A section through the snout of arguably the cutest little animal to ever go extinct, Diictodon! These tusked, beaked, pug-sized critters from the Permian period belonged to the Synapsida (the group that also includes mammals).

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Happy Meet Mansourasaurus, an important new sauropod from the end of the Age of Dinosaurs in Egypt, and a discovery supported by funding from the ! Read all about it here: https://t.co/jw1XnhqLWt

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Some well preserved ammonites and one unknown animal(fourth picture) from Moscow State University and Metro(first picture) probably with inprint of living animal, but it can be common apopheny. Third one is 25 centimeters

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Panthera blytheae is a fossil relative of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) found in Tibet. Reconstruction by https://t.co/2KgFJx5xk6

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Before dinosaurs there were dinosauromorphs (although some remained living alongside dinosaurs for a while). These are most of the species that will appear in my book

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Today’s warmup sketch, Patriofelis, a oxyaenid creodont from Eocene North America. Suggested by

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A series of plesiosaur for Jurassic marine species Attenborosaurus and Plesiosaurus, and the coastal/freshwater adapted Leptocleidus. It's very cool to think some plesiosaurs would be visible in rivers, lakes and estuaries.

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The largest land mammal ever was MASSIVE!!! This is the 30 million year old Paraceratherium! (Image left H. Osborn: Right via Wiki)

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Deinonychus killing claw and portion of skull with teeth. The real inspiration for the 'raptors' in With excellent reconstruction (with feathers) by

Material at the Yale Peabody Museum.

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+ = Black Fossil? Meet the 'Black skull' KNM-WT 17000 Paranthropus aethiopicus from West Turkana, Kenya (got dark due to fossilization in a manganese-rich soil). Original (photo by Robert I.M. Campbell) & reconstruction (Paul Szpak).

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New blog post for Can we predict the horn shapes of fossil animals? Perhaps, with enough data, we have more insight on horn sheath shape than we realised. Stars Triceratops, because it's a post about horns. Also features new

https://t.co/vHbiHaP0jF

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Here's a neanderthal skull fragment trawled from the bottom of the north sea https://t.co/TSGnga7Aoe

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WIP. My take on the basal abelisaur Eoabelisaurus mefi from the Cañadon Asfalto Formation - Middle Jurassic (Oxfordian) Argentina 🇦🇷. Already looking VERY abelisaurid! Look at that head!

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For it's my fav section thru the lower jaw of Captorhinus aguti. An early reptile with multiple rows of teeth!

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is coming to Sat. Nov 11, & YOU can see speak about our mysterious sauropod

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Upper & lower jaws of Genyodectes serus Woodward from Chubut, Argentina, find out more: https://t.co/bej52SGUuw

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