a aliased feathered raptor base running to the right

Raptor 2.0 is up!
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Featuring the new @egu-cl.bsky.social paper by Peter Köhler and collaborators, including Edouard Bard at @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr, as well as @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social among the co-authors:
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The fantastic skulls of 𝘿𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙠𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙞 and 𝙋𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙪𝙨, pterosaurs from the Jurassic plattenkalks of southern Germany.

Read the research by Smyth & Unwin (2024) here: buff.ly/vSGuV2o
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That ugly Muttaburrasaurus langdoni

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This is figure 3, which shows histological thin sections through the mummified articulated Captorhinus specimen (ROMVP 88565, TS01782 and TS01993).

Mummified fossil reptile remails, dated to approximately 289–286 million years ago, show that early amniotes (a group that includes reptiles, birds, and mammals) breathed by moving their ribcages, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4ctrOIx #Paleosky 🧪

The Mythology of Teeth Teeth mark the threshold where the child becomes a bearer of continuity.

the mythology of teeth

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New paper out in JSP!

Evers 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭 explore the inner ear labyrinth morphology of 𝙀𝙪𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙨 and compare it to other amniotes, revealing a shared ancestral labyrinth shape that persisted throughout the evolution of many reptile stem lineages.

Read here: buff.ly/Ugds6Rx
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This is figure 1, which shows M. cousteaui gen. et sp. nov. from the Cambrian (Drumian) Wheeler Formation of Utah.

A 500-million-year-old fossil of a very early relative of spiders, scorpions, and mites offers insights into how this group of arthropods, called chelicerates, evolved. The fossil, found in Utah in the US, has clear claws, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/3NB3Npy #Paleosky 🧪

Ichthyovenator

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Tyrannosaurus Rex

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Styracosarus

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Easter From Nuralagus rex

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Monoclonius Crassus

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Trying a dinosaur impression

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Doodle of Daspletosaurus eating juvenile Centrosaurus

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For #FossilFriday have a look at the holotype of †𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞 sp. nov., from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.

Read the full study by Reichenbacher 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2025): buff.ly/3iDP5Vl

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Kosmoceratops richardsoni

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Tarbosaurus

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Giganotosaurus
Shoutout to @chukapower.bsky.social, @greenking26.bsky.social and Barzaone for helping me

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Deinocheirus

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This is figure 1, which shows M. cousteaui gen. et sp. nov. from the Cambrian (Drumian) Wheeler Formation of Utah.

A 500-million-year-old fossil of a very early relative of spiders, scorpions, and mites offers insights into how this group of arthropods, called chelicerates, evolved. The fossil, found in Utah in the US, has clear claws, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/3NB3Npy #Paleosky 🧪

New paper out in JSP!

Yao 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. report a new saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from South China, providing further support for the Asian origin of Brachylophosaurini.

𝙂𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙬𝙚𝙞 is described fromthe Upper Cretaceous Lianhe Formation in Jiangxi Province: buff.ly/SDkiQKQ
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Protoceratops

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Eunotosaurus

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Gongshuilong fanwei

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New paper out in JSP!

Cooper & Maxwell present a redescription of 𝙎𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖 Agassiz, 1843 from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago (Tithonian, Germany) and the taxonomic diversity of 𝙎𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙨𝙞𝙨 Agassiz, 1832 (Actinopterygii: Pachycormidae).

Read here: buff.ly/uGXjDLA

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Assessing the reliability of isoGDGTs lake-level proxies across Tibetan Plateau and Central Asian lakes Quantitative reconstruction of past lake-level changes remains challenging because robust hydrological proxies are scarce and many existing indicators…

Across Tibetan Plateau and Central Asian lakes, #TeamArchaea tetraether lipids are commonly used as lake-level proxies, but such hydrological proxies have shortcomings too, which motivates this new paper by J. Shang et al. (2026):
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Bat ecology and conservation in the Great Plains: a systematic review of research in the past 30 years and future directions - Discover Conservation The Great Plains encompasses the majority of North America’s grassland ecosystems and supports diverse bat populations that provide critical ecosystem services through insect pest control. Over the past decades, these bats have faced growing conservation threats, including white-nose syndrome, wind energy development, and climate change. Despite this, no comprehensive review has synthesized existing knowledge of bat ecology in the Great Plains, hindering effective conservation strategies for grassland bats. We conducted a systematic search of primary field-based research published over the past 30 years to summarize information on: (1) species distribution and habitat associations, (2) foraging behavior and diet, (3) roosting sites and selection, and (4) winter ecology. Our search yielded only 94 publications, documenting 22 bat species—representing nearly half of all species occurring in the United States and Canada. However, insufficient publications prevented us from identifying consistent ecological patterns across most focal topics. We suggest that future research should adopt multi-scale approaches to examine ecological processes both within grassland ecosystems and across ecosystems by leveraging existing standardized baseline monitoring networks, such as the North American Bat Monitoring Program. Additionally, integration of emerging technologies and modern analytical tools is essential to advance grassland bat conservation.

A Systematic Review in Discover Conservation highlights that bat research in the Great Plains (encompassing the majority of North America’s grassland ecosystems) is sparse and fragmented and to safeguard these species, future studies must be broader and technologically advanced.

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New paper out in JSP!

Franco et al. present the first unequivocal Larreoideae (Zygophyllaceae) fossil woods from the early Miocene Mariño Formation, Argentina. Read here: buff.ly/5LxYY0k
Wood anatomical features were imaged using SEM and their phylogenetic affinities were evaluated.
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The dentition of tyrannosauroid theropods: a review - Discover Geoscience Tyrannosauroidea is a clade of early-diverging carnivorous coelurosaur theropods known from the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous that includes the eponym

A paper in Discover Geoscience reviews 234 studies on tyrannosauroid teeth, showing how their distinctive heterodont dentition reveals evolutionary, ecological, and biomechanical adaptations, while highlighting gaps in knowledge beyond the well-studied Tyrannosauridae.

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