Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor

A close up of a hand holding a plush Triceratops skull.

Not a stuffed animal I expected to see at my local Half-Priced Boos, but a welcome one.

If you’ve never seen the comic, here it is:

Drawing of a brown and white hatchling hadrosaur dinosaur sitting in the nest, waving a bony forelimb while yelling ”eeeeeep!”. In the background, there are a few unhatched eggs.

Kids, being cute but demanding since the Cretaceous.

A quick little doodle of a baby Maiasaura, inspired by the recent study reinforcing the idea that they stayed in the nest for a good while and needed intensive care.

Based on the lovely skeletal by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social

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

David James Armsby has done it again! Dinosauria is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of what paleo-media can be. I can't wait for the next one!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH57...

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

"Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report...The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions." - Damian Carrington

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Speaking of the importance of context, pretty proud of my research on the FPA in the late 1980s. #FossilFriday Perhaps the best understood square mile of Upper Jurassic in North America. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Two illustrations of a Tyrannosaurus rex on a white background. The first is significantly shorter and heavier than the second, which was produced with close reference to accurate skeletal drawings. Both have drab grey/brown bodies with striped tails, and prominent red colouration to the neck and head.

And this, dear reader, is why we use references. The top illustration was done some time ago, largely from memory. A museum wanted to licence it, but I insisted on reworking it first, to make it more accurate and appropriate for an educational setting. The difference is kinda dramatic! 😳

Artwork of a common raven sitting atop the skull of a Allosaurus with the words "Dinosaurs Survived" printed underneath.

Dinosaurs Survived!

A modern day dinosaur sits atop the skull of Allosaurus fragilis.

The common raven can seen deserts in the deserts of current day Colorado flying above the Morrison Formation where the remains of Allosaurus are found.

Prints and Stickers Available:
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BBC One - Walking With Dinosaurs - Dino guide: Creating Utahraptor by Jay Balamurugan, series assistant producer

The third article I wrote for Walking with Dinosaurs is out! This one is about Utahraptor and it's gloriously fluffy appearance - and includes some of my colour concept artwork!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now.

Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre...

🔭 🧪

Detail from a drawing in brown and graphite pencils of a Deinonychus standing on a broken tree trunk. Deinonychus is one of the most famous dromaeosaurs: feathered theropod dinosaurs that are perhaps most readily likened to ground dwelling predatory birds, but with a theropod snout instead of a beak. One of their most distinctive features is the large, sickle-shaped claw on their second toe. The drawing is detailed and intricate, and is photographed with a penny for scale, and one of the pencils it was drawn with.

Apparently, it was #DinosaurDay, which also coincides with the beginning of #Pride month, so yay for us LGBTQ+ dino folk. Though really, every day is Dinosaur Day. 🦕🦖

I don't think I've posted this older Deinonychus drawing here. From 2019, the tail end of the days Before Covid.

Ready for tiny birds from above the Arctic Circle? Our new paper on the Cretaceous origins of Arctic nesting drops today in Science. This project was led by @lnwilson.bsky.social‬ and features amazing fossils recovered by Pat Druckenmiller’s field program in the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska.

Triceratops vs Ceratosaurus(?) - One Million Years BC

Gorgonopsids fighting - Walking with Monsters

Gigantoraptor courtship - Dinosaur Revolution

Lusotitan and Torvosaurus - Walking With Dinosaurs 2025

🧵🇮🇨Canary Islands in paleomedia📽️🦕
Over the past decades, several documentaries and series about dinosaurs and prehistoric life have been filmed in the Canary Islands. Now that the new edition of #WalkingWithDinosaurs is coming out, let's get to know these shows!
#WWD25#dinosaurs#Canarias#FossilFriday

In a lush rainforest environment, an 8 tonne T-Rex lets out a mighty roar as it stares down its next, potential meal.

One episode down, #WalkingWithDinosaurs is a welcome return after over a quarter of a century. Visually it’s beautiful with incredibly realised Dino’s, and lush cinematography. The fresh focus on modern day, #paleo science is also a welcome edition to bridge the theory with the fact. 🦖

North African Cretaceous scene with large noasaurid kicking a carcharodontosaurid.

Australian Cretaceous montage of temnospondyl, plus dinosaurs and pterosaur.

Suminia climbing on a branch.

Leaellynasaura showing long tail.

Haven't given up on #ArtBoost, just overwhelmed. Today's is for Miguelangelo Tornero (can't find him on BSky) who's producing very nice #palaeoart, often of a Gondwanan flavour. Is also currently producing #WalkingWithDinosaurs and #JurassicWorldRebirth    fanart, and it looks great.

Cover art

Azhdarchid with an egg

Credits

Happy to announce that I had an opportunity to help out on the pterosaur designs in the new Walking with Dinosaurs.

Congratulations to the creative and scientific team! Toot toot.

a still from 'walking with dinosaurs' showing rose, a female albertosaurus with lilac markings on her face and striking pale blue eyes

a screenshot from 'walking with dinosaurs 2025' showing george, a young male gastonia with some yellow and whitish markings on his cheeks

my personal favourite #wwd2025 protagonist designs 🥰 rose and george

I watched #wwd2025 !
I really liked it but i wouldn't say it felt much like the 90s walking with dinosaurs. i don't think it'd be as good if it were trying to, though.

All around it's a solid documentary- would recommend. Biggest issue is the lack of Triassic episodes, but what we got was great.

BBC One - Walking With Dinosaurs - Dino guide: Creating T. rex and Triceratops by Jay Balamurugan, series assistant producer

@kakapojay.bsky.social explains the thought that goes into designing the #WWD2025 dinosaurs (in this case, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus):

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

The new Walking With Dinosaurs is here!

A quarter century ago the original inspired this geeky teenager to study dinosaurs. I hope this series does the same for a new generation!

A special full circle moment to work on the series & consult with @arctomet.bsky.social & @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social

BBC One - Walking With Dinosaurs - Dino guide: Creating T. rex and Triceratops by Jay Balamurugan, series assistant producer

Hi friends! The first in a series of articles I wrote about bringing the dinosaurs in WWD to life is out - this one is on Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

Walking with Dinosaurs premieres tomorrow at 6.25pm on BBC One and iPlayer, followed by international releases in the weeks after. With that, I thought it was a good time to write this little (but I think important) thread. (1/16)

Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

Holy shit.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

He's actually doing it. Consolidating all payments under the Tsy.

Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is exactly what my paper is trying to address and oppose.

We need a strong digital fisc vision to counter this.

(PDF) Best Practices for Fossil Vertebrate Skeletal Diagrams PDF | Skeletal diagrams communicate overall skeletal morphology and basic life appearance of extant and fossil vertebrates, are commonly used in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

Sharing this again because people are still making confusing edits of skeletals... @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I woke up in the middle of the night, but was armed with insufficient photographic equipment to properly document the eclipse.

Title slide showing crashing waves and word OCEANS.

Montage showing Hesperornis, breaching Mosasaurus with elasmosaurid in its mouth, and a selection of ammonites near a submerged rocky hill.

Welcome to the 4th megathread on the #AppleTV series #PrehistoricPlanet season 2 – streaming now! This one concerns ep 4: Oceans. Of #mosasaurs large and small, #ammonites, flightless swimming birds, giant fish, polar #plesiosaurs and more…

No lies detected.

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

Skeletal diagrams of Gallimimus bullatus and Deinocheirus mirificus by Scott Hartman, to scale with each other and a human adult male silouette.

Gallimimus was not a small animal; Gallimimus, despite being dwarved by its neighbouring distant cousin Deinocheirus, would likely be able to have some overlap in browsing height range. Mindblowing how 2 extremes of the same clade likely cohabited.
(diagrams by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social )