gay_ornithischians

punkpaleo, 20 hours 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, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 3 days ago (edited 2 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, 4 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

john, 4 days ago to art

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Pneumacinonyx" — 2003

It was built for speed, but it just lays about.

https://johnconway.art/pneumacinonyx

#Art #Birds #Cats #Cheetah #MechanicalAnimals #Neo #Pneumacinonyx #Robots #Vector

mike, 4 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

gay_ornithischians, 5 days ago to random

anyone else prints papers? if so, why?

futurebird, 5 days ago to random

The disturbing thing about ant technology is it's all ants.

The fridge? It's an ant.
Your tank? It's an ant.
Your boat? It's you, and other ants.
Your house? The walls are ants.
Your weed control for your garden? Tiny ants?
Your glue gun? It's an ant (a baby ant!)

So advanced high tech ants would have ant guns, and ant spaceships. Advanced ants would have ant computers for ants, made of ants. Advanced ants would have ants for storing data.

And ant bombs.

Wait! Those already exist!

gay_ornithischians, 5 days ago to random

at the flea market i saw a little kid that was asking his dad to get him a dinosaur book. it was an angry birds branded book. however the excellent artwork was made by Franco Tempesta (taken from the same collection as the Lessem and Naish book). the dickhead dad was trying to get him interested on a gimmicky "the history channel" style book instead. when i passed by the stand again the novelty book was gone and the dinosaur book was still there

jayrockin, 6 days ago to random

The back of a centaur’s head is mostly air. The long mane feathers mask the effect but the only significant organ back there is the vocal lungs, which can puff out the back of the neck even further. Centaurs visibly inhale into their neck before speaking.

gay_ornithischians, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

who is better at being a sauropod?

futurebird, 6 days ago to random

Loves to be talked to.
Can't understand words.
Absurdly warm and soft at all times just to burn up cat food.
Desperate and clingy. But also disdainful and superior.
Small but impossibly heavy to pick up. Can pin a grown man to the couch for literal days. But still a "baby"

Imperial ruler, scared of the hallway.

Eats small insects like its a normal thing to do.

Wants so very badly: the world must know. But what is it she wants? She doesn't know.

Cats are so deeply intractably weird.