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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.

A tiny smoke-grey furry bat with darker face, ears and wings. The big story is the tiny size. The entire bat fits on a portion of a human's thumb, a tee-weeny tiny little guy.

This is a viral photo that's circulated for years, but I found it on r/BatFacts posted by u/Pardusco.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 1h

For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record

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FossilLad123 @fossillad123.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

[ Crystal Megalo ] " One of the primordial vivosaur pair, Crystal Megalo is able to decimate entire teams with its Refraction Beam. " #fossilfighters #fakesaur #retrosaur #3Dart #art

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FossilLad123 @fossillad123.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

[ Crystal Igua ] " One of the primordial vivosaur pair, Crystal Igua is able to fully heal an ally with no detrimental effects with Rejuvenation Horn. " #fossilfighters #fakesaur #retrosaur #3Dart #art

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Yitanran @yitanran.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just realized the previous version had some pretty serious color and image quality issues, so I'm reposting it. This piece features my parrot and my dragon OC.

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Umbra Atramentum @umbraatramentum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Final one is of Valkoor OC of @zagiir.bsky.social partner!

a black and red dragon with purple glowing plasma effects in their scales, wings, and eyes. A plasma orb is crowned above their red horns. The dragon has four legs and sharp features including forked tail, nose horn, raised back scales and split jaw and tongue.

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Inkster🎩 COMMISSIONS: OPEN @inkjack.bsky.social · 10h

#IMPtober #Helluvaboss Day 2: Pride Dress with style and a smile

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What Bird?🦜 @whatbirds.bsky.social · 18h

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌏 #whatbird | #birdsoftheworld | #birds 🦉

A relatively large, charcoal-black bird (55–60 cm / 22–24 in long) perched upside down near the top of a bare wooden branch against a clear blue sky. It features a dramatic spiky crest, a massive hooked beak, and a bright red bare patch on its cheek.

Clue: With my smoky black plumage, striking crest, and crimson cheek patch, I am Australia's largest of my kind—known for my musical talent with sticks!

Fun Fact: This bird is one of the only non-human animals known to use manufactured tools rhythmically—males break off sturdy sticks or seed pods to drum against hollow trees, creating a unique beat to attract a mate.

Conservation status: Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)

Text source: Gemini (Edited)

📷: Photo by Karl-Heinz Lambert via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔 Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙 Link also in profile. ko-fi.com/himmapaan

Four small silhouette drawings in black ink, each about the size of a business card, of a hen encountering another small animal in each one: a dragonfly, a frog, a wren, and a squirrel.

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rosarubicondior.bsky.social @rosarubicondior.bsky.social · 14h

Refuting Creationism - Self-Correcting Science Finds Another Transitional Fossil rosarubicondior.blogspot.com/2026/10/refu... #Science #Evolution #Atheism #CreationFail

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20h

It's #fossilfriday! Meet Hatzegopteryx, a predatory, ground-stalking pterosaur the size of a small giraffe, found on the islands of Cretaceous Eastern Europe. Survival Verdict: lol good luck HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY. Out April 27, 2027. Preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

An enormous Hatzegopteryx pterosaur stands in the rain on all fours, its head a mass of turkey-like wrinkles around a wicked, machete-shaped beak. It turns a cold, considering eye on you. Two others approach through the mist. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten for HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Adam is Gone Froggin @gonefroggin.bsky.social · 16h

It's fall! What says fall more than the Red Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus pitanga) from the Atlantic rain forests of Brazil. 📸 Carlos Henrique Luz Nunes de Almeida discover more at buff.ly/kdAbY7q

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Aeflus @aeflus.bsky.social · 16h

The Infernal, Teostra Saw how badass it looked when other artists painted him with darken features. Gave it a shot. Happy hunting! #monsterhunter #fanart #mhart

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Dominik Hammelsbruch @dh-paleoart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Rewatched Shin Godzilla with friends yesterday (still an incredible movie) which reminded me that I think I never shared some of my kaiju artworks from (shudders) six years ago over here. Still pretty happy with those

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨THERIZINOSAUR NEWS🚨 an incredible study by liao et al. describes kayrasaurus changliensis from the early cretaceous yixian formation of china! the holotype is almost complete, missing only a few hand bones as well as the legs, offering valuable insight into its biology 😍 (art by kohei futaka)

art depicting the newly described kayrasaurus alongside other therizinosaurians from the yixian formation, including beipiaosaurus, jianchangosaurus, and lingyuanosaurus

a skeletal diagram showing the known material from kayrasaurus

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Cassandra 🦕🖌 @tenontosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"there must be something in our car it thinks it wants"

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nas águas salobras do Marrocos, um Plesiossauro Polycotylidae está na mira do maior predador Africano.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Baryonyx walkeri portrait factoring new epidermal correlate data gathered for an ongoing project. "Yes" to lips, "no" to a cornified sheath on the nasal crest, "yes" to a boss and scale above the eyes. More details at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/markwitton

Portrait of a long-snouted predatory dinosaur in the dimming evening light. Reddish skin gives way to a paler underside on the neck and face, while conifer trees - skeletonised and in full leaf - are silhouetted against a purply-yellow-blue skyscape.

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Dynamognathus @dynamoterror.bsky.social · 17h

Quick sketch of Westlothiana lizziae, grabbing some lunch in early #Carboniferous Scotland. Formerly known as an early reptile-like amniote or maybe an amphibian, “Lizzie” was just reinterpreted as more early-diverging tetrapodomorph, possessing fishy gills and spiracles. #sciart #paleoart #fishart

Colored-pencil drawing of the superficially lizard-like animal Westlothiana, curling its body in a sinuous motion as it crushes a small aquatic insect nymph in its jaws. Its body is elongated, rusty brown, and covered in relatively large fish-like scales. The front legs are tiny and swept back as it lunged forwards, the hind legs are only a bit larger and spread out as if holding on to an underwater log. The head is low and oval shaped, and near the base of the front leg is a slit-like gill opening. Its eye is fairly large and looking down towards its prey.

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Gaegral COMMISSIONS OPEN @gaegral.bsky.social · 17h

Cyclops 👁️

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 22h

A very cozy Willow Ptarmigan for tisorridalamor on tumblr! Thank you so much for the #Waymakers donation! 🪶🎨 #SciArt #BirdArt The Waymakers challenge is a race and fundraiser hosted every September by @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US. Join us again next September!

A cozy-looking Willow Ptarmigan cuddled up in a loaf with eyes closed, amid grass and leaves and purple flowers. The bird has a short, stout black bill, a red eyebrow, and beautiful mottled gold and black and white feathers for camouflage among the summer browns and dappled sunlight.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

".... people recognize or discover a thing, but then take years, even decades, to get it into print. Why are they taking so long, others say, despite knowing that just about everyone in science is overworked, underpaid, and perpetually on the brink of physical or emotional collapse."

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In Memory of Richard Ellis, Influential Artist and Author — Tetrapod Zoology

Within recent days, the world has learnt of the passing of American writer, author, artist and natural historian Richard Ellis (1938-2024), best known for his many works on marine animals and their en...

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

feeding wumpus to my giraffe stork in the woods #paleoart #sciart

wumpus being pinned to the ground and dragged into a dark forest by an azhdarchid

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨NEW MICRORAPTORINE🚨 a warm welcome to norellraptor barsboldi, a new microraptorine described from the early cretaceous jiufotang formation of china 🐉 named after the late mark norell and richard barsbold, norellraptor's holotype is a complete skeleton preserving feather impressions

several images of elements of the norellraptor holotype

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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ilustração da tela de carregamento para o jogo Aldian of Ancients: Oxalaia, Sinraptor, Shringasaurus e Ampelosaurus

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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Denisovan #paleoart #sciart #art

A digital painting of a Denisovan woman looking towards the viewer with a snowy background

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beaky Camarasaurus. preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php... @dennish.bsky.social @fabiomanucci.bsky.social

Brown pencil sketch of the head of Camarasaurus, with a keratinous beak-like covering on the front of its snout, as proposed by the latest study.

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Alukslice @alukslice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pterosaurs

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whenever you hear Drexel claim that closing the Academy was inevitable (but still committed to public education, somehow), know that the museum's historic Irish elk skeleton c. 1853 is currently on display in a high-traffic area in their main academic bldg with close to zero protection #FossilFriday

The skeleton of an Irish elk, "protected" only by a set of small stanchions and ropes, clearly still within arm's reach

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

happy #fossilfriday! this is fuxianhuia, a stem-arthropod from early cambrian china. a 2018 paper by fu et al. suggests that fuxianhuia engaged in extended parental care, making it possibly the earliest example of such behaviour in the fossil record (art by dongjing fu)

the stem-arthropod fuxianhuia on the seabed surrounded by its young

a complete fossil of an adult fuxianhuia

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

franco tempesta appreciation post

Mapusaurus feeding from a dead Argentinosaurus

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 8!!! Why are Queer cartoon characters censored?! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

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GᴀʀʀC @garrtoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(REPOST) As for where this couple is now? I say somewhere out there, settling down and raising a half-pup together. Again, characters belong to @4brandonjs4.bsky.social #horror #werewolf #halloween