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Atopodentatus went from zipper-mouth (2014) to vacuum-cleaner-faced (2016) when two new fossils revealed the first was crushed. Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social fossi.ls/tgvnRD

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252MYA @252mya.com · 01/10/2026

Dimetrodon teutonis was the first Dimetrodon found outside North America. It lived in Germany's Tambach Formation with Eudibamus, the oldest known reptile that ran on two legs. Diorama by Stieven Van der Poorten, now a poster. fossi.ls/YNx8bJ

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252MYA @252mya.com · 31/08/2026

Funded. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide closed on Kickstarter at $61,525 from 965 backers, more than five times our goal. Thank you. The book goes to print, painted entirely by hand, and ships in January. Late pledges still open: fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide funded on Kickstarter. Thank you.

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252MYA @252mya.com · 17/08/2026

PaleoTube just went live. Every great paleontology video on YouTube, organized by time period and taxon. @paleotube.com — fossi.ls/fZz9gG/bs

PaleoTube just went live. Every great paleontology video on YouTube, organized by time period and taxon.

@paleotube.com — https://fossi.ls/fZz9gG/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 06/08/2026

We're publishing Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, and it's at 201% with 25 days to go. 388 pages, every known pterosaur, illustrated by the paleoartists whose work you've seen on our prints and shirts for years. fossi.ls/ks

The hardcover of Pterosaurs: The Field Guide standing on a dark ground, its cover showing a tall azhdarchid pterosaur in a conifer forest.

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252MYA @252mya.com · 01/08/2026

From the team behind 252MYA: Pterosaurs: The Field Guide is now funding on Kickstarter. 252 species, fully illustrated, in one volume, including the one paleontologists named after the flying creature in Avatar. Twenty paleoartists, several of whom you already own on a shirt. fossi.ls/ks

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252MYA @252mya.com · 29/07/2026

Five years in the making. Our book launches on Kickstarter this Saturday, August 1 at 10 AM Eastern. @pterosaursfieldguide.com — over 200 genera, every one illustrated, by twenty paleoartists. fossi.ls/fgKS/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 28/07/2026

Meet Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the vampire squid from hell. Not a squid, not an octopus, doesn't drink blood, grows to 30cm. Sole surviving species of its order, lives 600–900m down in oxygen-minimum zones. Eats "marine snow." Art by Lucas Lima. #Vampyroteuthis #DeepSea

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252MYA @252mya.com · 24/07/2026

How do you get an entire animal wrong? Twice. Hallucigenia sparsa was drawn upside-down and back-to-front. Better fossils in 2015 revealed the actual head, with eyes and a ring of teeth. What everyone had called the head was a decaying gut. Cambrian lobopodian. Art by Andrey Atuchin. #Paleoart

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252MYA @252mya.com · 22/07/2026

Xenokeryx amidalae. Named after Padmé Amidala from Star Wars because its horns resemble her hairstyle. Miocene ruminant from central Spain, about 16 million years ago. One of the extinct three-horned palaeomerycids. Poster by Lucas Lima. fossi.ls/Xk8mBz #Xenokeryx #Paleoart

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252MYA @252mya.com · 21/07/2026

Here's the flip-through video we teased yesterday. Five years, twenty illustrators, 200+ genera. Kickstarter August 1. pterosaursfieldguide.com #Pterosaurs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 20/07/2026

Our new book, Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, just showed its printed hardcover for the first time. Five years, twenty illustrators, 200+ genera. Kickstarter August 1. fossi.ls/Nev1YT/bs #Pterosaurs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 17/07/2026

Every T. rex you've seen came from Hell Creek. The formation preserves the last 700,000 years of the Cretaceous in badlands across Montana and the Dakotas. Right above sits the K-Pg iridium layer from Chicxulub. Art: Franz Anthony. fossi.ls/HcRk8T #HellCreek #Paleontology

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252MYA @252mya.com · 16/07/2026

252MYA helped kick off the Paleo Network, so of course we're in it. Go find the other sites, each one made with the same care we put into ours: paleo.network

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252MYA @252mya.com · 06/07/2026

Ten glyptodont heads, side by side, so you can see just how different the group was. They were giant armored cousins of armadillos, the biggest the size of a small car. Drawn as a classic natural history plate by @joschuaknuppe. See it at fossi.ls/1ABDut/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 27/06/2026

New drop: the Yeehaw F**k the Law rocks glass. Featuring Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis — a Late Cretaceous tyrannosauroid from Alabama, recast as the outlaw it was always destined to be. Art by Caroline Fleet. Go on, skedaddle. 252mya.com/yeehaw

The Yeehaw F**k the Law rocks glass featuring Appalachiosaurus, on a black background.

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252MYA @252mya.com · 22/06/2026

New apron drop. Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis, Cretaceous tyrannosauroid from Alabama, recast as the outlaw he was meant to be. The long American tradition of telling unjust authority to kindly go to hell, in time for July 4 grilling. Art by soft biology. fossi.ls/Yh7CtF/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 17/06/2026

When Atopodentatus was first described in 2014, scientists thought its mouth looked like a zipper. Two new fossils in 2016 told a different story. The original specimen was crushed, and its face actually resembled a handheld vacuum cleaner. Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

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252MYA @252mya.com · 15/06/2026

DJ Washington's Be Gay Velociraptor has been in the lineup since 2023, still a Pride classic. Soft cotton tee and men's tank live at fossi.ls/xTDBFd/bs. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists.

DJ Washington's Be Gay Velociraptor has been in the lineup since 2023, still a Pride classic. Soft cotton tee and men's tank live at https://fossi.ls/xTDBFd/bs. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists.

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252MYA @252mya.com · 13/06/2026

Day six of six. Tupandactylus tank + sticker are live, completing the Mortimer Moudry Pride series. Patterned in the Progressive flag, rainbow plus trans and BIPOC stripes. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. 252mya.com/tpf

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252MYA @252mya.com · 11/06/2026

Day five of six. Ouranosaurus tank + sticker are live. Patterned in lesbian-flag red-orange, orange, white, pink, and dark pink. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. fossi.ls/DlWsef/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 10/06/2026

Day four of six. Velociraptor tank + sticker are live. Patterned in asexual-flag black, grey, white, and purple. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. fossi.ls/tpMzKF/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 09/06/2026

Day three of six. Dilophosaurus tank + sticker are live. Twin head crests rendered in nonbinary flag yellow, white, purple, and black. We're adding both formats to all six Mortimer Moudry Pride designs this week. 10% to 500 Queer Scientists. fossi.ls/9VBtJm/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 08/06/2026

Day two of six. Amargasaurus tank + sticker are live. Those paired neck spines patterned in bi-flag pinks, purples, and blues. We're adding both formats to all six Mortimer Moudry Pride designs this week. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. fossi.ls/oMOvza/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 07/06/2026

Day one of six. Spinosaurus tank + sticker are live. We're adding both formats to all six Mortimer Moudry Pride designs this week, one species a day. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. fossi.ls/sQzQGR/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 01/06/2026

Happy Dinosaur Day. 🦕 Six favorites from the catalog, in honor of the day. fossi.ls/90hCxm/bs

Happy Dinosaur Day. 🦕

Six favorites from the catalog, in honor of the day.

https://fossi.ls/90hCxm/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. We announced our new Pride collection last week. Now, 10% of every Pride Month sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. 🦕🏳️‍🌈 fossi.ls/79Xghg/bs

Happy Pride Month.

We announced our new Pride collection last week. Now, 10% of every Pride Month sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists.

🦕🏳️‍🌈 https://fossi.ls/79Xghg/bs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 29/05/2026

Titanis walleri was the only terror bird to make it north of Central America. This Pleistocene apex predator stalked Florida's grasslands with powerful legs and a hooked beak. Art by @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social. Available at 252mya.com/titanis

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252MYA @252mya.com · 28/05/2026

Ground sloths were built different. Check out the new merch featuring art by @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social at 252MYA.COM/GSLOTH

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252MYA @252mya.com · 26/05/2026

Smilodon's iconic canines are now on merch, courtesy of @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social. Grab the design at 252MYA.COM/SMILO.

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252MYA @252mya.com · 25/05/2026

Doedicurus rocked a body built like a tank and a club tail that could deliver serious damage. Now it's on merch by @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social: 252mya.com/doedicurus

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252MYA @252mya.com · 24/05/2026

Artist Sunday: meet Mortimer Moudry (@webvein), creature designer & paleoartist. His Pride Collection brings dinos & pterosaurs into the fold. Six designs, six flags. Thread below. #PaleoArt #Pride

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252MYA @252mya.com · 24/05/2026

PaleoTube: paleontology videos, curated. Discoveries, digs, deep-time explainers, organized by time period and topic. Coming soon. Early-access signups at paleotube.com. #PaleoTube #Paleontology

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252MYA @252mya.com · 22/05/2026

T. rex or Spinosaurus? Land predator GOAT debate. T. rex: 5 tonnes of bite force, bone-crusher. Spinosaurus: nearly 2x as long, semi-aquatic, eats fish. Pick a side. #Paleontology #Dinosaurs

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252MYA @252mya.com · 21/05/2026

Damn I love fossils, and so do you. From the catalog: a t-shirt for the people who detour 90 minutes for a roadcut. Designed by Greco Westermann. 252mya.com/dilf #Paleontology #Fossils

Damn I love fossils, and so do you. From the catalog: a t-shirt for the people who detour 90 minutes for a roadcut. Designed by Greco Westermann.

https://252mya.com/dilf

#Paleontology #Fossils

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252MYA @252mya.com · 21/05/2026

Damn I love fossils, and so do you. From the catalog: a t-shirt for the people who detour 90 minutes for a roadcut. Designed by Greco Westermann. 252mya.com/dilf #Paleontology #Fossils

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252MYA @252mya.com · 19/05/2026

Quetzalcoatlus northropi: a flying carnivore as tall as a giraffe, with a wingspan the size of a Cessna. Probably took off by pole-vaulting with all four limbs. The largest animal ever to fly, and we've spent 40 years arguing about how it actually did it. #Pterosaur #Paleontology

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252MYA @252mya.com · 18/05/2026

Tupandactylus had one of the most outrageous head crests in pterosaur history. Now it carries the Progress Pride flag, too. Art by @webvein.bsky.social. 252mya.com/tpf

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252MYA @252mya.com · 17/05/2026

Dilophosaurus rocks two crests and now rocks nonbinary pride. Art by @webvein.bsky.social. Shop the merch: 252MYA.COM/DNB

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252MYA @252mya.com · 15/05/2026

Spinosaurus rocked a sail on its back and dominated rivers in the Cretaceous. Now it's featured on new apparel by @webvein.bsky.social. Head to 252MYA.COM/STRANS

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252MYA @252mya.com · 14/05/2026

Ouranosaurus was a sail-backed herbivore from Early Cretaceous Africa. Now immortalized in pride apparel by @webvein. 252MYA.COM/LESPRIDE

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252MYA @252mya.com · 13/05/2026

Velociraptor Asexual Pride is here. Original paleoart by @webvein. Feathered, sharp, in pride black, gray, white, and purple. Two of 6 dropping daily for pride. 252mya.com/avelo

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252MYA @252mya.com · 12/05/2026

Amargasaurus had a double-row neural-spine mohawk 129M years before punk rock. Nature called dibs. Now on a tee by @webvein, dressed in bi pride: 252mya.com/bipride 1 of 6 dropping for pride month.

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252MYA @252mya.com · 17/03/2026

More Spino! We are back with Spinosaurus mirabilis on our very first pair of men’s and women’s shirts. Suggest a new shirt color in the comments! 252mya.com/smirabilis Art by @webvein #paleoart #paleontology

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