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Riley Black - When the Earth Was Green out now 🌱

@restingdinoface.bsky.social

Funny what time can bring around.

My Beloved Brontosaurus is getting a Romanian translation, with my real name on the cover. 🦕

November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Rick

@redwingz24.bsky.social

I think the one thing Trump will never be is “shitless”. He has more of it than a brontosaurus.

November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM

Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles

@toadcialism.bsky.social

My child keeps putting her little peets on my hand, so I have to pet her brontosaurus neck with my thumb!

November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM

Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles

@toadcialism.bsky.social

Liora does this adorable thing where she puts her little peets on my hand so I have to pet her brontosaurus neck with my thumb 🥰🦕

November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM

knowledgebender.bsky.social

@knowledgebender.bsky.social

I can do windmill, brontosaurus and severely injured baby bird so far.

November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM

em ⋆˙⟡♡

@r0seblossom.bsky.social

the long one? bronchitis? brontosaurus??

November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM

josh houtz

@takeittothehoutz.bsky.social

ain’t no way that brontosaurus just did that shit

November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Jared

@strollershark.bsky.social

Came across a 4th or 5th gen iPhone in a drawer and my kids are acting like I just brought home a full brontosaurus skeleton.

They’re just huddled around it staring.

November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM

Holly Anderson 🍇

@hollyanderson.bsky.social

It does have kind of a brontosaurus sneeze scene quality

November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM

Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles

@toadcialism.bsky.social

Good morning 🌞

Liora the Kimberley rock monitor regally craning her brontosaurus neck

November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles

@toadcialism.bsky.social

Have you petted your brontosaurus today?

November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

@arctomet.bsky.social

And the infamous collapsing Brontosaurus: 2/2

a black and white photo of a skeleton of a dinosaur being displayed in a museum .

ALT: a black and white photo of a skeleton of a dinosaur being displayed in a museum .

media.tenor.com

November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM

🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖

@isaiahctorre.bsky.social

BONUS:

- Tyrannosaurus (1976)
- Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus (1976)
- Late Jurassic scene (close-up, 1977)
- Triceratops (1976)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart

Singular illustration of an out-dated depiction of a scaly, green-skinned Tyrannosaurus rex standing fully upright with its tail dragging on the ground, its mouth open and drooling.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976).

Two page spread of some out-dated depictions of the sauropod dinosaurs Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus lumbering around and foraging in a Jurassic swamp. To the left, a uniformly bright green Brachiosaurus lifts its head and neck out of the water while devouring water plants. On the right, two grey, slope-backed brontosaurs make their way along the bank of the lake/lagoon, the one in the foreground trudging away with its tail dragging on the ground and leaving deep footprints. Above them in the sunset colored sky, two long-tailed pterosaurs glide through the air.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976)

Scene of dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of North America interacting with one another as they forage and hunt on a flat, dry plain as a dark thunder storm apporaches. A green and striped Allosaurus (front) rises to its full height as it prepares for a hunt. In the background to the left, two grey Brachiosaurus lumber about while two red plated Stegosaurus with eight spikes on their tails browse on conifers and ferns. Off to the right, three blue Camarasaurus amble along towards the stands of vegetation.

This scene is meant to depict the then new concept that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and active, rather than cold-blooded and slow.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977).

Singular illustration of an out-dated depiction of a scaly, light brown Triceratops with its head and horns lowered in a defensive stance.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976).

November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Indiana Cojones

@thedoodlebear.bsky.social

It takes exactly one large double shot espresso iced latte to counteract the sleepy feelings of a muscle relaxer.

If you are 5'7" and 255 pounds and have the metabolism of a brontosaurus with low blood sugar.

You're welcome.

November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM

T.S. Mitchell (EpcotServo)

@epcotservo.bsky.social

Also happy to report that Santa is back in Dinoland and they're doing a bake sale on the Restaurantosaurus porch for the Dino Institute. Absolutely lovely! 😭👏

Porch covered in Dino themed Christmas decorations, with a Dino Insistute rug

Christmas wreath decker with time rovers and dinosaur ornaments and a big plaid bow

Vintage Brontosaurus illustration with Santa hat and candy cane scarf in a wooden frame

November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM

Steve Brusatte

@stevebrusatte.bsky.social

Could we eat dinosaur meat?

And I don't mean chicken or turkey. But T. rex or Brontosaurus!

My friends @iflscience.com asked me this fun question, and here's what I think:

www.iflscience.com/could-we-eat...

What Would Dinosaur Meat Taste Like? (And Could We Safely Eat It?)

"Depending on the species, probably quite delicious."

www.iflscience.com

November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM

🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖

@isaiahctorre.bsky.social

Some vintage paleoart by Alex Ebel (1/3):

- Pre-Dinosaur Renaissance scene of the Jurassic (Science Year 1977)
- Triceratops Vs Tyrannosaurus (1976)
- Scolosaurus (1968)
- Early Permian scene (Science Year 1977)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart

Scene of an upright, brick brown, white-bellied Allosaurus eyeing a sluggish rust red Stegosaurus and grey, water-dwelling Brontosaurus on the banks of a lake in a misty Late Jurassic swamp full of ferns, cycads and horsetails as a long-tailed pterosaur glides overhead and a volcano erupts in the distance.

This scene is meant to depict older ideas about dinosaurs as dumb, sluggish, cold-blooded animals to contrast the (then) newer image of dinosaurs as active, warm-blooded creatures.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977).

Illustration of a high-sprawling brick brown Triceratops charging its horns into the thigh of a startled, upright-standing green Tyrannosaurus rex.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: About Animals (1976).

Scene of a sprawling Scolosaurus with blue spiny armored skin and two spikes on its tail club perched over a rock over-looking a turbulent steamy volcanic Cretaceous landscape rumbling with earth tremors.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From "Earth Through The Ages" by Philip B. Carona (1968).

Scene of two red-colored Dimetrodons attacking a group of grey-colored Eryops, while a pack of Ophiacodon bask in the sun nearby, along a shallow stream in an arid, sparsely vegetated Early Permian landscape.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977).

November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM

Chloe Cumming

@chloecumming.bsky.social

My son’s drawing Dead Dinosaur School, done when he’d just turned 7. He’s always had his own artistic flair, taking joy in careful shapes and composition

A neat, nicely composed delicate child’s drawing of a large brontosaurus type dinosaur skeleton teaching various carnivorous baby dinosaur skeletons, with the title ‘dead dinosaur school’

November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM

🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖

@isaiahctorre.bsky.social

Some vintage paleoart by Alex Ebel (3/3):

- Plants of Long Ago (1976)
- World Encyclopedia Dinosaur Chart (1988 version)
- Woolly Mammoth (1976)
- Dinosaur Renaissance version of the Jurassic (Science Annual 1977)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart

Illustration of a fanciful scene grey, upright-walking Certosaurus stomping through a thick tangle of ancient plants from different alongside giant cockroaches. The illustration is meant to represent the different eras through which plants evolved and how it affects the development of animals.

Made by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: The Green Kingdom (1976).

A horizontal color-coordinated chart showcasing the sizes of various dinosaurs, and organizing each species by time period left to right from the Triassic (dark green), through the Jurassic (light green) and to the Cretaceous (beige). Though outdated by today's standards, the dinosaurs here are more in-line with the science of the time than before, with horizontal body postures, no dragging tails and generally looking/moving more active.

Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From a 1988 of World Book inc/Childcraft's World Encyclopedia.

Singular illustration of a woolly mammoth.

Made by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: About Animal (1976).

November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM

hpsevensong.bsky.social

@hpsevensong.bsky.social

Friday & Artie. And Ross the Brontosaurus.

A large all black dog reclines next to a smaller blue-eyed white and red merle dog. There is a teal colored dinosaur toy between them.

November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Samantha Breaux

@woodenvelt.bsky.social

#Bookvember 6

I could nerd out on art from children's books ALL day. I love it so much! I am going to share two artists I love, because I can't choose. The first is the art from Dinotopia by James Gurney. I stared at those books for hours, enthralled by the world it created.