Our new paper on a tiny Wealden 🐊 is now out, with @tetzoo.bsky.social, @neilgostling.bsky.social and co. As a critical taxon close to the origins of the living croc lineage, we used microCT to build a comprehensive morpholgical atlas to reassess its evolutionary relationships. tinyurl.com/4t592crr
Just got it
Anyone have a PDF of
"Price, L. I. (1955). "Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Bauru. Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 27: 487–498"?
I've been looking for it and I've yet to find anything on it other than more recent studies citing the paper
A large teal gharial rests amongst mammals
A closer view of the gharial details.
March of the mammals prompt list
#marchofthemammals2026 Day 18: Rest Day/Eogavialis africanum
A young Eogavialis basks on the shoreline. While he doesn't care about anything except for fish, most other animals aren't going to chance his toothy grin.
Join us tomorrow across the Atlantic to the Miocene of South America!
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
They are also generated by some squamates and nonavian theropod dinosaurs, but the for mer were too small and the latter insufficiently alive to have left these marks at Hadar
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....
The Koobi Fora tortoise scaled to an adult man. The shell alone is as tall as the mans hip
A photograph of a man (Abdikadir Kurewa) kneeling next to the shell remains of a giant tortoise, the man could easily fit inside the shell.
Turns out theres giant bloody tortoises in the Pleistocene of Kenya
Me working on the painjob for a lifesize nile crocodile head sculpture
The completed life size nile crocodile head sculpt
Nile croc head, currently on display at Vancouver aquarium
A photograph of the fossil remains of Galahadosuchus, both in its natural state and with the bones highlighted. The image shows that we have most of the right hindleg, the femur of the left and a series of tail vertebrae just behind the hips
A multiview 3D reconstruction of Galahadosuchus by Matt Dempsey. It is depicted as a gracile, long-limbed animal taking on a digitigrade posture with a narrow triangular skull and a long tail.
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
Skeletal reconstruction of specimen DMA-JP-2009/001. Like other metriorhynchids its long with a streamlined body, triangular and deep skull with large eyes, long teeth, a tail fluke and very short arms.
The fossil of DMA-JP-2009/001 as it is preserved. The skeleton is complete and posed in a U-shape, with the head curving up to the right and the tail to the left. A scalebar is shown equivalent to 1 meter.
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
Vector illustration of Crocodylus sudani, a horned crocodile from the late Pleistocene of Sudan. It is lying on its stomach facing the viewer with its mouth slightly open, showing its many teeth. Text reads: Crocodylus sudani. Kalahfallah Salih, Johannes Müller, Ali Eisawi and Faysal Bibi. "A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa." Sci Rep 15, 27433 Aug 1 2025
#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Crocodylus sudani!
#sciart #paleoart #crocodile
Vector illustration of Piscogavialis laberintoensis, a marine gharial from Miocene Peru, swooping through the water towards the viewer. The long snouted crocodilian has large, forward facing eyes and narrow, needle like teeth. It is dark grey with a stark white and coppery underbelly, and dark stripes down its back and tail. Text reads: Piscogavialis laberintoensis. Camila Zamora-Vega, Pedro E. Romero, Maria Urbina et al. "Exceptional fossils from Peru and an integrative phylogeny reconcile the evolutionary timing and mode of Gavialis and its kin" Biol Lett (2025) 21 (8): 20250238 Aug 6 2025
#Cenozoicpaleo2025 Meet Piscogavialis laberintoensis!
#paleoart #sciart #gharial
Vector illustration for Tewkensuchus, a large terrestrial croc from Paleocene Argentina. The scaley animal is facing towards the viewer with it's mouth slightly open, showing its sharp teeth. It is dark brown with a dull orange head and dark stripes around its eyes. Text reads: Tewkensuchus salamanquensis. Gonzalo Gabriel Bravo, Diego Pol, Juan Martin Leordi, Javier Marcelo Krause et al. "A new notosuchian crocodyliform from the Early Paleocene of Patagonia and the survival of a large bodied terrestrial lineage across the K-Pg mass extinction. Proc Biol Sci 1 March 2025; 292(2043): 20241948 Mar 26 2025
#Cenozoicrewind2025 Meet Tewkensuchus salamanquensis!
#sciart #paleoart
Paleoart of a Numidotherium family by the beach. The animals are shown as squat, hariless animals with a strange bulbous forehead and short trunk for a nose. In the foreground a small early creodont runs past the family as one of the Numidotherium rests on a branch. A juvenile walks up to the resting individual while a third looks straight at the viewer.
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
