Tess Gallagher

Especially dedicating this to the trans youth in the UK right now 🩷

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The amount of belittling, vitriol and arrogance I see from the community each time a palaeontology-adjecent media project shows up. Guys, you don't come off as intelligent by demeaning individual production members, you just prove you've no experience working in media, and come of as mean spirited.

Global distribution of female scholars in vertebrate palaeontology research in 2023, displayed as the proportion of female authors by country. The pie charts illustrate regional variations, while the line graphs show the temporal trends in female scholar proportions among the top five countries by publication volume (2014−2023). Research articles| 14 May 2025 A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies by Haohan Wang ; Juliana Sterli ; Vincent Dupret ; Henning Blom ; Annalisa Berta ; Susan Turner ; Daoming Han ; Luyan Xu ; Zhaohui Pan

Happy International Women's Day 💐

Did you know, for every 7 men in palaeontology, there are ~3 women. Women make up 25-35% of global vertebrate palaeontological publishing output. And are most likely to study mammals, while men, reptiles.

Bajadasaurus 🦕🌈

“Little Dippy’s Colorful Curiosity” by Tess Gallagher 🇺🇸
Bio: I am a paleontologist that specializes in the study of dinosaur scales, specifically those of sauropods. As someone who studies fossil skin, I use my artwork as a way to communicate my scientific hypotheses on dinosaur appearance.

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The oldest known fossilized amniote cloaca. (Lorenzo Marchetti/Natural History Museum, Berlin)

The resting trace of an early reptile. (Lorenzo Marchetti/Natural History Museum, Berlin)

At the tip of this arrow, there is a 290 million years old impression of a cloaca from a fossilised reptile of the Goldlauter Formation in Germany.

It’s the oldest known butthole.

#PaleoSky ⚒️

Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein Jack Horner, who was a consultant for the Jurassic Park films, is among the researchers whose work or careers have been affected because of revelations from newly released documents.

Jack Horner "is no longer employed by Chapman University."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A silly simple pen drawing of a paper-clip-shaped ammonite with eyes like those of Clippy the office assistant. A speech bubble reads "It looks like you're evolving. Would you like help?"

Yes yes yes

*taps sign*

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Art Comission by James Stryker Colors suggested by @cascoclauda :3

Outmuscled

(Argentinosaurus & co.)

Follow the Yellow Leaf Road 🍃

Haolong dongi

I'll be attending the Virtual Conference for Women in Archeology and Paleontology! Come say hi and see my artwork!

Meet 14 women paleoartists! March 4, 3:20pm-5:00pm (UTC+1) March 6, 10:50am-12:30pm Little details so as not to reveal everything, artworks by, from top to bottom, Sandra Hähle, Axelle Gardin, Sandra García Domínguez, Ainhoa Lekuona, Marie Thureau, Tess Gallagher & Sara Citron.

🎨✨ Get ready to discover more about the world of paleoart at #6thvcwap ! 🦕🖌️
Explore the artworks of 14 women paleoartists, engage in discussions on GatherTown, and cast your vote for your favorite piece!
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Natalia at Haron Island, azure waters

Map of one tree island research station

LSF equipment for water use

Hello from remote publicly inaccessible One Tree Island, where I'll be assisting fluorescent studies on reefal health and echinoids.

Three Spinosaurus mirabilis chitter and bellow at each other set against a twilight backdrop.

The three princes of Farak confer in the dying light.

#sciart #paleoart

So jealous!! I hope you have a fun time.

I believe papers about extinct charismatic vertebrates should be held to the same publishing standards and norms as other taxonomic groups. It's objectively bizarre that papers describing a single species gets published in Science/Nature as if that's considered of broad paleobiological significance

Glad I'm not the only one. Still a cool critter but a bit surprised it's in science?

Yall ever realize how common it is for news articles to give Watson and Crick full credit for "discovering" DNA, despite everyone and their mother knowing that it was Rosalind Franklin? Oh, and turns out Watson was at Epstein's house lol.

Sandbox VR promo text quoting Dr Darren Naish, with a portrait photo at left.

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Former Microsoft executive’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny Seattle Times business reporter Alex Halverson has written about connections between Epstein and former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold.

If the paleo community is going to be serious about Horner’s connection to Epstein, we also have to be serious about Myhrvold’s, because guess who contributed photos of animals mating to Epstein’s birthday book and has been appearing in new paleo papers this year - including the new Spinosaurus.

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

--> , thermoregulatory structures, due to their blood filled nature, or all of the above. Whichever it is, this new discovery shows us that our understanding of integument in Dinosaurs and other extinct creatures is incredibly limited and still full of surprises…

Haolong dongi, the “Porcupine” Iguanodont. At about 2.5 meters long, not much would stand out about this Hadrosauroid had we just their skeletal remains, but thanks to the preservational nature of the Yixian Formation, we’ve come to uncover amazing details about the anatomy of this animal #sciart 🧵>

Along with overlapping dorso-caudal scutes and large flattened caudal scales, Haolong was covered in small spines. The purpose of these is so far unclear, however the current hypotheses land on them being defensive structures, display structures->

"I may have a slightly different opinion..."

For February 11, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I invited several female* artists and scientists to join a panel discussion on this important topic. We talked about 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒆𝒐(𝒂𝒓𝒕).

I always thought the term “billfish” implied toothlessness, and while that’s true for swordfish, all the other billfishes are exactly the opposite: their mouthes and bills are COVERED in tiny teeth.

They also have these awful tooth filled pockets all along their bills. Awful.

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