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Tess Gallagher
@tessasaurus.bsky.social
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Paleontologist that specializes in Diplodocus skin. Currently working at Edelman Fossil Museum
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
”Bloody Mary” Nanotyrannus #sciart
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
tessasaurus.bsky.social
Here, have a Dippy 🦕
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
tessasaurus.bsky.social
tis the season
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
I don't do Doom Scrolling, I do Hope Scrolling and see young people doing extremely creative and clever stuff, and go, wowza, the future is in good hands.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
tessasaurus.bsky.social
Feeling down. Didnt get into a dream PhD program. good news is that theres two rounds of applications (sometime around next spring i believe) but regardless, still sucks.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Last Saturday night was a good night. I received the Lanzendorf - National Geographic PaleoArt Prize for Scientific Illustration at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Thank you @drverakorasidis.bsky.social

#SciArt #PaleoArt #SVP2025 #Dinosaurs #JurassicWorld
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Dinovember Glow Up #18 - Diplodocus

Today we have Diplodocus on a stroll, accompanied by an entourage of pterosaurs. This one was inspired by @tessasaurus.bsky.social's studies on Diplodocus skin. Also look out for a small easter egg from my wife.

#drawdinovember
#Dinovember2025
A Diplodocus strides to the right, its' head used by two small pterosaurs as a perch. Two more perch on its' back, while several others fly around it.
November 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Rex, all hail the king #sciart
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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whatevermaranda.com
Love this so much. 💜
Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all." Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗 By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Wang, W., Shang, Q., Wang, J. et al. Earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles. Commun Biol 8, 1551 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles - Communications Biology
A newly discovered Triassic fossil marine reptile, Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis, reveals that an exceptionally long neck developing more than 40 cervical vertebrae evolved in nothosaurs before the ri...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Got informed about some sad news. Garfield Minott, a prolific dinosaur modeller, special effects and palaeoartist, recognised for contributions to the description of dinosaur binocular vision, passed away at age of 58.
A man with a huge to-scale model of a Carcharodontosaurus head
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
If you’re at #2025SVP, I’ll be available to chat about this work this afternoon! Our poster on it is at the very end of the balcony (left of the stage) in Hall 3.
Me (in jacket, beanie, and scarf) posing in front of a poster with a large phylogenetic tree on it
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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skyemcdavid.com
Tomorrow!
skyemcdavid.com Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · Oct 25
SVPers, come see my work on pterosaurs from Appalachia: several new morphotypes of pteranodontians and azhdarchoids.
Thursday Poster Session B199 #2025SVP
Regular Poster Session II (Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:30 - 6:30 PM) Flying reptiles of the forgotten paleocontinent: revision of the pterosaurs of Appalachia and Eastern North America McDavid, Skye N.1 , Thomas, Henry N.2 Pterosaurs are known from every continent, though in North America, enormous attention has been paid to the pterosaurs of the Western half of the continent, whereas the pterosaurs from the Eastern part of the continent (corresponding to the paleocontinent of Appalachia in the Late Cretaceous) have received comparatively little attention. Pterosaur body fossils are known from New Jersey (Navesink and New Egypt Formations), Delaware (Merchantville Formation), North Carolina (Peedee Formation), Georgia (Eutaw and Blufftown Formations), Alabama (Mooreville Chalk), Mississippi (Coffee Formation), and Tennessee (Ripley and Sardis Formations). A review of what fragmentary material is known from Appalachia in the context of modern knowledge of pterosaurs allows for a better understanding of these rare specimens. Much of the pterosaur record of Appalachia consists of poorly preserved fragments that are not phylogenetically informative, but the better preserved specimens can be assigned to either Azhdarchomorpha or Pteranodontia. The pterosaur taxon from the Merchantville Formation, which has been variously treated as Pteranodon, an ‘ornithocheirid’, or azhdarchid, represents a pteranodontid distinct from Pteranodon with a unique cervical morphotype, though the previously reported pterosaur humerus is actually non-pterosaurian. A cervical vertebra from the Ripley Formation has been likened to Arambourgiania from Jordan, though it is subtly different from the type species. It represents a unique morphotype belonging to the Arambourgiania-Infernodrakon clade. Additional azhdarchomorph material includes a Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni-like ulna (previously misidentified as a cervical) from the Navesink Formation, morphologically distinct azhdarchid femora from the Peedee and Coffee Formations, and a jaw fragment from the Sardis Formation. Skye, a woman with blue hair, holding an Azhdarchid ulna. She is carefully holding the fossil with both hands so that it is supported along its length. She is wearing a purple dress, and looks dead inside but is actually just exhausted from a long day of research
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
tessasaurus.bsky.social
My attempt at designing my own australovenator that I forgor to post from awhile ago.
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Giraffatitan Xenomorph

#sketch-a-day #art #ink #xenovember #xenomorph #dinosaur #giraffatitan #PaleoArt #CreatureDesign #CreatureArt
A xenomorph from a giraffatitan host
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
tessasaurus.bsky.social
Getting all around good news today 😁
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
THIS IS THE EMPLOYMENT JELLY Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Manuscript accepted with minor revisions!!🥳
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Small Tyrant
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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davehone.bsky.social
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...
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Had the pleasure of working on the press release image for this groundbreaking research!
A streak of white in the sky startles a large sauropod with ceratopsian and theropods under its legs
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
New dates on fossils from New Mexico reveal a community of dinosaurs that were thriving right before the asteroid strike, including 80-foot-long, 30-ton giants like Alamosaurus. I’ll tell you more in my latest for NatGeo. 🧪
New evidence reveals dinosaurs were thriving right up to the moment the asteroid hit
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities.
www.nationalgeographic.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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👉👈
October 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Hello! For those who haven't seen yet, I've uploaded a video about how I made a 3D torvosaur model!
Modelling a 90s Low Poly Torvosaurus!
YouTube video by Nova Stein
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October 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM