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New paper out! The virtual endocast of a Pliocene balaenopterid from Italy with chimp-like encephalization quotient!

Brain, Behavior and Evolution - doi: 10.1159/000519852

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2021-11-12

It's been 1 year since the description of Eomonachus, the first southern monk seal! Here's the amazing reconstruction by 🦭

Paper: https://t.co/g7Wg74ljiV

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2021-11-12

How did ancient Greeks interpret large, unfamiliar Miocene-Pleistocene fossils around the Aegean?

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2021-11-06

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Here's Zuul, who just wrecked a theropod's leg for getting in its way 💪

Really earning that name "Destroyer of Shins"

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2021-11-06

Os Ceratogaulus são roedores extintos que se extinguiram no começo do Pleistoceno. São os únicos roedores com chifres e os menores mamíferos a ter chifres. Provavelmente eram usados para defesa destes simpáticos roedores cavadores

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2021-11-06

Day 5: FIVE! On this and I present my five favorite paleontology cases at the showing off several cool from

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2021-11-06

For the final of - and given it's nearly halloween - let's meet a fossil parasite! This beautiful tick was preserved in Eocene (~44–49 million year old) amber, and was reconstructed in 3D by using high resolution CT. Fossil left, digital render right.

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2021-10-29

Megalodon Tooth study I sketched last weekend. For

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2021-10-29

Sharing some of my pterosaur-themed pieces for and

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2021-10-29

Out earlier this week, a specimen shows evidence of a muscle bridging the junction between the body and torso, which is interpreted as a "fairing." You've got to love this illustration.

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2021-10-23

Yay N is for Neoaetosauroides, an from the L of Argentina. Recently Taborda et al. used FEA to support possible zoophagy/omnivory, previously proposed by Desojo, & by von Backzo et al. https://t.co/6YtiXhaL55

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2021-10-23


"Sternwuermer" Encrinus Petacrinus Euryale Ophiursa Asterias, 1845.
"Petrefakten der Mesozoischen Formationsgruppe", 1900
" Histoire Naturell, Coquilles Fossiles", 1751

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2021-10-23

For and check out this paper on the biomechanics of the Cretaceous South American notosuchian Araripesuchus by Nico Nieto, Federico Degrange, &
https://t.co/AdBgr5vNqh

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2021-10-22

October game

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Can you guess this FRIGHTNING FOSSIL? Stay tuned for HAUNTING HINTS, and put your GOULISH GUESSES below. As always answers tomorrow on

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2021-10-22

Painted a macroraptorial sperm whale mother (Zygophyseter varolai) swimming peacefully along a seagrass bed as her calf takes a nap on top of her sometime during the late Miocene.

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2021-10-16

Experimenting artstyles, lighting and other stuff with some ceratopsians.

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2021-10-16

So, these are the three pieces I did for the Tyrannosauroid series by Beast of the Mesozoic: Daspletosaurus, Proceratosaurus and Lythronax

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2021-10-16

Fossil mystery for
Is the priestess carrying a fossil mammoth thigh bone?
Aztecs & other indigenous people of Mexico told Spanish how their ancestors battled & showed enormous femurs as proof
Mexico AD 761 Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco

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2021-10-16



The fossils “Chief dragon” in Wales are UK's oldest Triassic meat-eating dinosaur.
There are many bizarre creatures in the Triassic. 's adventures can enjoy the most deadly sea tours.
【https://t.co/WhbA2TpvLA】

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2021-10-15