
it seems that hadrosaurs were getting a little freaky with it 🤔 bertozzo et al. propose that the prevalence of tail pathologies in hadrosaurs suggests that these injuries were incurred during procreation
(art by emiliano troco)
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
art depicting a pair of olorotitan, after the tail have mated. the female has noticeable injuries on her tail, some healed and some fresh
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM