Woman poses with towering flying reptile model in museum setting.
Quetzalcoatlus - the largest flying creature of all time. Which was exactly how I felt when I was on an airplane while 8 months pregnant.
I've dreamed of seeing this reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus in person, and I finally had the chance at #2024SVP at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Downtown Minneapolis at night, skyscrapers lit up with low clouds
A Tyrannosaurus skeleton in a museum
Two scientists pose with a glyptodont (resembling a giant armadillo).
A group of scientists showing off a pink box with a "Paleo Barbie" in it.
The very next week, it was off to #2024svp in Minneapolis. One of the best SVPs I've been to yet with lots of great discussions and collaborations and a solid showing from the #ISUPaleo crew ( @gondwannabe.bsky.social , @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social , @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social etc al.)
@museumguyscott.bsky.social presenting on our jointly taught #paleolabtechniques course at Montana State University during SVP last month. #svp2024 #2024svp
Hello to the huge influx of followers! I'm Tristan, a MSc student researching fossil #Archelosauria (turtles, crocs, birds, and all their extinct relatives) at #CSUF. I'm currently in my last year of my master's studying a strange fossil #seaturtle discovered in Orange County. Picture from #2024SVP.
The SVP auction committee on stage, dressed as the Ghostbusters. 6 people are dressed in brown ghostbusters uniforms. Others are Slimer, Stay-Puft marshmallow, and two Zuuls (dog and dinosaur, because of course I had to do it for a paleo conference)
The FHSU alumni, faculty, and students posing for a group photo
Two people dressed as Zuul: one as the demon dog from ghostbusters, with an elaborate mask with large teeth; the other as the ankyosaur, with a brown onesie with dinosaur horns on the hood
Two women, both named Melissa, laughing while sitting at a bar
With everything going on in the world and in my life right now, I really appreciate that I was able to spend a week surrounded by friends at #2024SVP. Y’all are the best and I’m so happy to have you in my life! I just wish I took more pictures.
Title slide from a powerpoint showing an artist reconstruction of the hadrosairid Dinosaur Edmontosaurus. The talk title is: Making a good impression: Identification of multiple diagenetic pathways for the formation of dinosaurian 'mummies'
Photograph of Clint Boyd standing at a podium presenting his talk on Dinosaur mummies.
Presented our latest work on Dinosaur Mummies last week at the #2024SVP meeting. Seemed well received, now we just need to get our findings written up. No problem, right @uglyfossils.bsky.social ?
Happy #FossilFriday everyone!
Just sharing some cool mounts from the Science Museum of Minnesota at #2024SVP.
In the foreground is an as of now unnamed toothed whale from Miocene Peru. In the background, the far too large and toothy Pelagornis.
#paleontology #museum #paleoart
That’s a wrap on #2024SVP!
Realizing now that I met a ton of absolutely amazing people but didn’t take any photos with them… if that was you, thank you!!! See everyone soon! (Just probably not next year… sorry Birmingham)
Overlooking the sculpture park and beautiful bridge
Last poster session at #2024SVP and then I am free! Took a little time to see the Walker art museum here in Minneapolis. Gorgeous day.
“So are you gay or something” “What” “What pride flag is that?” The banner is a geologic time scale
The actual content of talks and slideshows is embargoed, but someone just put a stratigraphic column on the screen which has the colors of the lesbian pride flag and it reminded me of this. #2024SVP
Saturday #2024SVP talks. As always, talks are preliminary and not peer reviewed, and I am summarizing them as presented by the authors. My summaries are not endorsements. Expect Theropods (birdy ones) and a smattering of lepidosaurs and sauropods.
Been having a blast at #2024SVP! Hearing about lots of exciting things and meeting awesome people. I’ve made connections that I think will lead to some really cool projects for me.
Also, here are the only sketches I’ve done that aren’t based on embargoed work – my first love, early whales #paleoart
If you’re up for a post-Halloween scare, imagine what Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, living around 70 million years ago, felt as one of the largest (and predatory) flying reptiles (Quetzalcoatlus) menacingly flew above their heads #FossilFriday #not #dinosaurs #Halloween #2024SVP 🦖 🎃
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2017 I built a life-size Liopleurodon head for Wollaton Hall Museum, Nottingham, it had a big mouth!
#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #SVP #svp2024 #2024svp #Liopleurodon #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark #FossilFriday
SVP Friday talks thread. Expect Theropods. As always, talks are preliminary and not peer reviewed. My reporting on them is not an endorsement of their results. #2024SVP
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2017 I built a life-size Liopleurodon head for Wollaton Hall Museum, Nottingham. I'll show how I built it, here is Part 2.
#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #SVP #svp2024 #2024svp #Liopleurodon #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark #FossilFriday
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2017 I built a life-size Liopleurodon head for Wollaton Hall Museum, Nottingham, with guidance from Dr Adam Smith. I'll show how I built it, here is Part 1.
#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #SVP #svp2024 #2024svp #Liopleurodon #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark
It makes me so happy to see the paleo ethics and management session so PACKED at #2024SVP! This is the first time we’ve had this session of talks and every talk has been amazing! Let’s do this every year!!
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my "Archosaurian Dawn" painting & prelims, created with Prof John Hutchinson at the Royal Veterinary Collage. It was commissioned for the Dawn Dinosaurs project (2017).
#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #SVP #svp2024 #2024svp #Triassic #JurassicWorld
Two orange cats dressed in Halloween costumes. The one on the left is wearing ceratopsian horns. The one on the right is wearing a crustacean costume.
Happy Halloween from Lokiceratops and Anomalocaris! They couldn’t make it to #2024SVP, but at least they up with me dressing them up as old dead things before I left.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my "Archosaurian Dawn" painting, created with & for Prof John Hutchinson at the Royal Veterinary Collage. It was commissioned the Dawn Dinosaurs project (2017).
#PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #SVP #svp2024 #2024svp #Triassic #JurassicWorld #JurassicPark
omg I gotta get in the loop about when and where SVP events are held because if I had known it was going to be in the twin cities this year, I would have 100% just drove over 😭
Hope you all are having fun regardless!
#2024SVP #SVP2024
Curatorial finger propping open the maw of the Cretaceous croc Mahajungasuchus
This year at #2024SVP we are debuting or reconstruction of the massive croc from the Cretaceous of Madagascar called Mahajungasuchus.
I am so glad this thing isn't lurking in rivers today!
SVP 2024 Thursday AM - expect ornithischians
Reminder that talks are preliminary and not peer reviewed, and that I am posting summaries as they are reported by the authors. I am not saying that I agree or disagree with the authors’ claims. #2024SVP
Scott and Skye's poster on skeletal diagrams
Come by B66 in the poster session this afternoon for Best Practices for Fossil Vertebrate Skeletal Diagrams by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social and myself! #2024SVP
Texas plesiosaur skull measuring in at nearly 3 feet long
Say hello to the newest plesiosaur reconstruction that I've made!
It's at our #2024SVP booth, a new polycotylid from near Dallas, TX.
Once the digital work was done it took me a week to assemble and detail all the parts for the full sized skull
Highlights for me this morning at #2024SVP: Sharpe shows evidence of a check muscle with homologues across Dinosauria. Boyd et al show differing taphonomic pathways to dinosaur "mummies": one type referred to as "iron mummies" with iron rich minerals replacing skin.
