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tomozaurus.bsky.social
Scientific researcher, author and illustrator focused on Palaeontology and Palaeobotany.
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I can now share the "Jurassic Scrub" plants I designed/reconstructed for Prehistoric Kingdom!

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I've already posted about this before but it is generally shocking how bad Google's AI overview they put on top of searches is. It isn't like it sometimes gets things wrong. It is ALWAYS wrong! You'd think they'd want to do something about that!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

How does Andor have so much sauce?? Its crazy how much better it is than every other recent Star Wars thing.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

No shade to the authors, it's not their fault I know, but God I hate textbook prices. Like what do you MEAN it's 230 buck for the kindle version??

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to the current article I'm working on I've just written the same story about oviraptors being attentive parents rather than egg-thieves for what feels like the 50th time.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Green Low-Poly Video Game T.rex, my beloved.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

I'm going to be crucified as a killjoy but I'm not impressed with the Predator Badlands trailer. I think the Predator design is bad and I hate all the fan boy masturbatory IP reference crap. I loved Prey for the record.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

If I hypothetically _had_ to do a life reconstruction of Pyroraptor for a commission, do we think doing it as an unenlagiine or a generic mid-sized dromaeosaurid (eg. Tianyuraptor) makes more sense? I feel like amateur paleo people are bias towards the former just because it is more interesting.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Someone else pointed this out on Twitter first, but how Colossal are claiming they created the dire wolves is literally the method used in Carnosaur. In the book they are able to extract DNA from dinosaur fossils and then edit chicken genes to match the fossil samples.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Said on twitter, I am admittedly curious to see the skeleton of one of the Colossal Biosciences "dire wolves" compared to real fossil remains to see how close they actually got. Just quietly I suspect it's not close at all and they will look like big grey wolves, but I'd be happy to be wrong!

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

8am Velociraptor sketch, as you do.

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

I kinda feel like I could start making tiktoks where I just yap about Mesozoic-vintage plants, but I hate listening to myself speak.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Is it worth posting ultra ultra low detail sketches like this? Obviously inspired by two new papers, the therizinosaur Duonychus, and evidence for face-biting behavior in hererrasaurids.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

I have learned of The Skunk Ape and am very tickled by this concept. Like "what if there was a bigfoot that was even stinkier"

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

#ArtBoost today is for TALOS aka Maulido Armi Dwiputra @mightytalos.bsky.social, palaeoartist / scientific artist in South Sumatra, Indonesia. Has produced stunning depictions of all kinds of ancient life, including marine mammals and reptiles, fish, mammals like rhinos and metatherians, and more.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

This might be controversial because I'm positive there are fans that like this, but I really don't like how they started giving the dinosaurs basically video game skins instead of distinct male, female and juvenile variants. It's especially bad in the cartoon shows.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

jurasseikret park

submitted 70 days ago • 17 comments

What if I said I kinda suspect they got the idea to give Titanosaurus fins by googling "Titanosaurus" and getting a bunch of images of the kaiju

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

JUST OUT!!! Happy to announce my first publication, coauthored with @davehone.bsky.social, Tim Gomes, and Joseph Peterson. Meet Infernodrakon hastacollis - a new name for the azhdarchid from the Hell Creek Formation! Life restoration by @jhemiptera.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 19 comments

I guess the primary fish used for Fish & Chips in other countries is not flake (shark). I never really thought about it before but that really is as aussie as you can get huh?

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry but I like this so much better, if they give us the option I am taking off the stupid hat at the first available opportunity

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

(1/?) Paleontology (especially dinosaurs) turning into a “fandom,” with all the hyperbole and drama that entails, is exhausting for those of us directly involved with it (scientists, paleoartists, sci-commers, etc). I do think there are solutions though, or at least things we can do to lessen it. 🧵

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

I'm reading The Science of Jurassic Park and The Lost World (DeSalle & Lindley 1997) and they are currently discussing the possibility of finding a piece of Mesozoic dinosaur in amber, and obviously it's funny that this has now actually happened a few times.

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