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Emi the Chordate

@emichordate.bsky.social
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Elle/She 🏳️‍⚧️ Certainly a chordate, autistic with ADHD, trying to be a paleontologist and failing at society. I love Antarctica !

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Amnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Les images de lycéen·nes violenté·es par les forces de l'ordre sont extrêmement inquiétantes. Beaucoup sont des mineurs, des enfants. Ils doivent être protégés, pas matraqués. Amnesty alerte sur le recours excessif à la force et s’inquiète du nombre très élevé d’arrestations.👇
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Teaching on the main campus so no collections work today. So here's Bothriolepis canadensis (UMMP VP 3475) from this week's lab for the vertebrate paleontology course.
Bony armor of a placoderm fish with tiny eyes. The fossil is dark in color and shaped like an egg.
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Guillaume D. @gdeleur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reblousque si toi aussi tu n’as jamais tracé une croix gammée avec ton compas sur une table au lycée ou à la faculté.
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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What time is it? It’s #Cheliceratime ! Today's entry is one of the most famous eurypterid, Megalograptus ohioensis! All the basic infos are here but if you want to learn more, there’s more in the thread below!⬇️🧵 #arthropod #ordovician #paleoart #eurypterid #sciart #bugsky 1/4
This famous arthropod was one of the biggest eurypterids during the Ordovician period, and its genus was first identified as a graptolite. It’s well-known for the long spines on its second pair of legs and for the semi-lunar shape of its telson.

Size : a bit more than 50cm of body length
Time period : Late Ordovician
Paleoart speculativometer : Almost a carbon copy

The animal drawn looks a bit like a scorpion but without pincers, with instead large spiny arms
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/
4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hoplosuchus kayi, apex predator of the morrison, ate sauropodds alive by the regular, and is in serious need of a CT scanning and revision since it was described as a late-surviving aetosaur in 1926 discovered in a fun way too, here's an article by Riley Black www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 02/12/2025
tbh. every single nation-state project on the planet has declared war on its women, queer, trans people under the banner of "fraternity", so all must eventually be swept into the dustbin of history. there is no nationalist state project that is not inherently patriarchal.
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Prehistoric Midwest @prehistoricmidwest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My paleoart of Arthropleura, a giant millipede from the Carboniferous period! These animals are also known from trace fossils called Diplichnites which seem to be Arthropleura footprint trackways #paleoart
An illustrated panel about the giant millipede arthropleura
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ancient, Armored Fishes Crushed Jaw Evolution 🧪🦑🌎🐟
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Ancient, Armored Fishes Crushed Jaw Evolution - Nautilus
Placoderms evolved unique approaches to the first-ever vertebrate jaws
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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new quasipetalichthyid placoderm from the Middle Devonian of China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social
Upper left: photograph of fossil specimen IVPP V26687, the placoderm Yipetalichthys maxiongensis, a natural mould of the dorsal part of the endocranium, preserving only a portion of the preorbital plate. Scale bar at lower right of photograph is 10 mm. Lower right, interpretive line drawing. Red rectangle in lower left corner is a cover image from the journal Papers in Palaeontology.
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cuddling Diictodon
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dakosaurus andiniensis, the shortest-snouted sea-croc and one of my favorite fossils everrrr And Geosaurus, first named as an unusually large species of modern Lacerta in 1816, it was an emblematic fossil animal during paleontology's early history throughout the 19th century
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Kelsi J🎃 @kelsijosilva.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Plesiosuchus! a robust, giant sea-croc, among the largest known (as usual for metris, its skull has never been properly restored in lateral view) large, closely-packed teeth & lack of occlusal pits for them show they didn't interlock like a gharial as usual, but more orca-like
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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Chengjiang Biota Labeled version in replies #paleoart #sciart #art #cambrian
A digital painting of the Chengjiang Biota, featuring Lyrarapax, Isoxys, Leptomitus, Hazelia, Yuyuanozoon, Nailiana, Choia, Allonnia phrixothrix, Allonia erjiensis, Yunnanocephus, Cricocosmia, Alalcomenaeus, Beidazoon, Fuxianhuia, and Pisinnocaris
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Farid Saleh | فريد صالح @taphozoan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New paper 🧪🪨🦐: We describe the N'kob Biota, a new Middle Ordovician Biota from Morocco that fills a critical gap between the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota and the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota. Out now in Geology: doi.org/10.1130/G546... Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: an alien is sitting behind the wheel of a sedan with the window rolled down. He looks over at another car and says, “is this guy for real?” Panel 2: a second alien is stopped at the light next to the first alien. He is sitting behind the wheel of an enormous pickup truck with hover wheels. The truck is absolutely decked out in crazy hyper-macho patriotic stickers and flags, like an alien punisher skull, a flag sticker that reads “We the Bleeple”, and a bumper sticker that reads, “offended? GLOOP.”
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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam @djigr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tried to absorb the spirit of Linnaeus at the cathedral of Uppsala, hoping this keeps me from forgetting species naming rules 🤞 It was lovely to hang out in a city that honours its scientists, between the botanical garden, the museum of evolution, there was so much to see and little time!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/08/2026
演出现场见! on.nyc.gov/broadway
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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Deltoblastus from Permian Nusa Tenggara Timur #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt #paleoart
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Results from the Flocking #paleostream! Waptia, Megapterygius, Eomola and Talpanas.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/08/2026
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-…
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
Latin American Coming-Of-Age Celebration Dates Back To Triassic Period
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Results from the #paleostream! We started with two #MonkeyCruise pieces in honor of Sam Neill! Limnopithecus, Europolemur, Ceratocaudia and Phoebodus.
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Daisy Ons Positifs @daisyletourneur.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Quand tu dis au boulot que tu n'utilise pas d'IA générative
Dessin: dans une piscine jaune pisse, tout le monde se moque d'un mec seul si milieu qui se tient dans la seule partie bleue de l'eau.
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DinoCon @dinoconuk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#DinoConUK
We are aware that during one of this year’s talks, controversial statements about the promotion of generative AI in palaeo-media were made. This component of the talk was not included in the presentation brief that we approved for show.
We want to make it clear that DinoCon does not support the use of generative AI in any way. We’d like to thank the amazing array of artists and creators that joined us this year at DinoCon 2026 who we will continue to support in future.
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Key-art of BBC Earth's "Mammals" series from 2024, but it's with a more ancient Synapsid. #paleoart Dimetrodon model by Bill Nguyen
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Zach Robinson @xtinctdesign.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I often forget to upload stuff here haha. Here's the finished #Estemmenosuchus bust that I shared progress of a few months back. This is still one of my all time favorite things I've made #blender3D #paleoart
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The Ordovician episode of Surviving Earth aired tonight and while only on screen for a few seconds I did recognize my favorite animal to make concept art of: Phacops. While it is one of the most common trilobites ever I had such a blast painting this little guy!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/07/2026
Geologist Reunited With Beloved Rock He Studied 20 Years Ago theonion.com/geologist-reunited-wit…
Geologist Reunited With Beloved Rock He Studied 20 Years Ago
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
After returning from Lithuania I finally caught up with Surviving Earth today. The Carboniferous was my favorite episode so far and not just because I made concept art for the Arthropleura. Important: I made this BEFORE the head material was published.
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Jun @jun075.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#みんなでつくるBluesky古生物図鑑 ウロコディア アイクアリス Urokodia aequalis カンブリア紀Stage 3 中国南部(澄江動物群) 体長約3.5cm 海産 節足動物 Arthropoda Artiopoda 旧分類 モリソニア目 Mollisoniida
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
LIVYATAN now, PLEASE🔴🔴, the first wave of donations for the recent, giant earthquake, has passed, but they're now more needed than ever, DON'T let the news die down, donate or share the link below if you can 🙏🙏🙏⬇️⬇️
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/06/2026
Should We Do More To Reduce Violence In Our Dreams?
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James Takahashi @jtvoiceover.com · 28/06/2026
RIP to a legend ▫️Survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki ▫️Pioneered drag culture in Japan and was one of the first openly gay celebrities there ▫️Had a relationship with Yukio Mishima and became his muse ▫️Delighted Hayao Miyazaki in the recording booth for Princess Mononoke #voiceacting
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JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I really dislike the moment when westerners look at anything about Asia only from their standards and perspective, then evaluating it as they please.
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Achird ☉--☉ @achird.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
a chimaeristic Schinderhannes bartelsi. merry hrtmas and a happy new yuri or smth #art #digitalart #paleoart #radiodont #arthropod
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Carl-August W. @basaltweaver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I guess it depends on your interests, I was more upset about the Siberian Traps being called a rift lol
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There are 520 million year old fossils on my desk
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
What the hell do us Venezuelan people owe the world that keeps giving us punishment after punishment? Effort here, misery there, more effort tomorrow, what more do they want? When do we get any privilege? I'm so jealous of most other countries
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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Paraspirifer #paleoart #brachiopod #3danimation #Blender3D #SciArt
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Literally Miguel 🇻🇪 @literallymiguel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
if u didnt know a giant earthquake just hit venezuela, im ok, there was just a long power outage, imma try join the clean up tomorrow, lots of deaths and injured
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nothing screams "We're too late" than an event tackling coping with the Extreme Heat, being cancelled due to the Extreme Heat
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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
To my non-french fellows: This never happened in the past. Like, at all. And today was the hottest day ever measured, beating the historic 2003 heatwave. And our government is literally doing nothing besides... telling us to drink water while receiving Trump. They're literally letting us to die.
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Je retrouve ce dessin fait à Annecy en 2022 👌🏻
Deux hommes sont assis à une terrasse de café sous un parasol. Autour d'eux la chaleur semble tout écraser. Le thermomètre indique 40°C, des gens tombent à genoux, une femme tire son chien inerte au bout d'une laisse.
Homme 1: "ha, tu as aimé le court de la fin, là ? Sur le réchauffement climatique ?"
Homme 2: "mouais bof. Un peu naïf, non ?"
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Results from the #paleostream! Eopavo, Tynskya, Thoatherium and Qinglongtriton
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a kid stands in front of his science fair presentation on a three-sided cardboard display. The display reads: When I grow up, I want to be… THE LARGEST SEA CREATURE. Panel 2: the kid, now matured, is walking into the ocean confidently. He’s turned back toward the shore, smiling and waving at his parents who are standing a few meters behind him, right where the water meets the shore. They’re waving back to him. Panel 3: from a bird’s eye view the kid can be seen under the surface of the water. He’s massive and only a portion of his face is in frame. His father, who appears older, is paddling alone in a canoe above his son’s submerged gigantic face.
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Results from the #paleostream! Ischigualastia, Chilesaurus and Changzhousaurus
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