Feathered Deinonychus. Doing things and sometimes stuff. Gamer, vert paleo enthusiast, bird lover, indie developer. Programmer on @SaurianGame.
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Joined January 2012
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Today see the publication of the latest in our group’s studies of #Wealden #spinosaurid #dinosaurs. As published in @JournalofAnat, we generated and studied digital brain endocasts of British baryonychine specimens. Here’s a brief thread on the research and our conclusions…
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Another halszkaraptorine dromaeosaur has been described, and it has postcranial features indicating a streamlined body suited for swimming: it's Natovenator polydontus Lee et al., 2022 from the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia. Paper is #OA ... nature.com/articles/s42003-0… #dinosaurs
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Advance copy of Mesozoic Art... think @TetZoo and I can be pretty proud...
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Morning all another Super Seabird Sunday giving everyone an opportunity to brighten up their timelines with great seabirds. So go on and share…my contribution today; a pair of European Shags in a courtship dance…
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Not everything since 2016 has been bad: the #kakapo population has grown by 100% since then! 252 are alive today. #kakapo2022 #conservation Pic: Deidre Vercoe
ALT A photo of five kākāpō chicks “begging” on a person’s hand in a hand-rearing facility, New Zealand. Credit: Deidre Vercoe
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The Artemis Paleozoo is an artbook by a collective of illustrators, educators, and creatives that depicts a modern menagerie of creatures that time forgot.
Follow us for updates and previews as we approach our pre-order date and official launch. Stay tuned! 🦕🦖
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PROJECT:TEPUI was inspired by Conan Doyle’s Lost World. Its 100 pages are packed with colourful and (mostly) wildly inaccurate dinosaurs! Oh, and it comes with a separate map too. If that sounds like your kind of thing, see below for a link (1/2)
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A paper I coauthor is just out in @Nature The development of the bird pelvis tracks the evolutionary pattern observed in dinosaurs! Here a good thread by @AnjanBhullar Thanks to lead author CT Griffin for involving me in this. @FieldMuseum 🦜🦚🦢🐓🐊🦖🦕
Just out, with lead author Chris Griffin, former postdoc @chico_botelho, and a fantastic team of coauthors: the culmination of 7 years of work on the embryology and anatomy of the archosaur, and especially the dinosaur, hip. 1/12 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Had enough frustrating, horrifying news for today? Perhaps you need to see some NYC pigeons snuggling.
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Two years in the making, my take at illustrating bird phylogeny: deviantart.com/albertonykus/…
