Insufficiently alive will be entering my regular vocabulary whenever possible from now on.
Also I'll hopefully get around to typing up a thread on the new guy tomorrow, theres some very interesting stuff so stay tuned
New crocodile species described by Brochu et al and man I just love these little cheeky comments thrown in here and there.
This particular section discusses the presence of a certain type of bite marks on the fossils.
Seven years of my life were spent preparing this animal!
I am morbidly curious to see if recent news coverage will have any effect on attendance numbers...
Just a reminder that #DinoConUK 2026 is going to be incredible, we have the most fantastic line-up of speakers, events, workshops and more. Tickets are on sale NOW, and do not delay on booking accommodation, preferably at the venue. Weekend of July 25th-26th, Hilton Birmingham Metropole....
Turns out theres giant bloody tortoises in the Pleistocene of Kenya
Nile croc head, currently on display at Vancouver aquarium
The paper is open access so go check it out anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We got our first "croc" of the year, Galahadosuchus from the Late Triassic UK. A gracile saltoposuchid known from the hindlimbs, a chunk of the tail and assorted other isolated postcrania. And with a live reconstruction by no other than Matt Dempsey
#FossilFriday
The #DinoConUK statement is really making the rounds because prior to yesterday I'd have never imagined it would get covered by Internet Today
Tho I wish it would have been under happier circumstances
MoistCr1TiKaL talking about #DinoConUk due to their social media statement on the Epstein Files is not the kind of developement I expected
Damn, I can never remember the name of that new dinosaur...
I'd compare it more to the Indoraptor but yeah I see what you mean, I mean it is ILM so I guess that design philosophy does check out?
Given the varying quality of the models its hard to say how much of this is a legitimate design choice and how much is just mistakes
overall they strike me more like rauisuchians, but honestly the dinosaurs in the scene look a bit derived for the triassic at first glance
Interesting moment where the trailer seems to feature what looks to be a pair of pseudosuchians? tho I can't quite put my finger on what type specifically
given the theropods something more late Cretaceous seems plausible, so perhaps they are meant to be baurusuchids?
THE COW TOOLS ARE REAL
New paper just dropped finally describing a complete specimen of Dakosaurus maximus and what a beauty it is. Some highlights, in addition to this being a long time coming, is the presence of bitemarks on the face and chondrichthyan material in the stomach
doi.org/10.26879/1577
#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Crocodylus sudani!
#sciart #paleoart #crocodile
#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Piscogavialis laberintoensis!
#paleoart #sciart #gharial
#Cenozoicrewind2025 Meet Tewkensuchus salamanquensis!
#sciart #paleoart
What we do know with certainty tho is that Eremosuchus comes from the same deposits as Numidotherium, a bizarre early elephant-relative, illustrated here by Joschua Knüppe
It might be a biogeographic link between South American and European forms, it might be an offshoot of the latter or well who knows, sebecid phylogenies are a mess that requires a lot more material to decipher
Accordingly, do take the size comparison with a good pinch of salt as we know next to nothing about the animals proportions, we don't even have a complete lower jaw and frankly we barely know how it relates to other sebecids either.
Eremosuchus is pretty cool since its the only named sebecid from Africa (and one of the few African sebecids period alongside the Fayum Form from Egypt), but sadly only known from a handfull of fragmentary bones including two dentaries of an adult and a presumed juvenile
I continue to struggle with motivating myself but I did do a recent dive into Eremosuchus after the new redescription and I'm actually kind of happy with the resulting page, so I thought about scaling, tho keep in mind the results are tentative at best.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremosu...
First scholarly accurate replica of the ‘dinosaur-killer’ Deinosuchus schwimmeri: news.columbusstate.edu/posts/resear...
#SciArt #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Crocodile #Deinosuchus #JurassicWorld
OH WAIT ITS EVEN BETTER
This somehow links to a tumblr blog
and the mention of Eremosuchus on the tumblr blog?
ITS A REBLOG OF MY OWN SUMMARY OF TEWKENSUCHUS
Ok Google Scholar I think you might be a bit confused unless African sebecids have some unknown function in UK politics
