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Choujin Sentai Jetman (1991)
Episode 2

The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)

Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

fuzzy hadrosaur

Dude, shave (Haolong dongi)

If you see this, reskeet with a Sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai.

Art doesn’t take talent. It’s skill. Skill that you cultivate and shape how best suits you.

You want to make photorealistic fine art? Yeah that will take time and work to achieve. But you’re also an artist when you doodle, when you sketch, when you make bad art that doesn’t meet your expectations.

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

I think part of what's not working for me is the camera movement. Everything's precisely timed, there's no sense of an operator waiting and watching and keeping up with the unpredictable behavior of wild animals.

Four people (including a brown-haired Mark Norell) on ladders remove model skull from Apatosaurus mounted skeleton

Hmm, sounds like we need a refresher. The issue of whether everyone's favorite long-neck is called Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus (or both) has *nothing* to do with which skull was historically included on museum mounts! 🧵#FossilFriday

After 20 Years, the Tetrapod Zoology Highlights — Tetrapod Zoology A look-back at some of my personal highlights from the two decades of Tetrapod Zoology…

In continuing celebration of TWENTY YEARS OF TETRAPOD ZOOLOGY, I've just published an article listing some of my personal highlights. The article is here if you want to check it first... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/1/... but I'm also going a build a thread, discussing and linking to my highlight articles.

Kamen Rider Agito (2001)
Episode 12

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time

“People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.”

Colour photo. The sprawling Crystal Palace Iguanodon undergoing conservation - it’s blue protective cover being put back on, but resembling a cape

“They can be a great people, Igg-Don - they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way.

For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you...”
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (probably), 1854

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Relief mount of small horse skeleton (mesohippus) in frontier some cabinets. Small fossils in trays nearby

Relief mount of Hoplophoneus, a nimravid

Mounted skeleton of early ruminant Leptomeryx in crouching pose. Unpainted life model stands behind it

Small horse. Cat relative. Camel…sheep…deer…thing.

Shoutout to those in-between creatures that are impossible to name properly. #FossilFriday

Artwork depicting 3 Ceratosaurus dinosaurs teaming up to take down a larger Ceratosaurus. The artwork is made of blues, pinks, and oranges. Below the artwork it reads "No War But Class War".

gamesradar▲ SUBSCRIBE Q Modder who first put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at the lawyers, does it again in Morrowind: "| fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" News By Dustin Bailey published 23 hours ago

Dudes Rock

Kamen Rider Wizard (2012)
Episode 16

The most underrated dinosaurs.

Guess I'll post this again

I saw this Pokemon card of Abra where it looked like it was blowing smoke rings, and it made me have to draw this piece - based on the Rankin/Bass Hobbit movie. This is for the 2 other people who will enjoy this.

Tokusatsu superheroes are cooler than American superheroes because face-obscuring helmets are always going to be peak

Go my Bothriolepis... This year's fish pecan pie! Bothriolepis was a peculiar-looking placoderm from the Devonian period or the Paleozoic. It had two long pointed pectoral fins and silly little eyes on top of its head.

#fossil #fish #paleontology #bothriolepis

Relief skeleton of a medium-necked plesiosaur, surrounded by ornate wood trim.

Nearly identical plesiosaur cast, in a crowded case with other relief skeletons of marine reptiles, green text banners, and illustrations.

Illustration of the same skeleton with a guy pointing a stick at it. Text says Plesiosaurus cramptoni No. 228.

The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday

I promise nobody has ever been curious about #Metroid 's generic "Galactic Federation".

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Spielberg influencing Zyuranger, there by influencing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that came out the exact same year as Jurassic Park.

Six Degrees of Big Budget Tokusatsu, kiddies.

All Devils Are Born With a Name — Riley Black Paleontologists have named a new prehistoric sawshark after the iconic Chainsaw Man.

Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.

Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪

black and white photo. A Japanese film producer - hat, tie and shades - stands inbetween people in a King Kong and Crystal Palace standing Iguanodon costume

We missed Godzilla Day yesterday, but here’s an exclusive, never-before-seen photo from the set at Studio Toho!

This early design was supposedly due to creator Tomoyuki Tanaka‘s sympathy/solidarity towards Crystal Palace FC being relegated from the Third Division South in the 1953-54 season…

Single panel comic in sepia tones of a Tyrannosaurus addressing a Nanotyrannus with the words 'you're adopted,' to which the Nanotyrannus replies, 'WOW.'

'You're adopted'

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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖