Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social
A geoscience student and artist who likes many things, such as dinosaurs, natural history, science, fantasy, music, games, movies, animation, anime, drawing and adventures!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcosk.pinheiro/
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practicing pixel art in procreate 💫
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It's amazing here!! #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge at Lightroom London
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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We have Adam Rutherford and Mike Gunton, and lots of great books!!
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Whelp, here I am again. #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge big screening at Lightroom London! Follow along for updates...
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A correction, the original piece was a watercolour drawing (bsky.app/profile/tecu...) but the AI processing on top completly sucked out the human touch and charm. Believe in own skills, don't let an algorithm cover your skill and humanity.
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Here's the version of the news release from Ohio University that provides a common language explanation of the project: www.ohio.edu/news/2025/11... 2/2
OHIO researcher co-authors new study showing pterosaurs and birds evolved flight-ready brains in different ways
A new study published in Current Biology, co-authored by Lawrence Witmer, now sheds light on how pterosaurs evolved the neurological structures required for powered flight.
www.ohio.edu
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Happy to be a part of this big project led by Mario Bronzati & Matteo Fabbri—out today #OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social
bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I made a lot (I run them off on our printer when it's not making exhibits). The detail is really nice -you could probably code characters from these! (I am unreasonably pleased with how well they came out). We're planning on more exclusive merch like this.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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NEW MAGNETS: Our shop now stocks magnets of Liberty the Lambeosaurus, & Daspletosaurus wilsoni, all in glorious shades of gold, silver & copper (only US$12 each!). Lambeo based on 3D scan of our skull (the only USA specimen); Dasp by Andrey Atuchin. Link in comments #dinosaurs #fossilfriday
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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So... the horribly inaccurate phylogenetic tree is their own damn fault, not AI? That doesn't make it better.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Interesting.

ChatGPT was used i the creation of cover art for a journal article. It was basically used as a filter to modify the researchers painting and to add little animals to give context to the brains.

I’ll agree this isn’t ai slop. Not sure what I think.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The Allende meteorite is a 4.5-billion-year-old time capsule. How do we read this ancient history? Join Museum Curator Denton Ebel as he reveals the key: chemical thermodynamics. It’s the same science that explains why it takes longer to boil pasta on a mountaintop than at sea level. Watch.👇
This Space Rock is 4.5 Billion Years Old. Here's Its Secret...
YouTube video by American Museum of Natural History
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Just in case my U.S. followers need to track down a turkey for Thanksgiving, here's a helpful guide in a November 2012 blog post by Yours Truly, with insights on the behavioral ecology of wild turkeys on a Georgia-coast barrier island (Cumberland). 🧪🦃🐾

www.georgialifetraces.com/2012/11/20/t...
Tracking Wild Turkeys on the Georgia Coast
Of the many traditions associated with the celebration of Thanksgiving in the U.S., the most commonly mentioned one is the ritual consumption of an avian theropod, Meleagris gallopavo, simply known…
www.georgialifetraces.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Special bonus content on the preceding blog post: Paleontologist Barbie™ tracking these avian theropods (a.k.a. "wild turkeys") across the dunes of Cumberland Island GA, once again showing why she's not a doll, she's an action figure. 🧪🦃🐾🦖
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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It was really fun working on this project as a consultant. Very much looking forward to watching it later (my 6yo is DESPERATE), and maybe seeing a couple of cameos of your's truly and @seismatters.bsky.social in the BTS bit at the end!
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Prehistoric Planet Ice Age is finally out, baby!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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happy #worldwalrusday! this is pontolis, a massive walrus from the miocene and pliocene of north america 🦭 scaling the skull material suggests that it may have been as large as an elephant seal, with weight estimates ranging between 2-4 tonnes
(art by joschua knuppe)
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The study provides the clearest genetic evidence yet that the common ancestor of octopuses and squids was more squid-like than previously thought.
Read the paper @cp-iscience.bsky.social here: ⤵️
Giant genome of the vampire squid reveals the derived state of modern octopod karyotypes
Marine organism; Genetics; Evolutionary mechanisms; Phylogenetics; Genomic analysis
www.cell.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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#PrehistoricPlanet
I will begin binge-watching all five #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge episodes 9 HOURS LATER and will write my spoiler-free reviews then. See you all on the other side...
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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#PrehistoricPlanet #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
MY BINGE WATCH STARTS...NOW!

(Video: Arctotherium clip, accompanied by 'The Bare Necessities' music)
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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It’s Trilobite Tuesday! Growing up to 6 in (15.2 cm) long, the sword-nosed Psychopyge is perhaps the most recognizable trilobite to have emerged from Morocco’s bountiful Devonian outcrops over the last four decades. Few species can rival this trilobite's renown or bizarre Paleozoic appearance.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The time has come!
This is #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age!
🦣❄️🌎🌍🌏❄️🦣
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM