Dane Pavitt 🦕🌍
@danepavitt.bsky.social
Natural Sciences student, researcher & educator at The Open University & Potteries Museum
Palaeontologist 🦕 Natural Historian 🦈 Museum worker 🏛 Science Communicator 🥼 Conservation & climate 🌍 Metal guitarist 🤘(He/him)
Often speak in GIFs
Palaeontologist 🦕 Natural Historian 🦈 Museum worker 🏛 Science Communicator 🥼 Conservation & climate 🌍 Metal guitarist 🤘(He/him)
Often speak in GIFs
Day 2 of #2025SVP is go! Lots of mammal talks & posters today, lovely stuff 🦣🐋🐅 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Day 2 of #2025SVP is go! Lots of mammal talks & posters today, lovely stuff 🦣🐋🐅 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
One day to go to #2025svp ! Plenty of presentations to check out, but I'm also on a mission to meet new friends & colleagues, foster research & outreach collaboration, set up field work & lay the foundations for postgrad endeavours. Say hi if you spot me! ❤️🦖🦕🦣 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
One day to go to #2025svp ! Plenty of presentations to check out, but I'm also on a mission to meet new friends & colleagues, foster research & outreach collaboration, set up field work & lay the foundations for postgrad endeavours. Say hi if you spot me! ❤️🦖🦕🦣 @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
Fully double-checked & updated #PrehistoricPlanet list thanks to the trailer & promo images. A few predictions come true, a few surprises too
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fully double-checked & updated #PrehistoricPlanet list thanks to the trailer & promo images. A few predictions come true, a few surprises too
Related: The Smilodon is an absolute monster. It also comes with the revelation that the sabretooth we've been seeing in the promo material is an African taxon, so Megantereon perhaps? Very impressed with the Sabretooth diversity on show
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Related: The Smilodon is an absolute monster. It also comes with the revelation that the sabretooth we've been seeing in the promo material is an African taxon, so Megantereon perhaps? Very impressed with the Sabretooth diversity on show
My jaw genuinely dropped when I saw this image. It is literally, 100% my mental image of what Homotherium looked like. Absolutely perfect. 10/10. No notes.
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My jaw genuinely dropped when I saw this image. It is literally, 100% my mental image of what Homotherium looked like. Absolutely perfect. 10/10. No notes.
New image of the Prehistoric Planet Snow Sloths from the AppleTV website. Image text also confirms these are Megalonyx
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
New image of the Prehistoric Planet Snow Sloths from the AppleTV website. Image text also confirms these are Megalonyx
I have an itchy feeling the Prehistoric Planet Ice Age trailer will drop any moment, so here's my largely vibes-based predicitons / wishlist.
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I have an itchy feeling the Prehistoric Planet Ice Age trailer will drop any moment, so here's my largely vibes-based predicitons / wishlist.
Got an extinct critter you'd like to see in motion? For the next 2 weeks I'll be taking commission requests at a discounted rate for palaeo walk cycles that you can use in your own projects!
DM or email to discuss details
DM or email to discuss details
October 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Got an extinct critter you'd like to see in motion? For the next 2 weeks I'll be taking commission requests at a discounted rate for palaeo walk cycles that you can use in your own projects!
DM or email to discuss details
DM or email to discuss details
Today's museum theme is "finding things I didn't know we had", including a monkey holding an orange & a 70m long tapeworm bottle in formalin over 100 years ago. I'll spare you an image of the actual specimen, because it's grim
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today's museum theme is "finding things I didn't know we had", including a monkey holding an orange & a 70m long tapeworm bottle in formalin over 100 years ago. I'll spare you an image of the actual specimen, because it's grim
Ozzy's passing has ignited the spark of wanting to play music, so I've had a fun evening of playing classic Sabbath & Dio riffs. Nice to see the old power chord divets coming back into my fingertips
October 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ozzy's passing has ignited the spark of wanting to play music, so I've had a fun evening of playing classic Sabbath & Dio riffs. Nice to see the old power chord divets coming back into my fingertips
A wild @tetzoo.bsky.social unexpectedly appeared in the window of the city library today
October 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A wild @tetzoo.bsky.social unexpectedly appeared in the window of the city library today
Pretty shameless clickbait headline. The article itself is about unlicensed private ownership of exotic animals, but of course that's not as interesting as making people scared that there are Cobras crawling around Oxford
September 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Pretty shameless clickbait headline. The article itself is about unlicensed private ownership of exotic animals, but of course that's not as interesting as making people scared that there are Cobras crawling around Oxford
SURELY this kind of talk from Ben Lamm is enough to convince people he & Colossal are silicon valley engagement grifters with no interest in scientific credibility?
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
SURELY this kind of talk from Ben Lamm is enough to convince people he & Colossal are silicon valley engagement grifters with no interest in scientific credibility?
From Conway Morris's The Crucible Of Creation. This is one of the coolest diagrams I've ever seen. The distances of galaxies from Earth in light years & the events in Earth's history they correspond to. I want it as a tattoo!
September 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From Conway Morris's The Crucible Of Creation. This is one of the coolest diagrams I've ever seen. The distances of galaxies from Earth in light years & the events in Earth's history they correspond to. I want it as a tattoo!
We also visited the Ozzy Osbourne exhibition, & visited some of the local sacred landmarks. There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said about the legacy that Oz left behind. His passing hit me harder than any other celebrity death I can remember
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We also visited the Ozzy Osbourne exhibition, & visited some of the local sacred landmarks. There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said about the legacy that Oz left behind. His passing hit me harder than any other celebrity death I can remember
This #fossilfriday , the family & I popped to the old home city to see Giants.
A really creative use of space & a tactile way for people to connect with & appreciate the scale of the megafauna. Definitely worth a visit.
A really creative use of space & a tactile way for people to connect with & appreciate the scale of the megafauna. Definitely worth a visit.
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This #fossilfriday , the family & I popped to the old home city to see Giants.
A really creative use of space & a tactile way for people to connect with & appreciate the scale of the megafauna. Definitely worth a visit.
A really creative use of space & a tactile way for people to connect with & appreciate the scale of the megafauna. Definitely worth a visit.
Visited the Jurassic fossil beds at Blue Anchor, & we're /fairly/ sure we found some marine reptile bones.
Block was too big to move, but if anyone fancies a crack at IDing them that'd be swell
Block was too big to move, but if anyone fancies a crack at IDing them that'd be swell
August 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Visited the Jurassic fossil beds at Blue Anchor, & we're /fairly/ sure we found some marine reptile bones.
Block was too big to move, but if anyone fancies a crack at IDing them that'd be swell
Block was too big to move, but if anyone fancies a crack at IDing them that'd be swell
If you don't have access to a cliff face or a disused quarry, you can always go fossil hunting in the Taunton shopping centre
August 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you don't have access to a cliff face or a disused quarry, you can always go fossil hunting in the Taunton shopping centre
Today I learned about the Rhinoceros Viper (Bitis nasicornis) & I'm utterly spellbound. That might be the most beautiful snake I've ever seen
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Today I learned about the Rhinoceros Viper (Bitis nasicornis) & I'm utterly spellbound. That might be the most beautiful snake I've ever seen
Watching Brother Bear with The Small One, & knowing the movie is set in the late Pleistocene, I have to wonder if Tug (R) is supposed to be an Arctodus. He's friggin' enormous!
August 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Watching Brother Bear with The Small One, & knowing the movie is set in the late Pleistocene, I have to wonder if Tug (R) is supposed to be an Arctodus. He's friggin' enormous!
I sent my mother the image of the Prehistoric Planet Homotherium (assuming) knowing she'd be utterly smitten, & I was right. Thick fluff & big paws are a winning combo
July 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I sent my mother the image of the Prehistoric Planet Homotherium (assuming) knowing she'd be utterly smitten, & I was right. Thick fluff & big paws are a winning combo
Slightly off-topic but from the same wedding; I'd like it on public record that my wife is a bombshell
July 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Slightly off-topic but from the same wedding; I'd like it on public record that my wife is a bombshell
From a wedding I recently attended: I'm annoyed at how obvious it is just from my posture in this photo that I was definitely talking about something dinosaur related.
July 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
From a wedding I recently attended: I'm annoyed at how obvious it is just from my posture in this photo that I was definitely talking about something dinosaur related.
Ah yes, the repeated cry-laugh emoji. The universal signal that someone is totally secure & comfortable in their position & not at all furious or unstable
July 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ah yes, the repeated cry-laugh emoji. The universal signal that someone is totally secure & comfortable in their position & not at all furious or unstable
My first tetrapod body fossil was this Mastodonsaurus fang from the Muschelkalk of Southern Poland. The thrill of being the first to see something for hundreds of millions of years is cosmically fulfilling
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My first tetrapod body fossil was this Mastodonsaurus fang from the Muschelkalk of Southern Poland. The thrill of being the first to see something for hundreds of millions of years is cosmically fulfilling