Forgot to announce I have a new paper out this week! Animals that are more front-heavy have thicker, differently shaped forelimb bones to deal with the extra load. Limb bones alone may thus be useful proxies for body shape - but posture complicates things. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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シガマッコウクジラの化石を３Ｄデータ化へ　化石館が作業公開に合わせ１３～１５日に催し www.shimintimes.co.jp/news/2025/09...

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Do we know the locality and horizon of the Helsinki specimen?

steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis giganteus)

I recently read Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen that recounts in dramatic fashion the voyage of Steller, the discovery, subsequent extinction, and the discovery of the skeleton of one and how it ended up In Helsinki. A wonderful book you should read.

Young Dinornis at the Beach 🏖️

#fossilfriday Brontothere skulls from the Eocene of the White River Badlands on display at the @alfpaleo.bsky.social museum in Claremont, CA. One of these (suspect it's the middle one) was collected by a teenage Malcolm McKenna before his career in vert paleo took off!

formally→formerly*
my bad English kill me

STERNERG'S EARTH-STERNBERG

Qilin tungurensis (formally Palaeotragus tungurensis) have a new genus name now!
Mainly based on the holotype and paratype AMNH 26582/26583, the part of horn core based on the refered IVPP V33851.

This is the official publication, and it is still in press(pre-proof). But I'm very honoured to be a part of this paper and contribute my modest efforts.
All these living things above are photographed by me.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And there are a large number of animals from different ecological niche coexisted here in the Longdan locality during the Early Pleistocene. Eventually, the most of the fauna disappeared with violent climate change event.
Here's a chart of the Landscape reconstruction. 6/

Combining all known informations and previous work achievements, we can see the palaeoenvironmental at the northwestern corner of the Tibetan Plateau during the Early Pleistocene is more likely a moist, mosaic of environments (including massifs, grasslands, woodlands). 5/

Although there are still more evidence is needed for verification and support, we believed that Postschizotherium is a semi-aquatic (or hydrophilic, at least) clade of Hyracoidea. This is very different from their living relatives, which is better at climbing on land. 4/

which is the first nearly complete cranium of this genus. The cranium has cylindrical orbits, protruding strongly laterally, with an elevation that surpasses the frontal surfaces. Protrude eyes are very common in semi-aquatic animals, such as the Hippopotamus 3/

Recently, a newly discovered pliohyracid cranium (which been refered to Postschizotherium cf. intermedium) indicated something more about this enigmatic clade of Giant Hyrax. The Cranium was found from Longdan locality, Gansu, China. 2/

Postschizotherium intermedium, a large Pliohyracids with a hippo-like head. For almost a hundred year, people can only learn about this animal through its skulls and teeth. With no any thing about the postcranial, it's very hard to accurately reconstruct the entire body shape. 1/

Sketchy sketch of Australopithecus afarensis #sciart

Milan Giant Rostrum
Spinosaurus cf. aegyptiacus MSNM V4047

Sexual dimorphism in Paranthropus robustus

Small giraffid Bramiscus

Le Petit Prince
#Khankhuuluumongoliensis
#Khankhuuluu #mongoliensis

Glimpses from the skies of Niobrara