Reposted by MegaselachusMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 568212454124
Reposted by MegaselachusCary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I swear I was gonna do a tyrannosaur #FossilFriday even before Tromerosaurus dropped! 😅 Each time I'm at the Mongolian Institute of Paleontology, even I have to admire and drool over the 'baby' Tarbosaurus MPC-D 107/7. Check out the 'chicken wing'-sized articulated arm from this specimen!!!!🤩 0214
Reposted by MegaselachusDr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Happy 121st name day, Tyrannosaurus rex! You have been a professionally and creatively lucrative animal for me. 🦖 115935
Reposted by MegaselachusJH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#Sciart #Paleoart Archelon. Deeply appreciate at @archelosaurian.bsky.social for giving advice 13113
Reposted by MegaselachusCoral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 19hPOV ur inside a baitball of mullet. A lot of Coralheads didn’t get much work done yesterday, mesmerized by the mullet run that blotted out the sun and turned Coral City into a marriage of heaven and hell for predators and prey 🪸🐠👀 649394
Reposted by MegaselachusIUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New tool for shark and ray trade enforcement A new practical protocol provides customs and enforcement officers with a step-by-step approach to inspecting shark and ray fin consignments and supporting implementation of CITES regulations. 163
Reposted by MegaselachusJosh Cozart @joshcozartwx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Great views out of Seaside on Tuesday afternoon. ☁️ #Oregon #PNW 16618
Reposted by MegaselachusThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 21hBuilt for bulk: posture, microanatomy and soft tissue shaped gigantism in Sauropoda royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...royalsocietypublishing.orgBuilt for bulk: posture, microanatomy and soft tissue shaped gigantism in SauropodaAbstract. Sauropodomorph dinosaurs show how appendicular skeletal architecture accommodated extreme increases in body mass. Although sauropod gigantism has 0134
Reposted by MegaselachusProfessor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 19hBroadly interesting topic in this new paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Evolutionary History of Early Ray‐Finned Fishes (Pan‐Actinopterygii)Ray-finned fishes, the most diverse living vertebrate clade, include over 600 extinct early actinopterygian species whose evolution is an enigma. 053
Reposted by MegaselachusAlex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Do y'all have an obvious favorite photo of your dog? Because I sure do, and it will forever be this one of him photobombing Devil's Tower lol. 895650399
Reposted by MegaselachusAlberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 20hDromaeosaurid dinosaur feeding traces on the lower jaw bones of an immature Albertosaurus: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🪶🧪 (📷Doyon et al.) 0173
Reposted by MegaselachusTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I ordered an extra batch of dryptosaurus, this time resin! I have a whole army now 😈🦖 1197
Reposted by MegaselachusVille Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There are some pieces of paleoart that to my eye are so fantastic that I regularly come back to them to just stare and marvel them. Peter Trusler has made many such pictures but these 3 particular ones are just of such exquisite quality that they take my breath away every time. 427659
Reposted by MegaselachusGabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you are interested in Megalodon and all other prehistoric sharks (and let’s face it, who isn’t?) there is a new book coming Feb 9th that you have to get! I was lucky enough to be commissioned to illustrate this amazing book wonderfully written by Dr. Jack Cooper #paleoart #sharks #sciart 718542
Reposted by MegaselachusKarisauria - Paleoart @karisauria.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tyrannosaurus for the Nature Picture Library. #paleoart #dinosaur #trex 15319
Reposted by MegaselachusDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Want more shark science and conservation on your Bluesky feed? go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB 1166
Reposted by MegaselachusJulio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some more lovely weirdos! Toxodon & Mixotoxodon. #SciArt #artbyjulio 312339
Reposted by MegaselachusBranArtworks|🐳🐬🦭🎨 @branartworks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 Speedpainting of Miophyseter gunmaensis, a new species of physeteroid described from Japan. The specimen consists of a nearly complete skeleton of a young individual, with an estimated length of 3 to 4 m. It lived approximately 16 to 14 million years ago. #paleoart 15518
Reposted by MegaselachusIUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sharks and rays are part of a much bigger marine conservation picture. In September, our Chair, Rima Jabado, co-hosted the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee (MCC) Strategic Planning Workshop in Tenerife in her role as MCC Co-Chair. 143
Reposted by MegaselachusThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026LETTER: Absolute need to maintain entire ‘collections side’ of Sternberg Museum intact hayspost.com/posts/d21f98...hayspost.comLETTER: Absolute need to maintain entire ‘collections side’ of Sternberg Museum intactImage by Pixabay Dear Dr. Tisa Mason,I am a proud graduate of Fort Hay 03419
Reposted by MegaselachusMark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart 724280
Reposted by MegaselachusNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record 5475106
Reposted by MegaselachusDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p... 531661193
Reposted by MegaselachusPaddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I never pass up the opportunity to spread this image a little wider... 616349
Reposted by MegaselachusSharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ontogenetic and spatial variation in the trophic ecology of the shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in temperate eastern Australia 🦑🧪🐟🦈 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 082
Reposted by MegaselachusPaul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How do I invest? 0104
Reposted by MegaselachusLeft Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 410199856142
Reposted by MegaselachusJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That’s a formal warning. If he does it again he’ll start to lose marks for the course. 108314
Reposted by MegaselachusAndrea Cau, PhD @theropodablog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My new paper introducing Norellraptor barbsboldi, an exquisitely preserved microraptorine, with implications on flight evolution among paravians (bird-like dinosaurs) and microraptor developmental biology.nature.comIndependent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade - Nature CommunicationsMicroraptorines were bird-like dinosaurs that possessed some flight adaptations. A new fossil species from the early Cretaceous, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that this group evolved their own flig... 063
Reposted by MegaselachusDr George RA Hancock 🦋🦎 @grahancock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reading through this new paper and I can't help but think of @davehone.bsky.social's older research on claws. The keratin sheaths are ludicrously longer than the ungual bones! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comFig. 2: Norellraptor barsboldi 130108-MHGU-F4281, appendicular elements. | Nature Communications | Nature Communicationsfigure 2 011
Reposted by MegaselachusGwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Massive new review paper out on the causes of insect population declines. It's not great news, BUT if we pay attention, we can still turn things around. 🧪🦋 academic.oup.com/aesa/advance...academic.oup.comDrivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressuresAbstract. Reductions in insect biodiversity are widely documented and result from numerous pressures that operate from local to global scales. Identifying 07539
Reposted by MegaselachusSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently. 10802404
Reposted by MegaselachusTess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026drexel wants you to think the academy closed because of declining attendance. And yet, they purposefully wanted to push themselves away from being the "dinosaur museum" in philadelphia, and cut programs like the live animal exhibits to appeal to adults...... 32410
Reposted by MegaselachusKevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026-Volunteer coordinator terminated -Full-time curators down from 11 to 5 -Social media channels being wiped -City Council hearings begin next week #savetheacademy 11713
Reposted by MegaselachusBen Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Very happy to hear that the Maryland Dinosaur Park's discovery trail is now open! Congratulations to everyone there for *finally* making this happen. The sculptures by Tristan Crum look phenomenal—can't wait to see them in person in a couple weeks. Photos borrowed from JP Hodnett. #FossilFriday 426473
Reposted by MegaselachusEvan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The skulls of #Spinosaurus, #Tyrannosaurus (FMNH PR 2081) and #Giganotosaurus. Three large theropods which have been integral to my thesis. Big thank you to Vitamin Imagination and Eric Duan for help with the Giga and T.rex models. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Paleontology 02911
Reposted by MegaselachusDr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🚨Big News🚨 I wrote a book! It's out on February 9th & it’s available to pre-order now! 🦈 Published by UniPress Books & @princetonupress.bsky.social & featuring incredible art by the amazing Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social, you can pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Megalodon-Ot... 🦈 (1/4) 57129
Reposted by MegaselachusDr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026To reiterate from the other site: this is the most convincing that a Tyrannosaurus rex has ever looked, across the board. Kieran knocked it out of the park with this one. Gold standard stuff. 011426
Reposted by MegaselachusKieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process. 13839371071
Reposted by MegaselachusDarren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Um, no, you _shouldn't_ start putting beak tissue on your sauropods 8515
Reposted by MegaselachusTake Meowt by Franz Ferdinyan @wendysnowradish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A friend asked me about the time the original author of sonic.exe tried to fake his death to get out of refunding me $20 for a commission he owed me and I realized I’ve never shared that story here on Bluesky 11835571136
Reposted by MegaselachusLiam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some of the studies I made of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon, for an upcoming commission I can hopefully share soon. Megalodon is known almost exclusively from fossil teeth, which have not been found articulated with jaws. 32810
Reposted by MegaselachusJulio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Xenorhinotherium & Macrauchenia my beloveds This was mostly an exercise in achieving different fur textures in Blender, as well as an excuse to make an infographic since I haven't made one of those in a while. #SciArt #artbyjulio 713447
Reposted by MegaselachusTristan J. Stock @archelosaurian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is setting off a lot of red flags. If your paper claims to have developed a method to detect beaky-ness in fossil animals, all of the beaky taxa should be grouping. Turtles being so far removed from sauropods+birds in every analysis tells me that this measurement has nothing to do with beaks. 142
Reposted by MegaselachusIUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group @iucnshark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today’s featured Important Shark and Ray Area (ISRA) is the Turneffe Atoll in Belize! Learn more about the ISRA project: sharkrayareas.org/isra/faq/ and see the compendium: doi.org/10.59216/ssg... #shark #ray #chimaera #ISRA #conservation 121
Reposted by MegaselachusAnthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Getting Willie out on display,replacing the stupid Xiphactinus. Willie has massive shark bite marks on its lower jaw. A result of getting scavenged after death. This is a large Plesioplatecarpus from the liwer Niobrara chalk of western Kansas. 86.5 million years old. 1314
Reposted by MegaselachusThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wang, X., Ji, Y., Cau, A. et al. Independent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade. Nat Commun 17, 10074 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...doi.orgIndependent assembly of the flight apparatus in a non-avian dinosaur clade - Nature CommunicationsMicroraptorines were bird-like dinosaurs that possessed some flight adaptations. A new fossil species from the early Cretaceous, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that this group evolved their own flig... 0349
Reposted by MegaselachusThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....lyellcollection.orgA brief insight into dinosaur communities and behaviour based on an unusual assemblage of tracks from the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire, UK | Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological SocietyDespite the abundance of dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic Cleveland Basin of Yorkshire, UK, examples of footprints indicating two or more different species inhabiting a particular site and... 0288
Reposted by MegaselachusThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Inferring Sex from Osteohistology in Eocene Penguins (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from Antarctica www.mdpi.com/4108928mdpi.com 082
Reposted by MegaselachusProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/202623,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comWorld’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy useThe injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification 10374235