Dromeoraptor
@dromeoraptor.bsky.social
Likes paleontology and Monster Hunter, among other things.
I'll try not to spam my profile with retweets this time around
He/Him
I'll try not to spam my profile with retweets this time around
He/Him
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Kremling Krew! Kremling Krew!
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Kremling Krew! Kremling Krew!
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
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Results from the Nanotyrannus #Paleostream!
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Results from the Nanotyrannus #Paleostream!
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
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I had a go at drawing steppe #lions chasing a European bison recently, based on Palaeolithic artworks. I'm unsure about the markings around the lions' eyes but my main reference, which seems to otherwise give good data about colour distribution, suggests _something_ was there. #paleoart
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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they're just like little cartoon mouths sitting on the ground among the pine needles, like the things that eat that guy in the Dark Crystal miniseries
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
they're just like little cartoon mouths sitting on the ground among the pine needles, like the things that eat that guy in the Dark Crystal miniseries
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yes! completely correct. P incarnata is also edible though and also weirdly hard to find for sale here
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
yes! completely correct. P incarnata is also edible though and also weirdly hard to find for sale here
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there is a distinction to be made here though, that what we understand as culinary passionfruit "passiflora edulis" is native to South America, while the purple passionvine native to the US is "passiflora incarnata." there are hundreds of species of passionflower but passionfruit is a lil different
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
there is a distinction to be made here though, that what we understand as culinary passionfruit "passiflora edulis" is native to South America, while the purple passionvine native to the US is "passiflora incarnata." there are hundreds of species of passionflower but passionfruit is a lil different
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similar thing happens with passiflora. enjoy the tropical and mysterious passionfruit, from the steamy, exotic jungles of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
similar thing happens with passiflora. enjoy the tropical and mysterious passionfruit, from the steamy, exotic jungles of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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the main reason they don't last very long as houseplants is because they're adapted to weather the harsh and deadly North Carolina winters, so they get sick unless you put them in the fridge
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
the main reason they don't last very long as houseplants is because they're adapted to weather the harsh and deadly North Carolina winters, so they get sick unless you put them in the fridge
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still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina
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Sometimes I remember this, and I think about how funny it is that its original context is the complete opposite of how it’s used as a meme.
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sometimes I remember this, and I think about how funny it is that its original context is the complete opposite of how it’s used as a meme.
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
September 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
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#DinoConUK @grahancock.bsky.social: How to hide a T. rex
August 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#DinoConUK @grahancock.bsky.social: How to hide a T. rex
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The thing about swallowing dinosaurs as real animals is that it’s not just about getting past popular myths. It’s about having as wide an understanding of real animals as possible to properly judge what is realistic and what’s not.
July 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing about swallowing dinosaurs as real animals is that it’s not just about getting past popular myths. It’s about having as wide an understanding of real animals as possible to properly judge what is realistic and what’s not.
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A friend of mine shared a series of photos on Twitter of a lone spotted hyena bringing down an injured white rhinoceros by constantly biting its rear.
June 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A friend of mine shared a series of photos on Twitter of a lone spotted hyena bringing down an injured white rhinoceros by constantly biting its rear.
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Has anyone else noticed the Peteinosaurus and Plateosaurus in Walking with Dinosaurs have the exact same head? I’ve been thinking about this for far longer than any person should and I can’t keep it to myself any longer.
June 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Has anyone else noticed the Peteinosaurus and Plateosaurus in Walking with Dinosaurs have the exact same head? I’ve been thinking about this for far longer than any person should and I can’t keep it to myself any longer.
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Summary of Ichinose, Inuzuka and Uno discussing the design of Stonefist Hermitaur in Monster Hunter: Principles of Creativity 2.
June 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Summary of Ichinose, Inuzuka and Uno discussing the design of Stonefist Hermitaur in Monster Hunter: Principles of Creativity 2.
Machine translated the comic things
June 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Machine translated the comic things
Ok so someone on a discord server I’m in posted some concept of Keputosu and I did some google translating and… WOW! Keputosu is very complex and has lots of tricks for what turned into a very simple monster.
June 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ok so someone on a discord server I’m in posted some concept of Keputosu and I did some google translating and… WOW! Keputosu is very complex and has lots of tricks for what turned into a very simple monster.
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A bit uncomfortable to think about, but illustrates why cutting edges on teeth are important.
May 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A bit uncomfortable to think about, but illustrates why cutting edges on teeth are important.
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Something I find fascinating about T. rex is that it was arguably the most cursorial animal in its weight range and above. Out of all land animals that equal or (far) exceed it in body mass, it probably retains the most amount of cursorial adaptations.
June 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Something I find fascinating about T. rex is that it was arguably the most cursorial animal in its weight range and above. Out of all land animals that equal or (far) exceed it in body mass, it probably retains the most amount of cursorial adaptations.
Had a convo on discord ho I made a quick tierlist of how much each MH monster would get eaten
June 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Had a convo on discord ho I made a quick tierlist of how much each MH monster would get eaten
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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Manifesting K Rool into Bananza
May 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Manifesting K Rool into Bananza
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One of the most interesting questions in tetanuran theropod evolution is... where do megaraptorans go? They're 'generic' and hence hard to place, but some skull features (flat frontal bones, some relatively small teeth, a stretched snout) make them look like tyrannosauroids 1/n #dinosaurs
May 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
One of the most interesting questions in tetanuran theropod evolution is... where do megaraptorans go? They're 'generic' and hence hard to place, but some skull features (flat frontal bones, some relatively small teeth, a stretched snout) make them look like tyrannosauroids 1/n #dinosaurs