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I'm looking for Tomistoma schlegelii specifically

still need osteoderm pics

does anyone have a photo/diagram of a tomistoma upper jaw in ventral view and osteoderm?

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End cretaceus hell

A wandering Stegodon runs into a peafowl (Pavo miejue) couple heading to rest in the trees. Based on a recent paper by Lan et al. (2026) describing a new peafowl species from Pleistocene Taiwan.

big flappers

Quick sketch of a large Terror Bird, something along the lines of Kelenken, Titanis, or Devincenzia. These huge flightless birds were apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic, and had a brief reign in southern North America until the beginning of the ice age. #paleoart #sciart #cenozoic

yeah I probably wouldn't want to get a vaccine from victorian british government

damn it's fucking huge

Happy #FossilFriday from Chile! 🇨🇱 This is the Holotype of Aristonectes quiriquinensis, an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central Chile (Biobío Province, Quiriquina Fm). It was so cool to finally see this specimen after years of visiting Chile for field work and research.

i promise once I'm done with this croc I'll go buy some products and try makeup

Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》

oh god there's phorusrhacid vs cuvieronius discource

Forgot to do a Fossil Friday and I’m jealous of all of you at shindig and dinocon this weekend so…here’s the backrooms Torosaurus display and raptured Pleistocene megafauna at MPM

crazy fossil

happy #fossilfriday! this is eurotrochilus, a stem-hummingbird from oligocene france, poland, and germany 🪶 like modern hummingbirds, eurotrochilus was a nectar-eater capable of hovering flight, though its skeleton also exhibits some primitive features (art by scott reid)

$50.1 million could fund over 400 doctorates; 933 years worth of annual curator salaries (UK), or running cost for a millennium-worth of free events like the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. It is inane that people can accumulate such wealth, and use it explicitly to cause public harm.

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