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It’s also worth saying that their eyes – while big in absolute size (based on the size of the eye socket and the sclerotic rings preserved in fossils) – are easy to over-emphasise in illustrations... (model by Brian Cooley; photo D. Naish; skull image Martínez et al. 2016)
The #TetZoo guide to the #shrews of the world.... https://t.co/82fkP1Iosr #mammals #animals #Soricidae
Breaking news: my 2021 paper with @MarkWitton and @gimpasaura - Powered flight in hatchling #pterosaurs: evidence from wing form and bone strength - received 8,299 article downloads in 2021, making it one of the top 100 downloaded ecology papers for Scientific Reports in 2021.
Your reminder that our famous/infamous 2012 book #AllYesterdays is about to jump in price (due to no fault of our own). Buy it now if you want the lower price: https://t.co/Ri0GXVgt6N #dinosaurs #palaeoart #paleoart #books
@MarkWitton and I examined the skeletal proportions, cranial anatomy and sedimentological setting of #Quetzalcoatlus and other #azhdarchids and concluded that they were strongly adapted for quadrupedal walking in terrestrial settings... 2/n
Our view of what #Quetzalcoatlus and other #azhdarchids were like mostly has its genesis in Witton & Naish (2008). Azhdarchids are the most distinctive and unusual of #pterosaurs, and views on how they might have lived have varied considerably (vintage images shown here!)... 1/n
#AnimalFigureOfTheDay is another Early Learning Centre figure from the 1990s: the large Red deer stag. It's a bit cartoony, too red. But it's a satisfyingly large, chunky figure. I have two, one of which has its antlers on back-to-front!
#Dinosaurs at @NHM_London, including the #Baryonyx mount, the excellent vintage Holmes T. rex model and the Camarasaurus.
Before it gets said elsewhere: the evolution of #pronghorn and 'American cheetah' #Miracinonyx running really match up if you look at fossils and origin times and such. Miracinonyx is thought to have been an animal of hilly, lumpy ground where... [image @VilleSinkkonen]
Mary Anning section of book finished... now well over wordcount, am gonna finish text and try my luck. Here's me and my buddy Tom with Mary's grave, a slightly more serious image of her grave, the Mary Anning figure made by @splendidhand, and a bonus image I had lying around...