#PaleoSky

@darcyshapiro.bsky.social

2 days ago

🎉 Celebrating the birthday of William Buckland (1784–1856) — a true pioneer of paleobiology!
Buckland reconstructed the past, not just from bones, but from the traces life left behind. He named the first Megalosaur, identified coprolites and established trace‑fossil science. #PaleoSky

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Darcy Shapiro

3 days ago

Paleo friends, I am once again looking for cool stories about the Permian (and am open to cool stories about other times, too). Hit me up! #paleosky #paleontology #scicomm

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Indy

@indyarts.bsky.social

3 days ago

Einiosaurus

#digitalart #artistsonBluesky #Dinosaur #Paleosky
#art #ArtSky #digitalartists #Paleoart #Einiosaurus #Ceratopsian #paleoSky #dinoSky

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Aleks 💬🔪

@yamikuruku.bsky.social

3 days ago

my spinosaurus oc Marek laying on the floor like a cat. He is a blue spino with pink, yellow and orange flowery markings.

ATTENTION: bread ‼️

[ #ArtSky #OcSky #Art #DigitalArt #DigitalArtist #Illustration #Drawing #OC #Artwork | #Dinosaur #DinosaurOc #PaleoSky ]

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3 days ago

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

𝐃𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐞 (NHM, London), is a renowned palaeontologist working on arthropod evolution.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018 and has many species named after him, including trilobites, centipedes and a megacheiran #PaleoSky

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🏳️‍⚧️🦖 Sylva 🦕🏳️‍⚧️

@amorphamor.bsky.social

4 days ago

a cream, beige, orange, and brown fluffy theropod with cheetah like markings, leg and wing stripes, and a snow leopard cave painting on it's tail

Dino version of Eo for @dragonstuck.bsky.social !
Nanuqsaurus utahraptor mix ♥
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#paleoart #paleosky #originalcharacter #ocs #ocsky #art #artsky #digitalart #krita #extinct #AmorphArt #dinosaurs

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Mandibular morphology clarifies phylogenetic relationships near the origin of crown birds - BMC Ecology and Evolution Background The phylogenetic relationships of fossil birds near the origin of the avian crown group remain debated, in part due to a limited amount of character evidence from incomplete fossils. The avian lower jaw provides a potentially rich source of additional character data, yet fusion of the individual bony elements composing the avian post-dentary complex has impeded efforts to explore its phylogenetic signal. Here, we use high-resolution µCT-scanning to separate the individual bony elements of the mandibles of several immature crown birds and key fossil taxa, and use those data to assess support for alternative phylogenetic hypotheses for fossils near the origin of crown birds. Results We find that evidence from Asteriornis fails to support interpretations of derived mandibular similarities with palaeognaths, and instead strongly favours galloanseran, and specifically galliform, affinities. Our results also illustrate striking similarities in the architecture of the lower jaws between the toothed ornithurine Ichthyornis, Pelagornithidae and Vegavis, which, in addition to the absence of derived features linking them to Galloanserae, highlights questions regarding the phylogenetic position of these perennially controversial taxa. Conclusions Our data reveal new insight into patterns of morphological evolution near the origin of the avian crown group while raising new phylogenetic questions, emphasising the potential untapped value of detailed comparative investigations of morphological complexes such as the post-dentary complex of the mandible for informing the early evolutionary history of crown birds.

4 days ago

The Version of Record of the new paper by Sai Ke et al. (2026) Organic Geochemistry is now online, so I re-up this paper too—with @arnaudhuguet.bsky.social as the last author! 👇🏻
#brGDGTs
#3OHFattyAcids
#TeamBacteria
🧪 ⚒️ 👩‍🔬
Implications for #PaleoSky

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BMC

@bmc.springernature.com

4 days ago

A study in BMC Ecology and Evolution explores how some of the earliest modern birds were related to each other via studying their jaw bones. Using high‑resolution 3D scans of fragile fossils, the paper discusses early bird evolution and where key species sit on the family tree.

#PaleoSky

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4 days ago

I re-up the new paper by @indianscholar.bsky.social et al. (2026) Organic Geochemistry, as its Version of Record is now online. 👇🏻
🧪
#ChemSky
With implications for ⚒️
and #PaleoSky

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🔥Back & Better🔥

@dfangpro.vtubers.social

5 days ago

Liliensternis from the documiniseries #NetflixDinosaur is a gorgeous design and really makes me feel like I'm watching a snake with limbs at work. Like a python in a bat cave, wearing a Dilophosaurus headpiece like a Hispter (before the Dilos made it cool, man). #PaleoSky #Dinosaur #DinoGeek

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The evolutionary history of the field vole species complex revealed by modern and ancient genomes - Genome Biology Background The field vole, an abundant and widespread microtine rodent, is a complex comprised of three cryptic species: the short-tailed field vole (Microtus agrestis) which is present over much of E...

5 days ago

Do you want to know more about the evolutionary history of the field vole species from a genetic perspective? 🧬
If so, then check out this paper by Mateusz Baca et al.:
doi.org/10.1186/s130...
With Edouard Bard @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr.
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#PaleoSky

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@limpetnerd.eurosky.social

5 days ago

New paper out in JSP🦖

Magyar 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. report a new taxon, 𝙆𝙧𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙖𝙚 gen. et sp. nov. from a hadrosauroid skeleton with cranial and postcranial elements from a Maastrichtian vertebrate site in the Hațeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania.

Read more: buff.ly/qahJvq7

#PaleoSky

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Jean-François Cudennec

6 days ago

A person looks at the ceiling of the Altamira cave and its beautiful paintings (mostly bisons)

A collection of limpet shells from the Altamira cave

Traceology of the limpets from Altamira cave

Being easily accessible and providing a high meat yield (compared to other molluscs), the limpets were regularly eaten by prehistoric coastal populations.

But they were also used for other purposes : ornaments, and even as a tool to paint the Altamira cave with ochre 🧡

#PaleoSky 🏺🧪🦑⚒️

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Nature Portfolio

@natureportfolio.nature.com

1 week ago

This is figure 1, which shows the anatomy of A. cerropoliciensis based on the new specimen MPCA Pv 377.

A paper in Nature presents a nearly complete fossil of a dinosaur from Argentina that would have weighed less than 1 kg when alive and may be the smallest known dinosaur from South America discovered to date. go.nature.com/4kVlgox #Paleosky 🧪

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Tim Day

@timday101.bsky.social

1 week ago

#paleosky having just seen EP 1 of Netflix dinosaurs I am left wondering if animators have a thing where they see how much they can make theropod heads and necks look like penises before someone says enough.

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Indy

@indyarts.bsky.social

1 week ago

spinosaurus mirabilis

#digitalart #artistsonBluesky #Dinosaur
#art #ArtSky #digitalartists #Paleoart #theropod #Spinosaurus #spinosaurusmirabilis #paleoSky #dinoSky

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Erin Snyder

@erinlsnyder.bsky.social

1 week ago

Are there any science nerds out who could weigh in on the viability of something that's been jostling around my head for a while?

Here goes. I suspect there are more dinosaurs (by population) alive now than there were during the Mesozoic. I'm basing this on two factors:
#paleosky #dinosaurs

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Clémence Dupont

@tritrichoupi.bsky.social

1 week ago

gouache of a triceratops from above, walking in low water with fishes

Gouache painting of a Triceratops 🌼

Love the figure of dinosaurs from above wading into water with fishes, under the shadows of trees, crossed by warm winds.

#paleosky #sciart

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Caitlín R. Kiernan, M.Sc.

@caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social

1 week ago

The cf. Saurornithoides sp. tooth I recovered from the Mooreville Chalk of W. Alabama in '98, first evidence of Troodontidae from SE Appalachia. So tiny (2.8mm FABL), I first mistook it for an odd fish tooth. SEM photomicrograph courtesy Fernbank Sci. Center, ATL. Pub. in '04. #paleosky #dinosaurs

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@podokesauruspro.bsky.social

1 week ago

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With implications for ⚒️
and #PaleoSky

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The Podokesaurus Project

1 week ago

Peabody in Pictures YouTube video by Yale Peabody Museum

Check out this cool new video showing the early days of the Peabody Museum. The Podokesaurus display remains just off-screen, but we do get to see Podoke-observer Richard Lull in (a form of) motion. #PaleoSky

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Caitlín R. Kiernan, M.Sc.

@caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social

1 week ago

An embarrassment of riches: currently working on a new plioplatecarpin (Demopolis Chalk), a new selmasaurin (Niobrara Fm.), and the solution to a longstanding mystery regarding halisauromorph taxonomy (Mooreville Chalk). All I need are more hours in the day. #paleosky #mosasaurs

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@limpetnerd.eurosky.social

1 week ago

Did you know..?

Today more species of frogs exist than mammals 🐸

Frogs have been evolving and diversifying for over 250 million years! Hop on over to JSP to find out about a slightly younger (100 million year old) ancient frog: buff.ly/uZx2JCe

#Paleosky #FunFact #MindBlown

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Jean-François Cudennec

1 week ago

Artistic palaeo-reconstructions of ecosystem states in Central Europe over the last 23 million years, focusing on large herbivores and taxa indicative of openness. First row Neogene, second row Pleistocene – pre-Homo sapiens baseline, third row Holocene – non-analogous ecosystems shaped by Homo sapiens.

For 23 million years, temperate Europe was dominated by a mosaic of woodland-grassland biomes, shaped by large herbivores.

Until human started eradicating the megafauna and closed-canopy forests took over.

Paintings by Márton Zsoldos

#PaleoSky 🧪 ⚒️ 🌍 🌿

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Clémence Dupont

@tritrichoupi.bsky.social

1 week ago

Clémence Dupont, holding a nice A3 poster. She's really gorgeous and her art too.

8 ceratopsians in pixel art (Diabloceratops, Regaliceratops, Protoceratops, Kosmoceratops, Pachyrhinosaurus, Triceratops, Torosaurus and Styracosaurus) with plants and flowers without any connections with dinosaurs

Pixelatops : poster about ceratopsians in pixel art ❤️‍🔥
clemencedupont.com/shop/p/print...
Only until 31 march
#sciart #paleosky

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Kevin Olsen

@drksolsen.bsky.social

1 week ago

Got to attend my first #Oxford graduation ceremony!
Congratulations to Dr. Reid, @mhairireid.bsky.social, who formally graduated from @kelloggoxford.bsky.social this weekend!
🧪⚒️ #paleosky

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1 week ago

Here are Ian’s words about his new co-authored paper:
bsky.app/profile/ianh...
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky

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