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fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · Jun 30

Having a pet means turning your head away for one moment and quickly realizing that morning cuddle time was actually just an excuse to get closer to the food you were eating, and now nothing on God's green Earth can save your sandwich.

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 15h

A lot of feelings that are more than words

(I guess, in a way, #paleoart)

A digital drawing, few simple drawings on a dark background. From top to the bottom, it starts with half of the Earth seen with its continents being placed like in the Middle Ordovician. Below it is a line, showing a process of life - from one little star, to dividing cells, to an embryo (it's all different creatures - fish, dog, tadpole, and a human).
Then, series of little drawings, showing different stages of life in different things. A plant emerging from the soil, a larvae, baby birds with their bright open mouths, pregnant horse with a star on its belly, very old human, and a dry plant in a pot with a leaf falling from it.
A fossil of a crinoid can be seen on the background, in some places nicely preserved, in some - scattered around, with segments seen as little stars.
The text on the picture says: "Let sunshine touch the memory of me again"

Following the previous part of it, from top to the bottom: mammal bones scattered around, a fossil of a trilobite on a rock, human remains, a piece of a fossilized plant, little drawing of an ammonite, a part of a thylacine seen in a little square, and in a square next to it - plate with fossilized fish, being shattered.
Below them is a line - an ornitomimus running forward, its fossilized remains, and on the right - same remains, but scattered around in little pieces.
The text goes through the drawing, saying "I will remain. I will remain. I will remain"
The first phrase is written normally, the second is written fast. The last one is poorly written by my left hand, without looking at the screen.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 14h

Day163 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) hiding from the fearsome and many-toothed conodonts Clydagnathus cavusformis, with many conodont elements below #toothytuesday #savePRI 🧪

John Oliver leaning around a panel in the void while a banner of terrible teeth is unfurled beneath him. above, hunting in the void, are two large eyed eel like creatures with gaping mouths. one may have spotted our intreped comedian. wish him luck.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 17h

Roadrunner on a post. I have no idea what he was looking at . 🪶

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 2d

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

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fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 20h

Natural history + art history = *chef's kiss*

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Murk @ginkgogoes.bsky.social · 1d

digital ink drawing of a praying mantis sort of hanging slightly downwards from the top right corner, attentive, arms ready to strike. The brushstrokes sort of melt together.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Day 162 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

Bellerophon crassus poses with an enamored John Oliver (H. sapiens) for #MolluskMonday
🦑 #SavePRI #fossils #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #lastweektonight

A grey curved shell with a raised ridge through the middle along the growth axis leans in towards John Oliver, seated on a blue chair leaning towards the shell. John sits with his leg crossed and smiles happily. books and a magic 8 ball are on the shelves behind him

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 23h

Helveticosaurus Lair

A gathering of marine reptiles (Helveticosaurus zollingeri) lie on exposed rocks within a sea cave. Foamy sea water rushes in from the left, swirling beneath their perch.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Day 160 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he helps save the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) could be a real saint if he'd get out the word about PRI! halo is the brachiopod Leptaena rhomboidalis (PRI76916) #savePRI 🦑 #geology

John Oliver in a medieval style art piece with gold paint on wood in an arch background. John is wearing a black suit and holding a microphone. behind his head like a halo is a semicircular brachiopod with many rays (ribs) like a halo in medieval art.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Day 158 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com 's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Today John (H. sapiens) is getting ready to teach turritellids, with a Kapalmerella mortoni postmortoni specimen ##JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed 🧪 #SavePRI 🦑

John Oliver from community holding a pointy shell with a strong carina in front of a classroom blackboard

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fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 4d

The University of Queensland has this frieze, and several carvings all around the Great Court area.

A carved sandstone frieze from the 1950s depicting a forest scene with what appears to be a Triceratops, two Rhamphorhynchus-like pterosaurs, two small creatures (possibly mammals?), a Stegosaurus, two Archaeopteryx-like birds, a temnospondyl amphibian, and two sauropods. All of these are plausibly Jurassic, except for the Triceratops, so I'm not sure where that came from. Stegosaurus and Triceratops are North American, and Archaeopteryx is European, but sauropods, temnospondyls, and distant relatives of Stegosaurus are all found in Australia.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 5d

I missed this but just learned PRI is working on a virtual field experience to Greenland to accompany a study lead by Jessica Mejia at Syracuse on how meltwater beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet affects ice movement—and ultimately, global sea levels
artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/earth-scienc...

Secrets Beneath Greenland’s Ice

What lies beneath the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet may hold the key to understanding one of the most pressing climate challenges of our time: sea level rise.

artsandsciences.syracuse.edu

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nogain98 @rlatkdwls.bsky.social · 6d

Albertosaurus

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 8d

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia

#paleoart #sciart #art

Illustration showing a pair of Cartorhynchus swimming in coastal waters

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 8d

Goth band album cover.

Groove-billed Anis are fabulous birds. A type of cuckoo, this species lives in social groups of up to 10 birds and they collectively guard their territory and even share a nest together!

These birds were taking a break today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social to groom each other.

Five black birds perch closely together on a branch, their glossy feathers and long tails standing out against a blurred green forest background.

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fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

Is T. rex overrated? Yes, extremely. Should other species get the spotlight more? Absolutely. Is T. rex nonetheless still a really interesting animal? Also yes.

I was born on the same ground that T. rex walked, and I think that's rad as hell.

fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, T. rex had front-row seats to see the asteroid as it wrought destruction across the planet, and I genuinely don't know anything more absurdly cinematic than that. Nature seems to have a funny sense of humor sometimes.

fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

Add to that the number of specimens we have (over 40), our depth of knowledge of the ecosystem around it, and the supreme coincidence that these animals lived at the time that marked the end of the non-avian dinosaurs, and you have an unusually special fossil animal.

fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

Biomechanical studies don't always agree on how, but they do agree that the skull of T. rex suggests it fed differently from other gigantic theropods, probably able to bite much harder and crunch through bone. It's often likened to a hyena, except that it was also an animal bigger than an elephant.

fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

They were gigantic carnivores that have a head shape and cranial anatomy unlike that of any other group of animals, living or extinct. Even larger theropods don't build their jaws that deep or have skulls as boxy as the tyrannosaurs, and T. rex is the most extreme example of it.

fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

It can definitely get frustrating when people new to the field, especially students, are only ever interested in talking about T. rex and how it ate things, but at the same time, it is a really cool animal.

fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

One of the oddities of vertebrate paleontology is that Tyrannosaurus is one of the most-studied (and possibly well-understood) fossil animals. This isn't entirely a coincidence -- we've known about T. rex for a long time, and its popularity tends to spur interest in its research.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 9d

Happy 120th Nameday, Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus!

Reconstructed skull of the holotype specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex

The 1905 and 1906 reconstructions of the skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex

Skull of Albertosaurus sarcophagus at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology

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Andreas Haugstrup @hgstrp.com · 8d

Black oystercatcher digging to treasures at Heron's Head yesterday (San Francisco, CA) 🪶

Oystercatcher standing on rocks, head bent down to pry shellfish off the rocks

Oystercatcher walking along shoreline with a small shell in its beak

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fossilfamilytree.bsky.social @fossilfamilytree.bsky.social · 8d

This bird looks like it means business.

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Andy Langley @langers77.bsky.social · 8d

Please see my JustGiving page how donations to the @worldlandtrust.org Autumn Appeal can be MULTIPLIED by 6️⃣! 🪶

Appeal will save threatened forest in Colombia - home to the critically endangered Blue-billed Curassow

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📸: Lars Buck

@markavery.bsky.social

www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...

Photos of Blue-billed Curassow (Female on left).

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