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Translesb Art🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🦕Microraptor eats A.I and supports artists.Microraptor, a small theropod in the Dromaeosauridae family of feathered, generally carnivorous theropods, lived in the Cretaceous, more precisely in the Lower Cretaceous. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/paleoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleoart</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drawing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaur</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/microraptor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microraptor</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/theropods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theropods</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artist</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/antiai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiai</a>

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐El Duonychus tsogbaatari fue un dinosaurio tericinosáurido del Cretácico tardío (100-600 MdA) con dos grandes garras con las que podría haber agarrado la vegetación. 📷Masato Hattori <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretacico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretacico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mammals</a> were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mammals-life-trees-ground-dinosaur.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mammals-life-trees-ground-dinosaur.html</a>Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.70004" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.70004</a>"plant life changed toward the end of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>, with flowering <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a> creating more diverse habitats on the ground... The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> than any influence from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a>"

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐El Jakapil kaniukura fue una especie basal de dinosaurio acorazado (Thyreophora) que vivió en el Cretácico, hace unos 97-94 MdA. Habría medido, al menos, 1,5 metros de longitud y habría estado cubierto de osteodermos. A diferencia de los miembros más conocidos de este clado, sería un bípedo. 📷UnexpectedDinoLesson <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretacico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretacico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a>

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐El Maip macrothorax puede ser el dinosaurio megarraptórido más grande conocido, con 9-10 metros de longitud. Su nombre genérico alude a la sombra de la muerte que mata con viento gélido de la mitología de los tehuelches de la Patagonia. 📷 Mauricio Álvarez <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cretacico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretacico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>

slskier1988Museum of the Rockies . . . . . <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/canonphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canonphotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/canon6d?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canon6d</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bnwmood?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bnwmood</a> #406 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photographylovers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photographylovers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pnwphotographer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pnwphotographer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pnwphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pnwphotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bozeman?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bozeman</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bozemanmontana?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bozemanmontana</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pnwartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pnwartist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bozemanphotographer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bozemanphotographer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bozemanmt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bozemanmt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/montanalife?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#montanalife</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/montanamoment?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#montanamoment</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bozemanphotographer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bozemanphotographer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bozemanviews?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bozemanviews</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/dinosaur?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaur</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/palentology?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palentology</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/museum?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museum</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/museumoftherockies?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museumoftherockies</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trex?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trex</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/dinosaurbones?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurbones</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/skeleton?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skeleton</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/jurassicpark?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jurassicpark</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/museumphotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museumphotography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/dino?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dino</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cretaceous?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/montanagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#montanagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bnw?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bnw</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blackandwhite?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackandwhite</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blackandwhitephotography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackandwhitephotography</a>

Daniel Dvorkin"Something much worse than asteroids" is hype: the late-<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Devonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Devonian</a> and end-<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ordovician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ordovician</a> were less severe that the end-<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>, which was definitely† caused by an <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asteroid</a>. But this is good work that may help nail down the cause of the earlier <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/extinctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinctions</a> ... which were still pretty bad!†Yes.<a href="https://www.earth.com/news/at-least-two-of-earths-mass-extinctions-caused-by-massive-supernova-explosions/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.earth.com/news/at-least-two-of-earths-mass-extinctions-caused-by-massive-supernova-explosions/</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Deep-sea fish study reveals evolutionary marvels in Earth's hadal zone <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-deep-sea-fish-reveals-evolutionary.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-deep-sea-fish-reveals-evolutionary.html</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867425000315" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867425000315</a>"they confirmed a century-old hypothesis about deep-sea <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fish</a> evolution involving two distinct pathways. 'Ancient survivors' colonized the deep sea before the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> mass <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinction</a>, while 'new immigrants' account for the majority of modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> species that emerged after the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassExtinction</a>."

Speckdäne<a href="https://nrw.social/tags/idw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idw</a> Earth's Orbital Rhythms Link Timing of Giant <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Eruptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eruptions</a> and <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>An international team of scientists has synchronized key <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> records from the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Atlantic</a> and <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pacific</a> Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> at the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>/#Paleogene boundary. <a href="https://idw-online.de/en/news848593" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://idw-online.de/en/news848593</a>German: <a href="https://idw-online.de/de/news848592" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://idw-online.de/de/news848592</a>

Or M. Bialik<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WeekendReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeekendReading</a>: Rivas et al., on an Early <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> volcaniclastic–carbonate ramp in southern Chile. An interesting aperture into the Cretaceous temperate <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/carbonates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carbonates</a> (lots of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/oysters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oysters</a>) and their interactions in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/volcanoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#volcanoes</a> I constantly find myself comparing and contrasting with these Late Cretaceous volcanic <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atolls</a> I worked on. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-023-00669-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10347-023-00669-4</a>

Myrmecological News🆕Photoblog: In the accompanying photoblog, Yuhui Zhuang talks about his new study and shares some pictures. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/amber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amber</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/male" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#male</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/castes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castes</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a><a href="https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/02/25/ancient-ant-colony-and-male-fossil-unveil-evolutionary-secrets-in-99-million-year-old-amber/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2025/02/25/ancient-ant-colony-and-male-fossil-unveil-evolutionary-secrets-in-99-million-year-old-amber/</a>

Palaeontologia ElectronicaThis new study turns over a new leaf in the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossil</a> record of the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> of Northern Asia! Explore the morphological diversity and distribution of the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Menispermites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Menispermites</a>, a genus of fossil leaves comprised of many short-lived species with limited ranges.Image: Figure 5 from the paper. Several species of the genus Menispermites from Northern AsiaAuthors: Anastasia A Zolina, Lina B Golovneva, and Alexander A GrabovskiyFull <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> Paper: <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879/1441" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879/1441</a>

Martin SlavíkLast week, I took my son to explore some old quarries in the area. In one of them, we came across these Cretaceous oysters Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum.Not being a paleontologist, I had to identify them later through online research (hopefully correctly!). And to my surprise, I found a 2024 paper describing this very site. But the biggest surprise? The author is my friend and former classmate!Rantuch (2024): <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105747" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105747</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a>

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐Kallokibotion bajazidi fue una tortuga del Cretácico superior (86-66 MdA) que debe su nombre a Bajazid Elmaz Doda, pues el arqueólogo Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás apreció que su caparazón se parecía al trasero de su amante. 🏛️Museo de Historia Natural de Deva📷Gyik Toma <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fosiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fosiles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretacico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretacico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a>

michael19-Feb-2025 New Australian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> and the oldest megaraptorid <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossils</a> in the world Australia’s first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/carcharodontosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#carcharodontosaur</a> fossils unearthed along Victoria’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> coast<a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1074172" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1074172</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontology</a>

Paleoart.coWhy did the dinosaurs extinct, but birds and mammals survived? 🤔🦖 Hans Sues explains. This video explains the leading theory: the Chicxulub asteroid impact! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DinosaurExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DinosaurExtinction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AsteroidImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsteroidImpact</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chicxulub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chicxulub</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prehistoric</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jurassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jurassic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFacts</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Cretaceous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossil</a> from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antarctica</a> reveals earliest modern bird <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0</a>"Few <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> are as likely to start as many arguments among <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleontologists</a> as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Vegavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vegavis</a>. This new fossil is going to help resolve a lot of those arguments. Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpecies</a> of Ornithomimidae <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> identified in Mexico <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-genus-species-ornithomimidae-dinosaur-family.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-genus-species-ornithomimidae-dinosaur-family.html</a>A long-handed new ornithomimid dinosaur from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Campanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Campanian</a> (Upper <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mexico</a>: Claudia Inés Serrano-Brañas et al. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000102" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000102</a> "it had long hands with a palm longer than its entire upper arm... their purpose was to allow the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dinosaur</a> to reach into shrubs, trees or bushes to pull branches, twigs into its mouth"

Aurous Azhdarchid“Frolicking Lingyuanopterus“ ✨<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Lingyuanopterus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lingyuanopterus</a> camposi was a Chinese <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/istiodactylid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#istiodactylid</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/pterosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pterosaur</a> from the early <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>!The holotype has an almost complete skull and the atlas-axis complex (1st and 2nd neck vertebrae)!<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleocartoonist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleocartoonist</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleoart</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pterosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Istiodactylus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Istiodactylus</a>

Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐El Europejara olcadesorum fue un pequeño pterosaurio del Cretácico temprano descubierto en Cuenca, España, que podría haberse alimentado de fruta como los tucanes. 🗿Anancus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretacico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretacico</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pterosaurios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pterosaurios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pterosaurs</a>

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