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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 16h

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Plioviverrops spp.

From Early Miocene to Early Pliocene Europe, "Pliocene weasel face" is a potentially paraphyletic genus of tiny, 5kg hyaenid. Unlike other hyenas, it had reduced, simple dentition suitable for omnivory, allowing it to surlive alongside newly arrived canids

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 1d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Vespersaurus paranaensis

From Late Cretaceous Rio Parana Formation, Brazil, "western lizard" is a peculiar little noasaur with a functionally monodactyl foot where the the middle finger is large and weight bearing while the others are raised and sport big claws

Art by Paleo Lee

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Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 2d

Update: according to @nickrodriguez00.bsky.social , the runtime thing isn't true

Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 2d

Season 4 includes 9 episodes that are 30 minutes long (as opposed to the usual 20) 🦖

collider.com/jurassic-wor...

'Jurassic World: Chaos Theory' Faces Extinction in New Trailer for Final Season

Fans can get a brand-new look at Jurassic World: Chaos Theory's fourth and final season, which premieres next month. Watch the trailer now.

collider.com

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 2d

Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 2d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Stratodus apicalis

What the...? From Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene (yup, freak survived the K-Pg) "stratosphere tooth" is a 5 meter aulopiform fish with an eel-like body covered in scutes and over 6000 conical teeth, 1000 of which grew outside its jaws!

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Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 2d

Season 4 includes 9 episodes that are 30 minutes long (as opposed to the usual 20) 🦖

collider.com/jurassic-wor...

'Jurassic World: Chaos Theory' Faces Extinction in New Trailer for Final Season

Fans can get a brand-new look at Jurassic World: Chaos Theory's fourth and final season, which premieres next month. Watch the trailer now.

collider.com

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 3d

Art (showing Prenocephale) by Chris Di Piazza

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 3d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Brontotholus harmoni

From Late Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, USA, "Thunder Dome" (Ace name!) is a newly described pachycephalosaur and the 3rd largest known. It's not closely related to either Stegoceras nor Pachycephalosaurus, suggesting more diversity

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Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 3d

Attending #NYCC today?
DreamWorks TV
wants to hear from you 🦖

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Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 3d

The Chaos Theory season 4 trailer has been posted by cast and crew on Instagram. Head there to check it out!

It will be “officially” released later and we’ll share then.

Enjoy #NYCC

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Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Chaotic Panel day! 🦖

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 4d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Stensioella heintzi

From Early Devonian Germany, this odd basal placoderm is named after a paleozoologist. It had a whip-like tail, wing-like pectoral fins, and armor made up of scale-like tubercles. I expect nothing less from the Paleozoic, lol

Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 4d

The animation, lighting, and atmosphere are all on point in "Hunted By Moonlight"

We'll be getting an 11 minute long dinosaur-themed Halloween classic on October 24th! 🦖 🎃

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 5d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Spiclypeus shipporum

From Late Cretaceous Judith River Group, Montana, "spike shield" is a 4 ton chasmosaurine ceratopsians whose mature type specimen shows serious infections on its humerus and frill, as well as evidence of frill injury resulting from combat

Art by Jack Wood

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Cretaceous Campcast @jpcampcast.bsky.social · 5d

Saturday's Chaotic panel at New York Comic Con will include a screening of S4's first episode, behind the scenes insights, and "teases of what's in store"

templeofgeek.com/jurassic-wor...

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Unleashes Final Season at NYCC

New York Comic-Con 2025 is set to host a special panel and screening for the final season of Netflix's Jurassic World: Chaos Theory.

templeofgeek.com

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 6d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Caiuajara dobruskii

From Early Cretaceous Goio-Ere Formation, Brazil, "Caiuá Tapejara" is a Tapejarid pterosaur known from bone beds preserving different ontogenetical stages which show crestless juveniles. As a Tapejarid, it was likely frugivorous

Art by @serpenillus.bsky.social

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 7d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Iani smithi

From Late Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, this rhabdodontomorph iguanodontian is named after the Roman God of transitions, referencing the time's changing climate. It serves as a link between Tenontosaurus and Rhabdodontids

Art by Jack the Vulture

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 7d

Surviving Earth is challenging PhP for the paleomedia crown

BTW, insane that we've seen more of SE (which comes out next year) than PhP Ice Age which comes out next month. Apple needs to look up a little new word called "promotion"

Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 7d

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 7d

Guys? GUYS!! 🦖 🎃

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 8d

Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 8d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Harpacanthus fimbriatus

Ehm...sir...? There's something on your... whatever, from Carboniferous Bear Gulch Formation, USA, "finger like hooked spine" is a small cartilaginous fish with a strange set of projections on its upper jaw with an unknown use

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 9d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Albertosaurus sarcophagus

From Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada, the 3 ton"meat eating Alberta lizard" was described as a footnote in the same paper as T.rex. One of the best sampled tyrants, it allows for ontogeny studies and shows a potentially social life

Art by Fred the Dinoman

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 10d

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Tyrannosaurus rex

From Late Cretaceous North America, "tyrant lizard king" needs no introduction. On top of being one of the largest land predators, its crushing jaws, binocular vision, cursorial limbs, and agile hips made it the prized fighter of antiquity

Art by Draconos_Takeji

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 10d

#Tyrannosaurus rex was named 120 years ago today (Oct 4, 1905). If you want to know all there is to know about the world's most iconic #dinosaur, the word is that my book "King Tyrant", published a few months back, is a good start. #fossils #paleontology #paleoart press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The cover of the book "King Tyrant: a natural history of Tyrannosaurus rex" covered with gleaming review comments and a load of 5 star (or nearly so) ratings. Do you not have a copy yet? You can get them wherever books are sold. I mean, I'm just an alt text caption so my judgment on this anything beyond image description is limited, but I hear Mark worked incredibly hard on this project and thinks it's the best thing he's ever published. He'd be really happy if you bought a copy, and perhaps additional ones for friends and family so you could have very informed conversations about T. rex and all the dinosaur biology it's revealed to us.

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🎃 Spooky Kia 🎃 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 10d

Happy 120 anniversary to the prized fighter of antiquity, the absolute warlord of the Earth, one of the world's most powerful predators, an incredibly awesome animal, Tyrant King of all Saurians, and my 2nd favorite dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖 🎂

What a fantastic creature...

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