We don't know if T. rex engaged in actively feeding its offspring. Work by @arctomet.bsky.social has suggested that the juveniles were eating different prey items than the adults. Definitely not impossible, but there's a lot of uncertainty.
T. rex likely started processing a large carcass on the spot as opposed to carrying it for a long distance. peerj.com/articles/207...
IT IS FRIDAY MY DUDES
A look at the 2025 Rebor #Beelzebufo is now up at the TetZooTowers_collection TikTok, check it out! Yup, #PrehistoricPlanet similarities might be apparent... vm.tiktok.com/ZNRmvW6K7/
l just watched the first episode of #TheDinosaurs on Netflix, and already found 3"subtle" Jurassic Park references.
It is very late summer in North America during the Jurassic period, and ginkgo leaves have begun fallen upon this group of Stegosaurs, one of which carries on its thagomizers an important reminder that life in this era was cheap, and natural selection acts at incredible speeds.
Well... the thing is out. Spinosaurus mirabilis, here we go again!
#paleoart #sciart #spinosaurus
Let us have our fun!
Wake up, a new species of #Spinosaurus just dropped! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
After looking through this paper, I can only think of this Brian Engh piece. Literally one of my favorite pieces of T. rex paleoart in recent years.
The AI image-ridden slides do not fill me with a lot of confidence....
The first time (to my knowledge) that we can confidently say that hadrosaur's cause of death to be a tyrannosaurid attack. Very exciting!
peerj.com/articles/207...
A great podcast about the Horner debacle, and the mistreatment of women in the field. The account of the Hunyh incident and the "it's not my place" response was truly haunting.
That sexual selection is one of the primary drivers in evolution is well established. Studies of Mesozoic #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs, however, have been dominated by the view that the variation, extravagance and diversity seen in these animals is not due to the pressures of sexual selection, but...
The null hypothesis suggests you weren't in North Dakota with Epstein, Maxwell, and Kennedy Jr. Let's test this hypothesis looking at the "actual evidence". I'd say the null hypothesis has been rejected.
Late to the party, but I had the best undergrad advisor in Scott McKenzie. A man who puts his students first and is passionate about Paleontology, and fosters a sense of wonder and curiosity to the public. Ironically, he was mentored by Don Baird, as was Horner.
Regarding events of last week in SVP and the wider vertebrate paleontology community.
Good times.
Yet another strike against the "large dinosaurs can't have any fibrous integument" narrative.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Having encountered the great bearded one twice during my undergrad years, he is certainly eccentric, but otherwise an absolute blast to talk to.
A mammoth drawings from Arcy-sur-Cure cave,France.
Outlined in red-ochre, this rotund, tuskless mammoth looks like a juvenile.
At 28,000 years old, a product of the Gravettian culture, one of the oldest examples of cave art in Europe.
The saddest mammoth from the Ice Age. 🦣😢🏺
#MammothMonday
Horner is famous in where I dig in Montana for telling a little girl that brought him a fossil to identify something to the effect of : I’d rather this thing turn to dust in the badlands than have you get it
Much in the same vein as to how the "tyrant lizard king" was described by a man who was a bully and a tyrant (among other things) in his own right.
I find it highly ironic that history will speak of how the "good mother lizard" was described a pedophile. A pedophile who didn't even discover egg mountain and hogged the credit might I add.
The woolly mammoth, a mother and her child, venture past glaciers impossibly vast for today's world.
What Really Happened at Tanque Loma?
#paleoart
Completely unsurprising as many have already said. Begging MOR to distance themselves from Horner's legacy akin to what AMNH has done with Henry Osborn.
They kind of already did it with Duck Tales in the form of this thumb nail from @iszi.com and @davehone.bsky.social's podcast. youtu.be/l_bclqGr8Hk?...
*In epic movie guy voice*: "From the authors of the two greatest tyrannosaur books of the past decade comes...."
A very good review of a very good book. Plus, a lot of good information said on tyrannosaurid integument and nuances on how it would impact their thermoregulation.
This is not a model. This is a "fossilised" taxidermy of a Woolly Rhino, discovered in Starunia mine in Carpathian Poland (now Ukraine) in 1929. Dating to the Pleistocene, its exquisite preservation is owed to a mixture of brine, oil and clays. 🧵
