Mesozoic Mind
@mesozoicmind.bsky.social
(Former and future) logger for Mesozoic Mind. Interests are palaeontology, biology, and cryptids.
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1043551546530615378/1043552241799397496
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZainAhmustafa
Mastodon: https://sauropods.win
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/1043551546530615378/1043552241799397496
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZainAhmustafa
Mastodon: https://sauropods.win
I shall be watching as soon as I can.
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I shall be watching as soon as I can.
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
#PrehistoricPlanetIceAge
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The new #Thylacoleo article at Tetrapod Zoology - released to provide info relevant to #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge - already has nearly 20 reader comments... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #marsupials #Pleistocene #IceAge
Thylacoleo, the Incredible Marsupial Lion — Tetrapod Zoology
Among the most striking and interesting of extinct mammals is the so-called marsupial lion of Australia, or Thylacoleo carnifex …
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The new #Thylacoleo article at Tetrapod Zoology - released to provide info relevant to #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge - already has nearly 20 reader comments... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #marsupials #Pleistocene #IceAge
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Does anyone know when the term "terror bird" was first invented?
Walking with Beasts probably popularized it, but I doubt it originated from there.
At the same time, I cannot picture paleontologists in the early 1900s using a nickname like "terror bird".
Walking with Beasts probably popularized it, but I doubt it originated from there.
At the same time, I cannot picture paleontologists in the early 1900s using a nickname like "terror bird".
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Does anyone know when the term "terror bird" was first invented?
Walking with Beasts probably popularized it, but I doubt it originated from there.
At the same time, I cannot picture paleontologists in the early 1900s using a nickname like "terror bird".
Walking with Beasts probably popularized it, but I doubt it originated from there.
At the same time, I cannot picture paleontologists in the early 1900s using a nickname like "terror bird".
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New video tomorrow!
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New video tomorrow!
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The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles.
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
June 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles.
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
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The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday
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How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
As much as I love to see new natural history museums, considering it's Abu Dhabi, hard pass. Definitely ad human rights violations being built.
Some images here from the new Natural History Museum of Abu Dhabi. This is where Stan and several other recent high-profile dinosaur sales went.
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
As much as I love to see new natural history museums, considering it's Abu Dhabi, hard pass. Definitely ad human rights violations being built.
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It has been almost two weeks since anyone has donated to this again
Ideally I would like to meet this goal by the end of the year; my mom is starting to give up hope
Pls consider donating and sharing
throne.com/obsessor/ite...
[ #helpsky #fundraiser #Throne #mutualaid ]
Ideally I would like to meet this goal by the end of the year; my mom is starting to give up hope
Pls consider donating and sharing
throne.com/obsessor/ite...
[ #helpsky #fundraiser #Throne #mutualaid ]
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It has been almost two weeks since anyone has donated to this again
Ideally I would like to meet this goal by the end of the year; my mom is starting to give up hope
Pls consider donating and sharing
throne.com/obsessor/ite...
[ #helpsky #fundraiser #Throne #mutualaid ]
Ideally I would like to meet this goal by the end of the year; my mom is starting to give up hope
Pls consider donating and sharing
throne.com/obsessor/ite...
[ #helpsky #fundraiser #Throne #mutualaid ]
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Be weary of the beardogs! These swift pack hunters are not to be taken lightly. New update (backers only) posted to our Kickstarter! Link in thread
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Be weary of the beardogs! These swift pack hunters are not to be taken lightly. New update (backers only) posted to our Kickstarter! Link in thread
My thoughts are this:
1. I'm cautiously optimistic for how it turns out, but considering LOOP's weakest prehistoric portions are widely considered the Mesozoic ones as opposed to the Cenozoic and especially the Paleozoic ones, I feel its going to be lesssr then LOOP, even when it wasn already not
1. I'm cautiously optimistic for how it turns out, but considering LOOP's weakest prehistoric portions are widely considered the Mesozoic ones as opposed to the Cenozoic and especially the Paleozoic ones, I feel its going to be lesssr then LOOP, even when it wasn already not
The sequel series to Life on our Planet's name has been reveales. Iiiiitttttttt'ssssssssss
"The Dinosaurs"
Boy, what a generic title. I sure hope is just a placeholder and we get something more, even "Life on our Planet: The Dinosaurs" would be better.
"The Dinosaurs"
Boy, what a generic title. I sure hope is just a placeholder and we get something more, even "Life on our Planet: The Dinosaurs" would be better.
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
My thoughts are this:
1. I'm cautiously optimistic for how it turns out, but considering LOOP's weakest prehistoric portions are widely considered the Mesozoic ones as opposed to the Cenozoic and especially the Paleozoic ones, I feel its going to be lesssr then LOOP, even when it wasn already not
1. I'm cautiously optimistic for how it turns out, but considering LOOP's weakest prehistoric portions are widely considered the Mesozoic ones as opposed to the Cenozoic and especially the Paleozoic ones, I feel its going to be lesssr then LOOP, even when it wasn already not
The sequel series to Life on our Planet's name has been reveales. Iiiiitttttttt'ssssssssss
"The Dinosaurs"
Boy, what a generic title. I sure hope is just a placeholder and we get something more, even "Life on our Planet: The Dinosaurs" would be better.
"The Dinosaurs"
Boy, what a generic title. I sure hope is just a placeholder and we get something more, even "Life on our Planet: The Dinosaurs" would be better.
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The sequel series to Life on our Planet's name has been reveales. Iiiiitttttttt'ssssssssss
"The Dinosaurs"
Boy, what a generic title. I sure hope is just a placeholder and we get something more, even "Life on our Planet: The Dinosaurs" would be better.
"The Dinosaurs"
Boy, what a generic title. I sure hope is just a placeholder and we get something more, even "Life on our Planet: The Dinosaurs" would be better.
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🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Have learnt from Andrea Cau that French palaeontologist Philippe Taquet died yesterday, aged 85. Taquet published a substantial amount on north African and French #dinosaurs, including Ouranosaurus, spinosaurids, the dromaeosaurid Pyroraptor and much more.
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Have learnt from Andrea Cau that French palaeontologist Philippe Taquet died yesterday, aged 85. Taquet published a substantial amount on north African and French #dinosaurs, including Ouranosaurus, spinosaurids, the dromaeosaurid Pyroraptor and much more.
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say it with me, cat owners:
BIG STRETCH! #prehistoricplanet
BIG STRETCH! #prehistoricplanet
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
say it with me, cat owners:
BIG STRETCH! #prehistoricplanet
BIG STRETCH! #prehistoricplanet
Raise your hand if as a kid you wanted the Eosapiens exterminated for destroying Ike.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Raise your hand if as a kid you wanted the Eosapiens exterminated for destroying Ike.
Read the book at my library, loved it.
Just imagine an update of it, covering 2000s and 2010s or even 20s stuff.
Just imagine an update of it, covering 2000s and 2010s or even 20s stuff.
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Read the book at my library, loved it.
Just imagine an update of it, covering 2000s and 2010s or even 20s stuff.
Just imagine an update of it, covering 2000s and 2010s or even 20s stuff.
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As an author, it can be hard to tell if #books you've done have had any impact. Partly this is because you generally get minimal feedback, and partly it's because you don't ever see enough money to feel any sort of reward. In 2009, I published The Great Dinosaur Discoveries with A&C Black... cont
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As an author, it can be hard to tell if #books you've done have had any impact. Partly this is because you generally get minimal feedback, and partly it's because you don't ever see enough money to feel any sort of reward. In 2009, I published The Great Dinosaur Discoveries with A&C Black... cont
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My cabbages!
An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away.
This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD.
Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away.
This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD.
Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My cabbages!
An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away.
This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD.
Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
An aurochs has broken into a vegetable garden. While curious kids and domesticated cattle watch, a courageous farmer attempts to chase it away.
This scene takes place in Poland around 1400 AD.
Digital painting by Peter Nickolaus, 2025.
Quote with your art with horns! 😈
November 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Quote with your art with horns! 😈
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It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature.
Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
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Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
Conservation projects abandoned as rich countries retreat from climate fight | The Observer
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November 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature.
Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing.
It's our duty to work out why, and act on it.
share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...
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Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont