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Just realised I sent the typed the time period for the presentation I am talking about URGHHHH

Massive congratulations to my buddy Aubrey Roberts for her work that has made the front cover of Science today! Aubrey talked about it this morning at #2025SVP

Another one for #dinovember

Not exactly a dinosaur this time, but a yawning Inostrancevia.

It's tiring being top predator.

Its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine, in spite of its metallic glitter. The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this. People who have never seen these structures, and have only the ill-imagined efforts of artists or the imperfect descriptions of such eye-witnesses as myself to go upon, scarcely realise that living quality. Illustration I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war. The artist had evidently made a hasty study of one of the fighting-machines, and there his knowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect. The pamphlet containing these renderings had a considerable vogue, and I mention them here simply to warn the reader against the impression they may have created. They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being. To my mind, the pamphlet would have been much better without them. At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion. But then I perceived the resemblance of its grey-brown, shiny, leathery integument to that of the other sprawling bodies beyond, and the true nature of this dexterous workman dawned upon me. With that realisation my interest shifted to those other creatures, the real Martians. Already I had had a transient impression of these, and the first nausea no longer obscured my observation. Moreover, I was concealed and motionless, and under no urgency of action.

Warwick Goble's illustrations of the tripods. The are very stiff 2d silhouettes of water towers with tentacles coming out of the top

Reading the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and losing my mind that the author hated the artist's tripod illustrations so much, 3/4s in, the book detours into an entire paragraph where the protag complains about how shit these tripod drawings are and then just continues on

(Top) sketched this one alongside other tetrapods some time back.

"flash sheet" style image of sixteen mini black and white pokemon drawings. Orange and purple asterisk background filler. From top left: zubat, haunter, pyro jack, umbreon, gengar, greavard, golbat, murkrow, ghastly, drifloon, noibat, banette, duskull, misdreavus, houndoor, mimikyu, shuppet.

It's never too late....... scary frightening pokemon flash sheet I did for halloween 🎃
#tattoo #pokemon

I recently teamed up with Dino and Dog (www.myminifactory.com/users/Dino%2...) to make a 3D printable model of the rhynchosaur Fodonyx that I named way back in 2008. Nikola has done an amazing job and made some awesome renditions of it, including some showing speculative burrowing behaviours!

DAY 27 OF #Croctober IS FRESH OFF THE PRESS
Meet Wadisuchus, published literally just this morning by Sara Saber and colleagues, a new decently sized (3-4 meter roughtly) dyrosaurid from Campanian Egypt, the oldest of its family.
Art by Nathan Dehaut

Publication alert!🧪 Major new volume on early tetrapods and Carboniferous palaeoenvironments. The festschrift for Tim Smithson has just been published by Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Most articles are open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).

Koolasuchus cleelandi Illustration!
In this Illustration, I have depicted a scene of koolasuchus making a desperate attempt to flee the dangers of a fellow Koolasuchus. The seasonal flooding has brought new hunting grounds, and so more competition and fights for those hunting ground rights #paleoart

A gathering of marine reptiles (Helveticosaurus zollingeri) lie on exposed rocks within a sea cave. Foamy sea water rushes in from the left, swirling beneath their perch.

Helveticosaurus Lair

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

Buying train tickets shouldn’t be this hard. Price them exactly the same each day all day/ route and people will magically organise themselves to travel when they need to + around rush hour if they can.

It is really not that hard unless it is a scheme to make money.

My OC Maria 🍷 she's an evil lesbian vampire and i'm in love with her

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

British "public" transportation is being its typical trash today. 🫠

Paleoctober list for the year 2025: 1. Libanoculex 2. Eothyris 3. Runcaria 4. Meiolania 5. Isastrea 6. Ichthyotitan 7. Sequoites 8. Masiakasaurus 9. Protobalanus spinicoronatus 10. Mourasuchus 11. Melanocyrillium 12. Nyctosaurus 13. Eoproscopia 14. Allenypterus 15. Plectronoceras 16. Cainotherium 17. Archaeomarasmius 18. Sebecus 19. Asterophyllites 20. Einiosaurus 21. Eramoscorpius 22. Epicyon 23. Oryctoantiquus 24. Varanus sivalensis 25. Cambropachycope 26. Sphenacodon 27. Cyrtograptus 28. Agapornis longipes 29. Bellerophon sp. 30. Miragaia 31. Diskagma

Same list, but with colours according to the groups we assigned them to. Insects: Libanoculex, Eoproscopia, Oryctoantiquus Synapsids: Eothyris, Cainotherium, Epicyon, Sphenacodon Plants: Runcaria, Sequoites, Asterophyllites Other vertebrates: Meiolania, Ichthyotitan, Nyctosaurus, Allenypterus, Varanus sivalensis Others: Isastrea, Melanocyrillium, Archaeomarasmius, Cambropachycope, Cyrtograptus, Diskagma Dinosaurs: Masiakasaurus, Einiosaurus, Agapornis longipes, Miragaia Pseudosuchians: Mourasuchus, Sebecus Molluscs : Protobalanus spinicoronatus, Plectronoceras, Bellerophon sp.

What is that sound?
It’s FINALLY the sound of this year’s #Paleoctober in barging in!
One simple rule: each day, you will draw an extinct species, and explore the tree of life in the process.
Don’t forget to use the hashtag #Paleoctober2025 so that I can boost!
Good luck!
#paleoart #SciArt

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

art depicting trilophosaurus on a tree stump

a mounted trilophosaurus skeleton

happy #fossilfriday! this is trilophosaurus, an archosauromorph from late triassic north america. trilophosaurus was an allokotosaurian, a diverse group of archosauromorphs that lived exclusively during the triassic
(art by gabriel ugueto)

A regal-looking coyote sits up on a mossy bed atop a layered limestone cliff. A thick forest is only just starting to feel the warmth of the rising sun.

The watcher.
One of a pack of coyotes I met the other morning while out on the kayak. This one kept a close eye on me from it perch on the cliffs. #mammals 🌿

Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina Mississippian insect records are extremely rare. Formally, winged insects occur only at two sites from the Serpukhovian: Delitzsch in Germany, with one species of Palaeodictyoptera; and Guandacol 1 i...

Oldest winged insects: first Megasecoptera from the early Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) of Argentina - Petrulevičius - 2025 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For #fossilfriday #paleoart process:
Bulked out Cyonosaurus clay sculpture. With approval from researchers Naiomi and Arjan, I dove into details next-

Neurotypicals and autistics to compromise with medium talk Allistic and autistic people have agreed to meet in the middle by engaging in medium talk, it has been announced.  In a deal brokered by expert peace negotiators, questions such as “how are you?”…

In a deal brokered by expert peace negotiators, questions such as “how are you?” will now be answered with “fine, thanks” and no more than one sentence of additional, low-stakes information.

Forgot to announce I have a new paper out this week! Animals that are more front-heavy have thicker, differently shaped forelimb bones to deal with the extra load. Limb bones alone may thus be useful proxies for body shape - but posture complicates things. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations - Nature A rhynchocephalian skeleton around 3–7 million years older than the oldest currently known lepidosaur fossil provides important insight into the origin of lizards and snakes.

Marke, D., Whiteside, D.I., Sethapanichsakul, T. et al. The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

they just discovered the oldest rhynchocephalian (tatuara relative) which is hype and its so patheticly small (1.4 cm skull, Agriodontosaurus)

Concept art of Ischigualastia juvenile showing it in frontal, dorsal, lateral and three quarters view

I am now at liberty to share with you another of the numerous concept art pieces I did for the upcoming docuseries “Surviving Earth”. This time is for the juvenile Ischigualastia jenseni

#paleoart #SurvivingEarth #conceptart #nbcuniversal

Nice gift "Plate Tectonics Flip Book" from the author Ch. Scotese to our tectonist J. Lazauskienė 😀

Excited to see that Dr. @palaeo-prof.bsky.social's online course on extinctions was refitted for Coursera as "Life on Earth: Diversification and Extinctions," which will nicely complement my "Extinctions" course there. Also, non-certificate options for both courses are FREE (the best price)! 🧪