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fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · Jun 30
Having a pet means turning your head away for one moment and quickly realizing that morning cuddle time was actually just an excuse to get closer to the food you were eating, and now nothing on God's green Earth can save your sandwich.
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trigonotarbida.bsky.social
Art train time!

Next stops if people want to do it :)
@sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
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@greyauk.bsky.social
Digital illustration of a large tiliqua frangens skink eating wildflowers digital illustration of some pelagornithid birds flying over rough seas Graphite drawing of cave rock formations with text underneath that says cathedral cave fossil site wellington Digital illustration of a Phreatoicopsis raffae isopod on damp mossy ground
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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drongojackburb.bsky.social
(Old Art) Leaellynasaura Illustration!

I haven't posted this here yet, so just gonna show it here.

I have depicted a "Months of Light Seasons Morph" (Dark Variant) and a "Months of Dark Seasons Morph" (Light Variant), Inspired by old illustrations with different morphs in books. #sciart #paleoart
October 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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caxela.bsky.social
Moa Remains
Digital Drawing. A depiction of an upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) based on the type specimen. The head and right foot are represented as mummified remains while the rest of the body is drawn more like a life appearance, in the style of a monochromatic sketch.
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
Garfield Minott at microphone, holding sauropod model. Photo from Simcoe Muskoka Family Connections Black History Month event. Carcharodontosaurus head model by Minott, as used in technical paper by Kent Stevens. Minott Carcharodontosaurus head model from Paul Sereno lab website.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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invalidhandlebunny.bsky.social
watercolor painting of a silly round duck
watercolor painting of a duck
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
fossilfamilytree.bsky.social
Scops owls genuinely might be my favorite type of owl.
diluc.off.camera diluc @diluc.off.camera · 2d
this is an owl
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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josephtobias.bsky.social
One of the highlights of a short trip to Yunnan last week – the Spot-breasted Parrotbill: an icon for functional morphologists, an insectivore with the 'wrong' beak (stubby like a seed-eater) which nonetheless makes ecophysical sense because it uses bite-force to snip through grass/bamboo stems
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse: A sunbird.

I am proud to say I’ve seen a sunbird in person. 😊
A common sunbird
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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astrapionte.bsky.social
dodo and solitaire chicks.

#paleoart #pigeon
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day194 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

Think of the deep sea synergy John (H. sapiens) could have with PRI's collection, including this fossil coelacanth (Diplurus longicaudatus) #FossilFriday🧪
fake album cover of John Oliver laying down in front of a purple background. John Cradles a fish fossil and holds a rose. The title says "Deep Dive 2".
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day191 of badly photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) seems very at home as a trilobite(Dipleura dekayi;PRI50318)

Donations still needed!
#JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed
#trilobiteTuesday 🧪⚒️
A brown trilobite mounted on a blue wall, with a scooped cephalon. John Oliver's face covers tbe glabella, and his tie hangs down over the axial lobe of the thorax.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Art train time!

Next stops:
@delightmonster.bsky.social
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@emilyjaneart.bsky.social
@trigonotarbida.bsky.social
two dome-shaped round beetles grazing, viewed from a low angle, illustration a pink spider with black spots like ladybug, hanging between flowers, illustration a landscape of stick-like fungi with a big slug looming in the background mantisfly, an insect that heavily resembles mantises, illustrated with ornate pattern fillings in green and gold
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
By "Slavic melancholy" I mean this vibe
Family of wolly mammoths by Zdenek Burian
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ianzpotter.bsky.social
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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tstld.bsky.social
Little kingfisher

Graphite pencils on paper
5x7

#art #birds #nature #sciart
Drawing of a kingfisher made with graphite pencils on paper.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
One of my favorite things about the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste are the winter visiting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. They're later than a lot of other N American migrants, but they're starting to show up in good numbers now. When it gets too wet in Bijagua, I just head down to the sun. #birds
Slim bird with a very long tail, gray head, white breast, and orange sides perched on a weathered tree stump against a soft green background.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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spissatella.bsky.social
Some snails from work: Cross-sectioned pleurotomarioid, cross-sectioned Campanile, truly behemoth cowry, and ( just casually) the type of Ecphora quadricostata (Say)
A cross-sectioned specimen of a fossil pleurotomarioid snail, infilled with pale yellow sediment A cross-sectioned specimen of Campanile giganteum, the top third of the spire is broken off and in a separate box A hand holding an enormous round brown fossil cowry A specimen of Ecphora quadricostata with all its museum labels and a Paleontological Society scalebar
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Good morning to all but especially this guy 🦭 (Salt Point State Park, CA)
Harbor seal sleeping on a rock, waves crashing in the background
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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branartworks.bsky.social
A Livyatan catching a large squid! this painting was inspired by a recent video of a modern sperm whale swallowing a giant squid. While Livyatan had a fierce arsenal of teeth and massive jaw muscles, we still don't know what it was eating exactly.
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#paleoart #sciart
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Monodon not living up to its name
Skeleton of a narwhal suspended from the ceiling of a large room. It has two long tusks pointing out of its face, instead of one. At the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
One of my favorite housemates is the healthy population of Spotted Least Geckos (Sphaerodactylus millepunctatus) that patrol @casabentbill.bsky.social looking for delicious insects.

A Central American endemic, these are usually difficult to find.

This one was only about 23mm long.

#reptiles
Small tan and orange gecko with a long banded tail clinging to a textured turquoise wall.
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social
Day 187 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

What could be more relaxing than having a glass of wine with a sympathetic snail(Loxonema)?
#fossilfriday #savePRI #johnolivercoprolitasticshed 🧪 #savescience
John Oliver in dark suit with a red tie sits in a large brown leather chair holding a glass of wine. On the table next to him is a large, high spired snail as a grey fossil partly embedded in a similar colored limestone
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
fossilfamilytree.bsky.social
Oof, Spotify is in the "find out" stage right about now, huh?

I've been trying out some other music services and I'm finding that Tidal is a pretty seamless transition. I'm sure the others also work.
50501movement.bsky.social 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9d
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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prehistorica.art
Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
fossilfamilytree.bsky.social
Neat excavation of a massive Maya city -- the article includes a video that shows a lot of archaeological techniques used to study big sites like this, including LIDAR and what the excavation area looks like.
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM