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Armin Reindl @arminreindl.bsky.social · 1h

For day 8 of #Croctober I'm going way back.
This is Typothorax, an aetosaur from the Triassic of New Mexico best known for how well armored it was.
In fact it was so well armored even the cloaca is surrounded by an arrey of osteoderms

The skeleton of Typothorax in multiple views. The very top shows a fossil, flipped on its back and missing the head but nicely showing the osteoderms. Below that a lateral view of the skeletal reconstruction shows the animal had short frontlimbs and longer legs, a tiny head and a plump body covered in armor. The ventral view shows how even the cloaca was surrounded in bony scutes and a front view highlights not just how tiny the head is but also how square the body is proportioned.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 2h

Sloth World, Part 1! There are a LOT of sloths, let's look at some recent developments... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/10... #mammals #fossils #xenarthrans

Sloth World, 2025 (Part 1) — Tetrapod Zoology

Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...

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Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 11h

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How a 150 MYA fly from Australia helped us understand continental drift 🪰🌏🧪🦖
Meet Telmatomyia talbragarica — a new Jurassic non-biting midge (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Talbragar Fish Beds, NSW. It once clung to life in a Jurassic lake. @ebdonana.bsky.social
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The oldest Gondwanan non-biting midge (Diptera, Chironomidae, Podonominae) sheds light on the historical biogeography of the clade

Podonominae, a group of non-biting midges within the Chironomidae family, serves as an important biogeographical model. For a long time, it was believ…

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 22h

Fish cranial kinesis model is now listed in my Etsy shop! Hopefully useful for showing the mechanism that opens and closes a teleost fish's mouth.

(Ships from US) blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#SciArt #SciComm #BSNM #ArtShop #Fish

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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 1d

Modern euphractine armadillos sometimes hunt vertebrates as big or even bigger than them, this is taken to an extreme in Macroeuphractus

(TW: Paleoart gore)

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Benji Paysnoe @benj-art-min.bsky.social · 18h

Refining my digital sculpting skills with a sauropod! Camarasaurus sp.

Thank you @tessasaurus.bsky.social for your help with integument possibilities!

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☆ Astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 21h

Finally done moving, now the art can continue. For today’s warmup, a funky, giant chicken dance…?

I guess. Sylviornis courtship dance. Get that special someone in ur life a love rock TODAY!
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#paleoart #sketch #ink #holocene #birds

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 18h

I can understand the benefit of a short time between a trailer, which is essentially the announcement for all but the most dedicated fans, and release but it really is right around the corner! We should expect one any time now.

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Paulo Leite @thek560.bsky.social · 20h

Suchomimus, 3D render. #dinosaur #paleoart #3d #3dart

3D render. Fish eye lens view of a Suchomimus.

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 1d

#Fossil Files podcast fans!! Today sees the release of Fossil Fails II: The tiny dinosaur with the massive flaw... Get our take on that whole Oculudentavis thing - available now on libsyn and wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/fossil-fails...

The Fossil Files: Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw

Discovery of the smallest ever dinosaur acheived quite a splash when it was publised on the front cover of Nature in 2020. The new critter, Oculodentavis, was the size of a hummingbird and reconstruct...

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Ildar Gismatullin @ildarotyrannus.bsky.social · 1d

Portrait of Tameryraptor markgrafi, a carcharodontosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Bahariya Formation (Egypt). Its remains have long been attributed to Carcharodontosaurus, but it is distinguished by the presence of a small horn on its nose and symmetrical teeth.

#paleoart #dinosaur

Black and white portrait of big predatory dinosaur with small nasal horn. Done in Paint 3D.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 1d

#Paleoctober2025 day 6 paleoart sketch of the giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #ichthyosaur #Ichthyotitan

Painterly hour long digital sketch of the massive ichthyosaur in cool ocean waters with much smaller ammonites swimming past.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

Those textures are fabulously believable, maybe the best looking diplodocid I’ve ever seen!

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Galeamopus 🦕

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Seishiro Tada @seishirotada.bsky.social · 1d

We have a new paper out! Turtle ancestors evolved a shell—but what else? We found that an unique rostral vasculature was also obtained gradually along the lineage, and that one of the earliest turtles Proganochelys likely retained a mostly ancestral state!🐢 sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 1d

Drepanosaurs have such character!

Drepanosaurus, a Late Triassic arboreal reptile not closely related to anything living today. #Sciart

Illustration of an angry-looking lizard-ish animal standing upright on two legs on a mossy branch. The animal is blue-green with orange eyes and very strong arms.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

This looks fantastic!

Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 1d

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

That gag was always funny, but now it feels more like black comedy than the absurdist take on it I had as a child. It's far too real.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

“Guide to Dinosaurs” by David Lambert was equally loved, with a slick format featuring black pages with white text and TONS of stunning model photography photo collages that felt like snapshots from the past. Few books fuelled my imagination like this one!

Cover of the book “Guide to Dinosaurs: A thrilling journey through prehistoric times” by David Lambert, featuring a muscular green Giganotosaurus running towards the viewer with gaping jaws.

A trio of white, stripey Velociraptor converge on a green and orange Protoceratops in a shrub covered dune landscape. A box above the scene shows a fossil Protoceratops’ skull, a map, a timeline, and a size comparison of the pictured dinosaur with a human.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

That one was so well-loved that my first copy fell to pieces from wear. It went to school with me every day for most of my early school years.

“On the Trail of Incredible Dinosaurs” was a big one if only for the copious photos of Graham High’s somewhat goofy but memorable dinosaur models!

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

The same goes for creative endeavours, watching long-form media, and other tasks that can’t be completed in the tiny windows of time between major chores, work, etc. It’s genuinely difficult to find time for living in my life.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

My time for reading has declined by at least 75% over the last decade or so simply because life doesn’t allow for it. I wish I could sit and read for hours like I once did but I find myself too busy for basically all of my hobbies. This is true for virtually everyone I know who enjoys reading.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 2d

To cool off we leave the tropics and enter the Temperate Pluvial Forests to the south of Lemuria. Between ancient trees we come across a fantastic sight, as a mixed herd of noasaurids and large multituberculates come to the shore of a small stream to drink.

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 1d

What a wonderful assemblage of toys; these were the dinosaur toys of my childhood!

Is the WWD Leaellynasaura the gem? I know that entire line is pretty valuable.

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 2d

A zoom into my reconstruction of the "sea-rex," a Jurassic pliosaur. This piece was commissioned by The Etches Collection, which is where the spectacular skull is exhibited. Also pictured is a smaller "sea-rex"

#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

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