@tacticalaura.bsky.social
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Welcome to the world, Nujalikodon cassiopeiae! This little mammaliaform from Greenland is the oldest definitive docodontan, telling us more about this important clade's origin and palaeography, and how their complex teeth evolved. (Artwork by Pedro Andrade)
June 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Welcome to the world, Nujalikodon cassiopeiae! This little mammaliaform from Greenland is the oldest definitive docodontan, telling us more about this important clade's origin and palaeography, and how their complex teeth evolved. (Artwork by Pedro Andrade)
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Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen?
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
More Oncocerida from Gotland
YouTube video by Kiabugboy
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen?
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
@kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️
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There was a lion that spent 7 HOURS digging just to get a warthog. He got it in the end.
Definitely NOT what he’s got retractable claws for, but hey.
Definitely NOT what he’s got retractable claws for, but hey.
May 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
There was a lion that spent 7 HOURS digging just to get a warthog. He got it in the end.
Definitely NOT what he’s got retractable claws for, but hey.
Definitely NOT what he’s got retractable claws for, but hey.
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...would anyone like to tell the people involved here that Dire Wolves were not, in any sense, wolves? Not even remotely part of Canis, in fact? At all?
The Dire Wolf Is Back
Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next?
www.newyorker.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
...would anyone like to tell the people involved here that Dire Wolves were not, in any sense, wolves? Not even remotely part of Canis, in fact? At all?
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Quick studies of Coelurus fragilis, a basal Maniraptoromorph dinosaur from Late Jurassic North America that was probably close to Tyrannosaurs and their relatives.
I am doing these studies for an illustration I am currently working on
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
I am doing these studies for an illustration I am currently working on
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
April 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Quick studies of Coelurus fragilis, a basal Maniraptoromorph dinosaur from Late Jurassic North America that was probably close to Tyrannosaurs and their relatives.
I am doing these studies for an illustration I am currently working on
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
I am doing these studies for an illustration I am currently working on
#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
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Service Dog
Ollie is doing her best.
Ollie is doing her best.
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Service Dog
Ollie is doing her best.
Ollie is doing her best.
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Whale Song.
March 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whale Song.
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This is REALLY cool!
It reminds me of another group of #plants that potentially survived a lot longer than we tend to think:
Ptilophyllum muelleri are bennettitalean leaves also found in Tasmania, but from the Oligocene!!! This is much more recent than we typically imagine Bennettitales existing.
It reminds me of another group of #plants that potentially survived a lot longer than we tend to think:
Ptilophyllum muelleri are bennettitalean leaves also found in Tasmania, but from the Oligocene!!! This is much more recent than we typically imagine Bennettitales existing.
March 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is REALLY cool!
It reminds me of another group of #plants that potentially survived a lot longer than we tend to think:
Ptilophyllum muelleri are bennettitalean leaves also found in Tasmania, but from the Oligocene!!! This is much more recent than we typically imagine Bennettitales existing.
It reminds me of another group of #plants that potentially survived a lot longer than we tend to think:
Ptilophyllum muelleri are bennettitalean leaves also found in Tasmania, but from the Oligocene!!! This is much more recent than we typically imagine Bennettitales existing.
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NIGEL MARVEN RIPPING APART SPACETIME WITH HIS BARE HANDS
...?!
...?!
February 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NIGEL MARVEN RIPPING APART SPACETIME WITH HIS BARE HANDS
...?!
...?!
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Happy #FossilFriday!
Today, we have a size chart of Middle Jurassic British Pterosaurs, which I made as an anatomical reference. Featured are Ceoptera, Dearc, Klobiodon (restored based on Rhamphorhynchus) and a basal pterodactyloid known from footprints. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaurs
Today, we have a size chart of Middle Jurassic British Pterosaurs, which I made as an anatomical reference. Featured are Ceoptera, Dearc, Klobiodon (restored based on Rhamphorhynchus) and a basal pterodactyloid known from footprints. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaurs
February 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Happy #FossilFriday!
Today, we have a size chart of Middle Jurassic British Pterosaurs, which I made as an anatomical reference. Featured are Ceoptera, Dearc, Klobiodon (restored based on Rhamphorhynchus) and a basal pterodactyloid known from footprints. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaurs
Today, we have a size chart of Middle Jurassic British Pterosaurs, which I made as an anatomical reference. Featured are Ceoptera, Dearc, Klobiodon (restored based on Rhamphorhynchus) and a basal pterodactyloid known from footprints. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaurs
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Some interesting evidence of pathologies in dicynodonts. Possible causes include post-trauma cysts, parasites, muscular avulsions, osteomyelitis, and fungal disease.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
February 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Some interesting evidence of pathologies in dicynodonts. Possible causes include post-trauma cysts, parasites, muscular avulsions, osteomyelitis, and fungal disease.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Completely in love with the degree of preservation of a little (4 cm) 120-million-year-old dinosaur (Yanornis) foot!
February 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Completely in love with the degree of preservation of a little (4 cm) 120-million-year-old dinosaur (Yanornis) foot!
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Potato creatures
February 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Potato creatures
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
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oh what could the salute has possibly been
Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!"
*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
oh what could the salute has possibly been
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Dearc osteology is out! Very interesting work and useful reference.
Dearc sgiathanach, one of the largest well-preserved pterosaurs from the Jurassic, now fully analysed! The description of this toothy Scottish fella, hot off the press, hit BMC E&E. But what does it tell us about pterosaurs? 🤔
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
January 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Dearc osteology is out! Very interesting work and useful reference.
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Coal swamp dioramas are great, so much so that some places have more than one. Here's a pair at NMNH.
January 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Coal swamp dioramas are great, so much so that some places have more than one. Here's a pair at NMNH.
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Myosaurus gracilis (2025)
#sciart #paleoart #myosaurus #dicynodont #triassic #katbergformation
#paleontology #stemmammals
#extinctlife
#sciart #paleoart #myosaurus #dicynodont #triassic #katbergformation
#paleontology #stemmammals
#extinctlife
January 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Myosaurus gracilis (2025)
#sciart #paleoart #myosaurus #dicynodont #triassic #katbergformation
#paleontology #stemmammals
#extinctlife
#sciart #paleoart #myosaurus #dicynodont #triassic #katbergformation
#paleontology #stemmammals
#extinctlife
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#MesozoicArtII proofs are here, and added to my to-do pile. Ugh, this month! Anyway, the book will be out in September and everyone interested in #palaeoart and prehistoric life in general will want a copy, it is just spectacular. Stay tuned for news - we must have events!
January 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#MesozoicArtII proofs are here, and added to my to-do pile. Ugh, this month! Anyway, the book will be out in September and everyone interested in #palaeoart and prehistoric life in general will want a copy, it is just spectacular. Stay tuned for news - we must have events!
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Despite lacking vocal cords, some fish can produce noises by either vibrating their swim bladder or rubbing bones or teeth together (stridulation). Of ~1200 species examined, ~1000 of them proved to produce sound.
I wonder if something like Xiphactinus did the same…
I wonder if something like Xiphactinus did the same…
January 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Despite lacking vocal cords, some fish can produce noises by either vibrating their swim bladder or rubbing bones or teeth together (stridulation). Of ~1200 species examined, ~1000 of them proved to produce sound.
I wonder if something like Xiphactinus did the same…
I wonder if something like Xiphactinus did the same…
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There is something so sweet about the human capacity for enthusiasm. For a few days everyone in LA has been glued to Watch Duty and getting in the weeds of how water drops work. Now there are people out here who honestly have a favorite water plane that they are following closely and rooting for.
January 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
There is something so sweet about the human capacity for enthusiasm. For a few days everyone in LA has been glued to Watch Duty and getting in the weeds of how water drops work. Now there are people out here who honestly have a favorite water plane that they are following closely and rooting for.
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.