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Welcome... to

This is a sneak peak, based on the findings in a new paper by John Foster, , & Adrian Hunt:

https://t.co/U5V78suCzI

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2022-09-03

Happy this week we revist - Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian formerly known as Minmi sp. (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Richmond, Australia

Full article https://t.co/u8rdAvg4Mo

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2022-09-02

Welcome to
This week John and had a new paper come out on a “barf” fossils from our late Jurassic plant site. This is the same site that produced 1/5🧵
Read: https://t.co/m3VExtktNe
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2022-09-02

Some old for a mural of an OTT early Jurassic sea I painted back in 2018. I remember having a week or two to paint this and another commission for the same project, so much work was done and not much sleep was had.

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2022-09-02

For compare the pair. Drimolen P. robustus preserves a suite of morphological traits that make them distinct from P. robustus from Swartkrans and Kromdraai. With Drimolen likely older than swartkrans and kromdraai, we can "see" evolutionary change through time.

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2022-09-02

A small WIP preview of one of our thalattosaurs. This strange creature swam in the warm shallow seas of Switzerland ~240ish million years ago. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess...

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2022-08-27

This Giant Bone-crushing dog lived 8-12 mill years ago. The "Epicyon haydeni" species discovered @ Ashfall Fossil Beds stood 2.5 ft at the shoulder & weighed +200 lbs. Many skeletal features = more similar to modern hyaenas than modern dogs & wolves.

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2022-08-27

Unravelling the identity of the platanistoid Notocetus vanbenedeni in https://t.co/LtxUChnynF Reconstruction by artist Jorge Gonzalez

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2022-08-26

Just arrived in time for is this great new memoir on the history of from . A wonderfully wide-ranging set of 29 papers including, of course, one on Duria Antiquior, drawn for who pops up in 4 papers in this volume.

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2022-08-26

Dimetrodon or “two measures of teeth” is a non mammalian synapsid that is easily recognised by its large sail

At up to 4m long and 250kg in weight, it would have been the apex predator of its Permian ecosystem (~295-272 Ma)

Predation illustration by Bob Bakker

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2022-08-26

Fossils of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, from L to R: femur TM 266-01-063, skull TM 266-01-060-1 and ulnae TM 266-01-050 & TM 266-01-358.
➕info: Sahelanthropus, a biped 7 million years ago: What are the doubts? https://t.co/584ZUpdswc

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2022-08-26

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Global warming:
Just like it was waaaay back in the very beginning.
(Before the fossils had even dreamt of being fossilized).

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2022-08-20

Happy - this week we revisit the cranial anatomy of jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation of Western North America. Research from Chure and Loewen

Learn more https://t.co/P3ONBb947j

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2022-08-20

Recent sketch comm! :) 🏳️‍⚧️

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2022-08-19

More bones of Leptoptilos robustus from Flores reveal new insights into giant marabou stork paleobiology and biogeography: https://t.co/kMpL9cTeh1

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2022-08-19

Happy ! Today we present this composition in which you can see the similarities between Sophie, the famous fossil exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London and our Stegosaurus model.

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2022-08-13

The Permian ray-finned fish is long-known, but new data from CT scans gave paleo nerds a better idea of its affinities and suspensorium* anatomy this week, e.g. showing a joint b/w the articular and symplectic.

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2022-08-13

Had to dig out some old data on the pterosaur Anhanguera, reminding me of our now ancient 2003 article on pterosaur brain endocasts—https://t.co/ZI1LTxe1lP. Here's some fresh 3D viz plus the cover art by Kyle McQuilkin & Ryan Ridgely that Nature didn't use.

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2022-08-13