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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 20h

Debbie Brockman is a journalist for WGN, Chicago's most iconic television news station.

Here she is being wrestled to the ground, handcuffed & detained by masked ICE agents in broad daylight.

ICE rammed into her vehicle, dragged her out & whisked her away. Whereabouts unknown.

This is fascism.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Miracle Man @kimota1977.bsky.social · 19h

Dude was like “IF THE DEMOCRATS WON YOU’D HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY FOR MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE!! CAN YOU IMAGINE THE HORROR!?!?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 21h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 1d

For #FossilFriday, it's a *NEW PACHYCEPHALOSAURID*(!), and a project that is very near and dear to my heart. Let's welcome #Brontotholus_harmoni!

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 23h

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis - Atterholt - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Osteological correlates of the respiratory and vascular systems in the neural canals of Mesozoic ornithurines Ichthyornis and Janavis

In birds, the neural canal houses a variety of anatomical structures including the spinal cord, meninges, spinal vasculature, and respiratory diverticula. Among these, paramedullary diverticula and t...

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 23h

Nope, Google is wrong. "Dimorphodon" is a genus name: genera do not have plurals; their are collective singular entities. "Dimorphodonts" is a more general term for "pterosaurs near Dimorphodon on the family tree", including Dimorphodontidae as well as other critters nearby.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 23h

Full article: Critical reappraisal of a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and a revised view of diplodocoid evolutionary relationships and biogeography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 1d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

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Rare Jurassic 'Sword Dragon' prehistoric reptile discovered in the UK

A near-complete skeleton found on UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new and rare species of ichthyosaur - a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the ancient oceans.The dolphin...

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

A new long and narrow‐snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval - Lomax - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A new long and narrow‐snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval

Ichthyosaurian faunas before and after the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic are known from numerous, often complete fossils. The two faunas are very different taxonomically, with only one of...

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

S. Nosotti et al. (2025)
A new specimen of Macroplacus raeticus Schubert-Klempnauer, 1975 (Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Italy, with remarks on placodont phylogeny
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(3): 687-721

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

#Geol104playlist The Rise of the Dinosaurs
youtu.be/PP2FyYSUJ54?...

T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution - Official HD Promo Video

YouTube video by T.Rex

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

Breeden, B. T. et al. (2025). New specimens of Eucoelophysis baldwini from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, northern New Mexico, U.S.A., and their implications for the evolution of Silesauridae (Dinosauriformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

New specimens of Eucoelophysis baldwini from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, northern New Mexico, U.S.A., and their implications for the evolution of Silesauridae (Dinosauriformes)

Eucoelophysis baldwini is a silesaurid dinosauriform known only from a single fragmentary postcranial skeleton from the Petrified Forest Member of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation near Ghost Ran...

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

Animated Scutellosaurus!! (Also Dilophosaurus, prosauropods, and dimorphodonts, but I think I've seen animations of all those before...)

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"Hunted by Moonlight" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Teaser

YouTube video by Dead Sound

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

#FossilFriday The skull of Ankylosaurus magniventris AMNH 5214 @amnh.org

Skull of Ankylosaurus in left lateral and dorsal view

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 1d

New paper in JSP!
Mannion & Moore reassessed a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and revised the evolutionary relationships and biogeography of diplodocoids 🦕 Read the full study here: buff.ly/tNyUNS9
#Paleosky @pdmannion.bsky.social #FossilFriday #NHM

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

New tetrapod remains help constrain the age of a peculiar assemblage, including early dinosaurs and pterosaur precursors, from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New tetrapod remains help constrain the age of a peculiar assemblage, including early dinosaurs and pterosaur precursors, from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil

The Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone (AZ) is a key global marker of the Carnian stage in the Late Triassic. In the Candelária Sequence of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), it splits into the lower Hyperodap...

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution

Abstract. During the latest Cretaceous, western North America experienced several regressive and transgressive cycles of the Western Interior Seaway (WIS).

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

#ThunderDome!

The first pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation: effects of the Western Interior Seaway on North American pachycephalosaurid evolution

Abstract. During the latest Cretaceous, western North America experienced several regressive and transgressive cycles of the Western Interior Seaway (WIS).

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

Daniel Eduardo Pomar, Cristian David Benavides-Cabra & José Alejandro Narváez-Rincón (2025)
The first record of a thunnosaurian ichthyosaur from the upper Albian of South America
Journal of South American Earth Sciences 168: 105824
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

Yuta Tsukiji, Soki Hattori & Yoichi Azuma (2025)
First didactyl theropod track from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Tetori Group, Fukui, Japan
Cretaceous Research 106249
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds

Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

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Biomechanics: Giant carnivore dinosaurs feeding at the edge

The largest theropod dinosaurs evolved strikingly different feeding modes. A new study models the stresses on their skulls and jaws. Tyrannosaurus dev…

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 2d

Paul, G. S. (2025)
Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple Titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the late Late Cretaceous of southwestern North America. Geology of the Intermountain West 12: 201-220.
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Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America | Geology of the Intermountain We...

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