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This #fossilfriday the paleo-internet has clearly seen the light and accepted that Gomphotheres are very cool. Here are a bunch from New Mexico I’ve been surface scanning lately.

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New paper released! Chapter 5 of my PhD, co-led by Jordan Matelsky. Among other techniques I spend a great deal of time studying fossils using X-ray or soecifically synchrotron radiation techniques, similar to the methods used in radiology at hospitals to make internal injuries visible.

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Ok, so this is (I think) a first for BSky... I'm going to try and produced a megathread on #PrehistoricPlanet, specifically season 2. Previous megathreads at BSky have not worked the way they should so I'm a bit cautious. But here we go, please be patient as these take an age to put together....

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It's #Tylosaurus Tuesday my dudes! Every now and then we find some baby mosasaurs in Kansas that don't quite make it very long in life. A lucky few of them don't end up as shark puke either. Here are 2 premaxilla snoots, the left one from Clidastes and the right from Tylosaurus with a little prow 🧪

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This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the actual text of certain executive orders does NOT rename the entire Gulf of Mexico, and the area it renames is not technically a Gulf.

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Some chinese placodonts and stem turtles

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I'm taking a look at the Rhynie Chert again, so I made a quick size chart of the plants I've already illustrated from it. These plants are some of the earliest land #plants, being from the Early #Devonian. From left to right: Asteroxylon, Horneophyton and Aglaophyton. #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart

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Poster for an exhibition that will open in April. Had a lot of fun with this and the exhibition itself will have lots more ;) #paleoart #sciart

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Here the result of the St. Bathans fauna stream! This one took us into the early Miocene of New Zealand, the Moa's ark, as some call it. After many formation streams with very few birds this one has probably way too many! #paleostream #paleoart #sciart

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It's once again time for #marchofthemammals2025! Starting off in the Mesozoic with Zalambdalestes, seen here tearing at an unfortunate earthworm 🪱 #paleoart #sciart

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#Marchofthemammals2025 Day 1: Zalambdalestes lechei. Zalambdalestes screams into the void. Stay tuned for their neighbors over the coming days!

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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

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Gotta go fast

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Check it out my dudes

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Congratulations to my @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social labmates Grace Burton and Juan Benito on their new paper about air space volumes in the hollow bones of birds! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Part of an entire special issue on the avian respiratory system! 🪶🧪 (📷Burton et al.)

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In San Cipriano, Colombia I caught my first wild caecilian! I have had so many in the lab but I never dreamed I would catch one.🧪

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Next week, on Episode 212...

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Gray Fossil Site is crazy because nowhere else do you have red pandas, hornless rhinos, wolverines, alligators, tapirs, sabercats, mastodons, and now a cat-sized flying squirrel living in the same place.

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Philipp Franz von Siebold: hey can you paint this weird little dude, it’s like a normal squirrel but it can fly Kawahara Keiga: Say no more

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"Oh, my God" "What is it?" "It's a birdcage" "For what?" My 3D anatomical study of a large male Pteranodon longiceps. The skeleton is a generalised composite as per usual with my models, but is scaled to UNSM 50130 (a very large and almost complete wing)

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pictures I painted at 3 am 3/4 „Procession“

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A friend of mine from Badlands National Park just lost her position due to indiscriminant firing. Watch if you can! youtu.be/E1ykyUpvCDY?...

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How do you measure what isn't there? Elska did a fantastic job leading this paper on how we can measure the volume of changing, 3D spaces inside XROMM skeletal animations. And, importantly, how good are those volume measurements? journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Not so bird-brained any more! In this new paper, we present evidence of technical innovation in palaeognath birds. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

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DNA preservation in archaeozoological caribou ribs from West Greenland Inuit hunting camp shows better quality in newly excavated samples and reveals bone degradation processes in museum storage nature.com/articles/s42... @nationalmuseet.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social @amresearch.bsky.social

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tag yourself (just kidding I’m moving into the sloth case tomorrow)

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💕Happy Valentine's Day!❤️ We got you a gift: Anilany karsticola, a #newspecies of miniaturised frog from Madagascar! 🧪 Published #OA today in Salamandra Read more and get the paper here: www.markscherz.com/archives/6117 Phenomenal 🐸 illustrations by postdoc & first author, @alicepetzold.bsky.social

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"You're my VOLEmate!" 🤗 Unlike most other rodents, prairie voles form a lifelong partnership with a single individual. They’re pathologically fond of snuggling, which helps strengthen the bond between mates. More 👉 Natural History #ValentinesDay eCards: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/natu...

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Announcing the rather epic 'Glossary of tetrapod tracks' in Palaeontologia Electronica. Three years of work led by Jens Lallensack, and with Guiseppe Leonardi (author of the original '87 Glossary). We hope it will be useful for anyone working on tracks palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

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Innovative new technique for segmentation of cortical bone, trabecular bone, and medullary pores from micro-CT images using 2D and 3D deep learning models. Andrew Lee et al.: https://buff.ly/3EAbFT2

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Forget the dinosaur designs in the Jurassic World Rebirth trailer—let's talk about that museum scene. This interior was shot last Fall at Old Royal Navy College in London, specifically in the Painted Hall. (cont'd)

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Episode 30, in which we mostly talk about snakebite in South Africa, will drop tomorrow, 10 February 2025, at 16:00 CET, 10:00 Eastern! You can join the premiere over on YouTube, and also get thr episode on spotify and Apple Podcasts! 🐸🦎🐢🐍🐊 youtu.be/yVaHslVrem8

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Here the result of tonight's formation stream! Corral Bluffs is a locality of the Denver formation that has become more and more important in recent years as it has yielded a huge number of important fossils that were deposited not even a million years after the K-Pg extinction. #paleoart #sciart

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Even though I did kinda jump on the badwagon back when the frozen Homotherium cub was published, I decided to focus on the adult interpretation, though I knew eventually I would like to do something featuring cubs. And here it is! A nice family portrait. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

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A new tritylodontid, Bienotheroides wucaiensis, has been discovered in Shishugou Formation, China. 3D scans reveal its unique cranial features, shedding light on tritylodontid evolution. Liu et al.: https://buff.ly/4gswoWq #FossilFriday

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Are you an aquatic tube and can’t have two normal sized lungs for respiration? Simply evolve our patented tracheal lung! If it worked for Typhlonectes it will surely work for you too! $39.99 plus shipping and handling, see website for details

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Wake up babe. Plesiosaur scales and pigmentation traces with relevance for ecology and lifestyle. #plesiosaurs ##marinereptiles

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So I’ve taken possession of Beer Guy. Next steps tbd

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🚨 Big plesiosaur news 🚨 Our paper is out. We describe pigment cells and scales in a Jurassic plesiosaur. Small scales are found at the limbs which enforced them. Body and tail are scale-less. Many thanks to lead-author Miguel Marx & the team. www.cell.com/current-biol... #Science #News #Nature 1/3

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Our March issue is now live! https://buff.ly/4jHzW9Y The cover article by Hernández-Morales et al. describes the skull of the semi-aquatic neotropical lizard Echinosaura horrida including new synapomorphies within Gymnophthalmoidea: https://buff.ly/4jVs1pM

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In half an hour we're jumping on to record Episode 31 (Episode 30 will air next week). This is your time to Ask Us Anything about #herps, #herpers, and #herpetology! #AMA 🐸🐍🐢🐊🦎🧪

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All caecilians are great, but typhlonectids in particular are a special category of weird. Being a tetrapod worm was too mainstream, so they became eels instead.

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A tale in two parts, with massive thanks to Arturo García...

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#Spawnwatch -- over 50 #frogs visible, but only 4 or so pairs in amplexus, so this isn't full count. Constant activity, and we now have the first spawn clutch. Note that it's in the very shallowest part of the pond. #amphibians #ponds #britishwildlife

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