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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
and shows that all it needed was some polish and quality of life improvements, and a more unique and engaging story.
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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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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Littlefoot!
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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 · 23/02/2026
good choice queen
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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 · 10/02/2026
Black Beauty would be in my top 3 for sure
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
They just don't get it
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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 specimen is pretty small but it is a juvenile. It is likely the adult was a more typical iguanodont size. I'd be facinated to see what the integument looked like on the adult.
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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 · 07/02/2026
I think yours looks closest to my interpretation after reading the paper. I think a lot of people are making the spikes too large and too dense.
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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 · 03/02/2026
Well I guess it'll save me 21 dollars a month or whatever it is now if I have to switch to Krita or Affinity or whatever
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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 · 26/01/2026
Yeah people use it, it just sucks ass cause it turns out "a twitter for people who mostly use instagram" as a deeply evil concept
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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
Dead internet but also dead real life theory.
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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
This is part of my argument haha Not only are they not aliens or alike to the other Pandoran animals (yes even with the prolemuris) but they are very clearly hominids closely related to Homo or even potentially evolved from Homo.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Also though, to be fair to Cameron and crew, this is true of the vast vast majority of alien planets in film and not at all unique to Pandora.
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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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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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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 · 31/12/2025
Top 2 are obviously respectable. The main thing I remember about Godzilla 2000 is he spends like half the movie fighting a giant flying turd.
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The specimens of the new speices, Ohania is much smaller than this. The authors suggest it was probably shrub-sized. However, there are other large, thick trunks with Ptilophyllum leaves attached/associated so something like Brougham depicts is definitely on the table.
Bucklandia indica, a thick, scaled, cycad-like stem with a Ptilophyllum-type leaf attached.
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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
Look, the last time they looked like this, I'll take what I can get
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It looks like its (another) remake of the first game so seems unlikely, but I'd welcome it!
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Tom Parker @tomozaurus.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Not that I don't agree with some of the criticisms or think they could have been better.
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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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