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Sorry for no new drawings, I am busy,tired and really stressed ☹️

Constant gripe with films or TV, do they realistically reflect local rent and salary. Yet to see film set in a big metropolis in 2020s, where 30-something professional scraps it paycheck to paycheck while co-living with 6 strangers.

Today I learned that Disk-winged Bats evolved suction cups for their arms and legs.

I feel really sorry on behalf of a 19th century lady. Self educated, doing free labour for her husband. For that husband to write entire preface, being embarrassed by her: "Engravings are the first performances of a lady but little skilled in the art (...) destitute of that neatness and uniformity"

Early British Palaeontology trivia. Divorce was impossible till 1857. It's unusual, wife of Gideon Mantell, Mary, seperated in 1839 Mary illustrated works of her husband to rather condescending credit The dispute between the pair complicates attributing discovery of the first dinosaur (Iguanodon)

Fossils of any other animal : I'm a glorified roadkill Crabs : ✨🦀✨ Fossilised Sexy Yesterday w/my calcium chitin carapace ✨🦀✨

Shenzhen Natural History Museum, the largest museum of such nature in South China. Opening this week. Thread part 2 🧵 Mammals!

Giftshop report: it's basically Haolonggood showroom (models sell for £12-15). Love selection of plushie keyrings (local avifauna)

This little dude was based 1:1 on the Baby Yingliang fossil. The baby did never see the light of the day, but it's immortalised in art.

Are they peak (yes)

Cool new undescribed fossils coming from the Shenzhen Natural History Museum. A mass mortality bed of oviraptorids, and two new specimens showing nesting behaviour

Look at them tiny babies

bober körwa, jakie bydle

There is a huge pterosaur conference coming up, and out of almost 70 people invited, only 13 are women (and two of which, I've been told, left the field). This roughly equates, that for every woman studying pterosaurs, there are over four men.