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Richard Carr
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MSc in Geology with a focus on Paleontology and Museum Studies from Fort Hays State University. Works on chondrichthyan paleoichthyology and mosasaurs! He/him
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A new mid-sized pareiasaur from the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China & implications for the phylogenetic relationships of pareiasaurs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Photographs of two fossil skulls and an artist's reconstruction of the Permian pareiasaur Yinshanosaurus angustus from North China. The reconstruction focuses on the head of the animal with equisetaleans in the foreground and background. Image created by X.-C. Guo, © IVPP. Top left, holotype IVPP V33181 (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Bottom left, paratype SXNHM V0010.12 (Shanxi Natural History Museum, Taiyuan). Scale bar at the bottom is 50 mm.
June 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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marathon-rana.bsky.social
I have a new paper out in Environmental Biology of Fishes on the effects of parasites on the life history of White Sands Pupfish! The two main findings being:

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Life history trade-offs mediated by digene parasites in the protected White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa)
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June 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects
A macro photo, front three-quarter view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue patches. It is very cute. A macro photo, side view, of a little butterfly perched on a green leaf. The butterfly has pale green eyes with black speckles, legs covered in thick yellow fuzzy hair, and orange wings sprinkled with metallic light blue bands and patches. It is very cute.
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Everything is on fire but we have an awesome new lab logo from @nepeteaa.bsky.social who you should definitely have make one for your organization!
June 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Nothing like a visit to the dentist costing more than double what I expected. 😭 Commissions and, if you’re feeling generous, donations would be hugely appreciated right now. Get in touch if you want me to draw some dinosaurs or other creatures for you!
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June 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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royalsocietypublishing.org Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 13
Exploring the evolutionary adaptations of the unique seahorse tail’s muscle architecture through in silico modelling and robotic prototyping: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @dadriaens.bsky.social #JRSocInterface #biomechanics #evolution
June 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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J.T. Voris et al. 2025
Ontogenetic Changes in Endocranial Anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) Provide Insight Into the Evolution of the Tyrannosauroid Endocranium
Journal of Comparative Neurology 533: e70056

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Ontogenetic Changes in Endocranial Anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) Provide Insight Into the Evolution of the Tyrannosauroid Endocranium
Changes through growth (ontogenetic) in the braincase of the eutyrannosaurian tyrannosauroid Gorgosaurus libratus are discussed. Most notably, brain cavity endocasts of immature Gorgosaurus are found....
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April 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪
April 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Cool new study on Deinosuchus just dropped.🐊🧪

www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/s...
Scientists discover how a ‘terror crocodile’ became a dinosaur-eating giant | CNN
One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a key trait that modern alligators lack.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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To celebrate Earth Day, here are some CT scans of several fabulous fishes that live on our planet.
CT scan image of Caprichthys gymnura, the rigid boxfish. It is, unsurprisingly, a box-shaped fish. CT scan image of Triodon macropterus, the threetooth pufferfish. CT scan image of Pervagor aspricaudus, the orange tail filefish. It has a long spine on its head.
April 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Bloat and Float
Diorama of a decomposing Dryptosaurus being scavenged by a shark
April 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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"gentle giants"? I don't think so. Get smushed, theropod.
Acrocanthosaurus vs "Astrodon"
Diorama is a sauropod crushing a theropod, closeup of the foot crushing the neck Diorama is a sauropod crushing a theropod
April 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
April 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Can someone please explain why journalists have stopped pointing out that the executive branch has no constitutional authority to end these programs?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Mar 31
JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pliocene
Scientific art helps to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in our exhibits.

🗝️ Check out the art + key and bonus fossils for gomphotheres, early artiodactyls and more:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...
a painting of an open landscape with a few large oak trees and a number of animals that resemble elephants, zebras, alligators, huge sloth and birds, and a numbered key to the illustration positioned below it reflecting the list in the post
March 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of #Crinoids drifting on deadwood.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaurs #JurassicWorld
March 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
emularge.bsky.social
New Plioplatecarpus peckensis skeletal mount 🤩🤩🤩 love to see Bearpaw mosasaurs and ESPECIALLY plioplatecarpines getting the limelight.

I’m super lucky to have consulted a bit for this and some other upcoming mounts… Stop by the MOR the first week of July for the rest!
March 31, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
This isn't the first time a branch of government has attempted to control Smithsonian exhibit content.

In 1994, a draft script for a National Air and Space Museum exhibit featuring the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan) was circulated among interested parties. 🧵
Partial fuselage of a silver plane with landing gear behind a barrier in a museum hall.
March 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
how come in Japan you can get cool figures of every weird animal ever for literally ~ 2 USD, why can't we be a proper country and have Shrimp Figures
plastic figure of a fairy shrimp, mostly shades of green with large eyes and an orange tail. included is a black plastic stand for the model and a circular backdrop to mimic a microscope view plastic figure of Opabinia, a cambrian period stem arthropod with many swimming paddles on each side of its long body. it has five eyes and a trunk or grabbing organ on its front. the model is colored in shades of teal and has a brown "stone" base
March 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
emularge.bsky.social
This is it folks, time to see the face of my thesis defense…
museumoftherockies.bsky.social Museum of the Rockies @museumoftherockies.bsky.social · Mar 28
Happy #FossilFriday! Here’s a sneak peek of a new 3D printed #skeleton that will be unveiled at the member’s event at #MOR tonight as we kick off the 4th annual #DinosaursandMOR festival. Can you guess who these #teeth belong to?
March 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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My take on the Dungeons and Dragons Tarrasque. Mole Cricket, African Spurred Tortoise, Gila Monster. #dnd #tarrasque
The Tarrasque from Dungeons and Dragons re-imagined in a new design. The large reptilian monster coils and twists in a cloud of sand. the monster swings its huge developed digging arms, making its face turn to the camera, opening it's insect-like mouth parts. Down its long body you see two more pairs of legs with the last facing backwards like a cricket. The body ends with two long thin tails whipping in the sand.
March 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Great news. Nay, the best news.

Flickr user and all-around hero grafxmangrafxman has uploaded photos of every single fossil and text graphic from the old NMNH fossil halls. Including many that I had failed to document. I'm ecstatic! Thanks Enzo B for the heads up.

www.flickr.com/photos/80431...
Jurassic Giants panel with 1982 tail-dragging line art of Diplodocus and Camarasaurus Ceratogualus mounted skeleton with long nearby text panel Act Three: The Cenozoic Era: The Curtain rises on modern sea life. Panel with geologic timeline sidebar. Close Encounters panel with historic Stegosaurus illustrations
March 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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February 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's some zooms into the packaging art for my Temnodontosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint & the Natural History Museum.

#SciComm #PaleoArt #MaryAnning #Ichthyosaurus #Temnodontosaurus #MarineReptiles
February 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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“Rapacious Assault”
#paleoart #paleontology #sciart
Protosphyraena pernicosa ambushes Zanclites xenurus, Digital Media
February 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM