FossilFamilyTree

🦖 Paleontology student studying bird bill ornamentation. My many interests include paleoecology, morphometrics, and amniotes. Ace/NB/ND. She/they/he 🦕

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

I also wanted to do a quick little thing for Trans Visibility Day, so here's a little homage. Things are getting increasingly frightening for LGBTQIA+ groups across the US and internationally, with trans women and youths being particularly targeted.

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

@HelenBostock5 The spines seem to vary a lot from species to species, but some of them face away from the articular facet like yours. It might be distinct enough that you could identify it at least down to genus, given how well-preserved it is and how distinct some catfish spines seem to be.

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

@HelenBostock5 I think it might be a pectoral catfish spine, though I'm not sure about the genus or species. It looks like it has an articular surface from the picture and is more asymmetrical than I would expect for a shark or ray spine.

[G.H. Paleoart. @ghpaleoart]

The Edmontosaurus thing.

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

It's hard to say what the best lizard is, but a surly pinecone with small feet and a big tongue that mates for life is pretty high on the list.

[Erika Roper 🦜🥔 @_erikaroper]

And for anyone wondering how you actually catch a Shingleback!
The giant from this morning wasn’t warm yet so it didn’t run, but it was so big I needed to use two hands.
Squirmy buggers!

[Erika Roper 🦜🥔 @_erikaroper]

Greetings from this ginormous grumpy pine one that I relocated from the path of the ecological burn I’m undertaking today. #WildOz

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

This is a moth. Mimicry does weird things to animals.

📷: Steven Easley

[BonplandArt @Bonpland]

Water
Earth
Fire
Air

Have a nice weekend!

[Rony García-Anleu @garca_rony]

I'm excited to share some incredible news from the recuperation area of La Colorada in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. It is the first time that we are able to sight tapir with offspring in our camera traps monitoring there.

[BonplandArt @Bonpland]

A juvenile Hatzegopteryx turning for a manoeuvre to hunt for Cretaceous birds

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

The world owes us better. Visibility makes us vulnerable, but it is also a big part of what gives us strength and pride in ourselves. Trans people have always been around and will always be around.

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

New silhouette -- Tropeognathus mesembrinus, an ornthiocheiran pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil that sported a round, thin crest of bone on the end of its snout.

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

I am nonbinary. I didn't have the word for it for years. I know what it's like to live in a world where gender identity isn't discussed and transitioning options aren't available. A lot of things have changed for the better since then, but the ground is eroding beneath us.

[🕸Jack The Vulture🕸 @jackthevulture]

Trying this again w art so more people see it! Paloart artshare! Share your paleoart and/or your favorite artists!

[OrigamiPete @origamiPete]

Some of my prehistoric origami creechers! 🤭

[FossilFamilyTree @tree_fossil]

Cormorants are much prettier birds than we usually give them credit for, as these lovely photographs demonstrate.

[Brennan Stokkermans @BStokkermans]

I’m heading back to Southern California this summer and I’m so excited to get the chance to photograph brandts cormorants again

[伊戸ダイビングサービスボミー @IDS_BOMMIE]

��ワウの20ｍ潜水！

[Hodari Shadowalker ❄️🐆 @HodariNundu]

A couple Dynatoaetus cause a panic in a diprotodont herd, causing them to fall off a cliff. The eagles will then feast on the carcasses. Inspired by the discovery of a giant eagle from the Australian Pleistocene AND cases of golden eagles pulling this trick on horses and cows!