More than 60 dinosaur footprints found on boulder that sat at Queensland school for 20 years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/12/dinosaur-footprints-boulder-queensland-school #RuralAustralia #Australianews #Palaeontology #Queensland #Dinosaurs #Fossils #Science
Gutted to read that palaeontologist #RichardFortey has passed away. I really enjoyed both his book Trilobite! and his memoir and have his recent book on fungi lined up. He will be sorely missed.
New review: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being "merely" good popular science by also addressing professional palaeontologists.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #AnimalBehavior #Ethology #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @serpenillus @bookstodon
*Drumroll*... review #500! The Future of Dinosaurs is a fresh take on pop-palaeo that flips the script by charting the limits of our knowledge.
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Ah, this was a fun one to learn about. Last year, astrobotanist Rob Ferl conducted his own experiment on a suborbital Blue Origin flight. That's interesting in its own right, but it turns out he's friends with museum curators, and packed some fossils to take into space with him!
For #FossilFriday meet Dunbaria. Isn't this fossil gorgeous? It was found in ~285 million year old rocks in Elmo, USA. It's a member of an order called the Palaeodictyoptera. Those patches you can see on the wings represent the colouration of the wings in life, preserved in a fossil 
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here are a few crops from a mural I painted for Wollaton Hall Museum (Nottingham, UK), 2020. This is one of the most detailed paintings I've ever created.
This has got to be the most amazing thing I’ve read this week, Evidence is mounting that large sandstone caves in Amazonian South America, large enough to comfortably walk through and the longest with 1,500 metres of tunnels, were carved out by giant ground sloths. Yes, ground sloths!
“The South American palaeoburrows might be the largest ichnofossils known so far.”
A piece of fossilised vomit, dating back to when dinosaurs roamed the earth, has been discovered in Denmark.
The vomit is made up of at least two different species of sea lily, which were likely eaten by a fish that threw up the parts it could not digest.
I can't NOT post this to sauropds.win: New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: BRONTOSMASH! II: the BRONTOSMASHENING. High-resolution version just posted to #patreon along with lots of discussion about the apatosaur neck combat hypothesis: https://www.patreon.com/posts/120678428
HT to @mike, because I believe he likes this sort of thing.
What's your favourite dinosaur? After the discovery of local dinosaur footprints, I'm thinking about changing mine...
https://theunconventionalgardener.com/blog/whats-your-favourite-dinosaur/
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2020 I illustrated DINOSAURS: NEW VISIONS OF A LOST WORLD, written by Prof Mike Benton. Here's my painting of Kulindadromeus.
https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/dinosaurs-new-visions-of-a-lost-world-hardcover
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Into 2019 with "Cambrian Epic," featuring two Timorebestia (newly discovered at that time) and a variety of other wonderful creatures from the Sirius Passet lagerstätte. This was commissioned for Park et al 2024.
Beautiful new cover at Nature's
An artist’s impression of the archaic bird Navaornis hestiae, which lived around 80 million years ago, by Júlia d’Oliveira
Palaeoart is as much a part of me as the sound of my voice.
As soon as I could hold a pencil and I will do it until I die...
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's how I built my model of Morganucodon (2017), a Triassic-Jurassic mammaliaform, commissioned by the University of Bristol and the National Museum Wales. Part 2 of 2 – I liked the furry trousers stage!
The #Chicxulub Impactor—the #asteroid that killed the #dinosaurs—had a smaller companion, which formed the #Nadir Crater off the coast of west #Africa and caused an 800m high #tsunami to sweep across the Atlantic: https://bbc.com/news/articles/c62m04v0k0no #science #astronomy #geology #palaeontology #paleontology #cretaceous #palaeogene #paleogene #extinction
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2015 I created a bunch of life-size and scale models for MUSE Science Museum, in Trento, Italy. Here's a life-size Ichthyostega; this was my second (improved) 3D reconstruction of this species.
The Inquisitive Biologist turns 7 today! What better way to celebrate than with not one but two reviews (1/2). A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils combines excellent photography with an up-to-date overview of dinosaur biology in easily digestible essays.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/09/19/book-review-a-history-of-dinosaurs-in-50-fossils/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon
Say hello to the oldest animals in the fossil record (my painting of Haootia).
Read all about Haootia and the newly described Mamsetia, here: https://gazette.mun.ca/research/earliest-ancestors/
It is time to stop reconstructing these animals standing on discs!
