Suchomimus in blue and Irritator in orange as scale comparisons
Suchomimus in blue and Irritator in orange as scale comparisons
Suchomimus
Suchomimus
Spinosaurids are as enigmatic as they are diverse, Suchomimus at perhaps 11 metres was the largest known member of the Baryonychinae, while Irritator at around 6 metres is regarded as the smallest of the Spinosauridae.
More WIP on displays for next months @dinoconuk.bsky.social charity auction π΄ββ οΈπ¦
23.07.2025 20:53 β π 24 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A grey T-shirt, with a simple black print on the front.
The print includes one of my pencil sketches of a T. rex, and beneath it a βNo AIβ logo, along with the words βNo to AI-Generated Dinosaurs. Keep Palaeoart Humanβ
Thought Iβd get myself a T-shirt printed for DinoCon next month, so people know who I am. Putting my name on it seemed a bit naff, so I did this instead. I think itβs very βmeβ. π€·ββοΈ
22.07.2025 19:48 β π 468 π 84 π¬ 10 π 5
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States
Our report on employment is out in Paleobiology
(They did let us append that the paper was accepted before the election/changes to NSF and other granting agencies)
Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
14.05.2025 11:41 β π 56 π 33 π¬ 5 π 6
I am very pleased to announce that my first scientific paper & first author paper, has just been published !
Rise of the King: Gondwanan Origins and Evolution of Megaraptoran Dinosaurs
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
07.05.2025 07:33 β π 69 π 25 π¬ 6 π 0
Smiling bearded rogue, dimpled of cheek, glad in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, holding a Allosaurus patch
Large scale animatronic Allosaurus from the early 90βs
Replica of Big Al at the wonderful Lapworth Museum
Allosaurus with a taste for sea food by the wonderful Steve White
The @iknowdino.bsky.social reward just arrived, & Iβve been a backer of this wonderful podcast for many years! Allosaurus is iconic, from Dinamation, Lapworth Museums Big Al, to a stunning graduation commission for my good friend @dinomaster.bsky.social via the mighty @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social π€π¦
14.04.2025 17:53 β π 23 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America
Dean etΒ al. examine the fossil record of North American dinosaurs prior to the end-Cretaceous
mass extinction. Estimates of detection probability from occupancy models decrease
prior to the extinction...
π¨ I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! π¨
We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
08.04.2025 15:34 β π 53 π 24 π¬ 3 π 5
We have a rich fossil heritage on the south coast, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, the first humans on these islands... And everything in between. Come and find out about it at our new exhibition, running from April 4th to June 1st.
godshousetower.org.uk/eventer/exhi...
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
08.03.2025 11:02 β π 33 π 17 π¬ 2 π 3
Tickets are available to buy now! π¦π¦π₯³
www.dinocon.co.uk/tickets
#DinoConUK #Devon #Exeter #Dinosaur #Convention #Event #UniversityOfExeter
14.02.2025 12:01 β π 61 π 32 π¬ 1 π 9
Two Tyrannosaurus wrestle by biting one another ON THEIR MOTHERHUBBIN' FACES. They lean towards the right of the image, the further animal trying to wrench its jaws out of the bite of the closer. One foot of each animal is off the ground, and the tail of the closer individual arcs upwards. Dust and debris scatter as they stagger around the clearing. Behind them is a nice, pleasant day with blue skies and shady trees; the sort of place you might picnic if it weren't for the threat of two 8-tonne reptiles trampling you while they settled their differences. The experience is similar to being in some city parks.
For #valentinesday and #FossilFriday, here's Tyrannosaurus engaging in face biting, a behaviour evidenced from numerous tooth gouges and puncture wounds in their skulls. Among living species, face biting is strongly correlated with the onset of sexual maturity, so this image is love-adjacent, sorta.
14.02.2025 11:31 β π 258 π 56 π¬ 7 π 6
Darwin wrote:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear.
Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
So, hang in there, #academicsky!
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12.02.2025 13:29 β π 122 π 37 π¬ 4 π 6
Pencil drawing of an Iguanodon, a large herbivorous dinosaur with a heavy, beaked, ungulate-like head and large distinctive 'thumb' claws on its hands.
#Iguanodon was formally named 200 years ago today in 1825. The second dinosaur to be named after Megalosaurus, and one of three genera originally used to define Dinosauria.
10.02.2025 18:27 β π 1064 π 298 π¬ 18 π 10
Me next to an old βkangarooβ stance Bernissart Iguanodon cast mount at the Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge.
A modern Iguanodon on all fours (likely still a facultative quadruped) from better myology and anatomical studies and mass analysis at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt.
Life sized Iguanodon thumb spike cast at the Natural History Museum of London.
On the meme, βtalk dumb, get the thumbβ
Happy 200th birthday #Iguanodon!
Despite being the first dinosaurs to ever be discovered, it was the second dinosaur to be described and named.
This iconic ornithopod was quite wide spread across Europe. It boasts a large thumb spike likely for grasping plant and could be used to defend itself.
10.02.2025 21:17 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A coloured painting, depicting two Iguanodon in a forested environment. The Iguanodon are bipdel and very scaly, with iguana-like crested heads. One is walking in the foreground in a determined manner, with thumb-spikes outstretched, and in the background one is stretching up to eat leaves from a tree, with a prehensile tongue gripping the branches.
Happy 200th Birthday Iguanodon!
Very much a fan of your early-20th century look depicted by Gerhard Heilmann, with prehensile tongue and power-walk
10.02.2025 09:07 β π 155 π 21 π¬ 4 π 1
Watercolour and pencil sketch showing a Cretaceous landscape as understood in 1833. A lizard-like Iguanodon is shown at left alongside a large palm tree, its tail whirling over rolling hills in the distance. A meandering river bisects the scene, with other animals along its banks. These are, from the top down, a swimming plesiosaur in the stream, a monitor lizard-like Megalosaurus, stork-like birds, the spiky Hylaeosaurus, another swimming plesiosaur, a somewhat dog-like crocodile, and two turtles. The right side of the image shows fern-like plants, reeds and more palm trees.
Iguanodon was named 200 years ago today, so here's (AFAIK) the first time it appeared in #paleoart: an 1833 watercolour/pencil study "Reptiles Restored, the Remains of Which Are To Be Found in a Fossil State in Tilgate Forest, Sussex" by George Scharf. That's Iguanodon on the left. #Sciart thread...
10.02.2025 09:49 β π 388 π 80 π¬ 5 π 7
A text-heavy poster detailing what we might predict about the life appearance of the medium-large predatory dinosaur Megalosaurus. Various reconstructions abound, with a timeline of historic interpretations on the left, the oldest known life reconstruction of Megalosaurus in the top right, and my own reconstructions in the middle and bottom.
My poster on the life appearance of Megalosaurus, as presented at SVPCA 2024. A paper on this, and the history of M. reconstructions, is currently in the system and should (hopefully!) be published later this year. Posting this in the interim as a poss. useful #paleoart reference. #Sciart #dinosaur
28.01.2025 11:09 β π 668 π 118 π¬ 13 π 6
Poster advertising the launch event for Chris Manias (editor), Palaeontology in Public (UCL Press, 2025). It contains the following text:
Online Book Launch
Tuesday 18 February, 18:00-19:30 (UK Time) on Zoom
Chaired by Adrian Currie
Responses from Mike Benton, Riley Black, Natalia Jagielska and Alison Laurence
And discussion with some of the chapter authors.
Register at: https://forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk
There is also an image of the book cover. This features the text "Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time. Edited by Chris Manias." The cover image depicts a large long-necked Sauropod dinosaur, modelled after the famous animation "Gertie the Dinosaur" in a park, with a city skyline in the background. A range of humans are standing around Gertie, pointing at and admiring her. There is also a man in a ringmaster outfit standing on Gertie's shoulder.
We'll be having the online launch for Palaeontology in Public on Tue 18 Feb 18:00-19:30 UK-time
It will feature comments from Mike Benton, Riley Black, Natalia Jagielska and Alison Laurence, & discussion with some of the chapter authors
More info & signup link here: forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk
28.01.2025 16:16 β π 120 π 41 π¬ 3 π 1
A lab with skeletal material
A woman with an ammonite on a beach
A woman looking at a T. rex skull in a museum
A man preparing a fossil reptile
So, you want to be a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life, but don't know where to start?
Maybe you worry you're not good enough? That you can't do field work? Or you can't afford it?
Let me take you through different options for making it in the field π(π§΅)
04.01.2025 21:50 β π 420 π 144 π¬ 15 π 16
A. Danison et al. (2024)
Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12(1): 81-114
doi: doi.org/10.18435/vam...
journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.p...
22.12.2024 02:27 β π 61 π 21 π¬ 2 π 8
About that Saurophaganax paper
Newly out in VAMP: Danison, Andy D., Wedel, Mathew J., Barta, Daniel E., Woodward, Holly N., Flora, Holley M., Lee, Andrew H., and Snively, Eric. 2024. Chimerism of specimens referred to Saurophagaβ¦
Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future.
svpow.com/2024/12/22/a...
22.12.2024 15:15 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
East Sussex: Dinosaur teeth discovered in Bexhill
A new study says a discovery at Ashdown Brickworks helped unearth a community of dinosaurs.
Published today ... our study of predatory dinosaur diversity in the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Group of the Wealden. New data on one of the oldest Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages, revealing new spinosaurid, tyrannosauroid and dromaeosaurid lineages ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #dinosaurs
05.12.2024 07:45 β π 261 π 62 π¬ 9 π 4
For the 165th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, here are two theropod dinosaursβT. rex & a hummingbird. Despite all the differences, T. rex is more closely related evolutionarily to this hummingbird than T. rex is to, say, Allosaurus! Still blows my mind! π¦ More... 1/2
24.11.2024 17:04 β π 291 π 119 π¬ 10 π 12
Image of the world showing fossil occurrences recorded in the Paleobiology Database as coloured dots with a geological timescale at the bottom
The Paleobiology Database has landed on Bluesky! β¨
Here we'll be posting database updates, new publications and all things fossil-data-related ππ
Be sure to check out our website for more info on how to contribute to and use PBDB data as well as loads of other resources! π¦π
paleobiodb.org
22.11.2024 12:23 β π 183 π 64 π¬ 4 π 5
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