Working on wikipedia is fun but sometimes you come across just weirdly baffling stuff For instance, until yesterday the Cathartid page listed several taxa with common names, which ranged from sensible if dubiously sourced to just...nonsense
Armin Reindl
@arminreindl.bsky.social
Artist, crocodile enthusiast, wikipedia editor tags: #SciArt
Two recent sidequests of mine, the Wikipedia pages for Gobicathartes (a page that existed in a very bare bones state): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobicat...
Gobicathartes - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Batch 3, mostly contributing to the Avifauna of Lemuria with the newly arriving cathartids
Armin Reindl@arminreindl.bsky.social · 2mo agoBatch 2 of my entries, just two weeks left to submitt vertebrates for the challenge and I'm already working on a few more.
Something else picked up at #DinoConUK 2026... massive thanks to the excellent Haidar Jaffri for gifting me his really nice Loch Ness Monster image. Haidar did the cover art for the UK edition of my book #AncientSeaReptiles and also has a section in #MesozoicArtII
I can't highlight enough what an absolute blast #DinoConUK was once again, with so many sweet and brilliant people attending, mingling and nerding out it was great to see old friends, new faces and some that I've previously only known via the internet
I know its not nearly as impressive as the hauls of some others and certainly bulked up by the sponsor perks, but I am nonetheless pretty satisfied with what I picked up at this years #DinoConUK
It's about damn time. Finally a paper going into the postcranial anatomy of the hoofed-crocodile Boverisuchus vorax from the Eocene of North America onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... you wouldn't believe how long I waited for something like this
To all those looking for a travel tip The Haus der Natur in Salzburg is currently running a temporary exhibition on Europasaurus, based on the work of @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
As with the year before I will be packing some local snacks for the DinoCon after party just a starting selection, I wonder if I'm going to need more jumpies than that tho
Armin Reindl@arminreindl.bsky.social · 2mo agoGetting ready for DinoCon if you know you know
Batch 2 of my entries, just two weeks left to submitt vertebrates for the challenge and I'm already working on a few more.
Armin Reindl@arminreindl.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoschua Knüppe's Lemuria spec project is back for its final phase and here's my first 7 entries.
After well over a year of having pushed my phone to the brink of being full, I finally transfered a bunch of photos to a USB stick, did the software update and downloaded iNat again which means I uploaded 40 observations in a day and now have to double check all remaining photos
4 more weeks till DinoCon 3 more weeks till I'll arrive in the UK it feels weird that it's this soon but I'm excited as always
Joschua Knüppe's Lemuria spec project is back for its final phase and here's my first 7 entries.
Chatting with some friends about this years trip to the UK and found this video we took last year
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I still struggle with posting across multiple platforms, but heres a little something I dug up while clearing out my old desk
"Yeah DinoCon 2025 was fun, I sure do hope we'll get more non-dinosaur stuff at the talks and in the vendor hall next time" DinoCon26: "I will make you bankrupt"
Ancient history now... 2001. But let it be known that I did what I could to spread the word.
We could really do with a redescription of Rimasuchus one of these days, partially because everytime that thing is discussed it is in the context of the Kenyan material which has repeatedly been stated to actually belong to Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
feels like forever that I've cited Darren for anything on wikipedia, especially didn't expect it to be in this context (itasuchids)
Our new paper on a tiny Wealden 🐊 is now out, with @tetzoo.bsky.social, @neilgostling.bsky.social and co. As a critical taxon close to the origins of the living croc lineage, we used microCT to build a comprehensive morpholgical atlas to reassess its evolutionary relationships. tinyurl.com/4t592crr
Anyone have a PDF of "Price, L. I. (1955). "Novos crocodilídeos dos arenitos da Série Bauru. Cretáceo do Estado de Minas Gerais". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 27: 487–498"? I've been looking for it and I've yet to find anything on it other than more recent studies citing the paper
#marchofthemammals2026 Day 18: Rest Day/Eogavialis africanum A young Eogavialis basks on the shoreline. While he doesn't care about anything except for fish, most other animals aren't going to chance his toothy grin. Join us tomorrow across the Atlantic to the Miocene of South America!
Insufficiently alive will be entering my regular vocabulary whenever possible from now on.
New crocodile species described by Brochu et al and man I just love these little cheeky comments thrown in here and there. This particular section discusses the presence of a certain type of bite marks on the fossils.
www.discovermagazine.com/a-25-inch-cr...
A 25-Inch Crocodile Relative Walked on Two Legs in Late Triassic Forests 225 Million Years Ago
Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have started life on four legs before walking on two as an adult.
discovermagazine.com
Seven years of my life were spent preparing this animal!
Claude ✡️🦖🦕@cascoclauda.bsky.social · 5mo agoa very warm welcome to sonselasuchus cedrus, a shuvosaurid from the chinle formation described by smith and sidor 🐊 sonselasuchus is known from a bonebed of mostly immature individuals, totalling at least 36 in number (art by gabriel ugueto)
