People have been writing palaeontology-themed poetry for at least 200 years! This awesome timeline by shows what topics people have written about in the poems we've featured.

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Learn more about jaguar fossils at https://t.co/9Yj1pDfaH8 and enjoy this beautiful reconstruction by one of our collection managers

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A bone-by-bone 3D rendering of the skull of a baby Lystrosaurus from the Triassic of South Africa

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New opabiniid diversifies the weirdest wonders of the euarthropod stem group: https://t.co/FzYhEaiBz0

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New blogpost for I discuss the textures of carcharodontosaurid skulls in an attempt to reconstruct the face of Giganotosaurus (a tricky animal to research but a cool one to draw). https://t.co/r8J97qeEvm

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ICYMI: The new fish relative debuted this week, and despite being cousin to tetrapods, was thoroughly aquatic. You could say it was a bit of a backslider. https://t.co/PWsckCtJv0
🎨by

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[#Geodiversitas]🦕Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early (#Berriasian) Angeac-Charente (southwestern 🇫🇷): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J/K boundary

🔗 https://t.co/tcziUVEzCx
✒️ Ronan ALLAIN et al. from

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the latest of our fossil species from the early salamander, The 1st part was found in 1971 by Michael Waldman, Robert Savage & team, & we found the rest in 2016, + more (incl. skull) since. Renders: , art:

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New sabre-toothed cats from China!
The first complete cranium of Homotherium (Machairodontinae, Felidae) from the Nihewan Basin (northern China) by Qigao Jiangzuo et al.:
https://t.co/7rFDvLkcwR

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For here is the small theropod dinosaur milnerae from the Late of Restoration by James Robbins. | Spiekman et al. 2021 :
https://t.co/54gV8auop1 |

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from 2017 for the giant placoderm Titanichthys filters through Devonian seas. This image is featured in my old school "tour-through-time" 2020 book Life Through the Ages II. I had a blast putting LTTAII together, I hope to something like it again someday.

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Happy - ICYMI Naish and Cau present the osteology and affinities of lengi, a theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England

Full article https://t.co/d9nNc3kcvi

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Holotype osteoderms from Mymoorapelta, E, F.. cervical ring lateral spine, M, shoulder spine, DD, EE, FF caudosacral plates. Rest of osteoderms from Gargoyleosaurus. Full fig of Mymoorapelta holotype shoulder spine and caudalosacral plates. Osteoderms define sp.

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A new study by a China/UK/US group looks at animal traces (ichnofossils) on seafloors to see look at recovery after Earth's largest mass extinction: https://t.co/tTuiuoQsVu

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New to the (public) internet for from 2018, the entirety of my rising Shonisaurus popularis scene. The idea is that these animals are hunting cooperatively and corraling squid, hence the leftmost animal swallowing down a tentacley meal.

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Busy day in the collections as the Eramosa Lagerstätte covered the tables. We had a bit of help from this stowaway Bold Jumper, who is probably much happier outdoors than in the near-shore Silurian

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