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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

wow! a new study by glup and shitto has recovered the alleged mexican tyrannosaur labocania aguillonae as a giant early palaeognath with teeth, hereby renamed labokiwi aguillonae! mind-blowing stuff 🤯🦖 doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101314 (art by @hodarinundu.bsky.social)

a pair of fearsome labokiwi attack a trio of tyrannosaurids and a large ceratopsid; the backdrop is a blood-red sky, appropriate for the carnage soon to be unleashing by the terrifying labokiwi

a skeletal also by hodari showing the known elements of labokiwi. it is extremely fragmentary

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ve recently finished a number of commissions and felt it was time to make something for my own enjoyment. #Tyrannosaurus is always a joy. #paleoart #sciart

An illustration of the two-legged meat eating dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

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Paleontology has an Epstein problem. Women in the field say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny | CBC Radio

The names of hundreds of scientists have appeared in the Epstein files, including prominent dinosaur researchers. As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations, women in ...

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The retro skin flap is inspired by findings from Sereno et al. (2026), showing hadrosaur soft tissue ornamentation could be much more diverse than anticipated.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There are two conflicting principles in biology. 1) Parsimony, as in the simplest solution is likely to be correct, and 2) Evolution is bonkers and sometimes makes no “logical” sense.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It’s on the off chance that these and other structures produced by ornithischians are a convergent feature rather than being the same structure as theropod feathers. It’s the same reason why we’ve been waffling on whether pycnofibers = feathers. But IMO, they’re probably just feathers.

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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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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

You should draw and estimate the size of the bone’s owner!

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

This is why scientists will cushion statements about animal behavior with “typically” or “usually.” All it takes is one individual to shake things up.

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Jack The Vulture @jackthevulture.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

baby asian elephant from memory

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Let me know if you find a good writing community!

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My newest interpretation of #Therizinosaurus. Certainly, the best of the mega theropods ;)

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I need to finish all episodes of the new Walking with Dinosaurs, but so far it’s got quite a range of highs and lows. And also…chat, is there perhaps a faint echo of a paintpaddock piece in contemporary paleomedia?

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Dr. Joe Moysiuk @cambrojoe.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale. Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2… This #fossil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Mine? I need a complete Brachiosaurus altithorax skull. 😭😭😭

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Cheryl Rosbak @csrosbak.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Who knew a fish could express "What the fuck was that?" with such ease.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Many of my colleagues view the story and fate of #Keiko the orca as a failure. I think this underplays the effort and hard work of many smart, passionate people. We learned a lot about cetacean rehabilitation. Keiko got the dignity of passing away in his home waters, far from his tiny tank.

An illustration of an orca, a black and white dolphin. This individual was known as Keiko. His tall dorsal fin is flopped over on one side.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Moisturized, thriving, in my lane, 130 million years ago ✨ #Amargasaurus #sciart

An illustration of the long-necked dinosaur, Amargasaurus. It is partially submerged in a forested body of water. A frog sits on a lily pad in the foreground.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I mean, seriously. Was ever an animal more aptly named? It looks like a guardian forest spirit.

Roughly business card-sized thumbnail sketch of Miragaia, an elegant, long-necked stegosaur with paired rows of many fine back plates and spikes.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Henry the T. rex returns with a new look and coffee cup! 🦖

A cartoon Tyrannosaurus depicted holding a reusable coffee cup.

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Just the Zoo of Us 🐾 @justthezooofus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

NEW EPISODE! 🦕 Ellen is joined by paleoartist and marine biologist @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social for a review of the ancient giants that towered over the late Jurassic world: Brachiosaurus! Check it out wherever you get podcasts!

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I had to explain to this woman at a /marine biology conference/ that I didn’t vote for Trump. Why do I need to apologize for the stupidity of over half of the voting body? I’m working in conservation and education every fucking day.

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I know we’re tired of the politics talk, but I just need to rant. International friends, stop accusing every American you meet as being complicit in Trump’s bullshit. This happened to me in Australia & I had no real outlet for it at the time, and now I’m seeing it happen increasingly to others.

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Paulo Leite @pauloleiteart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Dueling Brachiosaurus. Digital sketch done in Procreate. #dinosaur #paleoart #sketch

Two brachiosauruses fighting. Both of them are standing on their hind legs. The one on the left is biting the other one on the neck

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

JUST OUT!!! Happy to announce my first publication, coauthored with @davehone.bsky.social, Tim Gomes, and Joseph Peterson. Meet Infernodrakon hastacollis - a new name for the azhdarchid from the Hell Creek Formation! Life restoration by @jhemiptera.bsky.social

Illustration of the new azhdarchid, Infernodrakon hastacollis, in its natural habitat, It is portrayed similarly to Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, and is shown preying on a Didelphodon next to a river. A subadult Tyrannosaurus rex is visible in the background, across the river. Hell Creek Formation, Montana; Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous, roughly 67 million years ago. Illustration by Jun-Hyeok Jang

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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

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‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests

New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

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projectpaleozoo.bsky.social @projectpaleozoo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

With an overwhelming amount of submissions, your donations for the #ArtemisPaleozoo's first Bug-Off Valentine's Fundraiser were a smashing success! Raising upwards of $10,000, we are thankful for the many (and we mean many) names our guest's submitted. 🪱🍏 Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I drew a quick Guanlong during an art night / impromptu Jurassic World screening with some friends. #sciart #dinosaur

A drawing of a two-legged meat-eating dinosaur called Guanlong.

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So glad for people to get to see some of the animals I've spent the past couple of years looking after! I had the wonderful opportunity to design the looks of many of the species, and have worked on each animal in detail across the VFX process. Walking with Dinosaurs premieres later in 2025!

A mother and juvenile Pachyrhinosaurus nuzzle each other.

Three Albertosaurus, the central one heavily scarred, emerge from the forest.

A close up on the side of the face of an Albertosaurus.

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Emma Luck @emmaluck22.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hi new followers! I love creating illustrations and infographics to share information, especially when it comes to killer whales. Here is a recent one I made covering killer whales of the Gulf of Mexico (and that’s the only name I’ll ever call it 😉)

An infographic titled “Killer whales of the Gulf of Mexico” with a blue gradient background. In the center are a male and female killer whale. On the right of the male is a circular map of the Gulf of Mexico.

Below the title reads the text “Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are rarely seen in the Gulf of Mexico, but recent research has suggested at least some individuals may regularly occur the gulf in offshore waters. A minimum of 49 individuals have been photo-identified here, and some have been resighted over a 26-year period.

In the bottom left, there are illustrations of a sperm whale, Pygmy killer whales, and a generic dolphin. Text above them reads: “Diet: Killer whales in the Gulf of Mexico have been seen pursuing and attacking other cetaceans, such as dwarf sperm whales, dolphins, and sperm whales.”

In the bottom right, there are illustrations of two multi-colored DNA strands. Text reads: “Genetics: Two haplotypes have been found in killer whales from the Gulf of Mexico, one of which is not found elsewhere. This suggests some of the whales may be resident to the Gulf, or descendants of a unique maternal line.”

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Thalia Dawn *⁠.⁠✧ @gillybeean.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

pls re-run #kokomi #fanart (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)*⁠.⁠✧🪼

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

EO: "the immutable biological reality of sex" Biological reality:

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10 animals that can change sex

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𓇼 °｡⋆𓆝༄⋆｡° 𓇼 @hijodeloceano.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

At the age of 4 my dad let me watch a movie about a homeless kid who teams up with a native man and a lesbian to break an abused killer whale out of a marine park because the CEO wanted to kill him to collect insurance money and now I hate the United States and God

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Charles Nye 🎨🦕 @thepaintpaddock.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sorry guys, Carnotaurus was red. It’s just law.

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