Dr. Mike O'Sullivan
@irishpalaeo.bsky.social
Palaeontologist, teacher and general nerd.
Author for Palaeogames
www.palaeogames.com
www.dinocon.co.uk
Personal account @irishpalaeonerd.bsky.social
Author for Palaeogames
www.palaeogames.com
www.dinocon.co.uk
Personal account @irishpalaeonerd.bsky.social
Ome day we're gonna do a movie about the bizarre tale of Enoch Burke
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but not for 'refusing to endorse transgender ideology'
Misleading claims about the arrest were shared in Spanish, French, and Polish, as well as by UK and US figures.
www.thejournal.ie
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ome day we're gonna do a movie about the bizarre tale of Enoch Burke
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Palaeogames has the perfect Christmas gift for you!
We're offering Dr. Dhrolin, both physical and digital, with extras at half price! Plus buy from our buddies at HitPointPress to get a preview of what's coming in Professor Primula's!
Link in the comments
We're offering Dr. Dhrolin, both physical and digital, with extras at half price! Plus buy from our buddies at HitPointPress to get a preview of what's coming in Professor Primula's!
Link in the comments
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Palaeogames has the perfect Christmas gift for you!
We're offering Dr. Dhrolin, both physical and digital, with extras at half price! Plus buy from our buddies at HitPointPress to get a preview of what's coming in Professor Primula's!
Link in the comments
We're offering Dr. Dhrolin, both physical and digital, with extras at half price! Plus buy from our buddies at HitPointPress to get a preview of what's coming in Professor Primula's!
Link in the comments
I'm planting my flag now
I want giant terrestrial death otters in my next book.
I want giant terrestrial death otters in my next book.
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm planting my flag now
I want giant terrestrial death otters in my next book.
I want giant terrestrial death otters in my next book.
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🦕We’re delighted to announce that DinoCon 2026 will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Sat 25th & Sun 26th July, 2026!🦖
Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW!
More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk
Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW!
More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🦕We’re delighted to announce that DinoCon 2026 will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Sat 25th & Sun 26th July, 2026!🦖
Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW!
More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk
Tickets will be on sale in January but you can book your room with a massive discount NOW!
More details can be found on our website www.dinocon.co.uk
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Our inaugural #DinoConUK, held 2025 at the University of Exeter, was a massive success, with over 860 attendees. We're thrilled to announce that DinoConUK 2026 will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in late July, an excellent central venue. Tickets are not yet on sale but hotel places are.
November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our inaugural #DinoConUK, held 2025 at the University of Exeter, was a massive success, with over 860 attendees. We're thrilled to announce that DinoConUK 2026 will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in late July, an excellent central venue. Tickets are not yet on sale but hotel places are.
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Breaking #DinoConUK news... we're pleased to announce our venue and date for 2026: July 25th-26th at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole! More info at ... www.dinocon.co.uk
DinoCon
www.dinocon.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Breaking #DinoConUK news... we're pleased to announce our venue and date for 2026: July 25th-26th at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole! More info at ... www.dinocon.co.uk
There's some uncomfortable self agrandizing response to the nanotyrannus research that's just unprofessional imo
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
There's some uncomfortable self agrandizing response to the nanotyrannus research that's just unprofessional imo
The new research on Nanotyrannus is very interesting.
The language surrounding it online makes me disquieted.
The language surrounding it online makes me disquieted.
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The new research on Nanotyrannus is very interesting.
The language surrounding it online makes me disquieted.
The language surrounding it online makes me disquieted.
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But do I think ALL mid-sized Hell Creek tyrannosaurs are Nanotyrannus?
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
But do I think ALL mid-sized Hell Creek tyrannosaurs are Nanotyrannus?
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
Not necessarily.
The big challenge now is differentiating specimens of Nanotyrannus from bona fide juvenile rex. And it will be tough, as they are probably really similar.
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Nanotyrannus is real.
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nanotyrannus is real.
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Nanotyrannus, schmannotyrannus.
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Nanotyrannus, schmannotyrannus.
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My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.
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this should be considered a victory for evidence and proper evaluation of data and science. But I'm sure it'll be considered as vindication that wanting something to be true and arm waving about what someone else said they measured on a specimen no one else had seen, gave the *right* answer.
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
this should be considered a victory for evidence and proper evaluation of data and science. But I'm sure it'll be considered as vindication that wanting something to be true and arm waving about what someone else said they measured on a specimen no one else had seen, gave the *right* answer.
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to be convinced. Now that has happened, people like me and @arctomet.bsky.social and @stevebrusatte.bsky.social are saying 'yes, this is convincing, Nano appears to be valid' *because* the scientific method was followed, and *not* because people *thought* that it was. In short...
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
to be convinced. Now that has happened, people like me and @arctomet.bsky.social and @stevebrusatte.bsky.social are saying 'yes, this is convincing, Nano appears to be valid' *because* the scientific method was followed, and *not* because people *thought* that it was. In short...
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that had already been dismissed or contradicted in the literature were the way to go and that we should have listened to them. But I and so many others always said that what we wanted to see was convincing data. Proper material, properly studied, with real measurements and testable data...
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
that had already been dismissed or contradicted in the literature were the way to go and that we should have listened to them. But I and so many others always said that what we wanted to see was convincing data. Proper material, properly studied, with real measurements and testable data...
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I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...
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I wonder if it'd be of use (or anyone would be interested in chipping in) to do a discussion on hardships of finding postdoctoral or permanent employment in palaeo (and how these hardships are accentuated in disadvnataged groups) 🤔
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I wonder if it'd be of use (or anyone would be interested in chipping in) to do a discussion on hardships of finding postdoctoral or permanent employment in palaeo (and how these hardships are accentuated in disadvnataged groups) 🤔
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Very happy to see final, printed version of 'The response to and rejection of Brian Ford's Too Big To Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis' in Historical Biology vol 37, number 9 (Oct 2025). Contact me if you want a pdf. #dinosaurs @historicalbiology.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Very happy to see final, printed version of 'The response to and rejection of Brian Ford's Too Big To Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis' in Historical Biology vol 37, number 9 (Oct 2025). Contact me if you want a pdf. #dinosaurs @historicalbiology.bsky.social