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Claude ✡️🦖🦕
@cascoclauda.bsky.social
Claude, they/them, 25.
Writer, thembo, palaeontology enthusiast, occasional funnyman.
Profile pic by @wargonopsid
big bertha the new 'biggest t. rex' challenger has entered the ring, bringing us up to three points on the bingo card
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 AM
new paper by armella and croft on the dietary ecology of the rabbit-like pachyrukhine notoungulates from northwestern argentina 🐇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 21, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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
how your email finds me
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 PM
as a society are we ready to discuss the possibility of whiptail cotylorhynchus
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
the replies
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
blue maga not beating the allegations
January 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM
waiting for my assignment to be graded
January 17, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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)
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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)
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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)
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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)
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
hotel exterior redecorated! 🏨 #acnh
January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
a cosy lil seating area with some new 3.0 items #acnh
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
@literallymiguel.bsky.social keeps bringing up lolong 💔
January 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
actual link to the study since the independent doesn't provide it anywhere in the article
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 13, 2026 at 2:37 PM
there really needs to be a comparative study on the microstructure of the quills of psittacosaurus, beipiaosaurus, and tianyulong
January 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
coming soon on my substack 🤫
January 11, 2026 at 12:36 PM
is he being for real right now
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
absolute cowardice
January 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
here we go
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
and another one!
January 9, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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)
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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)
January 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM