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Taran B.
@taranbhartt.bsky.social
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Author of sci-fi/fantasy stories and poetry. Lifelong palaeontology and nature nerd! Anti-AI and unwilling to give up em-dashes. Here’s five out of spite! — — — — —
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics.

What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us?

When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids?

It's disturbing:
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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colehaddon.bsky.social
Mood.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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evlynmoreau.bsky.social
Oh my...
Post: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans Answer: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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artoffabricious.bsky.social
Reposing/articulating the Smithsonian Triceratops mount (available for download on their Sketchfab page: sketchfab.com/.../tricerat.... ) certainly was not on my bingo card for today. But here we are. A solid new baseline for me to work off of. For... reasons.
3D model of a Triceratops skeleton in 3/4 view
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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davehone.bsky.social
Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
IT’s HERE! The trailer from Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age!

I cannot wait for you to watch it! Once again, I’m so proud to be part of the amazing and talented group of people who help put this series together!
#PrehistoricPlanet

youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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kendrawrites.com
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
taranbhartt.bsky.social
I was so ready for the paleo-news to be Spinosaurus changing for the umpteenth time that Nanotyrannus being a valid taxon was extra mind-blowing!

I wonder about the implications for T. rex ecology: was there in fact ontogenetic niche shifting? Were leggy juveniles competing with Nano? So cool!
Turns Out That ‘Mini T-Rex’ Wasn’t a Baby After All
An analysis suggests Nanotyrannus is a separate, smaller dinosaur that lived alongside T. rex, settling a 30-year debate
www.scientificamerican.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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arctomet.bsky.social
www.livescience.com/animals/dino...
'I was wrong': Dinosaur scientists agree that small tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus was real, pivotal new study finds
An argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species may finally be settled.
www.livescience.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Infernodrakon’s roommate has a new binomial
skyemcdavid.com Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 20d
An interesting quirk of today's taxonomic revision is that one jacket from the Jane Quarry, long assumed to contain specimens of famous species, actually contained what would become two holotypes of two distinct species — Infernodrakon hastacollis and Nanotyrannus lethaeus
"Jane" mount in the Burpee Museum Reconstructed Azhdarchid skeleton in the Burpee Museum - mostly based on "Quetzalcoatlus" lawsoni but intended to represent Infernodrakon hastacollis Selfie of me in front of Jane the Nanotyrannus lethaeus
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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kakapojay.bsky.social
This hatchling encounters a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex on a winter morning - 12 metres long and 8 tonnes. The little one will never attain such colossal stature - he has a gloriously different destiny ahead of him.

#sciart #paleoart
A misty dawn - a giant Tyrannosaurus walks past, a little Nanotyrannus hatchling in the foreground.
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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witmerlab.bsky.social
Today's bombshell in @nature.com by Lindsay Zanno & James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social (bit.ly/4qBE6ng) shows that putative juvvy T. rex fossils actually are Nanotyrannus. I reviewed the manuscript, so Nature invited me to write the News & Views commentary. Free link: rdcu.be/eNv94 🦖
The figure used in my News & Views commentary. I generated the CT-based rendering of the holotype skull of Nanotyrannus lancensis (CMNH 7541), based on a recent scan. The lower image was done by the Nature art department. Here's the free link to the print version that I'm permitted to share: https://rdcu.be/eNv94. You can't download it but you can screen-capture its two pages if you really need a copy. Our casts of (bottom) the holotype of Nanotyrannus lancensis (CMNH 7541), (middle) the newly named holotype of N. lethaeus (BMRP 2002.4.1), and (top) T. rex (AMNH 5027). We published on CMNH 7541 in 2010 (http://bit.ly/3X5nCGm).
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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laur-rants.bsky.social
It's finished!! "My Avian Neighborhood": in total almost 100 hours of work in the span of 27 days to complete. So very proud of this one, it's going to be hanging in its first show over the next few months. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on, the species are in the alt text of the image! ✨
Acrylic painting by Laur_rants, 2025, depicting 42 bird species recorded within 5 miles of the artist's home located in the west side of Columbus. All 42 species, from clockwise starting in the top left: Turkey Vulture, Great Egret, Red-Tailed Hawk, Black Vulture, Northern Rough-Winged Swallow, Great Blue Heron, Bald Eagle, Black Capped Chickadee, Ruby-throated hummingbird, Song Sparrow, Osprey (with small mouth bass) Chimney Swift, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Red-shouldered Hawk, Mallard, Red-winged Blackbird, American Woodcock, European Starling, Ring-billed Gull, Double-crested Cormorant, Killdeer, Brown Thrasher, Northern Flicker, Northern Mockingbird, Downy Woodpecker, House Finch, Brown-headed Cowbird, Grey Catbird, Carolina Chickadee, Mourning Dove, Cooper's Hawk, Northern House Wren, House Sparrow, American Robin, Carolina Wren, America Crow, Blue Jay, Canada Goose, American Goldfinch, and Northern Cardinal.
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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edaphosaurus.bsky.social
#BackInHell
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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tomultuous.bsky.social
The current status of The Big 3:
#BackInHell #Tyrannosaurus #Spinosaurus #Giganotosaurus
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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markwitton.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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thysannia.bsky.social
I'm getting the impression that this might just be some sort of curse...
Two panel meme of Dr. Doofenschmirtz saying "If I had a nickel for every time a book on T. rex became outdated immediately after release, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice." Next to him in the second image are the covers of 'The Complete T. rex' by John R. Horner and Dom Lessem, and 'King Tyrant' by Mark P. Witton.
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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lizshannonmiller.com
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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dangolding.com
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
So like I hear you but apparently we need 10,000 more data centres instead
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30 * I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen? Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned. In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world. This interview is also published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Sumaúma. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Great Lakes are genuinely fucking wild. What do u mean that’s not the ocean?????? That shit is landlocked??? Fresh?????? What a world
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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stevebrusatte.bsky.social
Read the paper here!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality
It has long been debated whether non-avian dinosaurs went extinct abruptly or gradually at the end-Cretaceous (66 million years ago), because their fossil record at this time is mostly limited to nort...
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Had the pleasure of working on the press release image for this groundbreaking research!
A streak of white in the sky startles a large sauropod with ceratopsian and theropods under its legs
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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palaeo-jrule.bsky.social
Absolutely amazing thread on fossil walruses 🦭 which are a surpisingly large group considering there is only one walrus species alive today!
coastalpaleo.bsky.social Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28d
In celebration of the 'Walrus' special on @pbs.org Nature tonight, here's a thread about the fossil record of walruses! Walruses have a surprisingly diverse fossil record, and until very recently, lived extensively on temperate and subtropical coastlines down to Florida and Baja. 1/ 🦖🐬🧪 #walrus
The skull of Valenictus sheperdi, a 5myo fossil walrus with tusks but no teeth. The skull is gray with a white background The skull of the gigantic fossil sea lion like walrus Osodobenus in side view. The skull is fractured and white with very large but short tusk-like canines An isolated, curved tusk of the Plio-Pleistocene walrus Ontocetus The skull of the fur seal sized early walrus Neotherium; it has small teeth, and a long, narrow skull.
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM