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The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A fresh look at historic mosasaur fossils from Belgium! New study by Sharpe et al. confirms Mosasaurus lemonnieri as a valid species, describes a new mosasaurine, Thoraxion tahlequahae & reveals insights into mosasaur anatomy, variation & evolution anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An incredibly lovely and evocative animated short. I *highly* recommend taking the 3 or so minutes to watch this

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'Noon of Night' a dinosaur animated short // the Morrison Formation

YouTube video by Cinedaw

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Temnodontosaurus

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a belated warm welcome to mandrasuchus 🐊 this alligator is described from the early paleocene corral bluffs site in colorado by lessner et al., and was likely only 2m long when fully grown, comparable to some of the smallest living crocodilians (art by andrey atuchin)

art of mandrasuchus in a swampy environment crunching down on a crustacean

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Remains of a hesperornithiform (diving theropod closely related to modern birds) including feathers preserved in a coprolite from the Hell Creek Formation: www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)

Preserved feathers from a diving bird-like dinosaur contained within fossilized feces, along with a map showing where the specimen was discovered in Montana, U.S.A.

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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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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

FINALLY, I can reveal that we weren't showing C. spelea, but another, larger species: the newly announced Cryptoprocta bevatabe Lewis et al., 2026. We got the scoop on this animal years back, deliberately portrayed it in the show... cont

Montage showing giant black fossa with C. ferox, drawings by Darren Naish.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Where do turtles belong on the reptile family tree?" is one of those questions that seems like a no-brainer. In actual fact, when you take a step back, turtles are *extremely* weird! I wrote about it for National Geographic

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What, Exactly, Is a Turtle?

Paleontologists have resolved a decades-old debate over turtle evolution in a new study of 210-million-year-old skull fossils.

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Result from the López de Bertodano Formation #paleostream! I have been looking forward to this one for a while as it combines some fascinating aspects of the latest Cretaceous. This formation was deposited in Antarctica and I hear you all: "wait a sec, that's not what I...

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hell yeah, great to see your take on one of my favourite formations 🔥

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✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @mothsprout.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

✷What is that song you sing for the dead?✷

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How is it that even your quick, tired doodles are amazing

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Bob Nicholls Art @bobnichollsart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

NEW PAINTING TIME! Here is "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 different species of marine vertebrates and invertebrates. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #SeaRex #Pliosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Thalassodraco #Sharks

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

End cretaceus hell

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Midiaou Diallo @midiaou.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Blind Old Man" 1 Hour Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis sketch. An old male wanders along the beach, in search of scraps thrown back up by a sickened Western Interior Seaway Doing $30-$40 1 hour sketches like this to help with funds an unexp. situation for the next 2 weeks, hit me up or share pls🙏🏾 #sciart

An old male wanders along the beach, in search of scraps thrown back up by a sickened Western Interior Seaway

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Definitely one of my favourites of your formation pieces, really like the composition and atmosphere of this one

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'm sure it would have happened by now if the average xenophobe had the geographic awareness to be know that Kyrgyzstan exists in the first place

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I don't think he has an account on here, but Dhruv Franklin (www.artstation.com/dhruvfranklin) is absolutely one of the best around imo and doesn't get anywhere near the attention he deserves. Same goes for @midiaou.bsky.social and @villesinkkonen.bsky.social as well.

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Dhruv Franklin

Freelance Artist

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/05/2026

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

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Dr. Amelia R. Zietlow 🦎 @tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

TEX is the culmination of my PhD research. Not only do we describe & figure our new species in exhaustive detail, but we include a revised phylogenetic dataset for analysis of Mosasauridae, & my measurement dataset for HUNDREDS OF MOSASAURS & EXTANT LIZARDS-& it's ALL OPEN ACCESS

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yes they are, they are probably pretty closely related to snakes and monitor lizards but it's still a bit inconclusive exactly where they sit

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Really excited to finally see this out

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

David Attenborough standing outside the Museum wearing a blue jacket and blue and white patterned tie. He is laughing in the image, which features text saying "Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough!"

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

At the time I was always baffled how season 8 got so much hate when I firmly believed (and still stand by this) that season 7 was significantly worse.

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My opinion was always that the last couple episodes were largely pretty solid and that a fair amount of the way the story was concluded actually works really well (saying this as a book reader), but that the the last two-three seasons overall did a very poor job of building up to that ending

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Lazy sunday sketching. Deinotherium and some funky bipedal apes in a watering hole somewhere in east africa #sciart

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Important new paper! A fragmentary but super early fossil cetacean: introdocing Kalakocetus from the early Eocene of India. It's got molars that are intermediate between the herbivorous raoellids (cetacean sister taxa) and the carnivorous early whales like Pakicetus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The mandible and dentition of Kalakocetus from the original paper. Most of the teeth are triangular and double rooted; the mandible is small, around 20 cm long.

A phylogenetic tree showing the placement of Kalakocetus as the earliest diverging cetacean, branching off before Pakicetus and later archaeocetes. The tooth morphology is intermediate between the herbivorous raoellids and the carnivorous pakicetids

Tooth wear in early cetaceans, showing that Kalakocetus has tooth wear intermediate between raoellids and early whales

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Couldn't not say something about this here, Ben Bartlett is in my opinion one of the great composers of our time and his work has always been a huge inspiration and influence to me. Devastated to hear of his passing, I wish the best to his family and friends

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

To be fair I don't think him being too stupid to know what he's saying and an insane bigot are mutually exclusive in this situation - but yeah, that's a valid point

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This feels like a bit of a "grass is green" moment when we're talking about a man with an iron cross tattoo on his chest, I won't lie

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's not a specifically nazi-originated thing, but it derives from early (incredibly racist) anthropology and eugenicism - which is also where a lot of nazi ideology came from to begin with.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.

A wintery landscape with brown-grey colour scheme

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The PP ones also had various small anatomical issues as well, particularly some of the details of the Mosasaurus's cranial anatomy

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Largely personal preference things - the Prehistoric Planet mosasaurs are pretty good but they lean, imo, a little too far in the whale direction whereas The Dinosaurs Tylosaurus hits that sweet spot of looking like a very specialized aquatic lizard.

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

LOOK AT THE BABY LYSTROSAURUS

the first two images show the specimen and a CT scan of the specimen; the third shows a reconstruction of the specimen in its egg

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In terms of the actual design, I would definitely say so. Prehistoric Planet's mosasaurs left a bit to be desired for me in that respect, especially compared to the wonderful plesiosaurs and azhdarchids, etc. As a show though, Prehistoric Planet sweeps for sure.

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I have veeery mixed feelings about this show, but this is imo probably the best mosasaur we have ever gotten on screen. She's beautiful 💜

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Christian Halliwell @pryftan213.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

But perhaps it could - we just have to ensure the correct people are placed onto said (ideally one way) space flight

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