Fossil lynx jaw and partial skull from Pleasley, Nottinghamshire, in the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall @GeorgeTheGorilla. It’s a historical figured specimen, usually on display, but currently on loan to the University of Nottingham for analysis.

New review: On the Wing is an excellent, factual primer on the evolution of flight that helpfully assumes little background knowledge.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/03/28/book-review-on-the-wing-insects-pterosaurs-birds-bats-and-the-evolution-of-animal-flight/

#Books #BookReview #Scicomm #Evolution #Flight #Biomechanics #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon @EvolLetters

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!

#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #Paläontologie #Paleontology
Weird Mongolian dinosaur wielded 'big, sharp and nasty' claws
https://www.reuters.com/science/weird-mongolian-dinosaur-wielded-big-sharp-nasty-claws-2025-03-25/

This looks like the typical alien's clawed hand, according to Hollywood.

It's from a real Earth animal, though.

Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a giant, long-necked, "furry", feathered dinosaur with two-clawed hands used for grabbing its food — vegetation. A distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, the well-known two-fingered stomper with the bad attitude of a coffee addict 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘴 coffee.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dinosaur-with-two-massive-sloth-like-claws-is-on-another-level-of-weird-even-among-its-unusual-group-of-relatives-180986315/

For our 12th trip of 2025, Western Science Centers’s mobile museum #M3 is visiting 4th graders at Hamilton Elementary School in Anza, CA! #museum #scicomm #paleontology #Education

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The lady looks on," showing male theropods lekking to impress a female.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact (the orange glow from the south). Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.

Semionotid premaxilla just pulled from the Substation Quarry in St. George, Utah! This thing is TINY
#paleontology

Hey Rockstodon, I found this interesting object in the mountains north of Reserve NM. It's quite dense and attracts a magnet but I was able to gouge a bit out of the back without revealing any metal. Is it a fossil? Is it a rusty tool handle? Maybe you have an idea? #rocks #geology #paleontology

University of Calgary paleontologist part of discovery of new dinosaur with 30-cm claws
Darla Zelenitsky says the remains of the therizinosaur were found in the Gobi desert in 2012 during the construction of a water pipeline.
#paleontology #dinosaur #discovery #Gobidesert #Science #Dinosaurs
https://globalnews.ca/news/11097223/dinosaur-discovery-mongolia-therizinosaur/

This is your captain speaking with an update from the flight deck: a double review on the evolution of flight is en route to https://inquisitivebiologist.com

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "His Best Moves," showing a male Confuciusornis showing off to a female.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2022, the Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dean R Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Formidable Opportunists," an Allosaurus pack tearing apart a rotting Camarasaurus.

WIE GEHTS FRAU MASTADON
[sic]

(Housemate sent me this and it seemed highly relevant to my #mastodon feed filled with dinosaur lovers, language obsessers, and people who speak German)

[Auf Deutch in das alt-text]