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Biomechanical analysis of the legs of modern birds that hop to start flight, when applied to *Archaeopteryx* fossils, indicate that the proto-bird would have been able to launch itself using multiple hops. This supports a hypothesis that flight may have originated ground-up, possibly as a mechanism for predator avoidance.

Summary: https://www.iflscience.com/early-birds-might-have-used-their-thicc-thighs-to-hop-away-from-predators-before-taking-flight-84374

Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160626001648

#Science #Birds #Flight #Dinosaurs #Archaeology #Biomechanics #Archaeopteryx

Biomechanical analysis of the legs of modern birds that hop to start flight, when applied to *Archaeopteryx* fossils, indicate that the proto-bird would have been able to launch itself using multiple hops. This supports a hypothesis that flight may have originated ground-up, possibly as a mechanism for predator avoidance.

Summary: https://www.iflscience.com/early-birds-might-have-used-their-thicc-thighs-to-hop-away-from-predators-before-taking-flight-84374

Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160626001648

#Science #Birds #Flight #Dinosaurs #Archaeology #Biomechanics #Archaeopteryx

Not all feared the intimidating T-Rex. . .in fact, there is one dinosaur who welcomed the challenge head-on.

🔗 Learn more about the bold confidence this species possessed: http://dlvr.it/TV1NXS

#news #dinosaurs #nature #science

Not all feared the intimidating T-Rex. . .in fact, there is one dinosaur who welcomed the challenge head-on.

🔗 Learn more about the bold confidence this species possessed: http://dlvr.it/TV1NXS

#news #dinosaurs #nature #science

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦖🪨 Anderson Taylor, 11, opened the Cambridge #NaturalHistory Museum in #Cambridge, Illinois, at age 9 and now holds the #GuinnessWorldRecord as the youngest male #museum curator.

His collection began when he found a #fossil in his driveway around age 3 and grew through local finds and a trip to #Scotland. The #museum holds roughly 1,000 items, including #Illinois state fossil the Tully #monster, and draws hundreds of visitors to the town of about 2,000.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-11-year-old-boy-in-an-illinois-small-town-just-became-the-guinness-world-record-holder-for-being-the-youngest-museum-curator-180989313/

#paleontology #nature #history #dinosaurs #science

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦖🪨 Anderson Taylor, 11, opened the Cambridge #NaturalHistory Museum in #Cambridge, Illinois, at age 9 and now holds the #GuinnessWorldRecord as the youngest male #museum curator.

His collection began when he found a #fossil in his driveway around age 3 and grew through local finds and a trip to #Scotland. The #museum holds roughly 1,000 items, including #Illinois state fossil the Tully #monster, and draws hundreds of visitors to the town of about 2,000.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-11-year-old-boy-in-an-illinois-small-town-just-became-the-guinness-world-record-holder-for-being-the-youngest-museum-curator-180989313/

#paleontology #nature #history #dinosaurs #science

Ancient flowering #plants may have used #dinosaurs to spread their #seeds
#Fossils upend a long-held theory about #angiosperm #evolution
Over 74 million years ago, there was a richer garden of fruit- and seed-bearing plants than scientists thought. A #fossil analysis suggests that tall forest trees spread winged seeds and fed animals with fleshy, blueberry-sized fruits long before the reign of the dinosaurs ended.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowering-plants-dinosaurs-spread-seeds
https://archive.ph/JGoPH

Ancient flowering #plants may have used #dinosaurs to spread their #seeds
#Fossils upend a long-held theory about #angiosperm #evolution
Over 74 million years ago, there was a richer garden of fruit- and seed-bearing plants than scientists thought. A #fossil analysis suggests that tall forest trees spread winged seeds and fed animals with fleshy, blueberry-sized fruits long before the reign of the dinosaurs ended.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowering-plants-dinosaurs-spread-seeds
https://archive.ph/JGoPH

🦖RAWR! What's your favourite dinosaur?

Silly self-portrait with a vintage statue of a T-Rex lurking in an abandoned theme park in Germany. Rexy has a rather retro upright pose! Scientists ditched this posture in the late 80s/early 90s. Guess this guy didn't get the memo. 😂

#Dinosaurs #Photography #Paleontology #Germany #FunFact #Science #Palaetontology #SelfPortait #Explore

🦖RAWR! What's your favourite dinosaur?

Silly self-portrait with a vintage statue of a T-Rex lurking in an abandoned theme park in Germany. Rexy has a rather retro upright pose! Scientists ditched this posture in the late 80s/early 90s. Guess this guy didn't get the memo. 😂

#Dinosaurs #Photography #Paleontology #Germany #FunFact #Science #Palaetontology #SelfPortait #Explore

Everybody is posting their #solareclipse fotos. And so am I.

This picture was taken by pointing a mobile phone right in the direction of the sun during the eclipse. So it is technically a picture of the eclipse.

But actually it looks more like the last thing the #dinosaurs saw in the moment before their extinction. And like the dinosaurs I have no clue what was happening at that moment.

Everybody is posting their #solareclipse fotos. And so am I.

This picture was taken by pointing a mobile phone right in the direction of the sun during the eclipse. So it is technically a picture of the eclipse.

But actually it looks more like the last thing the #dinosaurs saw in the moment before their extinction. And like the dinosaurs I have no clue what was happening at that moment.

NEW-ish ARTWORK
Ichthyosaurs (unnamed specimen), one adult and two juveniles, painted in 2025 for Lynn Museum: https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/
Also pictured are Caturus, Ptycholepis, and Saurichthys fishes; crinoids, Apoderoceras ammonites, and Belemnoteuthis belemnites.

#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me

NEW-ish ARTWORK
Ichthyosaurs (unnamed specimen), one adult and two juveniles, painted in 2025 for Lynn Museum: https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/
Also pictured are Caturus, Ptycholepis, and Saurichthys fishes; crinoids, Apoderoceras ammonites, and Belemnoteuthis belemnites.

#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me

#Dinosaurs #GirlPower #LetThemPlay

#Dinosaurs #GirlPower #LetThemPlay

More exciting palaeo events!

Friday, August 14, 6:30 - 9:15 pm: The End of Oak Street Premiere @ Napier Theatre, Drumheller, AB (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology)

Saturday, August 15, 1 - 4:30 pm: Tyndall Stone Tour @ Calgary, AB (Alberta Palaeontological Society)

Monday, August 17, 2026, 6 - 9 pm: Tyrant Lizard Kings and Queens, Eh? A Tale of Canadian T. rexes @ TELUS Spark Science Centre, Calgary, AB

https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #events

More exciting palaeo events!

Friday, August 14, 6:30 - 9:15 pm: The End of Oak Street Premiere @ Napier Theatre, Drumheller, AB (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology)

Saturday, August 15, 1 - 4:30 pm: Tyndall Stone Tour @ Calgary, AB (Alberta Palaeontological Society)

Monday, August 17, 2026, 6 - 9 pm: Tyrant Lizard Kings and Queens, Eh? A Tale of Canadian T. rexes @ TELUS Spark Science Centre, Calgary, AB

https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #events

Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost (2nd Edition)

Chapter 17 EP 5: Late #Jurassic Era, Swiss Lowlands

Back to the age of #dinosaurs.

PIXIV Link:
AO3 Link:

Art by: Mai-sensei

Tags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial

Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost (2nd Edition)

Chapter 17 EP 5: Late #Jurassic Era, Swiss Lowlands

Back to the age of #dinosaurs.

PIXIV Link:
AO3 Link:

Art by: Mai-sensei

Tags: #TimeTravel #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #HistoricalFantasy #LightNovel #Romance #Queer #Sappfic #Serial

"I don't control the Raptors. It's a relationship. It's based on mutual respect"

All shot using real lighting, figures and miniature sets

#jurassicworld #velociraptors #visualart #photography #miniatures #jurassicpark #dinosaurs #toyphotography #creativephotography #photos #miniaturephotography #actionfigurephotography #photographicart

"I don't control the Raptors. It's a relationship. It's based on mutual respect"

All shot using real lighting, figures and miniature sets

#jurassicworld #velociraptors #visualart #photography #miniatures #jurassicpark #dinosaurs #toyphotography #creativephotography #photos #miniaturephotography #actionfigurephotography #photographicart

A study of reproduction in mammals, birds, reptiles, and dinosaurs confirmed that egg/neonate size varies with relative brain size in birds and mammals. Theropod and non-theropod dinosaurs had relatively small brains, but the former had higher metabolic rates and reproductive characteristics more similar to birds. Egg size seems to increase with relative brain size along the bird lineage.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-solve-a-long-standing-mystery-about-bird-and-dinosaur-eggs/

Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/6/251708/482234/Evolutionary-drivers-of-reproductive-output

#Science #Birds #Dinosaurs #Reproduction

A study of reproduction in mammals, birds, reptiles, and dinosaurs confirmed that egg/neonate size varies with relative brain size in birds and mammals. Theropod and non-theropod dinosaurs had relatively small brains, but the former had higher metabolic rates and reproductive characteristics more similar to birds. Egg size seems to increase with relative brain size along the bird lineage.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-solve-a-long-standing-mystery-about-bird-and-dinosaur-eggs/

Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/6/251708/482234/Evolutionary-drivers-of-reproductive-output

#Science #Birds #Dinosaurs #Reproduction

@TheDinosaurDave kind of entertaining that a large hand claw was the first element found for both Suchomimus and Baryonyx.

#SpinosaurSaturday
#dinosaurs
#coincidence

@TheDinosaurDave kind of entertaining that a large hand claw was the first element found for both Suchomimus and Baryonyx.

#SpinosaurSaturday
#dinosaurs
#coincidence

Break out your old dinosaur toys. Fossilized Violence gives them a new life on your game table!
#rpgPdfSpotlight #rpgs #rTalsorianGames #fossilizedViolence #prehistoric #dinosaurs #cavemen
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/rpg-pdf-spotlight-fossilized-violence?utm_source=mastodon

Break out your old dinosaur toys. Fossilized Violence gives them a new life on your game table!
#rpgPdfSpotlight #rpgs #rTalsorianGames #fossilizedViolence #prehistoric #dinosaurs #cavemen
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/rpg-pdf-spotlight/rpg-pdf-spotlight-fossilized-violence?utm_source=mastodon

Apparently I was already subscribed to Allen Pan's channel and YouTube just chose not to show it to me. As a former chicken owner, this video is gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsPNZlRA_Y #chickens #dinosaurs #jurassicpark

Apparently I was already subscribed to Allen Pan's channel and YouTube just chose not to show it to me. As a former chicken owner, this video is gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsPNZlRA_Y #chickens #dinosaurs #jurassicpark

A question that has eluded scientists for ages finally has an answer. Why were there no tiny dinosaurs?

🔗 Learn why here: http://dlvr.it/TTvwVh

#news #dinosaurs #science #discovery

A question that has eluded scientists for ages finally has an answer. Why were there no tiny dinosaurs?

🔗 Learn why here: http://dlvr.it/TTvwVh

#news #dinosaurs #science #discovery

For Fossil Friday, here are all four artworks I've created for The Etches Collection: "The Sea Rex", "Deep Blue Buffet", "The Twisted Feast", and "Consuming the Fallen".

#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurus #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Alt4Me

For Fossil Friday, here are all four artworks I've created for The Etches Collection: "The Sea Rex", "Deep Blue Buffet", "The Twisted Feast", and "Consuming the Fallen".

#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurus #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Alt4Me

Stegosaurus Ice cream

A #TimeTravelingGhost Side Story
#Wss366 Chief #TimeTravelAuthors 08/7. If your work was an ice cream flavor, what would it be?**

Ahead of us, the Jurassic jungle thinned, and the land sloped up. The trees were more widely spaced, but they still obscured my view of the cliffs we were heading towards.

I was grateful to be walking on fallen leaves rather than slogging through the mud. The ferns were still thick in patches, but I threaded my way through them with minimal effort. However, the #chief hazard remained: the native behemoths.

The stagnant air of the swamp was replaced by a gentle breeze blowing through the trees, and my thoughts strayed.

“Ice cream would have been a delightful addition. Hmm, what flavor would my recent adventures be?” I wondered, my fancies taking full flight.

“Something tropical: Mango or peach. Yes, mango would be pleasant. I’d enjoy that. Champagne cocktail flavor would be more appropriate, but do they even make that flavor? Okay, no cheating. How about horehound? That had a nice, old-fashioned sound. I guess that would be cheating too. Sarsaparilla then. That was an old-timey name for root beer, or at least I think.”

I should have paid more attention, as I received a nasty shock when a stegosaurus burst from behind a grove of trees where it had been hidden.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a carnivore. The only damage I sustained was a near-heart attack as the immense beast lumbered past. It was almost comical, with its plates rattling and its tail striking trees as it thudded past. There was a chipped plate midway down its back. It was only funny because I was far enough away that the tail posed no threat.

A minute later, Emily landed and apologised for not spotting it.

She looked nonplussed when I asked her, “Do you think a stegosaurus would like sarsaparilla ice cream?”

#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Dinosaurs #Humor

Stegosaurus Ice cream

A #TimeTravelingGhost Side Story
#Wss366 Chief #TimeTravelAuthors 08/7. If your work was an ice cream flavor, what would it be?**

Ahead of us, the Jurassic jungle thinned, and the land sloped up. The trees were more widely spaced, but they still obscured my view of the cliffs we were heading towards.

I was grateful to be walking on fallen leaves rather than slogging through the mud. The ferns were still thick in patches, but I threaded my way through them with minimal effort. However, the #chief hazard remained: the native behemoths.

The stagnant air of the swamp was replaced by a gentle breeze blowing through the trees, and my thoughts strayed.

“Ice cream would have been a delightful addition. Hmm, what flavor would my recent adventures be?” I wondered, my fancies taking full flight.

“Something tropical: Mango or peach. Yes, mango would be pleasant. I’d enjoy that. Champagne cocktail flavor would be more appropriate, but do they even make that flavor? Okay, no cheating. How about horehound? That had a nice, old-fashioned sound. I guess that would be cheating too. Sarsaparilla then. That was an old-timey name for root beer, or at least I think.”

I should have paid more attention, as I received a nasty shock when a stegosaurus burst from behind a grove of trees where it had been hidden.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a carnivore. The only damage I sustained was a near-heart attack as the immense beast lumbered past. It was almost comical, with its plates rattling and its tail striking trees as it thudded past. There was a chipped plate midway down its back. It was only funny because I was far enough away that the tail posed no threat.

A minute later, Emily landed and apologised for not spotting it.

She looked nonplussed when I asked her, “Do you think a stegosaurus would like sarsaparilla ice cream?”

#TootFic #NMFic #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #Slowburn #Dinosaurs #Humor

You don't have to be a paleontologist to encounter fossils, and there's five spots in the U.S. with a high probability of seeing those of dinosaurs.

🔗 Find out where they are here: http://dlvr.it/TTv58L

#dinosaurs #news #fossils #science #discovery

You don't have to be a paleontologist to encounter fossils, and there's five spots in the U.S. with a high probability of seeing those of dinosaurs.

🔗 Find out where they are here: http://dlvr.it/TTv58L

#dinosaurs #news #fossils #science #discovery

“Absolutely. Apex predators are all the same. They just require a firm hand.”

Boris lunged for the bologna, seizing it – and much more.

I leapt back in horror. If he needed a firm hand, he got it – taking Callahan’s right arm and head as well. The T-rex tilted his head back like an enormous baby bird and swallowed."

Robert Walton's #funny #scifi story "Boris the Tyrannosaurus" is in issue 20 of OUAC

#humor #humour #fiction #fantasy #timetravel #dinosaurs #dinosaur

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/boris-the-tyrannosaurus/

“Absolutely. Apex predators are all the same. They just require a firm hand.”

Boris lunged for the bologna, seizing it – and much more.

I leapt back in horror. If he needed a firm hand, he got it – taking Callahan’s right arm and head as well. The T-rex tilted his head back like an enormous baby bird and swallowed."

Robert Walton's #funny #scifi story "Boris the Tyrannosaurus" is in issue 20 of OUAC

#humor #humour #fiction #fantasy #timetravel #dinosaurs #dinosaur

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/boris-the-tyrannosaurus/

A crop from THE EXECUTIONER'S MEAL, one of 49 artworks I painted for THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist. It features a Nothosaurus giganteus taking off the head of a Tanystropheus hydroides - yes, there is fossil evidence for this behaviour!

#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #MarineReptiles #Nothosaurus #Tanystropheus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

A crop from THE EXECUTIONER'S MEAL, one of 49 artworks I painted for THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist. It features a Nothosaurus giganteus taking off the head of a Tanystropheus hydroides - yes, there is fossil evidence for this behaviour!

#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #MarineReptiles #Nothosaurus #Tanystropheus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

73 million years ago, a 'bird-like' dinosaur lived, never to be discovered again...until recently, when paleontologists in New Mexico identified its fossil.

🔗 Read more: http://dlvr.it/TTsKqd

#news #dinosaurs #discovery #science

73 million years ago, a 'bird-like' dinosaur lived, never to be discovered again...until recently, when paleontologists in New Mexico identified its fossil.

🔗 Read more: http://dlvr.it/TTsKqd

#news #dinosaurs #discovery #science

This one keeps resurfacing on correct punctuation use changing the meaning of words without the commas. I love it #punctuation #grammar #dinosaurs

This one keeps resurfacing on correct punctuation use changing the meaning of words without the commas. I love it #punctuation #grammar #dinosaurs

Meet the 'living fossil' of #dinosaurs, making Toronto home, and proving that not every fossil is anciently preserved evidence.

🔗 Read: http://dlvr.it/TTrD3D

#news #discovery #science

Meet the 'living fossil' of #dinosaurs, making Toronto home, and proving that not every fossil is anciently preserved evidence.

🔗 Read: http://dlvr.it/TTrD3D

#news #discovery #science

Perspective

https://spacedaily.com/m-a-2021-estimate-suggested-that-about-2-5-billion-tyrannosaurus-rex-lived-while-only-32-relatively-well-preserved-post-juvenile-specimens-were-then-held-in-public-museums-roughly-one-for-eve/

#dinosaurs

Perspective

https://spacedaily.com/m-a-2021-estimate-suggested-that-about-2-5-billion-tyrannosaurus-rex-lived-while-only-32-relatively-well-preserved-post-juvenile-specimens-were-then-held-in-public-museums-roughly-one-for-eve/

#dinosaurs

🍗
#Chickens are #Dinosaurs
#Chicken is #Dinosaur
#ChickenLeg #ChickenLegs #DinosaurLeg #DinosaurLegs #Food.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor