Long prior to the evolution of great apes (including humans), ancestral apes were climbers. But what sort of climbers were they? An argument exists that they were slow, leaf-eating 'cautious climbers'. I've just revamped my 2019 article on this subject... tetzoo.com/blog/2019/3/...
Illustration comissioned by Erica @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social for her wonderful video on co existance of Early Homo and Australopithecus lineages at Ledi Geraru.
Link to the video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQvC...
My latest newsletter's out! It's got sharks and face bites and other cool stuff in it.
Ankylosaurus on a peaceful springtime stroll 🌸🦕
Spring is almost here…even if it’s still cloudy and cold where I live…but that’s not stopping me from drawing some bright, blooming scenery!
The Tetrapod Zoology podcast lives again. Yes, episode 95 is here: It's Been Haulong? A year and a half of catchup! #TetZooCon regenerates into #DinoCon, 20 years of TetZoo, Haolong, Spinosaurus (URG!), and much more meandering and tangentiality... tetzoo.com/podcast
#Archaeology Archaeology with Flint Dibble
@flintdibble.bsky.social
A New History of the Maya with Dr David Stuart
Dr David Stuart joins Flint to chat all things Maya, with a look at his new book The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JfA...
Fossils from the Burgess shale collected by Walcott
The Discovery That Changed Paleontology Forever
The Burgess Shale was first discovered in 1909 by Charles Doolittle Walcott, who stumbled upon its rich fossil beds almost by accident.
Canada’s Burgess Shale:
Strange Fossils From Life’s Earliest Explosion 🧪
discoverwildscience.com/canadas-burg...
New #DAWNDINOS paper!
We do predictive simulations of vertical height jumping in the Triassic theropod Coelophysis & extant (tinamou) bird Eudromia. Mainly as sensitivity analysis of what parameters are most important. We show how crucial tail mobility is.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
Women as founder burials is definitely A Thing in prehistory
#Matriarcha
Two-billion-year-old rocks in China suggest mountain building from Earth’s first supercontinent led to a planetwide burst of erosion. https://scim.ag/4sawOqx
JP Institute was such an iconic website for me! 🤩💖 I loved browsing through all the profiles of the dinosaurs and was impressed at the scope of the coverage 🥰
Mantellisaurus in foreground, Hope the Blue whale behind.
Mammal Hall, with Blue whale model at left and proboscideans at right.
Sophie the Stegosaurus.
I had a few errands to run at London's Natural History Museum this morning. There is so much amazing stuff there I always notice and appreciate something new, so here's a thread on things I saw...
This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen
It's true -- a 10th Anniversary special edition, with substantial new content! #dinosaurs #books
A scene set in an Eocene rainforest, circa 50 million years ago, in modern Wyoming. A Gastornis, with a gray plumage and an orange beak and blue eyes, is delighted to spot a Cyrilavis resting on their large beak. The Cyrilavis is white and gray with gray cockatiel-style cheek-spots
Gastornis/Diatryma meets one of their non-flightless neighbours, the stem-parrot Cyrilavis
Originally made as gift art for @kulindadromeus.bsky.social
Rex Time #sciart
Really happy to see this collaborative work led by my student Ayken Askapuli published now in @pnas.org Ancient DNA from a Golden Horde tomb!
Digital Drawing. A depiction of all 9 species of moa. They look as if they are floating in the air, moving towards a glowing point in the bottom left corner. In the background are some twisty-ish trees, all leaning to the left. There is a dark border around the whole piece. At the bottom are the skulls of all 9 species (they're probably not exactly to scale with one another). On the left and right of the skulls are pairs of kōwhai leaves. The rest of the border is filled with simple lines. All 9 species of moa are (left to right): Mantell's moa Bush moa Eastern moa (bald one with blue head) Heavy-footed moa (behind eastern moa) South Island giant moa (has blue on the neck) Stout-legged moa North island giant moa Crested moa Upland moa
Moa
It was great to talk to John Platt about my book Ghosts Behind Glass. Read through our convo here: therevelator.org/extinction-g...
#extinction #envhist
Historical black and white illustration of a right whale, labeled as "Right Whale of the North West Coast," showing the full side profile of the large, robust marine mammal with a rounded head and blowhole emitting a spout of water. The whale features callosities on its upper jaw and small pectoral fins, with a broad, fluked tail. The image is from an 1874 publication titled "The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America," highlighting the whale in detail for scientific study related to the dolphin and other cetaceans.
🐬 The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, .
New York, J.H. Carmany;1874..
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A Cretaceous horse.
#YearOfTheHorse
You have to take a look, it's important
Rocks and sand. And water, and trees, and bugs, and you, and clouds, and ice. Not pictured: borders. NASA/Apollo 16/Kevin M. Gill
A gibbous view of Earth showing North America on April 16 1972, via Apollo 16 while on trans-lunar coast phase.
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I love it when new archaeological research is coupled with beautiful photographs of the artifacts. Exciting work on the exceptional Younger Dryas-age organic technologies of some of North America’s first peoples.
www.johnhawks.net/p/complex-fi...
"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press."
Wow! No words.
Mammothssss
"What did YOU collect as an animal-loving child?" Image selection includes Zoobooks, Wildlife Explorer, Weird n Wild Creatures, Panini Wildlife Sticker Albums, Ranger Rick Magazine, Wildlife Factfile, Wildlife Treasury, EnchantedLearning.com Coloring Pages, Eyewitness Books, Rourke Dinosaur Library, Illustrated Animal Library, and National Geographic Magazine
Coming out soon! You'll even find me in there talking about gar and how they made it through the extinction that toppled the dinosaurs.
Assortment of creatures - extinct & extant- flat style (Approximately to scale)!
#paleoart
