Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Paleontologist of sorts. MSc from Idaho State University. I study dicynodonts and pterosaurs, among other things. They/them
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Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23
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i think megaloceros takes home the photorealism award in #prehistoricplaneticeage 🦌 something about its imperfect, slightly scruffy coat texture just makes it look so real
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
i think megaloceros takes home the photorealism award in #prehistoricplaneticeage 🦌 something about its imperfect, slightly scruffy coat texture just makes it look so real
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Steller’s sea lion
Sandhill crane
Heaviside’s dolphin
Humboldt penguin
Laysan albatross
Steller’s sea lion
Sandhill crane
Heaviside’s dolphin
Humboldt penguin
Laysan albatross
I worry this is just travel flexing but…introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Brazilian tapir
Greater kudu
African wild dog
Texas horned lizard
Marine iguana
Brazilian tapir
Greater kudu
African wild dog
Texas horned lizard
Marine iguana
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Kangaroo rat
Fin whale
Moose
Grizzly bear
American crocodile
Kangaroo rat
Fin whale
Moose
Grizzly bear
American crocodile
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Steller’s sea lion
Sandhill crane
Heaviside’s dolphin
Humboldt penguin
Laysan albatross
Steller’s sea lion
Sandhill crane
Heaviside’s dolphin
Humboldt penguin
Laysan albatross
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Of all the wonderful depictions of Pleistocene life shown in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, few can compare with the beauty and realism of these psilopterines. I don't think I'm exaggerating to say this is the first and only time terror birds have been done properly in a documentary.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Of all the wonderful depictions of Pleistocene life shown in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, few can compare with the beauty and realism of these psilopterines. I don't think I'm exaggerating to say this is the first and only time terror birds have been done properly in a documentary.
We should schedule a Howard the Duck watch party at SVP 2026
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We should schedule a Howard the Duck watch party at SVP 2026
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Dinosaurs were nearly wiped out 66 million years ago, long before the start of the Quaternary ice age. However, #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge shows that the few surviving dinosaurs (birds) would go on to become highly successful. Let's meet the ice age dinosaurs featured in the series! 🪶🧪
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Dinosaurs were nearly wiped out 66 million years ago, long before the start of the Quaternary ice age. However, #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge shows that the few surviving dinosaurs (birds) would go on to become highly successful. Let's meet the ice age dinosaurs featured in the series! 🪶🧪
I should start doing eyeliner extending downward from the inner corner of the eye, as is present on numerous mammalian carnivores, and, incidentally, Prehistoric Planet's dire wolves
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I should start doing eyeliner extending downward from the inner corner of the eye, as is present on numerous mammalian carnivores, and, incidentally, Prehistoric Planet's dire wolves
I have dinner. I have my hot chocolate. It’s time for Prehistoric Planet
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I have dinner. I have my hot chocolate. It’s time for Prehistoric Planet
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I found a fiction story with a reference to it from 1909 referring to Brontornis.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=os...
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=os...
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I found a fiction story with a reference to it from 1909 referring to Brontornis.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=os...
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=os...
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I made an infographic for this very reason!
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I made an infographic for this very reason!
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
Every year I encourage my viewers to print it out for their Thanksgiving turkey dinner, Christmas goose feast, Boxing Day budgie buffet, or any other ritual when people gather to dismember bird carcasses. I'm not a meat eater, but I try not to judge
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biiiiig stretch!
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
biiiiig stretch!
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I would sell my entire soul for all my fellow science communicators to stop ending the "story of the dinosaurs" at the end-cretaceous extinction and dive into, even briefly, the story of cenozoic birds. I'm also willing to offer cash, I just don't have much of it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I would sell my entire soul for all my fellow science communicators to stop ending the "story of the dinosaurs" at the end-cretaceous extinction and dive into, even briefly, the story of cenozoic birds. I'm also willing to offer cash, I just don't have much of it.
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#SurvivingEarth
OUR FIRST LOOK AT (FINISHED?) VFX FOOTAGE OF ISCHIGUALASTIA!
The SE team used practical FX to simulate the sloppy mouth of the creature!
OUR FIRST LOOK AT (FINISHED?) VFX FOOTAGE OF ISCHIGUALASTIA!
The SE team used practical FX to simulate the sloppy mouth of the creature!
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#SurvivingEarth
OUR FIRST LOOK AT (FINISHED?) VFX FOOTAGE OF ISCHIGUALASTIA!
The SE team used practical FX to simulate the sloppy mouth of the creature!
OUR FIRST LOOK AT (FINISHED?) VFX FOOTAGE OF ISCHIGUALASTIA!
The SE team used practical FX to simulate the sloppy mouth of the creature!
I had a dream last night in which Bill Nye and I, tasked with photographing a kaiju pangolin, got on a tram that would slowly go down into an underground naval shipyard to find it. He ominously told me that “nothing is recursive”
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I had a dream last night in which Bill Nye and I, tasked with photographing a kaiju pangolin, got on a tram that would slowly go down into an underground naval shipyard to find it. He ominously told me that “nothing is recursive”
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Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
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Manuscript submitted! @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
a man in a knight 's costume is running in a field with another man
Alt: King Arthur with his squire Patsy clapping coconuts together from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Manuscript submitted! @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Vehicle inspection this morning
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Vehicle inspection this morning
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WHY DINOSAURS? Official Trailer. Streaming worldwide very soon! Get updates at www.whydinosaurs.com #whydinosaurs #dinosaurs #fossils #paleontology #jurassicpark
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
WHY DINOSAURS? Official Trailer. Streaming worldwide very soon! Get updates at www.whydinosaurs.com #whydinosaurs #dinosaurs #fossils #paleontology #jurassicpark
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I made a gif! I heard we can post gifs now!!
Ive never made a gif before.
I present all 27 designs (so far) of my pride stegosaurus prints and stickers.
All available at www.emmalerae.com
Ive never made a gif before.
I present all 27 designs (so far) of my pride stegosaurus prints and stickers.
All available at www.emmalerae.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I made a gif! I heard we can post gifs now!!
Ive never made a gif before.
I present all 27 designs (so far) of my pride stegosaurus prints and stickers.
All available at www.emmalerae.com
Ive never made a gif before.
I present all 27 designs (so far) of my pride stegosaurus prints and stickers.
All available at www.emmalerae.com
I had a dream in which I managed to snag a basal anomodont and a complete 3D-preserved enantiornithine from a soon-to-be-orphaned museum collection - as the room it was in kept shrinking each time I went back to it, soon there wouldn’t be a room at all
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I had a dream in which I managed to snag a basal anomodont and a complete 3D-preserved enantiornithine from a soon-to-be-orphaned museum collection - as the room it was in kept shrinking each time I went back to it, soon there wouldn’t be a room at all
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The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles.
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
June 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The first of a paleoart series I'm calling "Perspectives," which aims to highlight the evolution of life on Earth with a variety of different creatures and styles.
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
This one is "Pale First Dot," depicting good ol' LUCA, the last universal common ancestor.
#sciart #paleoart #paleontology
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Two Denversaurus meet at sunset. Referenced from a photo I took in Montana this summer.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Two Denversaurus meet at sunset. Referenced from a photo I took in Montana this summer.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
Denversaurus belongs to the ankylosaurian family nodosauridae. Unlike ankylosauridae, nodosaurids lack a tail club and many have shoulder spikes.
THE BIRD OF ALL TIME
What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
THE BIRD OF ALL TIME
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Nothing brings the comfort of autumn like a fall feast! And our Pterodactylus aren't missing the party. We offered our last pumpkins at the zoo filled with bugs and fish, and the winged reptiles balance their weight and challenge themselves for a treat. 🐟🧠 ##ArtemisPaleozoo
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nothing brings the comfort of autumn like a fall feast! And our Pterodactylus aren't missing the party. We offered our last pumpkins at the zoo filled with bugs and fish, and the winged reptiles balance their weight and challenge themselves for a treat. 🐟🧠 ##ArtemisPaleozoo
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Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.