Glave (Adrian)
@glavenychus.bsky.social
🇯🇲 (He/they) New Jersey invader, spec bio/evo/eco guy, Permo-Triassic lover & creator of 5 worlds. DMs open (don’t waste my time if Idk u) Profile - https://bsky.app/profile/shinygander.bsky.social Cover - https://bsky.app/profile/zenwyrmart.bsky.social
Today's four random pieces of palaeoart: Karen Carr's Deinonychus and hypsilophodonts, Luis Rey's Amargasaurus, @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social's Edmontosaurus, and Ely Kish's Stygimoloch!
For context, that's a typical size of a jurassic pterosaur (juvenile) found in the fossil record
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w agoThe smallest bat in North America is the canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also called the western pipistrelle or American parastrelle. They weigh about 3–6 grams, the weight of a US penny, sheet of paper, or teaspoon of sugar. In flight, they're sometimes confused for moths or butterflies.
What better way to kick off the spookiest month of the year than with ghoulish, gory, or otherwise monstrous dinosaurs? I'll be sharing spooky palaeoart alongside my usual palaeoart posts throughout the month to help get us into the Halloween mood!
Today’s four random pieces of palaeoart: Bob Walters’ Centrosaurus, Graham High’s Tyrannosaurus, John Conway’s Yi, and Rod Ruth’s Iguanodon!
Today's four GHOULISH works of palaeoart! Art by Peter Zallinger, Tony Gibbons, Boris Vallejo, and Richard Orr!
Hot off the presses! I reviewed the history of early ray-finned fishes, with a focus on their morphology, fossil record, and taxonomy. My principal goal is a guide for other workers to make the rich record of early actinopterygian evolution more broadly available. dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
The Evolutionary History of Early Ray‐Finned Fishes (Pan‐Actinopterygii)
Ray-finned fishes, the most diverse living vertebrate clade, include over 600 extinct early actinopterygian species whose evolution is an enigma.
dx.doi.org
Today's four random pieces of palaeoart: Tim Bradley's Abelisaurus, Bernard Long's Paranthropus, Petr Modlitba's Dimetrodon, and John Sibbick's Deinonychus!
Today's four GHOULISH works of palaeoart! Art by Douglas Henderson, Neil Lloyd, Tony Gibbons, and Mort Künstler!
Today our paper introducing Megacauda is published in Nature! Which means I can finally share my illustration! Meet this beautifully preserved Jurassic, semi-aquatic swimmer #sciart #paleontology
My latest for National Geographic! A new study suggests that you really, *really* would not want to be hit by a lunging mosasaur
This Cretaceous 'Sea Monster' Attacked Prey Faster than Great White Sharks
By analyzing tail length and muscle power, paleontologists have explained the physics behind a mosasaur's deadly ability to lunge toward its prey.
nationalgeographic.com
Today's four GHOULISH works of palaeoart! Art by Y. Tabaries, Ronald Swanwick, David Peters, and Norman Nodell!
The origin of the wishbone in birds and other theropod dinosaurs is debated: did it evolve from the clavicles (collarbones) or a bone called the interclavicle? A new study on bird embryos suggests the answer is... both! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🪶🧪 (📷Jiménez-Villalón et al.)
New species of antthrush, the Alagoas antthrush (Chamaeza studerae): www.mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Vieira & Raposo)
Fossil taxa are sometimes considered island weirdos without any actual evidence that island effects were important in their evolution. So we wrote a paper on how we could do actual island biogeography in deep time. If you want a copy but can't access it, email me: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Island biogeography in deep time - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Island ecosystems feature unique species assemblages with diverse evolutionary histories, but identifying island communities in deep time comes with its own challenges. This Perspective explores the a...
nature.com
Stills from my Tromerosaurus animation - my PC is very unhappy with my Blender shenanigans, but we persevere!
Newest #watercolor is Garudimimus. I did this start to finish live at one of the dinosaur park’s open houses. #paleoart
An Encounter. (Alternative, less spooky take for the sake of showcasing my model better below)
- C0MMISSI0NS NOW OPEN - Will make arts for moneys. I'm opening with 6 slots available! ♥️🔁 are greatly appreciated! Thank you!
A world-class demonstration on why it takes humans to make art. Maybe someday AI engines will rival the technical skill here, but they won't be able to generate the honest emotional reactions this animation conveys.
Over a week ago I was directed to this video of a gharial crushing a turtle in its jaws. ...Yes, you read that right. A GHARIAL. www.reddit.com/r/Crocodiles...
Before there where frogs and salamanders. #amphibians #temnospondyls #permian #vertebrate #digitalpainting #art #palaeontology #science
Tropidostoma, a medium size dicynodontian, digging (or hiding something) #permian #therapsida #synapsida #dicynodontian #herbivore #hiding #digitalpainting #research #artandscience
One of the latest studies reconstructing Dunkleosteus explicitly left out the lip question. But this isso very likely. #fossilfish #dunkleosteus #Devonian #Paleozoico #placoderm #arthrodira #armoredfish #underthesea #artandscience
Eogyrinus, stem tetrapod or stem amniote, from the Carboniferous #embolomere #sketch #research #reptiliomorph #tetrapoda #carboniferous
Sternberg Museum curator of paleontology, Dr. Amanda Peng, has a new paper out today in Journal of Paleontology on diversity and disparity in John Day Formation assemblages. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Diversity and disparity in mammalian fossil assemblages of the John Day Formation, Oregon, USA | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core
Diversity and disparity in mammalian fossil assemblages of the John Day Formation, Oregon, USA
cambridge.org