🦖⚖️ Major dinosaur repatriation news: Irritator is finally going home!
After years of tireless work by @alinemghilardi.bsky.social and colleagues, #IrritatorBelongstoBR is finally becoming reality. This is a milestone for decolonising palaeontology; thread to follow very soon!
Tivemos uma atualização, pessoal: 😌
Captura de tela de uma página do site do governo brasileiro (gov.br), acessada pelo celular, com cabeçalho do Ministério das Relações Exteriores. O texto destacado aborda cooperação internacional sobre fósseis entre Brasil e Alemanha, mencionando o acordo de cessão do fóssil de Irritator challengeri ao Brasil pelo estado de Baden-Württemberg e pelo Museu Estatal de História Natural de Stuttgart.
🚨🚨ATENÇÃO, GALERINHA! 🚨🚨
Tá vindo aí: www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/ca...
O retorno de fósseis como o Irritator é relevante porque envolve não apenas a devolução de um exemplar científico importante, mas de um patrimônio que integra a história natural de um país. 🦖🇧🇷
(Arte de @heitoresco.bsky.social)
a four panel comic. in the first panel, a robin hops along a trail saying "lovely!" in the second panel, the robin perches on a tree with pink flowers and says "beautiful!" in the third panel, they look up at a white flower and say "fantastic!" in the final panel, their eye is up close to a pink flower and they say "wow" repetitively.
do birds experience spring like we do? i like to think so. at least a little bit.
read how the comic was made: beccagoesoutside.ghost.io/comic-signs-...
#birds #illustration 🌎 🌿🦉 #wildlife #nature
Damn. This is heartbreaking. Poor sloths.
キョウリュウガニ
a figure from the paper showing 4 modes of locomotion for archaeopteryx A) flying B) perching C) gliding D) climbing
great new #openaccess paper on archaeopteryx by o'konnor and clark 🐦 they explore the animal's ecology and modes of locomotion, offering new insight into archaeopteryx's lifestyle!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(art commissioned at the chicago field museum)
two views of the holotype skull of the brazilian spinosaurid irritator challengeri
guess who's going home at last 🎉 #IrritatorBelongstoBR #DecoloniseScience
Scientists recently unearthed a 220,000-year-old quarry that humans repeatedly visited for tens of thousands of years.
The extraordinary site suggests humans had favored rock spots for tools much earlier than previously believed.
#Archaeology #Paleoanthropology
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New at @science.org
Three panel comic. Panel 1: person who has post-op bandages wrapped around their nose, nervously holding someone’s hand. Another speaker off panel says, “alright… let’s get these bandages off.” Panel 2: the person is gleefully looking at themself in a handheld mirror, their friends are overjoyed. Their new nose is a gigantic, elongated and pointed sword shape. Panel 3: they are jumping out of the ocean with a smile on their face, in unison with two swordfish who are also breaching the water.
Diagram showing hypothesized life history and ecological relationships of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)
Angled down image of a rattlesnake, partially buried in sand and facing left. The snake’s colors match its sandy surroundings.
I’m flying home from Phoenix today after spending a few days in northern Mexico. Here’s a sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) observed in the light of morning at El Pinacate and Gran Altar Desert Natl Park. These are sandy habitat specialists as the photo suggests. #herps #snakes 🌿
Former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are sharing a message of optimism with Americans as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary.
🌎In celebration of #EarthDay, watch this video by the Museum's Science Visualization team to learn how animals and plants work together to store carbon and stabilize our climate.
One of the most famous mosasaurs, Tylosaurus proriger, submerges after taking a breath. It is dark above and light below, as tentatively suggested by some palaeocolour data. The challenges of interpreting scaly reptile palaeocolour, and the tiny scraps of colour data we have for this animal, preclude much confidence in chromatic interpretations of this species, however. Also, if you stare at this long enough, you'll see a few sharks. No foolin'.
Been thinking marine-reptiley thoughts today. Here's one of my latest #paleoart efforts along that line: Tylosaurus proriger. The colour is based on fossil colour data, although it's far from certain that this animal was black and countershaded.
Print link: www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...
#IrritatorBelongsToBR
#FossilRepatriation
#DecolonizeScience
Irritator vai voltar ao Brasil!
Viva! Viva!
🦖💀🏞🌎🇧🇷
mais.opovo.com.br/colunistas/c...
Agami Herons.
Dunkleosteus terrelli
[ #paleoart | #fish | #dunkleosteus | #3Dart | #art ]
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
[ #paleoart | #pterosaurs | #quetzalcoatlus | #3Dart | #art ]
Doodles from last last Friday's flocking #paleostream featuring Brachiosaurus, Centrosaurus, Rauisuchus, and Muttaburrasaurus.
The morning mist hovers over the silhouetted vista as the distant mountains are woken by pre daybreak light. The waterway is calm as it holds the reflection while edged with auburn grasses.
The morning arrived 📷🕊️ …
Skull diagram of Paraentelodon intermedium in various orthographic angles. Different angles going clockwise starting top left: Anterior, posterior, dorsal, left lateral, ventral, left diagonal with mouth closed, left diagonal with mouth open.
Paraentelodon intermedium skull diagram.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
#MesozoicLifeStories
Update 19
River of Giants
Progress Update 10
April 20, 2026
"...once the SFM pre-animation is finished and exported to Blender, we will move on to the polishing and correction phase, guided by the paleontologist Dr. Darren Naish"
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/mes...
