Most of the Leapmotors were probably ordered with last year's incentives, so that model might go down the ranking quite a bit in the next months.

Orbán massively defeated in Hungary! 🇭🇺🇪🇺
Another positive news for Europe in these recent times, after Meloni's referendum defeat and falling approval in Italy.
Is this the Trump Effect?

This is an astonishing fossil find: an Early Triassic (~250 mya) baby Lystrosaurus still in "egg position" with/ 2 other babies, showing these mammal precursors hatched from eggs! Did these burrowers also nest in burrows? Must. Read. Article. Congrats to @jenniferbotha.bsky.social & colleagues! 🧪🪨🥚

BABY DUCKBILL: Steve just finished cleaning this super cute jaw, with rows of tiny teeth! This matches another jaw, femur, and vertebrae that we collected from the same site. A baby dino skeleton is coming out!

#fossilfriday #dinosaurs #dinosaur #scicomm #fossils #publiclands

A juvenile skeleton of the Miocene sea cow Dusisiren jordani. The skeleton is dominated by the inflated ribs which make this little guy look like a bony blimp. This photo is from the top.

A juvenile skeleton of the Miocene sea cow Dusisiren jordani. The skeleton is dominated by the inflated ribs which make this little guy look like a bony blimp. This photo is from bottom, and shows the flippers and the skull in better detail.

A juvenile skeleton of the Miocene sea cow Dusisiren jordani. The skeleton is dominated by the inflated ribs which make this little guy look like a bony blimp. This photo is from side. The vestigial pelvis is evident.

The adult ?female skeleton mounted side by side with the juvenile, shown as mother and calf. The adult has a proportionally longer tail.

#Fossilfriday Baby sea cow! Juvenile Dusisiren jordani skeleton from the upper Miocene (~9-10 myo) Santa Margarita Sandstone of the Santa Cruz mountains. On display at @nhm.org. When I first started digging up marine mammals 25 years ago, it was this species.

Densely packed fossil burrows in a gray limestone that look like pipes, some branching into "Y" shapes, and with knobby (pelleted) exteriors, with circular cross-sections.

For #FossilFriday, fossil ghost-shrimp burrows (ichnogenus Ophiomorpha) in Pleistocene limestone (125,000 years old), San Salvador Island, The Bahamas 🇧🇸. Co-leading a spring-break field course there with students from Emory & Oxford College of @emoryuniversity.bsky.social starting tomorrow. 🧪🪨⚒️🏝️🌊🐠🌿🦀

Two solitary rugose corals (one is only partially visible at the bottom left of the image). The scale shows that the larger specimen is around 2 cm long. The stalk by which the animals would have been attached to the substrate is in both cases pointing towards the top right.

#FossilFriday

Greetings from the Paleozoic Era! These are two rugose corals from the Ordovician of Sweden, then part of the continent of Baltica!

Rugosa is an entirely extinct group of corals that disappeared during the catastrophic mass extinction at the end of the Permian.

This is what all EU leaders should be saying right now:

"No a la guerra!" ("No to war!")

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

If you are interested in the relationships between palaeontology and pop culture, in science fiction, in history of science or in all of the above this episode of Terrible Lizards (one of the podcasts I enjoy and recommend the most!) is really worth a listening.

paleoart commission for James Stryker, color suggestion by claude :P

Australovenator casually strolling on the beach

Pair of small dicynodonts Diictodon snoozing in their comfy burrow

Everyone's favourite hadrosaur. :}

Parasaurolophus
Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, 132 × 85 mm.

We should really kick all the various horrible individuals out of paleo. By that, I mean: nobody should allow them to publish papers, go to conferences, present seminars etc.
Only in this way everyone will be able to enjoy the beauty of fossils feeling safe, welcome and at ease.

Talked yesterday with few young colleagues about the new Spinosaurus. Pleased to see that, despite excitement for the fossils, everyone, regardless of their gender, was equally disgusted to see an Epstein associate as author. I hope that young paleontologists will do better than many predecessors...

A path zigzagging between snow-covered fields. In the background, several viking burial mounds, and, behind them, a tall church. The sky is bright, without even one cloud.

A path between mounds, leading to an old church surrounded by old, tall deciduous trees (obviously barren, given the season).

The same old church mentioned in the previous pictures, the construction of which started in the XII century. It stands tall in front of a cemetery surrounded by stonewalls.

A XIX century wooden building with red roof and green doors and decorations on the facade, hosting a restaurant.

Sunday bicycle ride (despite temperature below -8°C) near my new home in Gamla Uppsala (Sweden), where I moved last month to study Paleobiology at Uppsala University.

Saw viking burial mounds, a XII century church and XIX century wooden buildings.

A reddish brown skull with big eyes and little teeth looking to the left; black metal scale bar shows it is around 12cm long.

A reddish brown skull with big eyes and little teeth looking to the right; black metal scale bar shows it is around 12cm long.

A favorite for #FossilFriday: this exquisite skull of the late Permian therocephalian Ictidosuchoides from the upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation of #Zambia 🇿🇲
Check out those post dentary bones! 👂🏻?
@burkemuseum.bsky.social

Because of Valentine's Day we had today a Flower Flocking #paleostream, covering different kinds of fossil angiosperms!
Florissantia, Lovellea, Leguminocarpum and Sagaria!

Happy #FossilFriday! MOR Assistant Lab Manager Cassi Knight comes face to face with #BigAl (#MOR693). Typically, the skull of this #Jurassic carnivore is on display in MOR’s Hall of Giants, but today it’s undergoing regular conservation in the Paleo Department.

We live in a world so weird that DinoCon gets mentioned in an episode of the Daily Show dedicated to the Epstein Files... as a positive example of how to deal with that stuff, opposite to what is done by the... US Department of Justice!?

How is the dinocon board handling the Epstein field more seriously that than the United States dept of justice??

Happy New Year, Horse, with Eohippus

始祖马

Thin section of a carbonate rock showing a gastropod in a brown, fine-grained matrix. Other fossil shells can be seen on its right. Observed with 10x objective.

#FossilFriday

A Middle Devonian gastropod in thin section, from Northern France.

The Gastropoda are the most diverse group of shelly animals alive today, with >35k described species (>60k estimated). They have appeared in the Cambrian and have left an excellent fossil record.

Maybe a bit late for web timing, but ehy, NEW PAPER ON #fossilfriday!!!

I am proud to present you Haolong dongi gen. nov. sp. nov., a new hadrosauroid from the Early Cretaceous of China!
The specimen, almost complete, is a juvenile iguanodontian from the Yixian Formation of the Barremian (125 Mya).

The one rule regarding dinosaur integument is that we should never underestimate its diversity

art depicting two haolong individuals, depicted with the unique spikey integument preserved with the holotype

a very warm welcome to haolong dongi, a fascinating hadrosauroid from the early cretaceous yixian formation described by huang et al. 🎉 the near-complete holotype preserves highly unique integumentary structures unknown in other dinosaurs
www.nature.com/articles/s41
(art by fabio manucci)

Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday!

Here is the cephalon of the "lace collar" trilobite Cryptolithus tessellatus. This comes from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation (Lower Cincinnatian Series) in Maysville, Kentucky. What you usually find are just pieces scattered throughout the limestones.

#MineralMonday Tiny silver crystals in a cavity in native copper, Osceola Mine, Michigan USA. The silver crystals are about 0.5 mm each.⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience

Jack Horner in the Epstein File trying to raise money to fund dinosaur research. When I discovered we had rich nazis on our dig in 2008, I dropped them like a rancid turd; ask Don. There will never be a Trumpasaurus with my name attached! @paleontologizing.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social