@tweetisaurus.bsky.social
Dinosaur researcher at NHM London. Honorary Prof at Birmingham. Ed-in-Chief of TJSP. One half of the Fossil Files podcast. Medium pace swing bowler. You were thinking it; I just said it out loud.
Critters I modelled between the Summers of 2024 and 2025. Three (Spicomellus, Galahadosuchus, and Ajkaceratops) were created to accompany the description of significant new fossils in their respective publications, whereas the looming Tyrannosaur in the back was a personal piece.
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Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
I'm not sure if that's for Natalia or me but that's a lovely thing to say either way, Anna!
14.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mounted skeleton of Loricatosaurus priscus, including some real bones from MHNH 2016.4.2063 and some cast bones from other specimens
Norman Stegosaur Loricatosaurus priscus
13.02.2026 10:10 — 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
life reconstruction of galahadosuchus by matt dempsey. the animal is small and gracile, with long legs and a very long tail
a warm welcome to galahadosuchus, a small crocodylomorph from late triassic england 🐊 the holotype was previously referred to terrestrisuchus, but bodenham et al. redescribe it as a separate taxon in their #openacess paper
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I'm really thrilled to see the "Cromhall Croc" finally getting the attention it deserves! Please welcome Galahadosuchus jonesi, named after Ewan's school science teacher, who inspired his love of the natural world ♥️
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Here's Galahadosuchus, a new saltoposuchid from Gloucestershire that I was brought on to illustrate.
Congrats to Ewan Bodenham, Stephan Spiekman (@stephanspiekman.bsky.social), Susie Maidment (@tweetisaurus.bsky.social), Paul Upchurch, and Phil Mannion (@pdmannion.bsky.social) on the publication!
Congrats to Ewan Bodenham @stephanspiekman.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social Paul Upchurch & @pdmannion.bsky.social on describing Galahadosuchus, a new crocodylomorph from Triassic Gloucestershire. Reconstruction: @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social
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Meet Galahadosuchus jonesi, a new crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic of the UK, described by @es-ucl.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social PhD student Ewan Bodenham (with @stephanspiekman.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & Paul Upchurch): anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
13.02.2026 10:05 — 👍 50 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 4Jesus christ Americans. How many shepherds tend *bison*
12.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0I know this is wildly beside the point but i'm also amused that *Jack Horner* is suggesting to other dinosaur people that they do science
12.02.2026 22:27 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Just going to leave this here
12.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 2717 🔁 1130 💬 43 📌 32We're all fucked
12.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. One does exist, but that wasn't the point of my message
11.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Okay well that's *A* definition, for sure. But I think there are other interpretations. They should have said "implicated", or better still, not said anything at all.
11.02.2026 10:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, it says in correspondence with, but what does that mean? In an email with? And see my previous point about victims
11.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also, was there actually a risk that Horner might attend DinoCon? I would have thought not...
11.02.2026 10:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This really is quite staggeringly, awfully recent…
11.02.2026 09:34 — 👍 54 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0Exactly my point.
11.02.2026 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What about Executive Committee members of a UK undergraduate palaeontological association? ARE THEY ALL BANNED?
11.02.2026 09:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For example, what if one of Epstein's victims is now a palaeontologist? Would they be banned? And why the Ex Comms of ANY society that hasn't explicitly banned people mentioned in the files? In desperately trying not to name either Horner or SVP, DinoCon have really ballsed this up..
11.02.2026 09:49 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
How it started... how it's going....
*tbf I believe these were names appearing in a list of conference speakers, but maybe DinoCon should have nuanced their statement somewhat...
Reform UK approached Bangor University to ask whether Sarah Pochin (Reform MP) could come to debate. They said no, and this is the response they get
Reform would behave exactly as Donald Trump. Don't agree with them, and they will penalise, threaten, defund, and cancel you. They are proto fascists.
(CNN) - The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...
Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison
10.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 20502 🔁 7534 💬 716 📌 337
Robert Jenrick is lying.
Reform UK have spent, to date, almost £1.5 MILLION with Harding Print Solutions.
They are NOT a local Manchester printer.
They are Reform's go-to print company and have been for a long time.
Well actually no... we are talking about deposits from the other end of the Earth!
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It's a new #FossilFiles episode! This time we talk about recovery from everyone's favorite mass extinction, the end-Permian! And we focus on the super-cool Grippia bone bed described in Science by @aubronectes.bsky.social.Tune in now wherever you get your podcasts
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The end Permian nearly wiped out all life on earth.🌋🦈🐬🐍🐊🐸 Now new data shows that life bounced back much faster than expected with a big diversity of predators right at the beginning of the Triassic. Find out more in today's new episode
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