Michael Sprague 🦖 → 🦅

Paleontology PhD student studying those hollow-boned hobgoblins known as pterosaurs.

[Michael Sprague 🦖 → 🦅 @TheropodLegacy]

@Berlography There's also Utahdactylus! It was classified as "indeterminate diapsid" by Bennett in 2007, but newer material suggests it is a ctenochasmatid pterosaur. This is described in a conference abstract from 2018, but the material still needs to be formally published.

[Melanie During, PhD. ⛏🦕🦖🦩🍉 @MelanieDuring]

Education is important people!

[X @Pteroterror]

So you wanna draw a pterosaur (accurately)?
A thread of published, visual resources that you might find useful.

Starting with musculature reconstructions from Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Witton, 2013)

[Edaphosaurus @Edaphosaurus]

Everyone's afraid of something #PrehistoricPlanet

[Anthony Hutchings @anthon5001]

Hey all, it's been a while! Since pterosaurs seem quite popular right now, here's a Tapejara portrait that I've been working on when I've had the time.

[San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo]

Happy dirt pig day

[Michael Sprague 🦖 → 🦅 @TheropodLegacy]

@Fossilcrates It's not exactly a name change, but I will forever be upset that "Zeuglodon" didn't stick.

[Leo 🦁 @Railroadlion]

Dragons

[Daniel Martins *tired_academic* @palaeodaniel]

At the moment I find myself obsessed with the fact the parrotfish-like latimeriids existed. You're welcome. #paleontology #sarcopterygians #fossilfriday

[John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel]

While #echinochrome staining of bone is best known in sea otters that feed on sea urchins, it is also known in fishes that have a similar diet. Here are a few examples of fishes with purple bones (e.g., Wolffish, Moray Eel & Parrotfish). #TheMoreYouKNow.
https://t.co/89a2ttczT6

[Michael Sprague 🦖 → 🦅 @TheropodLegacy]

@JoschuaKnuppe I'm a fan of these two, especially the Quetzalcoatlus! I would love to know if you have any personal favorites from the pterosaur sketches you've done.

[Tristan Landis @Rednaxela1821]

Funnel-eared bats are probably one weirdest bat groups with little competition. From a fully fused abdominal skeleton, mysterious fluid filled organs on their head, bill-like largely immobile lips, and unusual tail morphology they’re just bizarre little muppet lookalikes

[Tristan Landis @Rednaxela1821]

Do you like your marshmallows fresh out of the bag or browned over a fire?

[Tyler Greenfield @TylerGreenfieId]

These are photographs of a Tarbosaurus mummy discovered in 1991. It had skin impressions covering the dorsal side of the tail and hips, probably the most extensive of any tyrannosaurid ever discovered.

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." https://t.co/9IjZ8G8LKx

[Hell Creek Enthusiast @LancianIdolatry]

Twitter this week

[Ole Zant @TheBioBob]

Here's a wip of my Carcharodontosaurus and Alanqa artwork. It's still far from finished.

Since I don't often draw pterosaurs any tips concerning anatomy (or how to draw fur) would be appreciated.

[Karen fawcett @Karenfa58027460]

@Dean_R_Lomax I agree completely Dean, I wanted to be an artist, I loved dinosaurs/fossils as a child…I became a bird artist, and sometimes combine the two! 😀livin the dream!

[Alex Behunin @AlexBehunin]

Nah, that’s a fuckin dinosaur

[Mark Witton (Bluesky: @markwitton.bsky.social) @MarkWitton]

Prompted by a recent @TomHoltzPaleo tweet, here's my complete set of graphics (so far) concerning palaeo social media's biggest dumpster fires: Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus and Jurassic World. Deploy as you see fit, especially if they'll annoy gatekeeping, arrogant know-it-alls.