Enthusiastic biology student at Leiden University and volunteer fossil preparator at the Dinosaur Lab of Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Banner art by @Midiaou7
@Grasher2002 Are the dwarves P. falconeri and Mammuthus creticus? This line up is the best sense of scale difference between the biggest and smallest species I have seen so far!
Everything IS bigger in Texas...
Introducing TYLOSAURUS REX–“TEX”. A monster animal, a monster paper, & a monster project that I am *so* excited to finally share with everyone after ~5 yrs. Huge thanks to my coauthors, Mike & Ron, & to Alderon Games for bringing our lad to life!!
I always try to give credit when it comes to the people behind the scenes of the formation pieces, but not always does it feel sufficient and the file size limit of social media often times doesn't allow for their work to be displayed properly... 🧵
I complained a lot recently over the, in my eyes, sensationalism or misinterpretation of a certain giant octopus and it's behavior. However there is another paper where I think the authors make some really cool and much better observations about the potential behavior of an... 🧵
New paper out on a major update to the online https://t.co/hxEMe5zjic calculator. Which allows you to reconstruct #palaeogeography and #paleolatitude with greater accuracy, and in turn helps elucidate ancient #biodiversity.
https://t.co/boHif5dUNS
Crocodilians, some of the most famous and infamous reptiles on earth. Survivors from the age of the dinosaurs. Or… are they? How truthful are claims like “they’ve been here since before the dinosaurs” or “they’ve remained unchanged for millions of years”? Let’s break these down-
I like to say that being a paleo-enthusiast with wide ranging interests is like having Christmas every day, case in point: Parachoerodon and it's "beak" were certainly not my my bingo card.
While large mammals today fill many of the same general niches as dinosaurs did, the dynamics of how these ecosystems work don’t really compare 1:1. Probably the two most notable reasons are: mammal social lives and dinosaur reproduction…
"What even are the Jurassic Park Velociraptors, really?" - a thread.
There's this common sentiment that "the JP raptors were based on Deinonychus, but Spielberg preferred the name Velociraptor because it was cooler". The real history is a bit more nuanced than that...
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AFTER ALMOST FOUR YEARS OF WAITING...#SurvivingEarth HAS FINALLY COME!
Created by Impossible Pictures and TIM HAINES, i.e., the masters behind the Walking With series, will SE be yet another glorious success? MOST LIKELY YES!
TRAILER BREAKDOWN...BEGINS NOW! (1/?)
Ok, lets have a look at this: Over the last few days a new paper in Science has led to MANY discussions in the paleo community and it appears to have breached containment into the wider world, judging by headlines and google results.