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Claude ✡️🦖🦕
@cascoclauda.bsky.social
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Claude, they/them, 25.
Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
Profile pic by @wargonopsid
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cascoclauda.bsky.social
big bertha the new 'biggest t. rex' challenger has entered the ring, bringing us up to three points on the bingo card
i have now crossed out "a new fragmentary 'biggest t. rex' specimen is publicised
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
new paper by armella and croft on the dietary ecology of the rabbit-like pachyrukhine notoungulates from northwestern argentina 🐇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
a figure from the paper showing: A) the distribution of pachyrukhine fossils throughout northwest argentina, B and C) tooth fossils from tremacyllus, D) a life reconstruction of a group of pachyrukhines near their burrows by velizar simeonovski, and E) microphotograph of the enamel texture of the taxon paedotherium
January 21, 2026 at 8:34 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
thank you @goldenpterosaur.bsky.social for the late birthday present! here is cryodrakon, coloured like a white-crowned hornbill
a shaded but not coloured illustration of the azhdarchid pterosaur cryodrakon a coloured illustration of cryodrakon another coloured illustration of cryodrakon, with a pale blue background
January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
how your email finds me
a still from 'prehistoric planet: ice age'; a close-up of a beached steller's sea cow looking rather glum
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
as a society are we ready to discuss the possibility of whiptail cotylorhynchus
a complete fossil of cotylorhynchus - an extremely chonky, small-headed synapsid from the early permian - that preserves a long, flexible, whip-like tail
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
the replies
garfield looks at a sign that indicates he is not permitted to be here, and comments, "huh. i wonder who that's for."
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
blue maga not beating the allegations
a tweet from birdsrightsactivist that reads "i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?"
January 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
waiting for my assignment to be graded
a still from disney's animated snow white movie showing the titular character with her face pressed up against a glass window pane
January 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
thank you to my friend @literallymiguel.bsky.social for illustrating a quick comic for my new short story 'the unseen', which you can read at this substack link:
cascoclauda.substack.com/p/the-unseen
an astronaut walks across the barren surface of mars towards a man-made base; a woman with glasses, the first panel shows a close-up of her as her partner over the radio says, "i thought i saw... forget about it. are you ok?" to which she replies, "i've been better."
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is palorchestes, a marsupial that lived in australia from the miocene to the late pleistocene. it was an herbivore with prehensile lips and a protrusible tongue, and it may have fed bipedally
(art by @astrapionte.bsky.social)
a size comparison showing all the known species of palorchestes, arranged left to right from largest the smallest. the largest species - p. azael - is around the size of a wild hog a partial skull and manidble from palorchestes
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! this is postschizotherium, a rather strange hyrax that lived in the pliocene and early pleistocene of russia and china. weighing over half a tonne, recently described skull material indicates that it likely had an amphibious lifestyle like a hippo
(art by @somniosa.bsky.social)
two postschizotherium rest on the bank of a river, while a third in the water bares their teeth the skull material from postschizotherium described in 2025; the eye sockets are placed high on the skull, similar to hippos and other semiaquatic animals
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
of course, thanatosdrakon is not the only pterosaur to have a draconic name; as well as fellow azhdarchids cryodrakon and infernodrakon, there is also the deceptively small and cute targaryendraco from early cretaceous germany
(art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and @sassypn.bsky.social)
a portrait of the long-snouted toothed pterosaur targaryendraco a skeletal reconstruction showing the known elements from the targaryendraco holotype
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
since it's appreciate a dragon day, meet thanatosdrakon, the so-called dragon of death 🐉 this azhdarchid - known for its appearance in JWE3 - is known from two specimens, one of which is relatively complete by the standards of the clade
(art by vikasrao)
thanatosdrakon soars over a forest; we see its silhouette from below, from the point of view of some ornithopods a reconstructed thanatosdrakon skeleton alongside aerotitan in the museo paleontológico egidio feruglio in argentina a family of thanatosdrakon as depicted in JWE3 a skeletal diagram of the two thanatosdrakon individuals, with the known elements highlighted in yellow
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
hotel exterior redecorated! 🏨 #acnh
a still from animal crossing new horizons of the boardwalk featuring the new hotel, whose facade i have covered up with beige medieval walls and a plain party lights art. there is also a green flower pot, a menu chalkboard, a calico cat plushie, a shell lamp, a bird of paradise plant, a soft serve lamp, and a shell lamp on a moroccan table
January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
a cosy lil seating area with some new 3.0 items #acnh
a seating area featuring pampas grass, iced tea, a cat plushie, and a rolling suitcase on the rocks by the beach the same area from a different angle
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
@literallymiguel.bsky.social keeps bringing up lolong 💔
plankton from spongebob weeping
January 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
actual link to the study since the independent doesn't provide it anywhere in the article
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a figure from the paper showing the phylogenetic distribution of homosexuality in primates
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
there really needs to be a comparative study on the microstructure of the quills of psittacosaurus, beipiaosaurus, and tianyulong
a closeup of the tail quills present on psittacosaurus a specimen of beipiaosaurus preserving traces of integument a currently undescribed complete specimen referred to tianyulong, which preserves very extensive feathering
January 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
coming soon on my substack 🤫
a promo image of my substack; the piece is titled 'the unseen' with the subtitle 'a sci-fi horror short story' - the opening paragraph reads: Mike's voice crackled to life over the radio, "Who would've thought that living on Mars would be so boring?"
January 11, 2026 at 12:36 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
is he being for real right now
a photograph of buster, a beige american bulldog with a pink nose and brown eyes, in my bed. only his face is visible, as he is smushed underneath my duvet and a pink weighted blanket another photo of buster in the same situation, except his eyes are slightly more alert for whatever reason. he was lying like that for an hour btw
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
absolute cowardice
a screenshot showing that discord have shut down their survey asking how users felt about them integrating a whole bunch of useless generative AI features
January 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
here we go
greyscale images from the paper of the njalila lectotype
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
and another one!
i have crossed out "more shenanigans surrounding the validity of 'troodon'" and also replaced los colorados with candeleros because i got the two mixed up :) like a dummy :)
January 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! this is josephoartigasia, a 500kg rodent from the pliocene and early pleistocene of uruguay. despite looking like a cross between a capybara and a beaver, its closest living relative is the pacarana, which is the only extant dinomyid
(art by marcio l. castro)
art of two josephoartigasia taking a drink at a watering hole, while a third individual wallows in the water a partial skull of josephoartigasia, with the missing elements filled in with plaster
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #fossilfriday! this is archaeoindris, a giant lemur that went extinct a little over two thousand years ago. archaeoindris is the largest lemur in the fossil record, though its exact size is a topic of debate
(art by dao van hoang)
a mother and baby archaeoindris stroll across the grasslands. they are restored with colouration similar to the modern indri, and the adult has a notably gorilla-like build and gait, walking on her knuckles as her baby clings to her back a subfossil skull of archaeoindris
January 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM