Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor
@skeletaldrawing.bsky.social
Father & Husband, vertebrate paleontologist, drawer of skeletals. PhD. Instructional faculty at UW-Madison (anatomy & physiology, evolution, dinosaurs). Webpage: www.skeletaldrawing.com
Hey everyone - For #FossilFriday, I'm relaunching a completely overhauled Skeletal Drawing dot Com. Check it out, read the welcome post (below), and let me know what you think! www.skeletaldrawing.com/blog/welcome...
Welcome to Skeletal Drawing 4.0! | Skeletal Drawing
Welcome to the completely overhauled SkeletalDrawing.com. For the last month and a half I've been working on a ground-up overhaul of the website. I'd like to explain a bit of what's changed and why, h...
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Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)
While I'm checking in on BlueSky, here's the stem-mammal Sphenacodon ferox, which lived long before there were any dinosaurs.
A cool making-of Heterodontosaurus in @netflix.com's The Dinosaurs (featuring @markwitton.bsky.social!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Atb...
How We Made Dinosaurs Real | Behind the Scenes | The Dinosaurs
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Introducing the undulating tripod gait, the walking strategy used by many fishes. We tracked the fishes, built a model, a robot, and found that 3 body segments, 2 fins, and friction are all it takes. No specialized anatomy required. Out today in Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Riojasaurus is up next! This is a medium sized sauropodomorph, about 6m long - though I have found one mention in the literature of a possible 10m length. Thought to be quadrupedal in the past, work by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social suggests a primarily bipedal animal. Size comparison below ⬇️
Today's four random pieces of palaeoart: @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social's Tyrannosaurus, @triloboii.bsky.social's Repenomanus, Alex Ebel's Triceratops, and Christopher Wormell's Allosaurus!
An update to my Dimetrodon skeletal, plus proof that my blog does, in fact still work: www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/i-did-i...
I did it wrong: Dimetrodon had a longer neckDr. Scott Hartman's Skeletal Drawing.com
A bunch of years ago I carefully planned out how to do more short-form content for this blog, and one of those ideas was for a series of You’re Doing it Wrong… posts highlighting common errors in do...
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Revamped skeletal drawing of a little known dinosaur named Velociraptor.
A male Nanotyrannus lancensis sports their sharp and contrasting breeding season colors. They lift their head up and catch the whiff of the promise of hope... a female...
Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park! “Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” — www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)
The Prehistoric Planet trailer is out! It was an honor to work with this incredible team: youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
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The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
Whelp, I suppose this is now Nanotyrannus lethaeus.
Not a stuffed animal I expected to see at my local Half-Priced Boos, but a welcome one.
If you’ve never seen the comic, here it is:
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10mo agoI knew the first half of this story— that Gary Larsen’s cartoon joking Dr. Goodall was sleeping with chimpanzees caused her Institute to lawyer up only for her to find the comic super amusing upon her return from the field— but I’d never heard Larsen got attacked by a chimpanzee!
Kids, being cute but demanding since the Cretaceous. A quick little doodle of a baby Maiasaura, inspired by the recent study reinforcing the idea that they stayed in the nest for a good while and needed intensive care. Based on the lovely skeletal by @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social
David James Armsby has done it again! Dinosauria is, in my opinion, the pinnacle of what paleo-media can be. I can't wait for the next one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH57...
"Terrible Lizards" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2025)
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Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.
"Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report...The researchers found climate denialism has evolved into campaigns focused on discrediting solutions." - Damian Carrington www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
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