Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Paleontologist of sorts. MSc from Idaho State University. I study dicynodonts and pterosaurs, among other things. They/them
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Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
There should be more video games where you ride public transit between places. I don’t wanna amble aimlessly around an open world on my own two feet and hope I hit something important, I wanna ride the train
January 23, 2026 at 6:25 AM
There should be more video games where you ride public transit between places. I don’t wanna amble aimlessly around an open world on my own two feet and hope I hit something important, I wanna ride the train
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I'm going to keep talking up Tyrant Lizard Queen because I want the book to hit big in October.
It's got the latest T. rex science, of course, but also an enemies-to-lovers arc for our protagonist Snaggletooth and a rival rex. You've never read a dinosaur book quite like this one. 🦖
It's got the latest T. rex science, of course, but also an enemies-to-lovers arc for our protagonist Snaggletooth and a rival rex. You've never read a dinosaur book quite like this one. 🦖
Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
bookshop.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I'm going to keep talking up Tyrant Lizard Queen because I want the book to hit big in October.
It's got the latest T. rex science, of course, but also an enemies-to-lovers arc for our protagonist Snaggletooth and a rival rex. You've never read a dinosaur book quite like this one. 🦖
It's got the latest T. rex science, of course, but also an enemies-to-lovers arc for our protagonist Snaggletooth and a rival rex. You've never read a dinosaur book quite like this one. 🦖
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Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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Check out this cutie: an extinct Myotragus (“mouse goat”) from southern France.
January 21, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Check out this cutie: an extinct Myotragus (“mouse goat”) from southern France.
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For some reason, children's publishers and TV producers are uninterested in my self-esteem-building animal character, the Try-lobite.
January 21, 2026 at 3:24 PM
For some reason, children's publishers and TV producers are uninterested in my self-esteem-building animal character, the Try-lobite.
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Just a Dimetrodon out fishing, not much else
He looks nice to hang around with, and it'd be nice to just relax for once
He looks nice to hang around with, and it'd be nice to just relax for once
January 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Just a Dimetrodon out fishing, not much else
He looks nice to hang around with, and it'd be nice to just relax for once
He looks nice to hang around with, and it'd be nice to just relax for once
On that day, we will spontaneously skank in the streets
January 21, 2026 at 7:27 AM
On that day, we will spontaneously skank in the streets
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Today's frog is the African giant toad.
January 20, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Today's frog is the African giant toad.
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And just in case you forgot that Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world, THE eponymous raven of Poe fame and Dickens's menagerie hangs out in our Free Library and is available for parties
January 20, 2026 at 2:40 AM
And just in case you forgot that Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world, THE eponymous raven of Poe fame and Dickens's menagerie hangs out in our Free Library and is available for parties
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January 19, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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thank you @goldenpterosaur.bsky.social for the late birthday present! here is cryodrakon, coloured like a white-crowned hornbill
January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
thank you @goldenpterosaur.bsky.social for the late birthday present! here is cryodrakon, coloured like a white-crowned hornbill
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I'm finally putting up a commission sheet since I've been wanting to for a while! I mostly specialize in fish and mammals, but I can draw almost anything. Contact me so we can figure out how to work together! #commissions #paleoart #sciart
January 19, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I'm finally putting up a commission sheet since I've been wanting to for a while! I mostly specialize in fish and mammals, but I can draw almost anything. Contact me so we can figure out how to work together! #commissions #paleoart #sciart
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
--MLK, Jr., 1963
--MLK, Jr., 1963
January 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
--MLK, Jr., 1963
--MLK, Jr., 1963
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Literally the prongler in the middle. What did Gary Larson know.
January 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Literally the prongler in the middle. What did Gary Larson know.
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News | Giant mechanical scorpion free to good home, says Natural History Museum
🔗https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/natural-history-museum-offers-giant-mechanical-scorpion-free-to-good-home/
🔗https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/natural-history-museum-offers-giant-mechanical-scorpion-free-to-good-home/
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
News | Giant mechanical scorpion free to good home, says Natural History Museum
🔗https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/natural-history-museum-offers-giant-mechanical-scorpion-free-to-good-home/
🔗https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/natural-history-museum-offers-giant-mechanical-scorpion-free-to-good-home/
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January 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Some display cases in the old brontosaur hall at AMNH (1956–1990)
January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Some display cases in the old brontosaur hall at AMNH (1956–1990)
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Massachusetts recently had a contest to redesign its flag that allowed people to submit their own designs. One of the submissions was this one, featuring the state dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis, but for some reason it did not advance to the later voting rounds. I am still not sure why.
January 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Massachusetts recently had a contest to redesign its flag that allowed people to submit their own designs. One of the submissions was this one, featuring the state dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis, but for some reason it did not advance to the later voting rounds. I am still not sure why.
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Presenting a skull of the #dicynodont, Ischigualastia, at the BYU Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah 🇺🇸 for this #FossilFriday. This ancient, beaked herbivore was the size of a cow & lived in Argentina 🇦🇷 during the Late #Triassic (~230 Ma).
#Paleontology #Science
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#Paleontology #Science
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January 16, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Presenting a skull of the #dicynodont, Ischigualastia, at the BYU Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah 🇺🇸 for this #FossilFriday. This ancient, beaked herbivore was the size of a cow & lived in Argentina 🇦🇷 during the Late #Triassic (~230 Ma).
#Paleontology #Science
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#Paleontology #Science
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Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
Postdoctoral Researcher, Paleontology
San Francisco, CA
job-boards.greenhouse.io
January 16, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
Flags with extinct animals on them:
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
January 16, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Flags with extinct animals on them:
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
- California (California grizzly bear)
- Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus)
- Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod)
- Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)
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Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.