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yutytyrant.bsky.social
🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis
@yutytyrant.bsky.social
Enjoys Dinosaurs, paleontology in general, Dune, Doctor Who, Godzilla/Kaiju, Transformers, and steam trains
CEO of the Camp Cretaceous fanclub
LGBTQ+, Persian
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Propleopus spp.

From Late Pleistocene Australia, "before greater foot" is a genus of kangaroo up to 47kg in weight. Unlike other kangaroos and similar to their modern relative the musky rat-kangaroo, they were omnivorous and quadrupedal
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Protocyon troglodytes

From Late Pleistocene South America and Mexico, "before dog" was a 25kg canid that filled a similar niche to the African wild dog or Asian dholes while being related to maned wolfs and other South American canids
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Megalonyx jeffersonii

From Late Pleistocene North America, "Jefferson's great claw" is a species of 1300kg giant ground sloth. Remains of adults have been found in direct association with juveniles of different ages, suggesting generational parental care
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Pick it up!" 💀 🦖

Ben's brush with Death, in a form personal to him and reminiscent of a part memory. Inspired by Camp Cretaceous, Chaos Theory, and Puss in Boots: the Last Wish 💫

Engagement is appreciated 😃
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🦃 Daily Paleo 🦃; Meleagris californica

From Late Pleistocene to Holocene California, the Californian turkey is an extinct relative of the modern wild turkey with a similar but stockier build and shorter, wider beak. A common La Brea fossil, it went extinct as a result of drought and overhunting
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Paraceratherium spp.

From Early Oligocene to Early Miocene Eurasia, "near hornless beast" was a genus of hornless rhinoceros and one of the largest terrestrial mammals at up to 20 tons. Its 1.3 meter long skull had huge tusk like incisors, and likely a preventive lip
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mammuthus subplanifrons

From Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene South and East Africa, the east African mammoth is known mostly from dental material and represents the oldest known mammoth species. It already shows telltale features such as the spiralling tusks
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Glyptodon spp.

From Pliocene to Early Holocene South America, "carved tooth" is the best known of the glyptodonts, a clade of giant, armored armadillo relatives. At 400kg, it had a carapace made out of interconnected osteoderms, and short limbs
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Giganotosaurus carolinii

From "Middle" Cretaceous Candaleros Formation, Argentina, "giant southern lizard" is one of the largest terrestrial predators at up to 13m. Its rugose snout could be used to ram, and its huge jaws could rip off massive chunks of flesh
November 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Aerotitan sudamericanus

From Late Cretaceous Argentina, the "south american air titan" is perhaps not titanic enough with an "only" 5 meter wingspan. It's the first azhdarchid found in its continent and is known from an upper jaw fragment
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ocnotherium giganteum

From Late Pleistocene Brazil, "giant slow sloth-like beast" is a species of mylodontid giant ground sloth with built-in osteoderm armor. Some specimens show pathologies such as osteoarthritis and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease

Art by Paleo-Lee
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Dino Slash! Let's blow'em up, Bumpy!"

To mark the culmination of one of my favorite animated shows, a crossover fanart with another of my favorite animated shows! 🦖
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Paludirex spp.

From Pliocene to Pleistocene Australia, "swamp king" is a genus of mekosuchine crocodile of up to 5 meters. It was an apex predator who ruled prior to the arrival of saltwater crocodiles, with deep and robust jaws for killing megafauna
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The last of the 3 main dinosaurs for my "Frozen Phantoms" fanfic. The plot is now sketched out, I just need to write it, lol

Changyuraptor is underrated, so I'm giving it some spotlight. I liked the idea of the smallest dinosaur having the most aura. Inspirations listed below
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mammuthus trogontherii

From Early to Middle Pleistocene Eurasia, the steppe mammoth is one of the largest species, with some giant specimens reaching in excess of 11 tons. Likely covered in fur, it marked the initial adaptation of mammoths to cold climates

Art by Beth Zaiken
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from above!"

What the eagle sized, four winged Changyuraptor lacks in bulk, it makes up for with numbers and flight. Don't fall for their elegant angelic looks; the only warmth their embrace brings is your oozing blood 🩸 ❄️
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Wonambi spp.

From Miocene to Late Pleistocene Australia, "dreamtime serpent" was a genus of non-venomous, constricting madtsoiid snake up to 6 meters long. It would ambush kangaroos and wallabies near water, though its prey size was limited by its small head

Art by Emily Stepp
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Bos primigenius

From Middle Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia and North Africa, the auroch was the wild ancestor to modern domestic cattle, growing to 1.8 meters tall at the shoulder with 80cm horns. It had an athletic build with an elongated skull
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Hydrodamalis gigas

From Late Pleistocene to Holocene North Pacific, Steller's Sea Cow was the largest sirenian at up to 8 tons. A surface dweller, it had white bristles on its upper lip and two keratin plates in its mouth instead of teeth for chewing kelp
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mammuthus exilis

From Late Pleistocene Channel Islands, the pygmy mammoth decends from the Columbian mammoths who colonized the channel Islands. Around 2 meters tall at the shoulder, they became extinct as a result of envoirmental changes and the arrival of humans
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Bakiribu waridza

From Early Cretaceous Araripe Basin, Brazil, "comb mouth" is a newly described ctenochasmid filter feeding pterosaur named after its long jaws sporting bristle-like teeth. It was discovered in (checks notes) fossilized dinosaur vomit??!

Arr by Julio Lacerda
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Dinornis spp.

From Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Zealand, "terrible bird" is the largest genus of moa, with females estimated up to 3.6 meters tall and the males being much smaller. They laid giant eggs the size of a rugby ball with a very thin shell
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
More Indie dinosaur shorts!

Check out the teaser for "Calon Arang", a supernatural horror short featuring an entity that takes the form of a Maip. Link below
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Chasmaporthetes spp.

From Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Eurasia, Africa, and (uniquely for a hyena) North America, "Canyon's Destroyer" is a genus of hyena that evolved a cursorial, canid-like lifestyle rather than the usual bone crushing morphology
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Hieraaetus moorei

From Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Zealand, Haast's Eagle is the largest known true eagle, with females estimated at up to 18kg. Its large size is an evolutionary response to its favorite prey, the 200kg moa

Art by Julio Lacerda
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM