Skye McDavid
@skyemcdavid.com
scientific illustrator dabbling in paleontological research: pterosaurs, dinosaurs, other fossil reptiles, zoological nomenclature
Links: https://www.skyemcdavid.com/links
Links: https://www.skyemcdavid.com/links
Thank you to everyone for making #2025SVP in Birmingham productive and fun! After spending the day on planes I'm finally home in NY. Now to actually write up the results of all the data collection I did in UK museums before the conference.....
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Thank you to everyone for making #2025SVP in Birmingham productive and fun! After spending the day on planes I'm finally home in NY. Now to actually write up the results of all the data collection I did in UK museums before the conference.....
Come see me today at B199
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Come see me today at B199
Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sarcosaurus woodi, an early diverging averostran-line theropod from the Early Jurassic of Warwickshire, in the Warwickshire Museum offsite collections. #2025SVP
POV you are a lost holotype seeing the light of a ceiling fixture for the first time in a century
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
POV you are a lost holotype seeing the light of a ceiling fixture for the first time in a century
OK i'll bite (stolen from @cascoclauda.bsky.social). If anyone says *that* Paw Patrol character I will be very disappointed.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
OK i'll bite (stolen from @cascoclauda.bsky.social). If anyone says *that* Paw Patrol character I will be very disappointed.
While going through ptero collections with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
While going through ptero collections with @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social we have rediscovered the missing holotype of Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley, 1870 in the collections of the British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk
Ok, but consider trace fossils with body fossils in them
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Ok, but consider trace fossils with body fossils in them
English people have been telling me that Greggs sausage rolls are a must-have and emblematic of their national cuisine, so I tried one and it was one of the most medium things I've ever had.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
English people have been telling me that Greggs sausage rolls are a must-have and emblematic of their national cuisine, so I tried one and it was one of the most medium things I've ever had.
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Of course the big paper on Azhdarchoid phylogeny comes out while I'm at a museum on a research visit (looking at Azhdarchoid cervicals, obviously) but now I'm back at the hotel so it's time to write a proper thread! 1/28
Hey at least I can add Egyptian geese to my life list
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Hey at least I can add Egyptian geese to my life list
I schlepped all the way out to Crystal Palace Park only to find the Dinosaurs* covered by tarp and surrounded by construction equipment.
(*the statues are collectively referred to as the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but only some of them represent dinosaurs.)
(*the statues are collectively referred to as the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but only some of them represent dinosaurs.)
November 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I schlepped all the way out to Crystal Palace Park only to find the Dinosaurs* covered by tarp and surrounded by construction equipment.
(*the statues are collectively referred to as the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but only some of them represent dinosaurs.)
(*the statues are collectively referred to as the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but only some of them represent dinosaurs.)
"Jar of moles" has to be one of my favorite museum display items ever.
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"Jar of moles" has to be one of my favorite museum display items ever.
The British Museum ships Gilgamesh x Enkidu?? Gilgkidu?
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The British Museum ships Gilgamesh x Enkidu?? Gilgkidu?
I have never been more disappointed that something had been temporarily removed from display
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have never been more disappointed that something had been temporarily removed from display
Theropods are NOT minding the gap.
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Theropods are NOT minding the gap.
Literal Easter egg I stumbled upon in the NHM London pterosaur collections.
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Literal Easter egg I stumbled upon in the NHM London pterosaur collections.
An interesting quirk of today's taxonomic revision is that one jacket from the Jane Quarry, long assumed to contain specimens of famous species, actually contained what would become two holotypes of two distinct species — Infernodrakon hastacollis and Nanotyrannus lethaeus
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
An interesting quirk of today's taxonomic revision is that one jacket from the Jane Quarry, long assumed to contain specimens of famous species, actually contained what would become two holotypes of two distinct species — Infernodrakon hastacollis and Nanotyrannus lethaeus
