Mike Keesey

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If you’d like to toss me some laptop money and get something in return — beyond the warm glow of helping me out! — you can grab digital copies of some of my fiction here

If I could I would have long ago willed myself into being into filing taxes, doing the dishes, researching investment opportunities, organizing my files, etc.

drepanosaur with featherlike structures on its back.

Weird dude update

Or the Department of Transportation posting about mule trains.

An image divided into two parts. Part I is labelled, "This is not what evolution looks like." It shows silhouettes in a formation similar to the "March of Progress", starting with prehistoric apes and ending with humans. Part II is labeled, "This is what evolution looks like." It shows silhouettes of hominins in a complex family tree with divergences and introgression. Text at left: "by T. Michael Keesey/Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license" Text at right: "PhyloPic.org"

Image I created a while back attempting to show the complexities of human evolution. #sciart #Paleoart #Evolution #paleoanthropology

Very cool!

Welsh is Celtic but not Gaelic. It’s in a related branch called Brittonic.

Markings on the bones from a 40,000-year-old young Ahytherium aureum (extinct giant sloth) suggest predation by a large predator, such as the jaguar (Julia d'Oliveira)

Mystriosuchus steinbergeri (HugoPaleoart)

Tapejara Portrait - The pterosaur Tapejara calling to attract a mate (Anthony Hutchings)

Habrosaurus in water pooled in Tyrannosaurus footprint w/ fallen leaves strewn beside a magnolia-like blossom w/ leafy trees & T. rex reflected on surface - mural for Deep Time exhibition at NMNH (Julius Csotonyi)

I understand that some have felt disappointed by some big-budget paleo media this year, BUT - we are living in a GOLDEN AGE of #paleoart, w/ stunning, original, scientifically-informed masterpieces being made daily!!! There is so much to absorb & we are so lucky

Well that was quick!

Mirasaura grauvogeli by T. Michael Keesey (CC0 1.0) - PhyloPic A free silhouette image of Mirasaura grauvogeli Spiekman & al. 2025 by T. Michael Keesey (License: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).

Added to PhyloPic: www.phylopic.org/images/fbe2c...

Mirasaura grauvogeli by T. Michael Keesey (CC0 1.0) - PhyloPic A free silhouette image of Mirasaura grauvogeli Spiekman & al. 2025 by T. Michael Keesey (License: CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).

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This is an incredible discovery. Longisquama has been a mystery for decades, and now we have a cousin with numerous specimens.

This one sounds like a rude mayor, too.

I seriously had to read that multiple times before I realized it wasn’t about a very rude mayor.

Fionnula Flanagan

Jodie Comer

I saw 28 YEARS LATER last night—loved it. But also, someone needs to make a movie where Jodie Comer and Fionnula Flanagan play the same character at different ages, because they are dead ringers.

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Some moles?

Yes, a lot (probably most?) of them don’t mind “Indian” at all, and use it themselves. But personally I still prefer not to use it for them, because there’s this completely different group of people that already had the name.

As a software engineer, I can attest that it is to some extent useful. Whether it’s useful enough to warrant the expense, especially after the current speculation bubble bursts, is another question.

Oh no, is this the new “sharks are older than trees”?

YouTube video by mattsproductions12 ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN THEME

Yeah, like this. I guess it’s okay, feels a little overdone. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-buR...

(I’m probably forgetting some lesser-known themes.)

My take is that all of the Superman themes are great. He’s 3 for 3.

Also the Fleischer one goes “SuperMAN! SUPerman! Superman, Superman, Superman!” and the Williams one goes “Duhhh duh duh duh duhhhh… Su-per-man. Duhhh duh duh duh duhhhh… SUPERMAN!” and the Zimmer one doesn’t have words.

Colourful illustration of a forest scene in which a large, blue-grey vaguely salamander-like animal is running somewhat comically, it's maw open to grab a smaller, sail-backed animal that is escaping up a fallen tree trunk. The ground is covered by mosses, dead leaves and ferns, with several insects and millpedes around.

Clumsy Hunter

In the early Permian, a little less than 300 million years ago, life on land had long been rich and diverse, but most of the animals were still a bit... goofy.

Here's Eryops chasing down a Platyhystrix in a lush riverside forest in what is now Texas, some 290 million years ago.

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Sure, body horror, for example. (That does often involve death, but the death is at least partly welcome, and not the source of the horror.)

Yes. I mean, it’s right there in the name.

YouTube video by Dead Sound "Terrible Lizards" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2025)

Spectacular animated short showing different interpretations of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs as interpreted in the 1850s, early 20th Century, 1990s, and today!

youtu.be/OH57rtnKCEM?...

Shuvuuia deserti - PhyloPic Freely reusable silhouette images of Shuvuuia deserti.

Also note that some dinosaurs may have evolved into anteaters first. www.phylopic.org/nodes/96d6f7...

Silhouette Image Collection - PhyloPic A collection of silhouette images from PhyloPic.

Here they all are! (Sort of—PhyloPic doesn’t current have Geogale or Eremitalpa, so those are relatives.) www.phylopic.org/collections/...