Oh dear

To be fair I don't think him being too stupid to know what he's saying and an insane bigot are mutually exclusive in this situation - but yeah, that's a valid point

This feels like a bit of a "grass is green" moment when we're talking about a man with an iron cross tattoo on his chest, I won't lie

It's not a specifically nazi-originated thing, but it derives from early (incredibly racist) anthropology and eugenicism - which is also where a lot of nazi ideology came from to begin with.

This is deeply unserious animal

A wintery landscape with brown-grey colour scheme

Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.

The PP ones also had various small anatomical issues as well, particularly some of the details of the Mosasaurus's cranial anatomy

Largely personal preference things - the Prehistoric Planet mosasaurs are pretty good but they lean, imo, a little too far in the whale direction whereas The Dinosaurs Tylosaurus hits that sweet spot of looking like a very specialized aquatic lizard.

LOOK AT THE BABY LYSTROSAURUS

In terms of the actual design, I would definitely say so. Prehistoric Planet's mosasaurs left a bit to be desired for me in that respect, especially compared to the wonderful plesiosaurs and azhdarchids, etc. As a show though, Prehistoric Planet sweeps for sure.

I have veeery mixed feelings about this show, but this is imo probably the best mosasaur we have ever gotten on screen. She's beautiful 💜

But perhaps it could - we just have to ensure the correct people are placed onto said (ideally one way) space flight

Obligatory plug of marine reptile-related paleomedia - definitely my favourite of the Dinosauria shorts so far, apart from Hunted by Moonlight

Cambrian on my mind #sciart

The Birds That Run the Land Indigenous knowledge is helping conservationists manage delicate ecologies.

My latest! This piece on the extraordinarily long history of indigenous bird knowledge has had a *very* long and winding road to publication, and I'm super happy it found a home at Foreign Policy. A hearty thanks to @beijingpalmer.bsky.social for snapping it up and carrying it over the finish line!

Oh shit, this is a really cool topic, I am excited to read this one

At the top, digital models of a mosasaurid (left) and polycotylid (right) skull, with the various insertion sites for muscles associated with biting shown in different colours. At top left is a silhouette representing a mosasaur (Platecarpus typmpaniticus; Johan Lindgren, Michael W. Caldwell, Takuya Konishi, Luis M. Chiappe CC BY-SA 3.0). At top right is a silhouette of polycotylid Dolichorhynchops osborni. At the bottom is a plot representing the optimized biting adaptive landscape projected over the functional morphospace, showing the distribution from higher biting optimization (yellow, top right) to lower (blue bottom left). Polycotylid skulls feature on the left and mosasaurids on the right.

Distinct feeding biomechanics in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @just-fre.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

Artists, never forget that you are not a brand. You do not need to be consistent and marketable. If you CHOOSE to strive for these things that’s fine, but you do not NEED them. You are a fucking person, multi-faceted and complex. People who do not respect that see your art as a product

It's a relatively non-controversial cause that is prominent in public consciousness, and thus a pretty safe way to virtue signal to people online (as opposed to for instance Palestine, which is going to draw in more argument, or Congo, which nobody talks about and isn't going to get you attention).

Paleontology has an Epstein problem. Women in the field say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny | CBC Radio The names of hundreds of scientists have appeared in the Epstein files, including prominent dinosaur researchers. As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations, women in ...

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

Makes a lot of sense with how many fossil holocephalians converged on "shark" bauplans, but still really cool

Illustration comissioned by Erica @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social for her wonderful video on co existance of Early Homo and Australopithecus lineages at Ledi Geraru.

Link to the video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQvC...

I will never tire of seeing your takes on extinct hominins 🔥

Let's goo

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving artist🔥

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Always been one of my favourite pieces of yours 🔥

Records show deeper ties between Epstein, ex-Microsoft exec Emails show a yearslong relationship from at least 2010 through 2018, according to documents released to the public last week.

I mean, yes, fun dinosaur stuff is fun dinosaur stuff. But Myhrvold is mentioned in the recent batch of Epstein files over 1000 times (far more than Horner). Some of the correspondence between the two is very chummy and concerning. See: www.seattletimes.com/business/loc....

Haolong dongi, the “Porcupine” Iguanodont. At about 2.5 meters long, not much would stand out about this Hadrosauroid had we just their skeletal remains, but thanks to the preservational nature of the Yixian Formation, we’ve come to uncover amazing details about the anatomy of this animal #sciart 🧵>

Pretty sure nothing happened to this individual. The guy had guns in his hotel room. SVP knew he was an issue in advance and instead of rejecting his abstract, they asked him to edit it to not name specific people in his weird manifesto.