permission to giggle? 🙋

El 'taco

(psittacosaurus art commission :3)

when will mosasaurs evolve again goddamn it hurry up

Swimming Komodo dragon in Indonesia YouTube video by tamagogo5

i love seeing monitor lizards swim yesssss go my brave mosasaur cousins you're doing them proud!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0nO...

Smallest known rauisuchian-grade critter!! (not a crocodylomorph)

i know

Say hi to my son

he is an unicelular lifeform with an IQ of 2 and his diet consists of sand

artwork depicting the titanosaur diamantinasaurus stood on the bank of a shallow pool, reaching up to grab a tree branch. a small crocodylomorph in the pool watches judgementally

a figure showing multi-level browsing behaviour for diamantinasaurus, high-browsing for brachiosaurus, low-browsing for amargasaurus (i believe), and grazing for brachytrachelopan

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is diamantinasaurus, a titanosaur from late cretaceous australia. in 2025, it became the first sauropod to have fossilised gut contents described, providing evidence of bulk feeding and multi-level browsing behaviour
(art by @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social)

the feathered version of deinonychus from jurassic world evolution 3

gonna tell my kids this was ptychotherates

Took a while to put up the scans together but here is the critter!

For some reason it has musculoskeletal adaptations for a really strong bite despite its tiny size, specially a big surangular fossa for the *adductor mandibulae externus* muscle! (that which today gives modern crocs their "cheeks")

yeah like dude there is literally enough food for both of you right there

sadly no :( there is just detailed drawings and its description

Gotta love how they represented the pathologic metatarsal bitemarks as its buddy being a fucking asshole for no reason lol

my plesiomorphic baby and the imposter

yes!

Did you know that while Allosaurus and Apatosaurus explored eachother's bodies in the Morrison Formation, small, bipedal, omnivorous crocodylomorphs with spoon-like jaws were running around on the forest's floor?

"HEY, CALM DOWN! this is NOT you!"

Leedsichthys problematicus, a whale-sized filterfeedeer pachycormid fish from the late jurassic

I dont know much about non-tetrapod anatomy, so below i'll thank everyone who coached me and helped me make this commission accurate within what we know of it !! ↓↓

@cascoclauda.bsky.social knitted the composition, colors and overall idea :D

a depiction of the terrestrial crocodylomorph caipirasuchus amidst undergrowth

an almost complete specimen of caipirasuchus

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: is caipirasuchus, a notosuchian from late cretaceous brazil. the species c. catanduvensis was described by iori et al. in 2024, and its palate suggests that it may have been a social animal that relied on vocalisations for communication
(art by rodolfo nogueira)

a photo of a pygmy right whale, a possible living cetothere

until 2012, the clade cetotheriidae was thought to be extinct. that year, a paper by fordyce and marx suggested that the pygmy right whale is a cetothere, and a 2023 genomic study by dutoit et al. supports this conclusion
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

a complete c. riabini skeleton alongside a life reconstruction and a human silhouette for scale; the whale is about 3 metres long

happy #fossilfriday! this is cetotherium, a small baleen whale that lived between the miocene and pliocene. c. riabinini is notable for being one of the smallest whales in the fossil record, being only around three metres in length
(life reconstruction by nixillustration)

oh yeah it was also thought that terrestrisuchus was a juvenile form of it, partly due to saltoposuchus being noticably more robust and slightly larger (even with all its specimens being juveniles!)

but nah, they're different

have a nanogodzilla

Say goodbye to bipedal Saltoposuchus

in 1921, the ulna was mistaken as an overly long metatarsal due to being slightly flattened (likely taphonomically)

*and* the tiny hand led to the assumption of small forelimbs

Seems to have stuck for more than a century

i jumped and squeaked and peed a little

big thanks to @ppaleoartist.bsky.social, @chondrichthyan.bsky.social, @ceratosaurus.bsky.social, and @/hbvittatus on Twitter for help :3, follow them all

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Leedsichthys problematicus, a whale-sized filterfeedeer pachycormid fish from the late jurassic

I dont know much about non-tetrapod anatomy, so below i'll thank everyone who coached me and helped me make this commission accurate within what we know of it !! ↓↓