Shuvuuia deserti was a small maniraptoran theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Its short, strong arm might have been used for digging, perhaps into insect mounds.
Ornithicheirus mesembrinus (previously Tropeognathus), was a very large pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. The body in this reconstruction is based mostly on the related Coloborhynchus.
A reboot of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16. I think at the time I considered it my first sucessful oil painting. I have added all the stuff to it that I originally intended to, but chickened-out (painting over skies in oil painting is scary,... [more]:
There was a fern, on an island, deep in the Tethys Sea. The fern lived only on that one small island... and the whole landmass now, every scrap of evidence is beneath the Himalayas, cooking into unrecognizable granite.
@futurebird
geology: a library,
but,
there's no librarian
the books
unwatched
come alive
shuffle around
wrestle in big piles
crush each other
some get ground up
some melted away
some set on fire
so many lost forever
so many distorted
by the dark lens of time
I'm sure a lot of #vegetarian and #vegan advocates will share these findings, but I think most #paleo diet promoters, like most people, eat animal flesh for reasons of taste, habit, and convenience. Scientific evidence is unlikely to sway them one way or the other.
#Kelp is probably older than once thought--originating more than 32 million years ago! #Fossils from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington preserve holdfasts, the "roots" that anchor kelp to the seafloor. This ties kelps to the cooling of the Oligocene epoch!
Nach fast genau einem Jahr ist am Samstag wieder #Paleo auf dem Tisch gewesen. Zum 44. Mal, diesmal musste #DerWeisseWal dran glauben (A+T).
In der ersten Runde haben wir wie Anfänger gespielt ("Ups, in der Nacht müssen wir ja noch drei Schinken und ein Fell abgeben..." 😳).
Am Ende konnten wir aber doch sehr sicher gewinnen.
Die Promo Erweiterung gibt wieder eine tolle Mechanik, thematisch sehr gut eingebunden.
Immer noch ein hervorragendes Spiel. 👍👍👍 #Brettspiele@brettspiele
Happy #NationalFossilDay! I'd like to celebrate by showing some of the incredible fossils from my neck of the woods, southern Utah! I'd like to start off with some tracks, naturally! Theropods related to Megapnosaurus and Dilophosaurus left behind these three-toed traces.(1/5)
I'm H. Pettijohn, a fossil illustrator looking to step more into scientific illustration. Skulls are my main focus, but I like drawing a variety of fossils.
Here's a challenge for #paleo#artists
I want to see an extinct animal in a non dramatic scenario, preferably at night, just doing its thing. Is it yawning as it lays down? It it just wandering aimlessly? 99% of an animals life is boring mundane stuff, but we almost never see that in #paleoart.
I would love to see what you come up with.
Back in my early diet/lifestyle experimentation phase a decade ago a regular podcaster from the #paleo community I listened to was Angelo Coppola who had the Latest in Paleo podcast and the Humans Are Not Broken website. I decided to check out what he has been up to but unfortunately he seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth about 7-8 years ago. It seems the last thing was started formulating a plant-dominant paleo diet bringing in the grains and legumes that research has shown humans eating going back well before the agricultural revolution (actually to the beginning of our species and maybe before). Does anyone on the fediverse who is/was in the paleo community know what he is up to nowadays? Hope he is alive and well. His plant dominant paleo diet sounds very similar to a plant dominant #MediterraneanDiet minus olive oil, which is pretty solid. (Link on wayback machine because his website doesn't exist any longer) #AngeloCoppola#PaleoDiet#nutrition#dietweb.archive.org/web/2016032005…