Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social
A geoscience student and artist who likes many things, such as dinosaurs, natural history, science, fantasy, music, games, movies, animation, anime, drawing and adventures!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcosk.pinheiro/
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What's that snuffling? It must be the snorts of the pug-nosed crocodile, Simosuchus! 🐊❤️
Learn all about our latest addition and more in October's Development Diary. Trust us, he won't bite much.
➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4oFtNN8
📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM
Learn all about our latest addition and more in October's Development Diary. Trust us, he won't bite much.
➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4oFtNN8
📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What's that snuffling? It must be the snorts of the pug-nosed crocodile, Simosuchus! 🐊❤️
Learn all about our latest addition and more in October's Development Diary. Trust us, he won't bite much.
➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4oFtNN8
📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM
Learn all about our latest addition and more in October's Development Diary. Trust us, he won't bite much.
➡️ Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4oFtNN8
📝 Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM
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It's grandpa! 👴🐟
Learn all about Tiktaalik and see how you'll be able to customize Vivariums with just a few clicks in this week's Dev Report.
📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/48smJ07
Learn all about Tiktaalik and see how you'll be able to customize Vivariums with just a few clicks in this week's Dev Report.
📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/48smJ07
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's grandpa! 👴🐟
Learn all about Tiktaalik and see how you'll be able to customize Vivariums with just a few clicks in this week's Dev Report.
📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/48smJ07
Learn all about Tiktaalik and see how you'll be able to customize Vivariums with just a few clicks in this week's Dev Report.
📝 Patreon Post: bit.ly/48smJ07
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Hope you find some joy today, or joy finds you... either works 🩷
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hope you find some joy today, or joy finds you... either works 🩷
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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Growing eyes on growing shells reveal how chitons scale vision royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #Neuroscience
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Growing eyes on growing shells reveal how chitons scale vision royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #Neuroscience
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Kissing Has Survived The Path Of Evolution For 21 Million Years – Apes And Human Ancestors Were All At It
www.iflscience.com/kissing-has-...
www.iflscience.com/kissing-has-...
Neanderthals, Ancient Apes, And Human Ancestors Were All Kissing – Just Not Each Other (Mostly)
Turns out everyone in our family tree has been smooching for millions of years.
www.iflscience.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Kissing Has Survived The Path Of Evolution For 21 Million Years – Apes And Human Ancestors Were All At It
www.iflscience.com/kissing-has-...
www.iflscience.com/kissing-has-...
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Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
Just 1 week to go!
#PrehistoricPlanet 3rd Season is coming!
🦣❄️🌎🌍🌏
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Just 1 week to go!
#PrehistoricPlanet 3rd Season is coming!
🦣❄️🌎🌍🌏
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The art and science behind 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age'
Explore iconic Ice Age creatures in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age. Learn how the team brought these creatures back to life in an exclusive interview.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
Just 1 week to go!
#PrehistoricPlanet 3rd Season is coming!
🦣❄️🌎🌍🌏
3dvf.com/en/redaction...
Just 1 week to go!
#PrehistoricPlanet 3rd Season is coming!
🦣❄️🌎🌍🌏
3dvf.com/en/redaction...
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This was my son's first complete trilobite - a goldbug!
This is a Triarthrus eatoni from the famous Ordovician Beecher's Bed of New York. This site preserves soft tissues like legs, gills and antennae with pyrite or fool's gold.
#TrilobiteTuesday
This is a Triarthrus eatoni from the famous Ordovician Beecher's Bed of New York. This site preserves soft tissues like legs, gills and antennae with pyrite or fool's gold.
#TrilobiteTuesday
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This was my son's first complete trilobite - a goldbug!
This is a Triarthrus eatoni from the famous Ordovician Beecher's Bed of New York. This site preserves soft tissues like legs, gills and antennae with pyrite or fool's gold.
#TrilobiteTuesday
This is a Triarthrus eatoni from the famous Ordovician Beecher's Bed of New York. This site preserves soft tissues like legs, gills and antennae with pyrite or fool's gold.
#TrilobiteTuesday
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New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts, a remarkable group of giant and anatomically amazing group of extinct armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammals
The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts — Tetrapod Zoology
For some time now I’ve been interested in what the glyptodonts – a group of highly modified, large or gigantic armadillos – looked like when alive….
tetzoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts, a remarkable group of giant and anatomically amazing group of extinct armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammals
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November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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GOT TWO OPEN! 165 each or can make it 330 for a full body + bg painting (example provided)
More details below!
More details below!
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
GOT TWO OPEN! 165 each or can make it 330 for a full body + bg painting (example provided)
More details below!
More details below!
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frog, ladybug and dragonfly
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
frog, ladybug and dragonfly
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Fantastic deëxtinction fiction vs #DeExtinction facts 🧪🐺🦤🦣
The wonderful people at the NZ Science Learning Hub have turned my talk on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction into a freely available educational resource. You can check it out here www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/my...
Mythbusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction
De-extinction hit the headlines recently with the ‘resurrection’ of the dire wolf and the push to bring back the moa. However, can scientists really bring back extinct animals? And more importantly, s...
www.sciencelearn.org.nz
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fantastic deëxtinction fiction vs #DeExtinction facts 🧪🐺🦤🦣
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In newly reconnected backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, an ancient fish finds its way home www.nfwf.org/media-center...
Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!
Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!
Giving alligator gar a lifeline in the Lower Mississippi River
At dawn, the woods are hushed and damp. River water meanders between towering trees, and a long shadow glides just beneath the surface. A flash of silver breaches the surface before sliding back into ...
www.nfwf.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In newly reconnected backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, an ancient fish finds its way home www.nfwf.org/media-center...
Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!
Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!
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The wonderful people at the NZ Science Learning Hub have turned my talk on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction into a freely available educational resource. You can check it out here www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/my...
Mythbusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction
De-extinction hit the headlines recently with the ‘resurrection’ of the dire wolf and the push to bring back the moa. However, can scientists really bring back extinct animals? And more importantly, s...
www.sciencelearn.org.nz
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The wonderful people at the NZ Science Learning Hub have turned my talk on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction into a freely available educational resource. You can check it out here www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/my...
Reposted by Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica - Delcourt - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica
The upper carbonate concretion levels of the Romualdo Formation (Aptian, Brazil) have yielded several theropod dinosaur remains, including spinosaurids and the coelurosaurs Santanaraptor placidus and....
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica - Delcourt - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
Reposted by Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
Reposted by Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
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The paleo community is mourning the passing of giant. Philippe Taquet passed away on Sunday at 85. I was honored to meet him in his Paris office in 2007. Later that year, we published on a sauropod from his beloved Gadoufaoua in Niger, Africa, & named for him—Sereno et al. 2007: bit.ly/3WZLKdF 🦕
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The paleo community is mourning the passing of giant. Philippe Taquet passed away on Sunday at 85. I was honored to meet him in his Paris office in 2007. Later that year, we published on a sauropod from his beloved Gadoufaoua in Niger, Africa, & named for him—Sereno et al. 2007: bit.ly/3WZLKdF 🦕
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🚨NEW TURTLE🚨
a warm welcome to shakiremys colombiana, described by cadena et al. from the colombian la venta biome, and known from a complete skull with an articulated carapace!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(art by juan giraldo)
a warm welcome to shakiremys colombiana, described by cadena et al. from the colombian la venta biome, and known from a complete skull with an articulated carapace!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(art by juan giraldo)
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🚨NEW TURTLE🚨
a warm welcome to shakiremys colombiana, described by cadena et al. from the colombian la venta biome, and known from a complete skull with an articulated carapace!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(art by juan giraldo)
a warm welcome to shakiremys colombiana, described by cadena et al. from the colombian la venta biome, and known from a complete skull with an articulated carapace!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(art by juan giraldo)