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BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

My cover artwork for issue 81 of Prehistoric Times, from 2007, featuring Ceratosaurus, in which I was interviewed.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

gay_ornithischians,
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@BobNicholls

Nicholls, R. (2007). Lighter than air flight in non-avian theropod lineage

yassie_j, to random
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Why did a mastocel try to fucking follow me

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO I AMMMMMM

gay_ornithischians,
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@yassie_j what is a mastocel?

gay_ornithischians,
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@AmyIsCoolz @yassie_j ah i've seen the type. i don't like bringing it up because a lot of people are very down on FOSS already, but these attitude is sadly very common on all FOSS related things

futurebird, to random
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OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

gay_ornithischians,
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@futurebird don't let the people who act superior for getting rid of everything get to you

llewelly, to random
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I remain convinced that extra-terrestrials have never visited Earth.

However, I admit the Nintendo 64 controller is difficult to explain.

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly new specevo project?

gay_ornithischians, to random
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random pigeon encounter from sometime last week (the file system thinks it's from 2015 for some reason)

this bird was helping clean up a food stand

pigeon feeding on food stand tray

BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

I'm post some of my illustrations from DINOSAUR, published by Roar in 2007. Last for today is a collection...

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

gay_ornithischians,
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@BobNicholls i did not know about this book. i love how colorful the animals are :D

llewelly, to poetry
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3664
is headed 'round the bend
no knowing when
we'll see its like again
for a short time
it lit up the night
so wave to it goodbye
as it heads around the limb
of the Sun





Solar synoptic map drawn by forecaster Lash, via NOAA: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-synoptic-map

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly is it dangerours to be outside while this is happening?

gay_ornithischians, to random
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people who specevo. what got you into specevo?

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly Dixon truly contains multitudes. i wonder if any of his dinosaur books are good. trough a stand of the local flea market i got his terrible (but somewhat charming) book on dinosaurs living in the modern day and a pocket DK encyclopedia. the latter is a typical of the genre. having the ocassional good reconstruction coexisting in the same page with lazy poorly observed artwork (that is still a lot better than it's slowly encroaching AI replacements)

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The MLP ants crossover you have been waiting for.

Fluttershy is a goofy awkward spider ant.

(this is what you asked for ... right?)

https://www.tumblr.com/thepixelatedcactus/749590219375968256?source=share

gay_ornithischians,
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@futurebird this is great :D
but the spike should be like an aphid or mite

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Tulip, the ant says hi! #namedAnts

gay_ornithischians,
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@futurebird @llewelly how would ants feel about billions of galaxies?

llewelly, to random
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I was trying to take a nap, but I was awakened by a nightmare: in my dream, early-branching tetrapodomorphs like Acanthostega and Ichthyostega with 7+ fingers were denounced as forgeries of so-called "AI" and erased from natural history.

Like nearly all dreams, it didn't make any sense when examined in the cold light of reality. At least, I hope not.

#fossilFriday

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly timeline in which all media and literature exists only as corporate streaming libraries. then some billionaire buys them all up, feeds them to a generative ai program and then deletes the originals

punkpaleo, to science
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Happy , check out this skull from a juvenile Gryposaurus! These hadrosaurs called North America their home roughly 75 million years ago, and this particular individual would have enjoyed the lush jungle that makes up the Kaiparowits Formation. (1/2)

gay_ornithischians,
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@punkpaleo it has juvenile pigeon vibes

BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2005 I was one of multiple artists who created hundreds of illustrations for Dougal Dixon's THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS & PREHISTORIC CREATURES, published by Anness and Lorenz Book.

gay_ornithischians,
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@BobNicholls i want one of those plastic animal baggies with all of these

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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No guess that #Lego fossil this week.
I went to the #Age #of #Dinosaurs museum in #Winton today and am too tired to sort it out
Sorry.
Plus side, here's some holotype images for you :D

Ferrodraco skull
Ferrodraco neck and wing
Diamantinasaurus feet, legs, ribs

gay_ornithischians,
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@TheDinosaurDave the diamantina manus and pes 😍

gay_ornithischians,
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@TheDinosaurDave i wanna take it home 🤩

BobNicholls, to art
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Part 4 of my Newfoundland Cambrian diorama build, from 2005. Building something this big and complicated then shipping it across the Atlantic was a daunting challenge – but it worked!

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gay_ornithischians,
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@BobNicholls this retrospectives are great. i hope you keep em coming :D

llewelly, to snails
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a snail that lives with ants??

" Allopeas myrmekophilos was regularly found in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda. The gastropods always remained inside the bivouacs of their hosts, where they were able to move around undisturbed by the ants. During emigrations A. myrmekophilos was always carried by workers in a manner identical to brood or prey items."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00012646

unfortunately springer wants $40 for it!


gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly is it this?
https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/pl00012646

gay_ornithischians, (edited ) to random
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my thoughts on Reiner, A. 2023

(painting by Dylan Bajda, it has been cropped and vandalized for this post)

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly (i could be misrepresenting the arguments due to poor understanding on my part)

gay_ornithischians, (edited )
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@llewelly latency is what i called one of the issues described (because that is what it sounded like to me), but it may not be what the author was getting at

mike, to random
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It seems my University of Bristol account for some reason doesn't have access to The Paleontological Society Special Publications. Can anyone please email me a PDF of this one?

https://doi.org/10.1017/S2475262200009436

dino@miketaylor.org.uk
#icanhazpdf

gay_ornithischians,
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@mike what a sad day it will be when sci-hub goes away

18+ gay_ornithischians, to random
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the awkwardness of first contact

gay_ornithischians,
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@llewelly i imagine these guys being the size of elephants. what do you think the limitant on larger sizes would be for something like this?

gay_ornithischians,
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if the whole venated insect style wing changing into an articulated hydraulic wing pans out then maybe that could result in even larger klis-cha
walking wing forms could develop that would look like if the real animal was walking it's leashed pterosaur pets

gay_ornithischians,
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maybe some of the walking wing forms could even become flightless. it could look like a larger animal is walking it's dogs. perhaps that would be too far. i'm not sure a single "brain" could control 3 large bodies

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