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2 years

A living toad 325 feet deep at the bottom of Loch Ness.

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3 years

The council will decide your fate...

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Captive goblin shark inside a compression tank, in Japan in 2007.

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This sighting occurred in 2005, so unfortunately this particular toad has probably died.

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2 years

Has anyone ever proposed that Nessie is a giant frog? I know there are giant salamander theorists out there, so there could be giant frog theorists.

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3 months

We have a new contender for the worst megalodon reconstruction of all time. This looks like a joke, but it was made 100% seriously.

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3 years

Ok one more furry skeleton meme

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2 years

I never said that.

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1 year

3 new species of nautiluses were just named! These are photos of the new species, N. samoaensis (A & B), N. vanuatuensis (C), and N. vitiensis (D).

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2 years

Apparently one toad lived over 40 years, so there’s a slight chance that it’s still down there.

Georgie: a world record-breaking toad?

Scientists from the University of York believe they may have found the world's oldest wild common toad – living in a garden in Hull.

www.york.ac.uk

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3 years

The full description of the skin impressions from Carnotaurus has finally been published!

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3 years

Please stop retweeting and liking this false factoid that keeps going around. The Greenland shark whose age was estimated (392±120 years, so 272-512 years) was captured and euthanized sometime between 2010-2013 and this is not even a photo of the same individual.

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4 years

Basking shark ontogeny needs a lot more study. Of particular interest to me is the beak-like snout shape in really young individuals, which so far has only been documented in a single paper. This is a juvenile caught in Japan in 1977. .

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1 year

The theropod lip paper is out and the conclusion is lizard-like lips!

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2 years

Look at this amazing Thescelosaurus leg from the Tanis site!

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2 years

The tragedy of Monolophosaurus

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3 years

Never would I have thought that the dodos from Ice Age would be featured in a scientific paper, yet here we are.

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2 years

I'm a huge fan of Gurney's work, but the giant sawfish Onchopristis for the new Spinosaurus paper makes me very sad. 😔

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3 years

It still blows my mind that cephalopod eyes were evolved completely independent of vertebrate eyes.

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1 year

Watch this dwarf reed snake using "cartwheels" to escape, filmed for the first time ever.

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3 years

POV: you are about to face the final boss of paleontology.

Loricata

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3 years

@DEGL_TOONS take this beautiful image of Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar

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2 years

Another thing I’m curious about: is this the deepest underwater record of an amphibian (not counting caves)?

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2 years

These are photographs of a Tarbosaurus mummy discovered in 1991. It had skin impressions covering the dorsal side of the tail and hips, probably the most extensive of any tyrannosaurid ever discovered.

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2 years

Yes, this really happened.

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1 year

Peters now thinks Homotherium is a sabertooth dog! 🤦‍♂️

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3 years

The four dinosaurs of the apocalypse

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1 year

Thinking about the adult great white (14.5 feet long) that was found with 150 crabs in its stomach. Sometimes macropredators are weird and eat much smaller prey.

EWA WAHINE’ONIUHINUI (she/they) 🦈

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1 year

The funniest thing I’ve ever seen The largest population of great whites eat mostly fish that aren’t that big

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3 years

Big Al enjoys a good "yeehaw" every now and then

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11 months

It's so funny that the closest relatives of colossal squids are cute little things like piglet squids.

Cephalopods Daily

@CephalopodToday

11 months

The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) and the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) are two BIG squids. The giant squid is the longest squid and the colossal squid is the biggest. You'd think they'd be closely related, but taxonomists have them in different superfamilies!

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3 years

Newly described trace fossils from New Mexico possibly show a tyrannosaur rising from a resting position on its forearms. This would disprove the old notion that if they fell they couldn't have gotten back up.

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1 year

This is pretty cool, but actually not the first time it’s been documented. A sperm whale with a giant squid in its mouth was photographed near Japan in 2009.

Pedosiren

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Found this on IG, from ecowatch.discovery.mauritius

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4 years

Other artists: Why don’t you ever draw dinosaurs from the front? Paleoartists:

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1 year

I love animals preserved in bizarre ways, so here's the mold of a griffon vulture's head in volcanic ash.

Trey the Explainer

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1 year

Mummified dog stuck in a tree for 20 years

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3 years

For people wondering what this actually is, it's probably a common torpedo ray.

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens

@CSMFHT

3 years

Is this from Star Wars??

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2 years

AI creates more convincing Bigfoot photos than most of the “real” ones.

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The fact that actor David Schwimmer played a paleontologist and that there is also a real paleontologist named David Schwimmer will always be funny.

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I somewhat doubt this interpretation, but the idea that great whites can express frustration is incredibly funny.

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2 years

Bioluminescent ammonites in Prehistoric Planet! 😍

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Photographs and reconstruction of the first complete body fossils of Cretalamna sp.

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3 years

New paper on an ammonite with preserved soft tissues, Subplanites sp. from the Late Jurassic of Germany, including what is possibly the first preserved siphon!

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2 years

This might be the worst "megalodon" I've ever seen.

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3 years

Wow this paper really used dinosaur toys to estimate volume/mass and called them "scientifically accurate palaeoreconstructions".

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2 years

I’ve seen a few people suggesting that Prehistoric Planet’s swimming T. rex “copied” various pieces of paleoart. Newsflash: it’s a basic and common animal behavior that no artist “owns”.

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10 months

Hippos are not analogues for the facial soft tissues of Andrewsarchus. Their skulls are completely different from one another.

Cyclopes

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10 months

Iam so deeply in love with the Path of Titans Andrewsarchus

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3 years

Reminder that the fuzzy nautilus exists and it is amazing.

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8 months

I am thrilled to announce that my paper reexamining the 'modern survival' of Otodus megalodon has finally been published!

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1 year

New images of Xiphactinus and ammonites from Prehistoric Planet 2.

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4 years

I still can't get over this Eocene frog.

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3 years

Therapist: Bipedal baby Triceratops aren’t real, they can’t hurt you. Bipedal baby Triceratops:

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3 years

Caught in the headlights

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3 years

I like Jaws as much as the next person, but one quote in particular has always bothered me. Quint says that sharks have "lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes", but that just isn't true. Great whites have very pretty dark brown eyes with blue irises.

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This is the new filter-feeding lamniform shark Aquilolamna from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico. Words cannot even begin to describe how weird this thing is.

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2 years

A Cretaceous filter feeding shark from Canada has been unveiled by the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre (art by @JCsotonyi )! There aren't many details available yet, but I wonder if it is a johnlongiine?

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2 years

One of the earliest life reconstructions of O. megalodon, drawn by Othenio Abel in 1916. We've come a long way since then.

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1 year

New paper proposes that T. rex was a shallow water runner. Yes, really. 🤦‍♂️

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2 months

This happens all the time

Mhuyo - DOKOMI

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2 months

Here's the template, use responsibly.

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3 years

Another fun fact: zebrafish are more closely related to zebras than they are to zebra sharks.

Zebrafish Rock!

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3 years

Did you know? Zebrafish are more closely related to fish than to zebras. #ZebrafishFunFacts

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3 years

Pain

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1 year

I love the dioramas in Denver (haven't been to Milwaukee or AMNH yet), but I feel like the ones at the Ancient Ozarks Museum are also up there.

Ben Miller 🦕🏛🦎

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1 year

Sorry AMNH, the best dioramas in the world are in Milwaukee and Denver.

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1 year

You don’t have to have a degree in biology or paleontology to spread misinformation. The Spinosaurus neotype is a single individual and the legs were found associated with the vertebrae, so their proportions are known.

TheGamingBeaver

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1 year

You don't have to have a degree in biology or paleontology to know that these legs ain't it.

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1 year

Someone should look at Ceratosaurus again and see if it could flex its mandibles like Bakker proposed.

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9 months

The birds in this neck of the woods aren't quite right...

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And yet, despite being a relatively rare shark, 273 occurrences have been documented to date! Although some use the megamouth as support for living megalodon, it's actually strong evidence against the idea.

Hodari Shadowalker ❄️🐆

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1 year

On the other hand we DO have a very large, very weird, very ancient Meg shark that does still exist- Megachasma pelagios aka Megamouth shark, so rare to see it's almost a cryptid and said to possibly grow to 7 m or so! This meg deserves more attention!

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Tyler Greenfield

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3 years

The deep sea art of Else Bostelmann deserves to be more widely recognized.

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3 years

So it turns out that basking sharks, porbeagles/salmon sharks, makos, and great whites all have "pockets" for their claspers to reduce drag.

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2 years

New paper confirms that Vampyronassa from the Middle Jurassic of France is an early vampire squid!

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4 years

Speeding up David Peters' gifs 500x makes them so much better.

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3 years

It never ceases to amaze me that moray eels have an extra set of jaws in their throats.

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1 year

The "giant orthocone"/"Cameroceras" in Chased by Sea Monsters was probably based on a lost, supposedly huge specimen of Endoceras. The largest confirmed specimen is significantly smaller.

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They named a new species of giant salamander back in May?! Somehow this paper slipped under the radar, I don't remember seeing any news articles about it.

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3,000 year-old skeleton of a shark attack victim found in Japan! The most likely culprits were a great white or tiger shark.

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Alioramus gulping down its prey is one of my favorite paleoart memes.

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A diagram of the eye of the great white shark.

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Xi Jinping gifted Emmanuel Macron with a model of an Anchiornis at their recent meeting. Is this the first time a non-avian dinosaur has been shared between presidents?

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Cassowaries are another example of this. Their quill-like wing feathers are modified pennaceous feathers that don't attach to the ulna and lack quill knobs.

Hank Sharpe

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Quill knobs! When present, they indicate large wing feathers. BUT, some birds (ostriches, rheas, ducks) have large wing feathers without quill knobs, so their absence doesn’t mean dinosaurs without them were wingless #FossilFriday

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Instead of doing a prank for April Fool's this year, I'll ask what is your favorite paleontological, zoological, or cryptozoological hoax/fake? I think “Randy” the “Majungasaurus” is still my favorite.

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I made this tier list of deep sea creatures, cryptids, strange encounters, and conspiracy theories. See how many you can recognize; are you a fresh-faced twilight zoner or an experienced hadal zoner?

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Lystrosaurus mummies!!!

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What are some of your favorite fringe hypotheses in paleontology? One of mine is the idea that Carboniferous coal was formed from floating forests and not swamps.

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Neanderthal models are great

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3 years

When you study Paleozoic animals

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An amazing, nearly-complete skeleton of the Oligocene sand tiger Carcharias cuspidatus described by Hovestadt (2022). It even has nine embryos preserved inside it!

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Chased by Sea Monsters from 20 years ago had a more accurate endocerid model. 😬

Netflix

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To understand life we must go back to the beginning. Life on Our Planet — from executive producer Steven Spielberg and the team behind Our Planet — premieres October 25.

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Yeah the "wolves" in Rings of Power were definitely inspired by entelodonts. They even have the bony knobs on the lower jaw.

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You may have seen this thread claiming that the osteoderms of Ceratosaurus were internal mineral deposits. Just know that this interpretation is completely unsupported and the author is blocking people pointing this out in the replies.

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In 1972 off the coast of South America, an unidentified animal attacked the sonar dome of the Navy frigate USS Stein. It shredded the rubber coating and left behind many hooks embedded in it.

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Tyler Greenfield

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This is one of the oldest depictions of a thresher shark (probably Alopias vulpinus) from a 1569 English pamphlet.

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2 years

Watching paleontology drama unfold on multiple fronts

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4 years

How is this a real news article? There is so much wrong, I don't even know where to start.

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3 years

Broke: Dinosaur lip debate Woke: Dunkleosteus lip debate

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2 years

No, The Rock did not buy the real Stan. The skull behind him is a replica. Replicas of Stan are the most widely-sold of any T. rex.

Sports Illustrated

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The Rock has a massive T-Rex skull in his house: "It's pretty badass isn't it" 😂

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2 years

A very scientific recreation of this event:

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

@RoyalTyrrell

2 years

Palaeopathologies like disease and injuries are prevalent in fossil bones. Did you know that they are also identifiable in trace fossils? This fossil footprint from Nose Mountain, Alberta shows evidence of a large theropod that had a severely dislocated toe!

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Big tyrannosaur integument news tomorrow...

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1 year

Nobody: Peters:

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Interesting that this recent paper reconstructed Panthera spelaea with stripes. The evidence for this idea is laughably weak, it's based on over-interpretation of very ambiguous art.

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3 years

A glorious vintage Spinosaurus skeletal from 1982

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The new ctenacanth Dracopristis hoffmanorum (formerly informally known as the "Manzano ctenacanth" and "Godzilla shark") is pretty awesome! Check out that beautifully preserved complete skeleton.

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