Richard_Carr

Former grad student at FHSU studying mosasaur ecology. Trying super hard to break into the seedy underworld of Paleozoic Chondrichthyology.

[SpinelessChordate @spinelesschrdt]

Some extinct animals with kinked upper jaw (wanted to say subnarial gap but I don't think that's accurate for some of 'em).

[Richard_Carr @EmuLarge]

It started with Ray Troll’s “Sharkabet” but I also found a copy of his “Planet Ocean” at a young age and between the depictions of incomprehensibly bizarre animals and their dream like arrangements, I was hooked. Cursed to ponder the highs and lows of the life aquatic.

[Joschua Knüppe @JoschuaKnuppe]

Starting this up again!
Name a piece of paleoart that had a large impact on you.

This piece, by Douglas Henderson, showing a Rutiodon startling some Fadrosaurus, lives rent free in my head. The masterful use of light and dark totally stunned me as a child.

[the measured take 🌹 @themeasuredtake]

When you realize you sold your soul three years ago and it was all for nothing

[Cary Woodruff @DoubleBeam]

First, the paper:
The first occurrence of a probable pachycephalosaurian hyoid element
https://t.co/0IX9WJB5BH

[Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) @TomHoltzPaleo]

First pachycephalosaur hyoid https://t.co/t9m0h7kpvS via @PeerJLife

[PaleoGalli @TwitiGalli]

A primeira ocorrência de um provável elemento hioide de um paquicefalossauro https://t.co/BENt3SYtkM

[Ashley Patch @AshleyPalaeo]

Tokarahia, when whales did baleen the loooong way

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Atop the bleached dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico lie the 40-centimeter footprints of a now-extinct giant ground sloth that roamed more than 11,500 years ago.

Within those tracks, researchers noticed little human footprints—remnants of an ancient playground.

Learn more on #InternationalSlothDay: https://t.co/CZS1ircTPQ

[Kal | 💀 @FIowerVolcano]

Pretty sure that this guy figured it out though…

[Richard_Carr @EmuLarge]

Awesome study! Would love to see this expanded to all Morrison sauropods

[Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) @TomHoltzPaleo]

https://t.co/knrcs4rNAt

[鉛山ぱぶを @saichaniankylo]

クリオロフォサウルス？

[PaleoGalli @TwitiGalli]

O euantiarco mais antigo do Pragiano (Devoniano Inicial) de Guangnan, Província de Yunnan, China https://t.co/NYhsGKyqPv

[MD @Midiaou7]

Einiosaurus
#sciart

[EDGE Science @EDGE_Science_]

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨

A new juvenile specimen of Hupehsuchus, a marine reptile related to ichthyosaurs with a platypus snout and "baleen" teeth, has been described from the uppermost Member II of Jialingjiang Fm of Hubei, China. Helps better understand ontogeny.

🎨: Ceri Thomas

[Richard_Carr @EmuLarge]

There’s a couple gold nuggets in the names there

[David @davidslosttt]

Here's what the fast food empires look like mapped out by partisanship

Trump wins 285-232

[Richard_Carr @EmuLarge]

Now what if I told you that this bug’s closest relatives were elephants, manatees, and aardvarks?

[RIAMUS @Riamus01]

I love how there's an entire bunch of mammal species out there that are essential just the bugs of the mammal world.

[Hank Sharpe @Paleoartologist]

#FossilFriday another little thread on a new conclusion from our Mosasaurus lemonnieri monograph: the phylogenetic relationships of PLURIDENS

[Marty Kevil @TredwayJack93]

Somewhere in Perm, Russia 267 mya, an Estemmenosuchus mirabilis basks in the afternoon sun. Only turning slight curiosity to a Dunbaria flying about to feast on early pollinator insects. Ofc included is the timelapse of much blood, sweat and tears

#FossilFriday

[Richard_Carr @EmuLarge]

Is the mandibular symphysis in silesaurids usually that long?

[PaleoGalli @TwitiGalli]

Primeiro registro definitivo de um silessaurídeo (Avemetatarsalia: Dinosauriformes) do Triássico Superior da Índia, com novos insights sobre suas origens e dispersão https://t.co/XlgtIJe608