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PaleoGalli @paleogalli.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Clima, Tectônica, Reorganização Fluvial e a Expansão Bioestratigráfica Resultante das Madeiras Fósseis Schilderia e Woodworthia da Formação Chinle (Triássico Superior) petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron...

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Climate, Tectonics, Fluvial Reorganization, and the Resultant Biostratigraphic Expansion of the Fossil Woods Schilderia and Woodworthia from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) – Lithodendron

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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Megistotherium osteothlastes doodle, the very first procreate test. Thanks to @villesinkkonen.bsky.social for create these wonderful fur brusheset, so cool.

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らえらぷす @getawaytrike.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Skeletal reconstructions of Ferenceratops shqiperorum (top; composite) and Ajkaceratops kozmai (bottom; composite). Scale bars: 1m.

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Taylor McCoy @tm9380.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Welcome to the world Jian changmaensis, the newest microraptorine! Our lead paleontologist at the Carnegie Matt Lamanna was part of the team that named and described this awesome new animal! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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New species of dinosaur, a cousin of Velociraptor, probably glided on four “wings” and hunted early birds

Scientists finally found the predator that had been killing and eating ancient birds and regurgitating their broken bones as pellets 120 million years ago-- it's a new species of dinosaur, related...

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cetacea

Digital Drawing. An early whale (Pakicetus) stands at the water's edge, bending down for a drink. Behind it is a wall of tall grasses/reeds. The entire scene is shown within the shape of a blue whale. Despite the vast gulf in form and time between the two animals, they are of the same group: Cetacea.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A fossil thought to be key to turtle evolution turns out to be something else - which clarifies where our shelly friends came from. Today’s free newsletter is out (short article + my latest writing + upcoming events + ear perks from the week).

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Friday Fragments #15

Turns out a proposed turtle ancestor isn't, but that makes the origins of our shelly friends clearer.

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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ziheng Zhu, Xi Yao, Wenjie Zheng, Xing Xu, Cranial osteology and ontogenetic variation of the Late Cretaceous ankylosaurid dinosaur Pinacosaurus grangeri, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 207, Issue 2, June 2026, zlag060, doi.org/10.1093/zool... It's finally out now!!!

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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 · 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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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New species of peafowl Pavo miejue (extinct peafowl) from Pleistocene Taiwan! Yong-Jie Lan, Gerald Mayr, Cheng-Hsiu Tsai; A new Pleistocene peafowl from Taiwan reveals the extinction of a large galliform bird in East Asia. R Soc Open Sci. 1 May 2026; 13 (5): 260347. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Pavo miejue reconstruction by Cheng-han Sun.

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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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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Flocking! Sharovipteryx, Sinopterus, Pachycrocuta, Ptolemaia #paleoart #sciart #paleostream #art

A digital painting of a Sharovipteryx slamming into a branch

A digital painting of a male Sinopterus displaying to a female

A digital painting of several Pachycrocuta in the dark

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nogain98 @rlatkdwls.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#Paleostream this week, Sharovipteryx, Sinopterus and Pachycrocuta

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The spectacular skull of the spear-toothed dolphin Aureia rerehua, photographed during preparation during my PhD in 2013 - and formally published a decade later. Read about this and other waipatiid dolphins from NZ in my recent blog post: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

A yellowy tan fossil dolphin skull with a row of single rooted conical teeth and a mass of ribs and vertebrae in a block of light tan sandy limestone

Three views of a partial fossil dolphin skull in dorsal, ventral, and side view, with the lower jaw; it has a bunch of narrow-crowned, single rooted teeth and a long, but broken snout

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Results from tonights #paleostream! You might notice a slight parental theme ;) Apteribis, Parachoerodon, Lavanttalornis and Maiacetus.

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I worked on a paper about animating Rhamphorhynchus from last summer to February, about time I post about it! (🧵1/7) #paleoart #sciart

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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Parachoerodon rhynchus, a new genus and species of choerolophodontids from the Miocene of northern China. The skull is based on the holotype IVPP V23457 and paratype IVPP V23213.

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

what is this? some sort of... 'new blood'? (individual animals in the thread below) a tribute to the late Ben Bartlett #WalkingWithBenBartlett

a size chart of all extinct animals that appeared in the Walking With Dinosaurs episode New Blood next to Ben Bartlett

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I had so much fun talking to Elliot from “People Are Fish” about my art and the Triassic! #paleoart #sciart #triassic

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yeah, I'm deeply weirded out by this, in part because I spent weeks earlier this year writing about gargantuan cirrate octopuses that never existed. And yet... now they seemingly do, in the Cretaceous. Incredible.

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Olof Moleman @lordtrilobite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Paraentelodon intermedium skull diagram. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

Skull diagram of Paraentelodon intermedium in various orthographic angles. Different angles going clockwise starting top left: Anterior, posterior, dorsal, left lateral, ventral, left diagonal with mouth closed, left diagonal with mouth open.

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#fossilfriday On Wednesday I (remotely) presented some of what I've learned in a decade of acid preparation of little Oligocene whales from the Pacific Northwest. Here's a time series of a concretion with a partial baleen whale skull, from July 2025 to February 2026:

A partial baleen whale skull in a concretion after successive stages of acid preparation, photographed between baths. Clockwise from upper left: July 25, 2025 - the tympanic bulla is visible, barely protruding from a large, roundish boulder. October 7, 2025 - about 2 cm of rock has been removed, and bone now protrudes 2 cm beyond the rock. November 6, 2025 - same, but the bone now protrudes 3 cm. Dec 20, 2025 - most of the skull is now exposed, and rock remains only within the crevices. February 19, 2026 - all calcium carbonate is now gone from all voides and the earbones have been removed from the skull, now free of cemented matrix.

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Somniosus insomnus💤🦈 @somniosa.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus "species complex"

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Quick Muttaburrasaurus paleoart sketch before bed. #Muttaburrasaurus #Dinosaur #Paleoart

Painterly Procreate sketch of the neck and head of Muttaburrasaurus informed by the new paper "Cranial anatomy, palaeoneurology, palaeobiology and stratigraphic age of the large-bodied ornithopod, Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Bartholomai and Molnar, 1981, from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia" with speculative influence from hooded mergansers and hump-nosed lizards.

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nogain98 @rlatkdwls.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Muttaburrasaurus

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

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Vincent Girgenti @vincent-girgenti.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Finally finished that painting of Rice’s Whale (aka the Gulf of Mexico Whale) and added a baby whale shark too because yes. Read further below 👇

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☆ astrapionté ☆ @astrapionte.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

a quick tasmacetus sketch… aka Shepherd’s Beaked Whale! #cetacea #art #dolphin #whales

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Jennifer Clausen @jacsciart.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I had wanted to try and finish this for today's #SundayFishSketch, but alas, that did not happen. So here is a work in progress of some Chinese Paddlefish 🐡

An illustration of three Chinese Paddlefish swimming in the Yangtze River. Hints of blue sky can be seen through the turquoise water surface. The river bottom is silty and sloping downward. This is still a work in progress, so the paddlefish don't have a lot of detail yet, but the viewer can see the basic colors. They are a darker gray on top, and fade to a cream/white on their bellies. Two of the fish are swimming closer to the river bottom, and one is swimming above them, almost in silhouette along the light of the water surface.

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

New little animation of a couple polycotylids! They have such interesting faces - I wonder if they were doing something similar to modern river dolphins ecologically. #sciart #paleoart

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BranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Ankalagon saurognathus, the largest early paleocene mesonychid and probably the largest mammalian predator of North America of its day. #ankalagon #mesonychidae #paleoart #sciart

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Portrait of the iconic Jurassic pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus #sciart #paleoart

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Michael Tripoli @triloboii.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

#Marchofthemammals2026 day 21: Rounding out our trip to the semiarid scrublands and dry forests of Late Miocene Argentina with a momma Thylacosmilus atrox and her joeys. Kits? Who knows...

Vector illustration of Thylacosmilus atrox, a sabertoothed sparassodont, carrying two babies on her back. It is low slung with sharp claws and a long skull with curved saber shaped canines. It is light brown with a darker back half and scattered white spots. The babies are darker in color to blend in with thier mother's back

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Michael Tripoli @triloboii.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

#Marchofthemammals2026 day 19: the fearsome Macroeuphractus moreni #paleoart #sciart #armadillo

Vector illustration of Macroeuphractus moreni, a large carnivorous armadillo, laying down and looking at the viewer. Its skin is dark brown with a rusty colored carapace and claws

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Lizard inner ear bones show strong phylogenetic signal and a weak association with ecology. Thank goodness they finally found something morphological that can be used to infer relationships!

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