Fern Pendragon

YouTube video by Shaun The War on Science

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This Surprising Ancient Reptile Had a Colorful, Corrugated Sail on Its Back. New Research Suggests It Was Used to Communicate A 247-million-year-old fossil from a German natural history museum reveals the secrets of Mirasaura

Look at this perfect Triassic friend. Mirasaura was a "monkey lizard" with a prominent sail on its back that wasn't really like scales or feathers. Studying these fossils also revealed that the enigma Longisquama is a drepanosaur with a fan, too. I'll tell you more at @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

Sauropod tracks from the Central Sayr A site, showing in situ tracks overturned to reveal their plantar surface. Sketches of each footprint help identify its shape from the surrounding orange rock.

Life reconstruction images of the feet of the trackmaker, showing the right manus and left pes. Roman numerals indicate digit positions. Illustrated by Khoi Nguyen.

Titanosaur-sum discovery! Well-preserved tracks of Nemegt sauropods from S Mongolia have revealed novel insights into soft tissue anatomy & function, including scales that may have helped with scratch digging on sandy surfaces! 🧪🌍🦕

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
@linneansociety.bsky.social

render of stylized Opabinia model it's zoomed in close, preparing to grab the camera with its trunk. it's cyan with pink eyes and yellow lobes

A small marine arthropod from the Cambrian period. A strange creature with 5 eyes, grasping trunk, and swimming lobes. This animal would've used its trunk to grab prey and pass it to its mouth underneath the head.

If you've not already followed the cool trans nature experts in this starter pack, you're really missing out.

Also, it's Pride! Get some more trans voices on your timeline!

Habronattus alachua lass agrees ♥️

Paleontologist Elizabeth Philpot used a fossil like this to make ink, painting an ichthyosaur skull in an 1833 letter to Mary Buckland.

Five drawings of pigeons in various natural colours

Small birds

I want there to be places for trans paleontologists beyond the student and volunteer level. I want us to have access to more than labor that principally benefits curators and profs. Students I meet now, I want to see as leaders in the field before I’m subject to taphonomic agents.

two sivatherium stand in shrubland near a stream, where one is them is defecating

mounted sivatherium skeleton

happy #worldgiraffeday! this is sivatherium, a giraffid that lived in africa and eurasia between the late miocene and early pleistocene. it resembled an okapi more so than a giraffe, though it was much larger and more heavily built in comparison
(art by ralph lomotan)

Portrait of a pale stellasaurus with rainbow colored horns against a cloudy backdrop which resembles the trans flag.

New Art!

A stellasaurus to celebrate Pride Month 2025! I love all you lovely people. Stay safe out there and resist tyranny however you can.

#paleoart #pridemonth2025 #lgbtqia+ #lgbtartist #dinosaur #digitalart #art

I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS:

-trans women played various women’s sports.

-trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed.

-trans folk could get accurate documents.

-trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate.

AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.

Ducklings!

#birds

Some Arctic Wolves at Tierwelt Herberstein I was able to see up close, they go from looking stoic to silly so fast

#wolf #photography

Detailed color illustration showing 3 different views of the same specimen. Two at the bottom are the unreconstructed fossil from different angles. The reconstruction at the top shows the brachiopod in life position, with 9 visible boreholes and the common epibionts Cornulites and a bryozoan. The shell has pinkish and whitish horizontal stripes and the valves are slightly agape, with cirri lining the opening.

This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting.
#FossilFriday #sciart

A bright yellow and hot pink moth standing on a stick in the inky abyss

Good morning, please have a nice bug.

#invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky

*Rosy Maple Moth in the Pine Barrens

Disparity of cycad leaves dispels the living fossil metaphor - Communications Biology An analysis of leaf disparity through time in cycads shows that this group has a dynamic and expanding morphological diversity until the present, and thus does not fit the ‘living fossil’ hypothesis o...

last week my latest paper on #cycads came out.
The article deals with the idea of cycads as "living #fossils", but what does this mean exactly, and what did we actually test? A thread for #FossilFriday!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

You want to know about pigeon pong.

Ichthyosaur giving birth. Stuttgart Naturkundemuseum. Holzmaden Germany. Stenopterygius

This is the famous 'Ichthyosaur giving birth' specimen, a Stenopterygius mother found in the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, Germany. It is one of my favourite ichthyosaurs and curated in the Stuttgart Museum of Natural History, Germany.
#paleontology #fossils #science #germany #museum

Meet Zarafasaura: The Long-Necked "Sea Monster"!

Zarafasaura (Zaa-RAH-fa-SORE-ra) was a small elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous seas of Morocco (72–66 mya). Its name comes from "zarafa", the Arabic word for giraffe—this one had 56 vertebrae!

A few fun facts about Zarafasaura:

A minimalist white and orange crested pterosaur

Minimalist Meilifeilong

The virtual paleoart exhibition is live!

Explore artwork from 24 incredible artists, including paintings, handcraft, modeling, animation, and poetry.
Take your time exploring the details in pieces by your favorite artists—or discover new ones!

Visit: extinctfineart.com/view-gallery/

Some views of the Grimming in central Austria

#mountain #landscape

Coal skink, line art

A yellow and orange skink with black stripes

A very spikey, stub tailed skink

Line art of a zebra skink

Some skinks what I drawed

Final alpaca update 🦙

A dark brown cast skeleton of a dire wolf, or Aenocyon dirus. The skull is in focus, and the skull's downward angle gives the impression that the animal is staring directly at you.

A brown cast skull and neck of Brachychampsa. The jaw is slightly open, exposing several sharp teeth of varying size, and large, round osteoderms run down the back of the neck.

A tan cast skeleton of a giant bison, or Bison latifrons. Its long, slightly curved horns hang heavy from its head, and the neural spines that would have supported huge neck and back muscles stand tall just behind the skull.

A gray cast skeleton of a Ceratosaurus. Its jaw is wide open, exposing long, sharp teeth, and its heavy body leans in from the right frame.

Skeletal mounts at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
#paleontology

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.

www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

An illustration of seven thicc chonky seals.

Water doggos 🦭

YouTube video by EssenceOfThought Debunked: Cis Lesbians Hate Trans Women

NEW VIDEO!

Today’s video debunks the myth that cis lesbians hate trans women, showing how one of the originators of this myth, promoted and empowered as the authority on the matter by the BBC, is a self-confessed serial rapist of cis lesbians.

#LGBT #TransRights #GenderCriticalFascism

Alpaca update 🦙