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Kinda miss having a place to digitally offload my mental thoughts. In a bad place today.

a still from 'walking with dinosaurs 2025' showing a juvenile triceratops named clover in a dense forest

a still of salaman the spinosaurus, single dad of the year, swimming

a still showing gastonia - whose name i can't remember i'm sorry - walking through a burning forest

a still of rose the albertosaurus roaring into the camera

new promo pics! #wwd2025

Linkin Park

The cover for Riley’s book The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world. It shows a half flesh, half skeletal T. rex

The cover for Riley’s book When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance, showing fossil mammals, dinosaurs, and insects among ancient plants

Hi, I’m Riley! I write bestsellers, talk ‘til my jaw hurts about paleontology, and sniff out fossils wherever I can find them. Check out my latest. 🌱 🦕

us.macmillan.com/author/riley...

The weird scissor-toothed shark, Edestus and straight-shelled ammonites.

Illustration for the forthcoming book. I don't know what the bubbles mean beyond the fact that I looks drawing them.

It’s our Day of Action, and more than 100 passionate space advocates showed up on Capitol Hill to speak up for the future of space science. 🗣️
If you aren't joining us on the ground, sign this letter to stand with us. Then, pass it on. Change starts with you! planet.ly/action2025

There’s something about this that feels different. I’m so excited.

Hi I don’t talk about my job but it seems there’s going to be a big deportation swipe going down tomorrow so this is important! Lush stores are safe havens. They are able to hold anyone seeking safety in their backroom if needed. We have signs telling us what to say/don’t say to ICE

New book: #Paleontology in Public - and it's 100% free to read! I contributed a chapter on the public history of #Spinosaurus, co-authored with @tattersdill.bsky.social, and also provided some Gertie-inspired cover art. Congrats to @chrismanias.bsky.social for getting this over the line!

This is the only social media I trust.

The Paleo Party guest of the day is Homotherium!

They're a Scimitar toothed cat, rather than a Saber toothed cat, and this is the species who just had intact cub mummy discovered!

Age: 4 million to 12,000 years ago

Location: Africa, Europe, Asia, North America
#paleontology #paleoart #iceage

Ofc!! So excited to see your next paleo art bc these are so good.

The Ashfall Fossil Beds site in Nebraska is famously known as “rhino 🦏🌋 Pompeii”.

Teleoceras, barrel bellied, short-legged rhinos, tried to “weather the storm” when the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted 12 mya and met their fate.

🔊 Listen now to episode #81: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/ashf...

These are unbelievably cute!!

A large elephant-like animal wades through a misty swamp at sunset. The sky is orange with blue encroaching from above, against which large orange and red cypress trees stand out. White egrets fly around the mastodon, which has a grey-purple body and orange face. Its tusks curve into the air, while at its feet are projecting cypress "knees".

Just to keep things ticking over while I wrestle with Christmas deadlines, here's #paleoart of the American mastodon, sans hair, for which there is virtually no fossil evidence. Mastodon were not denizens of cold climates, like mammoths, and they may have looked very different in life. #sciart

Brontotheres are fun

A Camarasaurus standing in front of a slightly obscured red orange sun. Most of the piece is green. There is subtle striping on the dinosaur’s back. Its eyes are the same color as the sun.

Camarasaurus and the red sun

Pterodactyle 🦒

I almost forgot this #FossilFriday. The T. rex at the Acad of Nat Sci is their biggest complete dinosaur mount, but in front of it is an "Ultrasauros" (Supersaurus) leg. You can already tell it dwarfs T. rex. Imagine the whole animal standing in front of it...

Grateful for you and your team to give people a positive and nurturing space to communicate and share our passions!

No Dinosaur dinovember 26: Shastasaurus #paleoart #sciart #marinereptile 🐡

Ceratosaurus!

That is completely insane and ridiculous. I’m so sorry this happened. You are right though, they cry about the cancel culture yet pull pathetic stunts like this.

Looks kinda relaxing in a way?

Is it too much for things to go my way once?? I just want a solid position where I can work my way up. Marine bio or paleo work is my dream 😭

Share your blue art!
#paleoart #sciart #paleostream

And adult Spinosaurus sleeps on a fallen log as dawn breaks in Cretaceous Africa. Sitting on the head of the adult is a baby Spinosaurus watching a tapejarid decide to land on the log right in front of them.

Detail image show the head of the adult Spinosaurus and the baby perched on top.

Detail image of the tapejarid pterosaur with the sun shining though the membrane of its wing revealing the blood vessels.

I called this piece "The Visitation" and features the infamous Spinosaurus aegyptiacus a tapejarid pterosaur that the adult won't believe the baby saw when they wake up.

13" x 38" prints are available for purchase on my website www.emmalerae.com

Howdy!
I'm MAZAFAKA, but you may also call me Viktor
I do some character designs, illustrations and sometimes animation 🦖

contact: arcaderacerjb@gmail.com

Predator-prey relationships from the fossil record that aren't very iconic, but very fascinating (IMO).🧵