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Montana Rosslyn (Comms Open) @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes a strawman fallacy when I'm trying to discuss paleo all I can think of is the "I like pancakes" "so you hate waffles?" Twitter post. nothing else captures the sheer confusion and stupidness of that argument.

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Prehistorica (Christian M.) @prehistorica.art · 2d

Papiliomaris kluessendorfae, first reported in 1985 as the Waukesha "Butterfly Animal", was recently described as a strange bivalved arthropod with three pairs of large, feathery appendages. Some reports indicate it could reach up to 20cm wide.

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Emil L’Amour @vireosy.bsky.social · 2d

lemon sharks

(Swim On 6, 2020) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈

Illustration of a trio of lemon sharks swimming in a shallow turquoise ocean over white sand. The topmost shark seems to be looking toward the viewer, a pair of remora attached to their side.

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Prehistorica (Christian M.) @prehistorica.art · Aug 22

Multiple lobopodian fossils from the Chengjiang Biota of Cambrian China, including a specimen of two Diania cactiformis, have been found stacked directly on top of each other.

Perhaps a snapshot into the courtship and reproduction of these ancient arthropod ancestors?

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Montana Rosslyn (Comms Open) @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 6d

OMG haiiii bestieee :3 💅🦖

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jvertpaleo.bsky.social @jvertpaleo.bsky.social · 6d

Oh hai! We're here now! Follow us for the latest articles published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology!

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Anthony Tackles Dead Cows @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Croctober everyone! We just finished the prototype Deinosuchus schwimmeri, named in honor of David Schwimmer (not not THAT one)

Holy crap this croc is BIG!

30 linear feet of crocodile goodness, with a dinky tyrannosaur in the background

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 10d

The Triassic was a time of weird reptiles of every description.

This is one of the more recent finds: Mirasaura from France. It's one of the drepanosaurs, an odd group of arboreal reptiles with superficially bird-like heads and, in some cases, equally superficially feather-like appendages.

A slightly cartoony illustration of a Mirasaura sitting on a mossy tree branch. The lizard-like animal has a long snout resembling a bird's beak, large eyes and a massive crest on its' back somewhat resembling a birds' wing feathers, as if someone stuck an entire wader's wing into his back. The animal has large eyes and it looking behnd him at a passing dragonfly.

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Montana Rosslyn (Comms Open) @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 10d

Well, it looks like I'm going back to Canada for the Holidays.

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a large canadian flag

Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a large canadian flag

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 10d

Just barely making it for September’s #NearbyNature2025, here’s the Mexican Long-nosed Armadillo. Formerly known as a northern subspecies of the recently-split Nine-banded Armadillo, this is the only Xenarthran native to Alabama today. They are mostly nocturnal insectivores. #wildlife #alabama

Colored-pencil sketch of a Mexican Long-nosed (formerly Nine-banded) Armadillo on a white background, walking away at an angle from the viewer

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 10d

I am no longer involved in The Sanctum or any projects involving Omar Lagarda González, aka The Darknix.

September 30, 2025
Letter of Disaffiliation

To whom it may concern,

I am ending all involvement with The Sanctum, an art project that has produced models and artwork of mesozoic vertebrates, and was in the planning stages of making a documentary about mesozoic vertebrates.

I have learned that the project’s leader Omar Lagarda González (aka Darknix) made inappropriate and unwanted sexual advances online to a person whom he knew to be 16 years old.

I will no longer be involved in any collaborative art, science communication, or research projects with Omar Lagarda González. Any further use of my name in relation to such projects is without my permission.

Skye McDavid

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 15d

Say hello to Makrodactylus oligodontus, a new non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan from the Mörnsheim Formation, Late Jurassic of Germany!

palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

@davehone.bsky.social @brucelf.bsky.social

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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 11d

Renanalysis of Alwalkeria maleriensis restricts hypodigm to femora and reinterprets as pterosauromorph. Authors establish new genus Alickmeron with no justification - same holotype and type species as Alwalkeria. Alickmeron is therefore an objective synonym of Alwalkeria.

femora of Alwalkeria maleriensis ("labeled "Alickmeron maleriensis")

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Montana Rosslyn (Comms Open) @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 12d

some maps I made for the Kayenta formation and Morrison formation surface exposures from a bunch of data. I would love some corrections. The red in Colorado in the first image represents the area I have not found a map showing the specific kayenta exposure (if anyone knows a map i would love it)

a simple map of the border between Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico showing the location of a group of rocks.

a map of the Western Central US from Arizona to Montana showing places where the Morrison formation can be found.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 12d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

Drawing and painting fungi, an artist's guide to finding and illustrating mushrooms and lichens Claire Kathleen Ward

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 12d

Back underwater, we find the Kem Kem's resident freshwater plesiosaur! This animal is known from a couple adult specimens and one youngster. Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

Brown countershaded leptocleidid with a yellow head

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · Aug 29

The atmosphere is quite humbling. #photography

A ridiculously tall LP supercell towering over a northwest Oklahoma landscape with red cliffs in the distance. The Sun appears to be setting behind the storm.

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Marina Gil ✏️ Illustrations, Fanarts, Book covers @simplyonemore.bsky.social · 14d

#SciArtSeptember Day 25: Tireless

Some shark species sleep on the move, either by switching off each hemisphere of their brain, or by activating nerve centers in the spinal cord, allowing them to continue swimming and breathing.

#illustration #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sealife #MarineLife #shark

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 13d

Dramatic Dryptosaurs 🦖

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 14d

New fish-eating Cretaceous euornithean theropod Kunpengornis anhuimusei: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Huang et al.)

Fossilized skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 15d

peek-a-boo

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Anthony Tackles Dead Cows @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 14d

It's #FossilFriday from the field! The other day, I was checking out a microsite in the upper Judith River Formation and stumbled upon this perfect dinosaur toe.

It is definitely from an ornithischian, probably from one of the many ceratopsian species here

A beige bone held 8n my hand. It has a small crater on the articulation end. There is a curatorial shadow cast on the ground for scale.

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Montana Rosslyn (Comms Open) @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 17d

experiment.com/projects/rea...

Absolutely consider supporting this fundraiser. This is something extremely important to sauropod researcher and done by a team of amazing people, some i am fortunate to consider friends.

Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea

We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...

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Montana Rosslyn (Comms Open) @montanoceratops.bsky.social · 19d

A fossil of Aesopichtys, a bony fish from the Carboniferous of Montana

The fossil of the holotype of Belantsea, a strange fish from the Carboniferous of Montana.

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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · Aug 27

Belantsea.

A very weird cartilaginous fish from the Bear Gulch Formation. The candy-striped fish in the foreground are Aesopichthys, the others are Discoserra. The squid-like cephalopods are Syllipsimopodi.

Another piece for the shark book.

Thanks to the kittens for their help.

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