Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)
@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social
An artist and geosciences graduate who likes many things, such as dinosaurs, natural history, science, fantasy, music, games, movies, animation, anime, drawing and adventures! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcosk.pinheiro/
sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
The sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy
Abstract. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and its close relative, the Rodriguez Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), are two of the most recognized symbols of hum
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It is so frustrating when you keep finding significant fossils at the end of the field season and still have not gotten to the base of the giant bone bed complex at Doellings Bowl. We are actively planning exit strategy. Wish to see results of 100th field season. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
“fetuses 7 to 11 may have been scattered by gas explosion after death.” My latest for my premium Buttondown subscribers, all about an early "fish lizard" that was very, very gravid. 🧪 Sign up and read on Buttondown! buttondown.com/restingdinof...
Early Ichthyosaurs Had Big Litters
An exceptional ichthyosaur skeletons preserves a massive litter - and clues about ichthyosaur evolution.
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not a moment too soon, here's the paper by citron et al. 🦤 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
The sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy
Abstract. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and its close relative, the Rodriguez Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), are two of the most recognized symbols of hum
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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 6h agowww.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Were there tiny dinosaurs? New study explores one of evolution’s biggest mysteries
Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study suggests that one of the greatest mysteries of dinosaur evolution isn’t ...
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The explanatory power of energetic fitness models across living amniotes and extinct non-avian dinosaurs
Abstract. Vertebrates have varied body size distributions. Among these, non-avian dinosaurs have uniquely large minimum and maximum sizes, but the reasons
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A Cretaceous Cold Case: The mysterious affair at Mullurina Mayu (Bolivia) blog.pensoft.net/2026/08/05/a...
A Cretaceous Cold Case: The mysterious affair at Mullurina Mayu (Bolivia) | Blog
This study reports a large bowl-shaped depression from Late Cretaceous fluvial deposits in Bolivia, associated with sauropod trackways.
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New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...
Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
For those that didn't get to meet him in person at #DinoConUK, here is Wayne the Nanotyrannus with a "human" for scale. For reference, I am 6′3″, although I'm confident an animal of Wayne's size could halve that with little effort.
Mononykus. Brown pencils on ivory cartridge paper, approximately 150 × 100 mm. From 2022.
another new delightfully silly galeaspid has been named 🐟 bataspis crux originates from the early devonian of china, and is described by meng et al. in an #openaccess paper, linked below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (art by dinghua yang)
I love drawing dilos- they are so aesthetically pleasing to draw 😁! I had the honor of attacking BlastGB’s oc on artfight! Character design was so vibrant and pretty.🤩 #artfight #artfight2026 #dilophosaurus #dinosaurart #paleoart #paleoartist
I'll do a #SurvivingEarth series review. I'll cover things I love, things that bother me, how I understand the valid negative reviews, and why I decided to not adopt them myself and rank SE high anyway. It WON'T come soon. Wait for GEOLOGICAL SOON. Unlike this post, it will feature new screenshots.
恐竜の夏ということで、江の島にある恐竜園とその飼育員たちの奮闘漫画『ディノサン』をぜひ読んでみてはいかがでしょうか？GO!GO!太古✨ 第一話「甘えん坊のユキ」 kuragebunch.com/episode/3161...
Steven E. Jasinski and Robert M. Sullivan (2026) Dinevenator, a New Genus of Troodontid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of New Mexico Fossil Studies 4(3): 21 doi: doi.org/10.3390/foss... www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/4/...
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Isoclinal folds in a leucogranite dikelet, Carleton rock garden ⚒️
🦖🦑🧪🦈New blog post! I wrote about a paper my student Addie Miller published a few years ago, all about the concentration of juvenile giant shark teeth in the Oligocene (25 myo) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina - a nursery for giant sharks. coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-nu...
found an older scene from 2017 or so: Protorosaurus on the Zechstein beach. Ordered but never paid for. And not because of the mistakes. #research #protorosaurus #zechstein #artandscience #order #palaeontology #digitalart
P.V. Buck et al. (2026) Remarkably large mammal-like tracks from the Botucatu Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Paraná Basin, Brazil: implications for the evolution of large size in Mammaliaformes Journal of South American Earth Sciences 106223 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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