gay_ornithischians

yassie_j, 7 hours ago to random

Why did a mastocel try to fucking follow me

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO I AMMMMMM

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

llewelly, 1 day ago to random

I remain convinced that extra-terrestrials have never visited Earth.

However, I admit the Nintendo 64 controller is difficult to explain.

gay_ornithischians, 1 day ago to random

random pigeon encounter from sometime last week (the file system thinks it's from 2015 for some reason)

this bird was helping clean up a food stand

pigeon feeding on food stand tray

BobNicholls, 2 days ago to art

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I'm post some of my illustrations from DINOSAUR, published by Roar in 2007. Last for today is a collection...

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

llewelly, 4 days ago to poetry

3664
is headed 'round the bend
no knowing when
we'll see its like again
for a short time
it lit up the night
so wave to it goodbye
as it heads around the limb
of the Sun

#Sun
#SolarStorm
#3664
#aurora
#poetry

Solar synoptic map drawn by forecaster Lash, via NOAA: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-synoptic-map

gay_ornithischians, 4 days ago to random

people who specevo. what got you into specevo?

futurebird, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

The MLP ants crossover you have been waiting for.

Fluttershy is a goofy awkward spider ant.

(this is what you asked for ... right?)

https://www.tumblr.com/thepixelatedcactus/749590219375968256?source=share

futurebird, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Tulip, the ant says hi! #namedAnts

llewelly, 6 days ago to random

I was trying to take a nap, but I was awakened by a nightmare: in my dream, early-branching tetrapodomorphs like Acanthostega and Ichthyostega with 7+ fingers were denounced as forgeries of so-called "AI" and erased from natural history.

Like nearly all dreams, it didn't make any sense when examined in the cold light of reality. At least, I hope not.

#fossilFriday

punkpaleo, 6 days ago to science

Happy #FossilFriday, check out this skull from a juvenile Gryposaurus! These hadrosaurs called North America their home roughly 75 million years ago, and this particular individual would have enjoyed the lush jungle that makes up the Kaiparowits Formation. (1/2)
#paleontology #dinosaur #science

BobNicholls, 6 days ago to art

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2005 I was one of multiple artists who created hundreds of illustrations for Dougal Dixon's THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS & PREHISTORIC CREATURES, published by Anness and Lorenz Book.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

TheDinosaurDave, 6 days ago to LEGO

No guess that #Lego fossil this week.
I went to the #Age #of #Dinosaurs museum in #Winton today and am too tired to sort it out
Sorry.
Plus side, here's some holotype images for you :D

Ferrodraco skull
Ferrodraco neck and wing
Diamantinasaurus feet, legs, ribs

BobNicholls, 7 days ago to art

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Part 4 of my Newfoundland Cambrian diorama build, from 2005. Building something this big and complicated then shipping it across the Atlantic was a daunting challenge – but it worked!

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

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llewelly, 7 days ago to snails

a snail that lives with ants??

" Allopeas myrmekophilos was regularly found in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda. The gastropods always remained inside the bivouacs of their hosts, where they were able to move around undisturbed by the ants. During emigrations A. myrmekophilos was always carried by workers in a manner identical to brood or prey items."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00012646

unfortunately springer wants $40 for it!

#canHazPdf

#ants
#snails

gay_ornithischians, 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

my thoughts on Reiner, A. 2023

(painting by Dylan Bajda, it has been cropped and vandalized for this post)

gay_ornithischians, 10 days ago to random

last night i dreamt that the area outside where i live had turned into a wetland. there were all sort of large animals playing around in the water including large groups of kangaroos, green peafowl, giraffes and elephants. suddenly a group of bears got ahold of a baby elephant. one of them was trying to bite the throat. fortunely the herd of elephants arrived and used their trunks to peel the bears of the elephant. the bears then fled. i don't remember what happened after

mike, 10 days ago to random

It seems my University of Bristol account for some reason doesn't have access to The Paleontological Society Special Publications. Can anyone please email me a PDF of this one?

https://doi.org/10.1017/S2475262200009436

dino@miketaylor.org.uk
#icanhazpdf