Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊
@paleodaniel.bsky.social
Geologist & Vertebrate Paleontologist ⚒️ Postdoctoral researcher and technician at the University of São Paulo - USP Ecosocialist scientist ☭🌎 EN - PT
Someone recently made a quip that, “if you’ve seen one rock, you’ve seen them all”. It was a joke, I guess, aimed in my direction and geologists more generally. Although I think the rock-centric way geology sometimes sells itself is foolish…this person couldn’t be more wrong…[1/2]
New paper @thepalass.bsky.social led by PhD student Ana Laura Paiva (with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social, @paleodaniel.bsky.social & others) estimating body size in notosuchian crocodylomorphs, with implications for extinction selectivity across the K/Pg mass extinction: doi.org/10.1111/pala...
🚨 New croc paper alert! Another study led by Ana Laura Paiva (PhD student I co-supervise with Max Langer) is out today in Palaeontology! We revisit a classic question with new tools: how big were notosuchians, really? 🐊📏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Art: @mirantakouvari.bsky.social
Jaw-dropping Allosaurus jimmadseni skull on display at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin #FossilFriday
We will never solve the climate crisis and biodiversity loss under capitalism. This much is clear. Let’s reduce carbon and material footprints by decommodifying the commons and limiting ourselves to planetary boundaries 🌎 #climatecrisis
The climate crisis/biodiversity loss are rooted not only on capitalism, but on the radical prometheanism that Europe spread through colonialism and conquest. We should promote ecosocialist development through integration with our biomes. Distancing ourselves from nature clearly didn't work
The US is a terrorist state. War is fundamental to their existence in a way that is alien to most other countries It behaves erratically and should not be trusted. Time for Latin America and BRICS to wake up
#AvatarFireAndAsh is great and caught me off guard a few times This is Jim Cameron getting trippy and esoteric 8/10 ⭐ Just take me back to Pandora 🌎
Language remains the most profound technology we humans ever developed because its implication is that our mind is shared
Stromatolites everywhere 🪨 These columnar ones are 2+ billion years old and were used as floor coverings #precambrian #paleontology
RIP Dr Jane Goodall 🐒 Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back #janegoodall #hope
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
Stunning amber deposits hold insects from the time of the dinosaurs
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
newscientist.com
The spectacular Tupandactylus navigans being displayed at the University of São Paulo’s Geoscience Museum 🏛️ #paleontology #decolonizescience
Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration
Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic m...
science.org
Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography
Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars - Astrobiology
A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the site of an ancient sea, providing further evidence that the planet ...
astrobiology.com
Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕 This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups! Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
SVP Futures Award – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
vertpaleo.org
Triste é aquele que, dentro do sistema capitalista, busca um trabalho com função social
🚨Croc paper alert! Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil! Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology
Anatomical description and systematics of a new notosuchian (Mesoeucrocodylia; Crocodyliformes) from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil
Notosuchians comprise a clade of mostly terrestrial crocodyliforms generally found in Cretaceous Gondwanan deposits. They evolved into many forms and some species show convergences with mammalian f...
tandfonline.com
Essa obsessão do governo com a margem equatorial é o “drill, baby, drill” da centro-esquerda brasileira Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática
#FossilFriday - Mariliasuchus amarali Carvalho & Bertini 1999, a small sphagesaurian (sensu Ruiz et al., 2021) that helped start the current boom in notosuchian research back in the late 90s 🐊
Needless to say a US occupation of Palestine is yet another war crime… It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine
Deepseek is actually excellent news for the climate 🌎 Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries. Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models It is obvious now that we don’t need this
Deported Brazilians reported being handcuffed, beaten, choked and some received death threats by American agents during the flight, even within Brazilian air space This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…
