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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Kory’s been my illustrator for The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, and, coming to you next month Tyrant Lizard Queen I love all the original pieces she made to illustrate my new story. Check out her work, and pre-order the book to get it off to a roaring start. 🦖

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Tyrant Lizard Queen

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehisto...

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just a little more than a month until Tyrant Lizard Queen stomps your way! The latest dinosaur science in a tale readers have called beautiful, gross, empathetic, and nightmare-inducing. Hardback, audibook, and ebook, out October 27th. 🦖

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Tyrant Lizard Queen

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehisto...

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m thrilled @libraryreads.bsky.social picked Tyrant Lizard Queen for their notable nonfiction in October! Library staff do such amazing and important work every day - it means a lot to know my new book has perked their ears. Rawr. 🦖

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yay! I love it when a plan comes together.. 😃

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

William got his start at the Smithsonian via his father, Joseph Palmer - who was the Institution’s FIRST permanent taxidermist, joining in 1872. Joseph is on the right in this photo from 1904. Note the ladies (“Miss. Malone and Miss. Louise A. Rosenbusch”), who were likely secretaries in this era

black and white photo. well dressed and hatted Department of Anthropology people pose for the camera in front of what is presumably the Department of Anthropology. Joseph Palmer seems 1.5x larger than everyone else. two ladies are seated

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

upon arrival in Washington, Martha was thawed and then skinned by the Smithsonian's chief taxidermist, William Palmer. Some photos in the link below rather than in this post, for those that may currently be eating.. Oh, William Palmer was born in South East London... birdaz.com/blog/2014/09...

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An Extinct Individual – Birding New Jersey

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Once sky-darkingly abundant, the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) became extinct, *somewhat* due to human involvement, at 1pm on 1st Sept 1914, in Cincinnati Zoo Martha was believed to be 29yrs old, and died of old age She was put in a block of ice, and sent by train to the Smithsonian...

black and white photo. what looks to be the dark shape of Martha in a block of ice. it's difficult to find the source/credit for this photo, but its likely from the photo archives of the Cincinnati Zoo, as it appears in a youtube video of theirs

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the stuffed body of Martha, the last known surviving passenger pigeon, on display in the Natural History Building of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum circa 1920 Martha, poor lonely Martha, has an interesting connection to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs... 🧵

black and white photo. Martha, looking to one side towards the camera, on a wooden-looking perch, looking to the camera against a blank background. her appearance is long, slender and upright.

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

..and the minor corrections have been approved to the exam board so it's finally final (even though I was told at the viva I had passed) 🎉 It's been a long and at times challenging journey but thanks to the support of two wonderful supervisors and two demanding but fair examiners, I got there!! 🎊

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Tyrant Lizard Queen follows Snag through the pit stops typical in many coming-of-age stories: peer rivalries and first loves." A new review of Tyrant Lizard Queen is out in @sciencenews.bsky.social! Though if you want to remain unspoiled, might be wise just to just take my word it's good. 🦖

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'Tyrant Lizard Queen' offers a nuanced look at T. rex

Paleontologist Riley Black’s latest book explores how this misunderstood carnivore might have lived.

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coming in March! A new book co-authored with Michael Benton, from University of Bristol published by Princeton University Press - available for pre-order. (With thanks to Riley Black and Steve Brusatte 😊❤️🦕🦖) #dinosaurs #dinosaurart #palaeontology #historyofscience #palaeoart

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So here we go then: the result of many years thinking about how dinosaurs make science and the imagination work together. It's written for both literary critics and scientists and my dearest hope is that it will help foster an academy where we talk to each other more

Photo of a copy of 'The Social Dinosaur', out now from Bloomsbury omg

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Rebecca | Palaeoplushies @palaeoplushies.com · 06/05/2026

I have a Polacanthus plush available on my website (the darker one already has a home)! You can take a look over here: www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/polacan...

Two realistically digitally painted and printed polacanthus plushies standing on a lawn. One is brown and one is orange-toned.

Two realistically digitally painted and printed polacanthus plushies Laying on their backs on a lawn. One is brown and one is orange-toned. Their bellies are paler with dappled stripes and spots.

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I have some Palaeoplushies and they are fabulous!!!

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

And... I've finished the thesis. Done. 😮 It's only taken me 9 YEARS (including my little detour via the NHS).😱 It's about to be dispatched into the ether, at the mercy of the Gods. (Or two examiners.) 🦖 Maybe I'll finally have the time, space, and energy to go back to painting...🎨 Watch this space!

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Story of Birds comes out in a few weeks. And for first time, I’m doing a US book tour! If you’re in Seattle, Bozeman, St. Louis or Boston, please join us! Full details and ticket info⤵️

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My book's on the shortlist for the 2025 @thebsls.bsky.social Book Prize. Stiff competition though! Winners announced at the annual conference this Friday (www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/04/2025...).

Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935
Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology

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Studies religiously motivated publications about Earth's deep geological history focusing on transatlantic science in the period 1860-1935
Based on extensive consultation of archival sources and overlooked published texts
Brings together fields of controversial science normally discussed separately, such as Christian creationism, occult science, and hollow-earth scholarship
Offers intriguing new perspectives on well-studied writers such as the Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky, the creationist George McCready Price, and the novelists H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Mira Thompson @wensthomp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today, for the safety of all SVP members, I request with this open letter that the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social provides an online option for this year's annual meeting. Myself and many others no longer feel it is safe to travel to and within the USA. Please share the letter everywhere you can!

Letter to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology advocating that their annual meeting have an online option in addition to the in person meeting in Cleveland. Unfortunately, alt text cannot have all of the letter text but the reasoning involves threatof violence to at risk groups in the US as well as issues related to contracting dangerous diseases and other safety threats.

Continuation of letter. Please read previous alt text for summary.

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The book "Palaeontology in Public" is one year old today! 🦣🦖🦕🎂🎉 We've apparently had 7,756 downloads (!!), so many thanks to @uclpress.bsky.social for publishing it and making it open access, and to all the contributors, and to everyone who has read it so far

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Wishing you all a peaceful Winter Solstice today (at 3.03pm GMT) and a prosperous new year.. ☀️

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Two followers away from first major milestone at TetZooTowers_collection TikTok. We're doing videos on Spinosaurus figures, Ice Age mammals and... all the other animal figures.

Darren with Beasts of the Mesozoic Tyrannosaurus figures.

CollectA Arctodus with Colorata Spectacled bear.

Selection of azhdarchid pterosaur figures.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Located copies. However Doyle's Iguanodon footprints, and the casts of them, are still at large.

Photograph from the presentation edition of The Lost World: 'The First Footprints in Maple White Land'

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

And on the subject of "act writing"... Calvin gets the hang of it 😳🤔😆😂😂

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A new pin badge design. I’ll be selling these at @dinoconuk.bsky.social next month if anybody wants one…

A pin badge design: a black background with a black and white hand drawn illustration of a large sauropod dinosaur. The text on the badge reads “KEEP PALAEOART HUMAN, NO TO AI DINOSAURS” along with a “no AI” icon.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Like most English-language journalism about prehistoric animals in the mid-1890s, evidently written and illustrated by someone who had the books of H.N. Hutchinson to hand. In this case Creatures of Other Days (1894).

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I was fortunate enough to look through Richard Owen's sea-serpent-related clippings and notes yesterday in the @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Came face to face with this goofy king of the deep. Shades of the infant form in Shin Godzilla.

Clipping from the Illustrated Police News, 20 May 1876. An engraving of a Goggle-eyed terrorising the ship Hydaspes.

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

@junecasagrande.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Reading the excellent "It Was the Best of Sentences.." I've been a writer for over 30 years and FINALLY understand the nuts and bolts! Thank you! Got to the part about prepositional phrases. I'm sure you'll have seen this.. On a well-known news website..

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Spreading the word about @willconway.bsky.social's #dinosaur #comic Steak, now Kickstarting a 3rd issue! Steak mashes palaeo/dino-geekery with the spirit of 2000AD's "Flesh", serving up smart time-travel action illustrated by @marcolivent.bsky.social. Recommended! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

USA - if #Trump wants to be compared to a king, think our Henry VIII. Fat, bloated, self-opinionated, ruthless, arrogant, power-crazy. Touchy, hypersensitive, disloyal. Think six wives, Cardinal Wolsley, Thomas Cromwell. Loyal advisors, upset him, beheaded. #ElonMusk Just sayin'..

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Is the best way for Americans to deal with this nonsensical birthday military parade on Sunday is to just.. Not turn up. No one there. No one for troops to use the "big force" on. No one for him to rage about or threaten.. Just an indifferent silence. That would so sting his vanity..

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The new Earth Sciences History has everything you'd want to know about the 1824 Geological Society meeting in which the names Plesiosaurus and Megalosaurus were announced. Looks like the room the meeting took place in now has storage heaters, so don't go up in the evening unless you want frostbite.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

You can find my article on the evergreen subject of 'Geology and Genesis' in June's @historytoday.com. Alongside lots of other fascinating topics from the looks of it, including @kateloveman.bsky.social on censorship and the diary of Samuel Pepys.

Title page of 'Geology and Genesis' article, featuring engraving of Hugh Miller and a stratigraphic column.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

‪Palaeoart enthusiasts will know about Alice B. Woodward, but you hear much less about her sister Gertrude (1854–1939), a prolific illustrator of scientific papers on subjects like the Terra Nova Expedition and Piltdown Man. Lots of letters and originals are held by @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social .

Labelled illustration of the skull of Pliosaurus ferox, upper and palatal views. Drawn and lithographed by G. M. Woodward.

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Schedule for this year's Lyme Regis Fossil Festival is now up (14-15 June) and it looks like it'll be a great weekend - fossilfestival.com I'll be doing a panel on the Saturday afternoon around the Palaeontology in Public book, followed by a screening of Gertie the Dinosaur, hosted by Vicky Coules

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a black and white drawing of a dinosaur standing in the desert .

ALT: a black and white drawing of a dinosaur standing in the desert .

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Your reminder that MESOZOIC ART II is seeing release in about 6 months, that it's an incredible, beautiful volume that you won't want to miss, and that it can be pre-ordered from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social already ... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #dinosaurs #books #paleoart #palaeoart

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Mesozoic Art II

Following on from the hugely popular Mesozoic Art, this magnificent new volume showcases 25 amazing artists whose work represents the very best of palaeoart.Our…

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"Steel River: Walking the Tees - A Journey Through Nature in a Human World" Now available in hardback, audiobook (with superb voice of John Telfer) and Kindle, with illustrations by me!!

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happening in 5 days time - all welcome! Will feature talks, a panel discussion, a mini-exhibit on the book put together by @markwitton.bsky.social, and a showing of some relevant short films on the public role of palaeontology

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I was thrilled to be part of the launch for @chrismanias.bsky.social's Palaeontology in Public volume, with some thoughts on paleo history that could use a new look and some open questions that could use some dedicated attention. You can watch the whole of the launch here.

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Palaeontology in Public - Online Launch, 18 February 2025

YouTube video by Popularizing Palaeontology

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

And today is Twin Peaks Day.. ❤️

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VickyCoules @vickycoules.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

New book coming soon by Steve Nicholls published by Head of Zeus Books with photographs by Steve and illustrations by me!

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

One week to go until the online launch for Palaeontology in Public, which will be on Tuesday 18 February, 18:00-19:30 (UK-time) on Zoom All welcome! To attend, just sign-up here at least 24 hours before the event start: forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk

Poster advertising the launch event for Chris Manias (editor), Palaeontology in Public (UCL Press, 2025). It contains the following text:

Online Book Launch
Tuesday 18 February, 18:00-19:30 (UK Time) on Zoom
Chaired by Adrian Currie
Responses from Mike Benton, Riley Black, Natalia Jagielska and Alison Laurence
And discussion with some of the chapter authors.
Register at: https://forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk

There is also an image of the book cover. This features the text "Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time. Edited by Chris Manias." The cover image depicts a large long-necked Sauropod dinosaur, modelled after the famous animation "Gertie the Dinosaur" in a park, with a city skyline in the background. A range of humans are standing around Gertie, pointing at and admiring her. There is also a man in a ringmaster outfit standing on Gertie's shoulder.

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