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Karim Zanaty @extinctfineart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Show everyone your Spinosaurid! No matter if Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, or Ichthyovenator, 2D traditional or digital painting, animation, or 3D model (details about file specifications on request) - show us your artwork!

Call for artists engaging palaeoartists to contribute artwork for a virtual gallery

Infos about the Call for artists

2D and 3D artwork accepted
1artwork per artist
Any Spinosaurid artwork is accepted
Title needed, but description is optional
If interested, send an email to exhibit@extinctfineart.com
Deadline is August 31, 2026

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Kiersten Formoso, PhD(epressed) @formorphology.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Ants! Ants! Ants! 792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail: spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-... paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... website: www.antscan.info Phenomenal.

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Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before

How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Poposaurus running simulations starting to get better than utterly ridiculous. Now just ridiculous.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New #DAWNDINOS paper! We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

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Dino Dad Reviews @dinodadreviews.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

For those who haven’t seen it yet, the award-winning documentary @whydinosaurs.bsky.social is now available free on YouTube! You should definitely watch it if you have the time. I’ve embedded the video in my review here. dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Why Dinosaurs?

The highly-anticipated documentary by Tony and James Pinto!

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae - Bodenham - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae

The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of ...

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Meidbh Ó Donnchadha @crayfishdaydreams.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

There is a beauty in the reverence of the long since dead

Sobek, the Spinosaurus, on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL

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MHFU Bird @mhfubird.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Spinosaurus

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Interesting preprint suggesting that recently described fossils from Brazil described as a new ctenochasmatine pterosaur, Bakiribu, preserved within a regurgitalite, instead represent the gill arch apparatus of an actinopterygian fish: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Reinterpretation of Bakiribu waridza from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: a fish not a pterosaur

Fragmentary remains of fossil vertebrates from the Romualdo Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil, preserved in association with two fish were interpreted as two individuals of a new genus and specie...

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26/10/2025

A paper published in Nature reports the discovery of an early sauropodomorph in the Andes of La Rioja, northwestern Argentina. The finding expands the known diversity and geographic range of early dinosaurs and offers new insights into sauropodomorph evolution. go.nature.com/4984sqA #Paleosky 🧪

This image is figure 2 from the paper which shows selected bones of Huayracursor jaguensis holotype.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New paper @journalsystpal.bsky.social with Drew Moore @stonybrooku.bsky.social re-evaluating diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur phylogeny + biogeography, including illustrating synapomorphies, with implications for the early evolution of the major lineages: doi.org/10.1080/1477... @es-ucl.bsky.social

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

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Ksepka Lab @ksepkalab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

On #FossilFriday I am proud to share a new discovery - a skull of a large extinct relative of king and emperor penguins. @atennyson.bsky.social, Daniel Thomas, Felix Marx, and I report this magnificent skull in Journal of Paleontology: https:// bit.ly/4ne3HQV

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Zeckino @linkezecke.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My take at Sobek (FSAC-KK 11888), scaled to the size assumed for MSNM V4047. #spinosaurus #spinosaurusaegypticus #kemkem #paleoart #pencildrawing

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Phil Mannion @pdmannion.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Samantha Beeston (with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social + others) on the evolution of postcranial pneumaticity in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs + its likely independent acquisition from that of theropods & pterosauromorphs: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

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Camben Creatives LLC @cambencreatives.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Green River Formation is rich in species diversity. This snapshot captures nocturnal animals emerging as their diurnal neighbors start to settle in. This work is commissioned by the NPS to highlight species found in the Fossil Butte Monument in Wyoming.

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

A new neosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Holly Creek Formation of southwest Arkansas and its implications on the relationships of Goniopholididae: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A new neosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Holly Creek Formation of southwest Arkansas and its implications on the relationships of Goniopholididae

A new species of neosuchian crocodyliform, Paarthurnax holliensis gen. et sp. nov., is herein described based on a nearly complete skull from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Holly Creek Format...

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 14/09/2025

#Jaws didn't just scare a generation of beachgoers. It inspired future marine biologists like #MIT_WHOI grad student Jaida Elcock to explore the truth about #sharks! 📲 Explore the cultural revival sharks are experiencing, 50 years after Jaws, with the @latimes.com: go.whoi.edu/latimes-sharks

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FreddyHaveFaith @freddyhavefaith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Onchopristis numida hunting an albino baby Spinosaurus aegyptiacus

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava. But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking. My take @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time

The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them

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Jacob Wheeler - Whejaverse Art and Science @whejasciart.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's finally here! The next #Sketchasaur short starring the always-charismatic Spinosaurus, whose 'true colors' came out when we viewed it through the water. Let me know what you think! #Sciart #Blender3D #ArtistOnBluesky #Animation

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre @yukonberingia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Long before dogs became our best friends, their ancestors roamed Beringia 🐺 This is Zhùr, a ~57,000 yr old mummified wolf pup discovered in the Klondike (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory). Preserved by permafrost, her fur, skin, and paws have survived since the Ice Age. #InternationalDogDay

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SharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea 🦑🧪🦈🐟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Bonus #whaleontology #fossilfriday: Introducing the new right whale Megabalaena sapporoensis from the upper Miocene of Japan! About 12-13 meters long - at the small end of extant right whales (Eubalaena). Described by my NZ office mate Yoshi Tanaka et al. palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

3D model of the reconstructed skeleton of Megabalaena. The posterior skull, partial mandible, left flipper, and much of the vertebral column and ribcage are preserved.

The skull and mandible of Megabalaena. The skull is quite wide, like modern right whales, and the lower jaw is very large, and must have been about three meters long. Steepness of the braincase indicates the rostrum would have been arched like modern rights and bowheads.

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やどくた @cranialoraptor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

＃金曜日だから化石貼る＃FossilFriday FPDM特別展『獣脚類2025〜「フクイ」から探る恐竜の進化〜』より、スピノサウルスSpinosaurus aegyptiacus。戦争で失われたホロタイプの模型。論文の図版や後年見つかった写真を元に作られた。当時唯一だった標本が失われた影響は大きく、長い間謎に包まれていた。

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Path of Titans @pathoftitans.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Check out all the work that goes into the creation of the Spinosaurus TLC! Prompted by new discoveries, we began model updates and animation reworks. Peek behind the scenes and see the Spino’s refresh in action. Play the Spinosaurus today! #pathoftitans #dinosaurs #DeExtinction #spinosaurus #dinoTLC

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De-Extinction - Spinosaurus TLC

YouTube video by Path of Titans

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The Cincinnati Museum Center is housed in a restored art deco train station from 1933. I love how Torvosaurus and Allosaurus kinda look like they’re waiting for a train. #FossilFriday

Mounted skeletons of two meat-eating dinosaurs. One is slightly larger and lighter. Art deco-ish train station setting, converted into a museum hall

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