Emi Thomas 🦤🏳️🌈
@zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social
Paleontologist of sorts. MSc from Idaho State University. I study pterosaurs, dicynodonts, and frogs, among other things. Website: https://zhejiangopterus.org
Has Ohio been eliminated yet? SVP is still scheduled to take place there, hope this doesn’t complicate things
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2h ago10 years ago today
Seahorsification. I skimmed the paper, this is the real deal, the species most closely related to Australyichthys are indeed elongate ropelike pipefishes! 🧪🦑
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 20h agoLooks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...
this FUCKING GODDAMNED SHIT AGAIN GODDAMNIT we making more phone calls tomorrow right?
404 Media@404media.co · 24h agoMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
I've recently posted new #paleoart and essays at #Patreon: a coloured version of my b+w Styracosaurus (shown here), a #specevo #pterosaur, and observations on whether the jaw fossils of Baryonyx suggest spinosaurids had lips. Check this out at www.patreon.com/markwitton.
'There Will Come Soft Rains' tells of the final day of an automated house carrying on the routines for long dead tenants, in a short story within Ray Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles'. The date mentioned in the cheerful morning announcement by the house robotic voice is today, August 4, 2026.
I like working in a place with boxes labeled 'do not open.' We discussed opening it today, but with the hellmouth just up in Sunnydale, decided against it.
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
We should build a giant metal Quetzalcoatlus that breathes fire
Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.
Heads up for anyone that likes making cool stuff that there are bunch of exhibit mountmaking and fabrication jobs (both entry and supervisor levels) open at the Field this week. www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
I must have a writing deadline coming up because I found time to finish a months old blog post. A discussion of the "twin exhibits" on the end-Cretaceous extinction and Paleogene recovery currently at AMNH and the Field Museum: extinctmonsters.net/2026/08/03/t...
Two museums, two exhibits, one story
“Twin films” is a term that refers to a pair of movies released by different studios around the same time, which have similar plots or are inspired by the same source material. Museums …
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Pair of Sachicasaurus vitae, splashing around 124 MYA in the waters over what will someday be Colombia. Included a color rough in the thread- this piece was relatively painless thanks to that step and definitely something I always need to remember to incorporate! #paleosky #sachicasaurus #paleoart
This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.
One of the uniting features of humanity, alongside music, liking small animals, and enjoying some form of meat (or veggie substitute) inside dough, is that we will look at a large body of water and go "what if there was a monster in there"
Who here takes plushie commissions… I could go for a Helicoprion Blåhaj
Because I haven't been able to draw I've been going back and looking at older art I've made. I really like this little Petrie from Land Before Time I did a few years back.
Eomyodon volkeri, a terrestrial eomyid rodent of Late Oligocene Europe
POV: When you meet someone who's just as odd as you are 🤩✨️ *Creature featured: Zarafasaura 🦕🐟 #plesiosaur | #paleoart | #aquarium | #paleontology | #Zarafasaura
can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
If a Lepidodendron falls in a forest and no one has evolved ears that can hear it, does it still make a sound?
One side effect of the midcentury waning of European colonialism is that cryptids went from living in far-off remote places to living in our backyards
If anyone follows me for AI takes you will be disappointed, I live in San Francisco and I’m so so so very sick of hearing about AI. Of course I have opinions but they pretty much all boil down to “end capitalism”
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
Dan Liimatta@danliimatta.bsky.social · 5d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
A book from inside the network. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, five years in the making, is funding on Kickstarter now. Every known pterosaur species, illustrated. https://fossi.ls/ks
