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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 4d

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · 3d

#BackInHell

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Sep 17

Great article, for some reason my first instinct was to make this meme

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · Sep 16

I got to paint some paleobirds! (The headline art is by the incredible Chase Stone) 🪶🧪

Bird Migration Is One of Nature’s Greatest Spectacles. Paleontologists Just Found Clues to Its Origin

Tiny fossils hint at when birds began making their mind-blowing journey to the Arctic to breed

www.scientificamerican.com

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Sep 7

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 13

You still can, it's open in London until I think November!

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 13

Some unexpected cameos from the Naish fish and Shamosuchus aka Paralligator!

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 13

Probably the highlight of the show is the section on raising young, which almost functions as a mini-episode on its own, first looking at the mad rush of Isisaurus hatchlings, and contrasting it with the raising of a single offspring by Plesiosaurs. Kaikaifilu is epic as always!

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 13

Some more photos of me goofing off with dinosaurs. It was great to see this at full size - honestly wished there was more time spent just being able to walk around and measure up to these guys!

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Jul 13

Visited the Lightroom in London for the #PrehistoricPlanet experience yesterday with Acheroraptor. Excellent show, an interesting use of the footage from the original series combined with a few new animations to tell the stories on four screens instead of one!

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Apr 1

My newest video! Ranking every prehistoric musical... well only four of them in this video, and then more to come...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfM...

Every prehistoric musical ranked (part 1)

YouTube video by Edaphosaurus

www.youtube.com

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Mar 9

And I include the Seasons Greeting page as it's everyone's favourite. At #TetZooCon a few years back, Dougal was gifted a Christmas card by @edaphosaurus.bsky.social that featured the eponymous image on its front :) 4/4

Pages from the book, showing woodland person attacking snow person, and also meeting aquatic person. I've forgotten all their names and don't have time to check.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Mar 9

Let's look in a bit more detail at the 2024 Japanese edition of Dougal Dixon's Man After Man. It's totally different in design from the 1990 original. It EXCLUDES several creature designs. Like many Japanese books, a flap on the cover hides additional cover details, look.. 1/n

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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · Mar 9

Fun fact, the 2014 study "The “death roll” of giant fossil crocodyliforms (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): allometric and skull strength analysis." actually references Prehistoric Park's final episode in its introduction

A screenshot from the mentioned paper. It reads
"In some scientific divulgation material, the idea that
giant crocodyliforms were able to make ‘death roll’ has
been suggested. For example, in the last chapter of the
series ‘Prehistoric Park’ a recreated scene shows a giant
individual of Deinosuchus doing ‘death roll’ against a
hadrosaur in slow motion (Animal Planet–Discovery
Networks 2006; episode 6). In the first chapter of the book
‘King of Crocodylians’ (Schwimmer 2002), a fictitious
scene of a Deinosuchus hunting a carnivorous dinosaurs is
described: ‘... the huge predator clamps its jaws on the
theropod’s legs, shakes its head, rolls its 2.3 ton body, and
begins to worry the carcass, tearing off lower limbs and
half the tail.’"

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · Jan 15

A little comic about desire paths.

Ok so…
There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jan 16

hello late #PortfolioDay !!
I'm Avi! Full time artist, doing direction (and many other things) in animation, and paleoart in my free time.
I'd be happy to work on scientific illustrations and reconstructions! I do both extant and extinct animals and i'm open for some work rn :)
#sciart #paleoart

A large pterosaur Bogolubovia stands on the beach, framed by the dim light of the sun due to a solar eclipse. The sky feels high and is heavily covered with clouds. A solar halo can be seen - it's getting quite cold, and it might just be this pterosaur's last winter.

A digital drawing of Eohippus pair, doing the cute horse thing when they scratch and lick each others back. I thought that they could probably do that as well, like modern horses do now. They're colored light brown, with some white parts and warm shading. Almost all the head is white, they have pink noses and pink little hooves, and the main brown fur on their body is a mix of light and dark hairs, so it's quite contrasted. I actually took some inspo from hares for the colors. They stand on the dark background, a star is shining above them; next to the star are two little horses stylized sort of like cave paintings. It isn't anything i based this reconstruction of (also, it was too early for eohippus to be painted like this), just a little thing i wanted to try.

A digital drawing of Psittacosaurus sibiricus. There are three of them, running to the left, on a light beige background, all in different poses to study their anatomy in motion. One of them, in the middle, is a male - colored green, with bright red on his head and quills. He's brighter than other two, females, who are colored light brown. They also have a bright spot on the face, but it's yellow and doesn't stand out as much as red on the male.
I also gave them just a little, tiny bit of fuzz on the back and neck. It's barely visible and completely speculative, so take it with a grain of salt - I haven't seen it in other reconstructions. Overall, I really like how it turned out. They look silly enough to be good for me

A realistic digital drawing with pterosaur embryo, 3 stages of development are shown. The left one is still tiny and barely resembles a pterosaur. It has a big and not fully developed yet eye, a thin neck and a tiny body. The second one, in the middle, starts looking like a pterosaur already. It's a little more developed, has a beak, and already has a thin membrane between the wings and legs. The yolk with blood vessels is also shown there. The last drawing on the right shows the late stage of development, it's already fuzzy, curled up with it's head between folded wings. The exact species is unknown.

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · Dec 24

Happy hollidays!

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · Dec 23

seasons greasons everyone

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · Nov 24

Any film adaptation of Man After Man must have the uncanny fever dream style of production that Walking with Cavemen did

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Edaphosaurus @edaphosaurus.bsky.social · Nov 24

I've always thought the same thing. Any Man after Man adaptation needs to use prosthetics and costumes, with minimal CGI

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Nov 23

Remember that footage of gamekeepers killing a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor?

Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks?

It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting.

Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting

Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

petition.parliament.uk

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · Nov 23

Though only about half of the world’s rhino species have gone extinct since the late Pleistocene, to get the full story, we should take a look at how massively their distributions have shrunk. Even in historical times, Sumatran and Javan rhinoes were more fittingly southeast Asian rhinos.

Map of the world excluding Americas, showing in light blue the late Pleistocene combined distribution of all rhinoceros species, covering most of the land area. In red, small scattered spots are shown to signify the remaining populations.

Illustration of a hornless female javan rhinoceros and a map showing its former distribution across southeast Asia, and the single tiny remaining population in western Java.

Illustration of a Sumatran rhinoceros and a map showing its former distribution across southeast Asia as well as tiny remaining spots in Java and Sumatra.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Nov 23

Back in June 2024, I, Luke Muscutt and others took Flip the robot plesiosaur to meet #MaryAnning while we were all at #LymeRegis for the Fossil Festival. Mary found and reported the first good plesiosaur back in 1823. #plesiosaurs

Darren holding Flip, a shiny metal plesiosaur about 1 m long, in front of the giant striding Lyme Regis Mary Anning statue.

Luke Muscutt assembling Flip the robot plesiosaur for a swimming test. Luke has a short mohican and looks like an evil genius.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Nov 17

The UK now has a #dinosaur and #palaeontology -themed convention, #DinoCon. Talks, displays, events, stalls, merch and more. For 2025, we're at Exeter University on the weekend of 16-17 August. More info at www.dinocon.co.uk

Aerial view of Exeter University. Trees and countryside around a modern campus.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Nov 14

This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...

Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia

www.nature.com

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