Olof Moleman

While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.

⚒️🧪Feliz #FossilFriday!
Happy Fossil friday with Bakiribu returned to Santana do Cariri!
(Where Irritator, Mirischia and many others should be):
#IrrititatorBelongstoBR

Corythosaurus #sciart

Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non-crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non-crested” hadrosaur is known to ha...

Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity - Sharpe - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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2 mosasaur noggins. In white on the right is the incomplete original, and on the left is our finished digital reconstruction in lavender

Happy #MosasaurMonday from Eustace, the holotype skull of Jormungandr walhallensis discovered in North Dakota by the NDGS.

We were tasked with taking this not-quite-complete skull (right) and digitally restoring it for display at the NDGS as well as a library just a few miles from the dig site 🧪

And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...

Yeah. They're on tour.

Afaik there's no soft tissues preserved on the trike herd. Dunno what the life model details are based on exactly.

And the 5 trikes are all from one site as well!

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

Steppe lion enjoys the last days of summer.
But mornings are getting colder, winter is coming.

Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae) A three-dimensional biomechanical model of the musculoskeletal system is used to analyse the potential locomotor functions of the small (~1 kg) Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Gracilisuchus stipan...

#DAWNDINOS paper! We built a 3D musculoskeletal model of ~1 kg Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Gracilisuchus. Forelimbs were a challenge. Nice articulations of ribs, vertebrae & osteoderms made a good torso & neck. Probably quadrupedal, plantigrade & not fully erect limbs. doi.org/10.1111/joa....

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Be weary of the beardogs! These swift pack hunters are not to be taken lightly. New update (backers only) posted to our Kickstarter! Link in thread

Rex, all hail the king #sciart

It's well made. But it's not a fun time, honestly. Most of the episodes are very upsetting and sad. Fascinating and interesting scifi ideas, and now I guess also some actual reality. I stopped watching because almost every episode was such a bummer.

There's literally a Black Mirror episode about this...

You can see Bakiribu fossil in 3D! Access it here: www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

Diplodocid bones galore and aplenty at the Oertijdmuseum. Here some photos from a while ago of the construction of Aurora (a composite of two specimens). The skeleton was on display elsewhere for a month and is now being mounted in the Oertijdmuseum. Photos of that coming soon.

Our latest research on hadrosaurid tail injuries as possible sex indication was announced by @colbertlateshow.bsky.social , how COOL is that?????

#dinosaur
#paleontology

A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group

🚨New paper alert!🚨🤩

🧪⚒️Welcome the first filter-feeding pterosaur from Brazil: Bakiribu waridza, from the Araripe Basin!! 🥳

The new species is AWESOME and was discoverd inside a regurgitalite 😱🤍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a pair of bakiribu filter-feed in a shallow lake as a spinosaurid pursues a flock of them in the background

🚨PTEROSAUR NEWS🚨
a warm welcome to bakiribu waridza, a filter-feeding ctenochasmatid from the early cretaceous romualdo formation of brazil. described by @alinemghilardi.bsky.social et al., it is recovered as a sibling taxon to the 'flamingo pterosaur' pterodaustro
(art by julio lacerda)

Holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi with level

Holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi in dorsal view

Holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi in ventral view

While going through ptero collections with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk

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Barinasuchus arveloi: as an animal, you just cannot get any cooler than this #paleoart

Ouranosaurus #paleoart

YouTube video by Apple TV Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV

Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

four giant azhdarchids: Cryodrakon boreas, Hatzegopteryx thambema, Arambourgiania philadelphiae, and Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Original art by Kyra Zhuravel

Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28

Our controversial paper is finally out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social !
As part of my PhD dissertation at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in 2021, the last chapter was dedicated to a specific pathological pattern in hadrosaurid tails!

CLUMSY MALE DINOSAURS INJURED FEMALES DURING MATING: Our new paper (Filippo Bertozzo et al. 2025), shows that a common tail injury seen in duckbilled dinosaurs was probably caused by heavy male dinosaurs clumsily crushing the spines of females during mating.
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