One of my favourite weird art trends is that thing in 19th century Britain where landowners would flex how big their livestock was by having them painted as chonked rectangles and oblongs
Since it's apparently
#DeinonychusDay
as well as
#FossilFriday
I will post this alternative-posture Deinonychus skeletal without further comment. For now...
I just can´t emphasize enough how bloody bizarre
#ostrich
feet are. I just found this pics I took some years ago during a visit of an ostrich farm. The amount of modification from the original bird foot is just staggering, nearly alien.
For
#FossilFriday
, how about a new skeletal of the poorly known and rarely discussed dinosaur called Tyrannosaurus rex? This one is based on The Nation's T. rex specimen, which is on display at
@NMNH
ive just been informed that walmart has decided to sell a tshirt and shorts which uses copyrighted skeletals from
@Randomdinos01
,
@skeletaldrawing
, and Lukas Panzarin, as well as not the crediting a wikipedia skeletal by D. Guevara
@arvalis
@dcidaho
Honestly, most of the museum people I've interacted with are solid individuals who don't want to screw over artists (or anyone else), although obviously there are exceptions to this.
Sigh...egg-laying mammals only seem weird as an accident of the K/Pg extinction, before that they were common. They don't have a duck bill, it's soft and pliable and only superficially looks duck-like.
The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, it's duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous.
It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 10 chromosomes.
It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
My older Triceratops skeletal has always been based on a subadult specimen, but for the
@NMNH
overhaul they naturally wanted Hatcher's skull. So here's a more mature T. horridus for you all:
Well this is genuinely neat. Juvenile tyrannosaurs ate little feathered oviraptorosaurs. Not a huge surprise, but always great to get direct confirmation via gut contents like this!
Ooh look, Furcatoceratops was published! Here's a skeletal of the critter I did for the RMDRC &
@Mosasaurologist
back in the day. Congrats to Ishikawa and colleagues on naming it! (reposted to correct typos, sorry).
I commissioned a Hesperornithoides from
@WryCritic
and it arrived - I love it! Also, for anyone considering commissioning Natalia, I'd add that it was a great experience.
There it is. Spinosaurus and (to a lesser degree) Baryonyx have denser bones (pachyostosis) for _some kind of water foraging_ - although IMO the real headline here is that it Suchomimus does not
Hallelujah! Discovering this while at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting feels especially appropriate. Thanks to Wikipedia and it's editors for entering the 21st century on this topic!
If you're wondering how busy doing a PhD can be - the Auroraceratops monograph (which I did the skeletal reconstruction for) was published in 2019, and I totally forgot to post it to my website until now. Anyhow, here's a basal neoceratopsian for you.
A solid update to the skeletal as well! The authors are right to point out the overly vertical anterior ribs inflated the torso and messed up the CoG in the original, but there may be even more room here to shrink the front of the torso.
This is only surprising if you bought into the simplistic, trees-down "Archaeopteryx is the first bird" narrative of flight origins. The long-burn exaptation (with major terrestrial elements) model predicts this.
It was brought to me attention that I hadn't replaced the older version of this skeletal on my website. So until I get a chance to do so, here's the updated, more vertically-oriented Mamenchisaurus youngi skeletal.
Not going to lie, it feels good seeing your name in the credits - I'm glad they seem to have listed all of the VFX crew this time so they can enjoy it as well - it takes an army to recreate dinosaurs (and other extinct critters) like this!
#PrehistoricPlanet2
Since Daspletosaurus is in the news again today (congrats
@df9465
!) I thought I'd repost my D. torosus skeletal. I hope all my US followers enjoyed a great Thanksgiving!
While my macronarian skeletals may have anticipated the excellent work published today by
@raptordanny
and coauthors, several of my diplodocids will need to be reposed. In fact, I sat on this skeletal of Apatosaurus for almost two years because it seemed so strange.
I love the artistry and process for both cakes. Neither is scientifically perfect (it's cake, duh!), but when it comes to anatomical accuracy
#TeamBuddy
wins hands down. Congrats!
I'm sorry, but as long as there is no raw data, and no one is willing to come forward to say "we ran this at our lab" then it's hard to accept it isn't fraud, and at the very least the paper should be retracted since it's not reproducible.
I'm thrilled to announce I am joining the Department of Integrative Biology as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I will be teaching comparative vertebrate anatomy, animal physiology, and other (some new) courses.
Cool study, except you can ignore the Deinonychus results, as unfortunately they used one of the fanciful, sculpted skull "casts" as the basis for the analysis.
Happy
#PortfolioDay
- As my Twitter handle suggests, I mostly do skeletal reconstructions and anatomical diagrams. But I've also been known to do life reconstructions and someday(TM) I'll finish one of my full-scene WIPs that have been hanging around forever.
#JurassicWorldDominion
spoiler warning!
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A scaly, overly-spiky, lipless old-school Giganotosaurus dies at the end, impaled on the claws of a fully feathered Therizinosaurus. I see what you did there
@colintrevorrow
- well played!
You beat me to it Jaime, and with more awesome artwork I might add (I just have a bunch of rigorous skeletals). But this is where I ended up as well. Well done, and may the aquatic, quadrupedal spinosaurus idea sink into the abyss.
Gonna have to jump on the bandwagon here - this trailer for some animated dinosaur shorts looks astonishing in both it's artistic goals and its use of current scientific data.
Testing some eye movement, thought I'd post it as a PSA that Archosaurs shouldn't be animated with Mammalian eye movement. The ring is moving not the eye, the flesh of the entire area around the eye is influenced with movement and the pupil stays relatively centred as a result.
I don't have time for a new drawing this year, but to all my friends, family, colleagues and fellow humans for whom June is much more than a marketing opportunity: You are valid and valued just as you are - happy Pride Month!
With all the debate over how feathered coelurosaur faces should be, here's a look at how some living bird facial feathers would map onto a dromaeosaur.
You may be fooled into thinking this was a dinosaur, but it is not! This is Postosuchus kirkpatricki, a huge, bipedal pseudosuchian from Late Triassic in North America. As if we needed more proof that the Triassic was filled with amazing tetrapods!
#paleoart
#sciart
A study fitted 925 pet cats with geolocating backpacks reveals a dark consequence to letting them out — Researchers found that, over the course of a month, cats kill between two and ten times more wildlife than native predators [read more: ]
I am thrilled to announce that our paper, Mechanistic Thermal Modeling of Late Triassic Terrestrial Amniotes Predicts Geographic Distribution is now available in (early) Open Access from Diversity:
Here's a thread to tell you a bit about it. (1/17)
2 minute meditation for today:
Baby emus at the watering hole, enjoying their first baths.
Bonus: playful muddy puppy and adult emu-mop painting the house with mud
#birdtwitter
#emu
#OTD
in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic.
Lane, Be carefully preserved by staff of
@hmns
Untill we meet again🤗!
LANE Triceratops horridus (HMNS 2006.1743.00 or HMNS VP1506
#DinoScience
@DinoScience_jpn