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The culture and science of palaeontology with @slyssabits.bsky.social and @travish.co
Discover megalodon and other ancient ocean giants with palaeontologist Ben Francischelli youtu.be/TkAkdk1YPgQ
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Two Infernodrakon on an open field covered by ferns during sunset, one glides low in the air, the other chases behind on the ground.
Eyes like heaven
Infernodrakon hastacollis
#paleoart #sciart
In this episode, @markwitton.bsky.social offers thoughts on AI, how to support palaeo-art and more. Plus @travish.co fails miserably in a game of guess that fossil.
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Hot damn, the Palaeontology in Public book by @chrismanias.bsky.social is the subject of an article in @theguardian.com, following a theme in recent Jurassic World films that the public are bored with dinosaurs. (Fact: Chris has not watched a single JP sequel!)
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If you edit me correctly, for small snippets of time I sound like I know what I'm talking about...
(Full interview: www.fossilsfiction.co/2025/06/15/e... Thanks to @fossilsfiction.co for inviting me onto their show!)
Digital illustration: a jungle clearing in the middle of which lies a huge dinosaur (Tarbosaurus, a close relative of T. rex). Its head is raised up, and on the tip of its snout a small brown bird is perching, seemingly unafraid.
Close up of the previous image, showing the bird perched on Tarbosaurus’ snout.
One is the brains, the other is the muscle.
17.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 557 🔁 156 💬 21 📌 5How do you balance science with storytelling when animating pterosaurs, or sauropods? Just ask @markwitton.bsky.social
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12.06.2025 23:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Palaeontologist+palaeoartist+nice guy @markwitton.bsky.social talks about his new book King Tyrant and more, in your podfeeds now
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Smiling rogue, braided of beard, jaunty of angle, holding up a display of Dinosaurs
Smiling professor holding two Dinosaurs
Dave Hone holding a Baryonyx and he’s even happier now Spurs have won a trophy
Luis Rey holding two Dinosaur Prints
So for this Fossil(andfiction) Friday here’s a few pics relating to one of the questions that came up from @slyssabits.bsky.social during our chat about how actual palaeontologists and Palaeoartists respond to the things I get up to 😅
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Remember when Adele Pentland introduced us to Australia's remarkable pterosaur fossils? From Haliskia to Ferrodraco and more, revisit one of our most popular episodes to take flight into Australia's prehistoric skies! www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/07/03/e...
21.05.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Be good if I tagged @jamespascoe.bsky.social properly 😉
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My chat with with the lovely @slyssabits.bsky.social and @travish.co has just dropped, talking Palaeoart, Lyme Regis, Luis Rey, & the importance of outreach so if you want to hear a poetic and piratical welsh rogue talk with wonderful people give it a listen! 🏴☠️🖤
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Featuring an interview with @pascoejj about his miniatures, discussion of a new paper on the origins of T. rex and megaraptorans, and another paper on the world's new earliest tetrapods. Also listener feedback and more. Check your podcast feeds now.
21.05.2025 06:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was a monumental effort to try to quantify employment trends in US paleo. Please give it a read and see how your academic society can help address these issues. Huge thanks to @fossilexpress.bsky.social @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social @jkimmig.bsky.social Sandy Carlson and Elizabeth Petsios
14.05.2025 17:03 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0Pint of Science🍺 🧪 coming soon. Alyssa is presenting Wednesday May 19 in Melbourne. Others here: pintofscience.com.au
@pintofscienceau
C. Morrison et al. (2025)
Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs
Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 242238
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An Ouranosaurus with a yellow and black frill and facial markings inspects a dry riverbed.
Today’s random piece of nostalgic palaeoart: Brian Franczak’s Ouranosaurus!
This is one of a huge number of pieces Franczak produced in the early 90s, all of which featured prominently in a number of high-quality dinosaur books aimed at general audiences. (1/4)
Why are we so obsessed with dinosaurs? The first-ever episode of Fossils and Fiction attempted to answer this in conversation with author Boria Sax about his book 'Dinomania' www.fossilsfiction.co/2022/03/31/e...
30.04.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So I had the absolute pleasure of taking part in the first of these and it was absolutely amazing! I’d love the chance to meet even more of you wonderful creative people online and talk about Palaeoart! @extinctfineart.bsky.social is both a talented artist and a gracious event host!
27.04.2025 17:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Notepaper background with a podcast cover photo featuring a cartoon trilobite holding a microphone up to the open maw of an Australovenator.
This one goes out to the Tree Star fans
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