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Tom Parker

@tomozaurus.bsky.social
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Scientific researcher, author and illustrator focused on Palaeontology and Palaeobotany.

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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
An assortment of ferns from the Late Cretaceous of North America, as described by Holian et al. 2026. Specimens come from the Denver, Hell Creek and lower Raton Formations. I only included those found in the Cretaceous (and excluded a couple I deemed not worth illustrating.)
Illustrations of ferns from the Latest Cretaceous of North America. Illustration shows drawings of fern parts based on preserved fossil matieral as well as speculative life reconstructions of said ferns based on related modern species.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Digimon Story Time Stranger is great. I didn't enjoy Cyber Sleuth that much and this basically fixes every problem I had with it.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I just used an extremely cheesy line on an extremely beautiful girl and it worked
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a person is playing basketball in the snow with a basketball hoop
ALT: a person is playing basketball in the snow with a basketball hoop
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Apatosaurus sketch while watching Apex (2026), based on an old GSP skeletal
apatosaurus sketch
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Heitoresco @heitoresco.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Kentrosaurus - Beasts of the Mesozoic
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There's a dude at the gym rn watching avatar the last airbender on his phone during his workout
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
There was no milk left in the work fridge so i had to have soy milk for the first time and it's lowkey really good I get it now
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Saw about 15 guitarfish on my walk this morning, so I don't have any problem picturing how common Myledaphus was in Hell Creek anymore
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sketch: dacentrurine and stegosaurine stegosaurs coexisting in the Morrison Formation
Pencil sketch. Foreground: two dacentrurine stegosaurs drinking from a stream in front of an embankment covered in a Gleichenia thicket. Equisetum grow by the streamside. In the background an adult and juvenile Stegosaurus wander through osmundaceous ferns. A Ptilophyllum-type bennettite stands from among the ferns.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Alnashetri cerropoliciensis
Alnashetri cerropoliciensis pencil sketch
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Tired but couldn't help myself, so quick Spinosaurus mirabilis sketch. Proportions just taken from the paper (Sereno et al. 2026).
Spinosaurus mirabilis sketch
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Taurovenator violantei sketch (very much based on skeletal by Dan Folkes)
Taurovenator violantei pencil sketch. Large ventral and caudal scutes are like those found on Allosaurus and Concavenator. Vertical pointing "arrowhead" shaped scales inspired by those seen on Juravenator.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Tyrannosaurus rex 2026 AMNH 5027 is the best one, sorry. In my mind there is no contest.
Pencil line reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex based on AMNH 5027, gaps filled with the holotype.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The new iguanodont with novel skin coverings. In addition to the large scute-like scales on the tail, the body is covered with what the author's describe as "spikes". The largest ones are about 4 cm long but almost a cm thick, resembling short quills. The smaller ones are hair or eyelash-like.
Illustration of Haolong dongi with Laura Dern for scale (the animal is about the size of a large dog or a minature pony)Haolong dongi shown alongside the fossil with various close-ups of the preserved skin from Huang et al. 2026.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We've only got a trailer to go off but is the new monster from the Monarch show the best original kaiju Legendary has done? I do like the MUTOs and I though the ones from the first season of monarch weren't bad either.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The fact that "edtwt" is not a bunch of people supporting each other in their eating disorder recovery journeys, but instead a frighteningly large community of very mentally ill girls in social competition with each other over who can eat the fewest calories is a genuine horror story to me.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I just read this passage in The Lost World (the Crichton one) describing the main villain, and it's hysterical how perfectly this describes Elon Musk.
Passage from The Lost World by Michael Crichton describing Lewis Dodgson as an unscrupulous hack whose only talent is stealing ideas from other people and presenting them as his own.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
So tiktoks now have little button thay just says "AI" on them 🙄 I'm scared to even find out what it does
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I know it's like pretentious or w/e to imply other people have no inner lives but the concept of two people texting each other both using ChatGPT generated messages (which we all know is definitely happening) fills me with a deep feeling of contempt.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I kind of want to rant about how (though I like it) Pandora doesn't work at all as an Alien planet and only makes any sense as a planet that was terraformed from earth some time in the distant past. Though gauging from what I've seen on Twitter the spec-evo people might get mad at me.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Earliest Cenozoic ammonoids: Machalski, M., Olszewska-Nejbert, D., Landman, N.H. et al. Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark. Sci Rep 15, 45802 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at ...
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Why did they even make Minya so busted? Like they didn't have to do that. Godzilla Junior isn't busted
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Check out this piece by Jason Broughham from 2013 btw, he was cooking. He even describes it as having Ptilophyllum leaves.
Reconstruction of a Williamsoniacean bennettitale baring Ptilophyllum type leaves by Jason Broughham from 2013. He almost perfectly predicts the growth habit revealed of Ptilophyllum-type bennies revealed with the 2025 publication of Ohaniella ptilofolia.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands." Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."
Frankenstein or Frankenstein's monster or the creature, whichever pleases you, standing taller than trees as he fights Baragon, a Godzilla sized monster with big ears and a large horn on its snout and ridges running down its back in the 1965 movie Frankenstein Conquers the World
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.
Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 15/12/2025
Yoooo the teaser for a game I did creature designs for came out. Stay to the end to see my beautiful baby boy youtu.be/iUY6bFjivWU
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Terrible Lizards - Official Announcement Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by WDR Studios
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Jes🦕 @teatimejess.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A dear friend of mine has had an awful event happen right before the holidays - their home caught fire and they've lost so much. They and their pets are safe, but it's really been a massive blow to them. Anything helps - even just spreading the word. gofund.me/c7f1ff97f
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Donate to Help Rebuild After a Devastating Fire, organized by Matthew Wright-Conti
On what should have been a normal day, an abandoned church near Madison, Za… Matthew Wright-Conti needs your support for Help Rebuild After a Devastating Fire
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Ngl I was expecting the new Tomb Raider dinosaurs to look worse considering the discourse on twitter. They are fine. Easily an improvement over previous entries in the series.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 10/12/2025
Corporations don't give you free stuff for naming your child after them anymore. Netflix would be a beautiful name for a baby girl but they don't respond to my emails.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I've been listening to The Hobbit audiobook and there is a line that directly implies that football exists in Middle Earth.
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Alexis Rastier 🌿 @alexisrastier.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern Last week, I attended the EMBO workshop in Vienna on early land plants and terrestrialisation. There, I presented my research on rhacophytalean evolution, focusing on a reappraisal of the genus Cephalopteris from the latest Famennian of Bjørnøya. 🌿🌿
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I haven't had much time or energy to do illustrations for myself lately, but yesterday I finally got the drive and managed to do two. This is Edmontosaurus annectens, incorporating the new soft-tissue data, as well as some inspiration from the re-described Red Willow Edmontosaurin.
Sketch reconstruction of a large Edmontosaurus annectens about 9 metres long (Laura Dern silhouette for scale), shown in side view with a frill-like soft-tissue ridge running from its neck to its hips. To the right is a smaller, fully coloured version of the same dinosaur, featuring patterning inspired by The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade game.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)
Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)
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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
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a bird with a long neck is standing on a beach
Alt: Clip from Prehistoric Planet ("North America"), featuring a Quetzalcoatlus vocalizing on a beach
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I am losing my mind at the tiny babies oh my god
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Got aged like 50 thousand years today when my co-worker told me she STARTED year 7 in 2019. She's 19 now and graduated last year. Wtf do you mean 2019 wasn't like 2 years ago? I had to do the maths in my head like 3 times over.
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a close up of thanos from the movie avengers : endgame standing in front of a cloudy sky .
ALT: a close up of thanos from the movie avengers : endgame standing in front of a cloudy sky .
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I wanted to do something for this little guy (Zavacephale), especially because there are good plant fossils from the same formation he is found in, but this is all I had the energy for.
Pencil sketch of pachycephalosaur Zavacephale in its environment.Same illustration with featured species labelled. Zavacephale (pachycephalosaur), lycopodites (a lycophyte), equisetites (a horsetail), coniopteris, onychiopsis (dicksoniaceae ferns), nageia (podocarpaceae), abies-like pine.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Lmao rest in piss bozo
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
New dromaeosaurid, Shri rapax. What an amazing fossil!
Sketch of the dromaesaurid Shri rapax with the fossil
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Let me cook
Edited shot from Jurassic World Rebirth showing the head crest of Thalassodromeus visible between the aisles of the convenience store like a shark's fin.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I've seen lots of suggestions for what real prehistoric animal could have replaced the "mutadon" in Jurassic World Rebirth. Having seen the film now, I couldn't stop thinking what if it was a ground-dwelling predatory pterosaur, like has been suggested for Thalassodromeus.
Drawing of the pterosaur Thalassodromeus with colors inspired by the "Mutadon" from Jurassic World Rebirth.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Its my birthday today, and good news! You can celebrate by reading my fully illustrated new article on the prehistoric animals of Jurassic World Dominion, what we know of their life appearance & behavior, and how that compares to the film: jurassicparkterror.com/jurassic-par...
Quetzalcoatlus mounts an aeroplane
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Prehistoric Kingdom @prehistorickingdom.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
SURPRISE! Breeding is coming Update 15! 🥚🦖 Tune into this month's Dev Diary to learn more about fertility, courtship and the nesting system coming to Prehistoric Kingdom in August. ➡️Latest Dev Diary: bit.ly/4kmk8IW 📝Patreon: bit.ly/4hnK9GM
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I have been enjoying doing these environment sketches in what little time I have.
Quick thumbnail sketches of Two Medicine Formation and Cloverly Formation environments.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A few silly guys
Coloured pencil sketch of CompsognathusColoured pencil sketch of Tenontosaurus, grayscale thumbnail sketch of Stegosaurus posing with Coniopteris ferns and a fallen log
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Why are YouTube videos so long now? I keep seeing thumbnails I think look interesting and then see it is 1.5 hours... 2 hours... 3 hours long. No! Stop it!
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Today I can share the Cretaceous angiosperms (for the Temperate and Tropical biomes) and Cretaceous Wetland plants I designed for Prehistoric Kingdom.
Diagramic reconstructions of a number of Cretaceous angiosperms for Prehistoric Kingdom's Mesozoic Temperate and Mesozoic Tropical biomes (2023).Diagramic reconstructions of extinct plants for Prehistoric Kingdom's Mesozoic Swamp biome (2023).
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sinners had extremely high expectations placed on it and it still somehow exceeded them. For one I didn't see anyone mention how good the music is??
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