Literally Miguel 🇻🇪

(also yes its size has been very often overestimated)

Babe wake up, the first accurate skeletal reconstruction of the buffalo-iguana called Shringasaurus is out

not yet :(

what good does awareness bring compared to nihilism regarding things you have 0 power or control over

this was the fish! bsky.app/profile/cora...

Jhon tetrapod

accurate size

Tiny part of a piece i love

A gray white reptile skull in a black sand table

a pretty skull of the phytosaur Redondasaurus collected from the Navajo Nation and housed at @museumofnaz, on loan to PEFO #FossilFriday 🦖🧪

human holding a cast of a red reptile skull

Gumby’s skull was collected in 2008 and is on exhibit at PEFO’s Rainbow Forest Museum.

in a darkened ocean, the mosasaur-like ichthyosaur thalattoarchon's gleam with ferocious glee, blood floating from its open mouth

because of this, megapterygius could be described as a mosasaur that converged on ichthyosaur-like traits, a direct contrast to thalattoarchon, a triassic ichthyosaur that converged on mosasaur-like traits
(art by @literallymiguel.bsky.social)

art depicting megapterygius swimming just below the ocean surface

a photograph of the megapterygius holotype as it was displayed at the national museum of nature and science in tokyo

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is megapterygius, a mosasaur from late cretaceous japan. at least 5 of its posterior dorsal vertebrae have neural spines that project anterodorsally, suggesting that it may have had a dorsal fin reminiscent of some delphinoid cetaceans
(art by @adamrl.bsky.social)

IS THAT A GODDAMN FOSSILIZED TRACHEA

"I believe In evolution, except for the whole Triassic period"

maybe...

EVERY CURRENT ART OF THIS ANIMAL IS WRONG!!!!!!!

for this to have the normal tail its usually depicted with, it would need a string of like 150 caudal vertebrae, instead of the expected 30-40

it had big manual claws and a big bone support for a MEAN angry brow over the eye

🙃

Araripesuchus' only leaving the titanosaur live because he's on a good mood that day btw, otherwise the scenery wouldn't be as pretty....

Art Comission by James Stryker Colors suggested by @cascoclauda :3

Outmuscled

(Argentinosaurus & co.)

I think Asa Mitaka should be allowed to kill everyone very painfully tbh

two men are looking at each other in a room . ALT: two men are looking at each other in a room .

why would you want to de-extinct prototaxit?- Oh....

He looks like such a disney channel jock who plays american football and is a bully, but later becomes friendly to the cast after expressing how he is misunderstood and uses his muscle strenght to help the main character's goal on the third act

A few more crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Dakosaurus #Alt4Me

Thinking about how Sarcosuchus imperator is up there with Giganotosaurus as one of the the most embarrasing ratios of Species-relevancy to quality-of-description we have ever been insulted with 😭 we need that osteology man

tried to capture the smugness of a loafing cat i petted

bro almost started to sing me a disney song about being evil