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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November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Gorgeous!!! I am taking notes
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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...
Reposted by Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈
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
I specify in reference to phorusrhacids, because a book from 1925 (Mesa, Cañon, and Pueblo, by Charles Lummis) used the term in reference to Teratornis:
![The skeletons of fifty species of quadrupeds and fifty species of birds have already been identified from this unique preservatory [the La Brea tar pits], and out of the vast mass of material new varieties are still turning up. Among the birds are the extinct California peacock, and that super-condor, the teratornis, "terror bird" - with a fourteen-foot spread of wing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kakybnmtw6vcdpkmlzlkir6h/bafkreibdjrt5mngtjqofdfa5e4qkjxksuvnbliwmcu6sse5iqtifei4beu@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I specify in reference to phorusrhacids, because a book from 1925 (Mesa, Cañon, and Pueblo, by Charles Lummis) used the term in reference to Teratornis:
It goes back to the 1940s - apparently coined by newspapers in response to the Field Museum putting a skeleton and life model of Mesembriornis on display. The earliest usage I could find on the Internet Archive in reference to phorusrhacids was in a magazine published January 1941
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It goes back to the 1940s - apparently coined by newspapers in response to the Field Museum putting a skeleton and life model of Mesembriornis on display. The earliest usage I could find on the Internet Archive in reference to phorusrhacids was in a magazine published January 1941
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November 24, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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