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#Paleontology informs our #climate perspectives, & my main goal as a #paleoartist is to make #art that helps/encourages the public to understand these connections & how they all relate back to #ecology, #biodiversity, & long term species survival (incl our own!) #Sciart #scicomm
Ayo #FossilFriday, here's that hot pink #Dilophosaurus for @ZionNPS yall ordered. I turnt the noggin up to full reef fish mode for the breeding season. Full view next tweet.
#paleoart #traditionalpainting
My big thanks go out to @paleochick, @AndrewTracks, @SGDinoDiscovery & @NotThatMarsh for introducing me to this fascinating geologic period & its formations, & to @ZionNPS / Robyn Henderek for this gig!
Climate graph in previous tweet from here:
https://t.co/NA0itWwkZw
Welcome... to #JurassicBarf!
This #paleoart is a #JurassicReimagined sneak peak, based on the findings in a new paper by John Foster, @Paleojim, & Adrian Hunt:
https://t.co/U5V78suCzI
#FishyFriday #FossilFriday #Frog ##paleecology
@2Someoneelse Hopped on it? I've been putting weird wattles all over dinos for ages...
@HellCreekAlcedo Yes, the whole bodyplan is highly speculative, aside from it probably being bipedal. If you look at their skeletal reconstruction, only the bones in white are known, and they do not tell us for sure which ornithiscian dino group this animal is most closely related to.
But this thing could have been from a totally different group of animals... compare the skull material to basal ceratopsids
"don't hate me because i'm beautiful... and highly fragmentary"
(but evolutionarily important)