Robert Gay

Color illustration by Hardeep Ajula, showing a skull-faced sorcerer cradling the chin of a frightened young man, forcing him to stare in the same direction he is.

Black & White illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing Orhan Timur, deposed Mongol ruler, riding horseback while turning to fire a bow, looming skull in the background.

Black & White illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing a woman standing at the ready, staring to the right, sword in its scabbard but ready to be drawn, as a small crowd of villagers watch her from the distance, and a tall column in the background has what looks like the body of a giant snake coiling up along it.

Color illustration by Hardeep Ajula showing a mounted warrior woman swinging her scimitar back at a pursuing crowd of animated skeleton warriors, striking one asunder.

🖌️WELCOME BACK HARDEEP AJULA!🎨
Hardeep will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Not fussed about Spinosaurs, but I do like PCAs. I do not like this PCA

Surprising how little of that skeleton is actually there.

Post from twitter on our @clarkesworld account from 11:48AM on Feb 20, 2023. "Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why."

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

Decorative Image Array of the Bracket Guide, the Combatant Logo and the 2026 Bracket. Screen-reader materials available at the LibGuide.

BRACKET DROP DAY!!!!
Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator!
#2026MMM

Yucky! Apparently there is a 2,600 ACRE data center that is proposed near Dinosaur Valley in Glen Rose, TX. I grew up loving that area, and I have numerous fond memories of it.

Please help me tell the powers that be we do NOT want this data center.

www.sierraclub.org/texas/greate...

I think the most wtf moment of #WAVP was the talk suggesting that Troodon was an obligate herbivore based on eggshell nitrogen and nothing else. The same talk implied that Maiasaura was specializing in eating rotten conifer logs when gravid. Definitely puzzling but now I want that Maiasaura paleoart

Another great #WAVP in the books! Thanks to the Alf Museum and the Webb Schools for hosting, and we'll see everyone at @imnh208.bsky.social for #WAVP2027

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.

AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.

But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.

Galahad's croc!

Cropped art by Jimmy Makepeace of the Mongol nomad Goatskin standing at combat ready, a friend at her back, as the disembodied head of a statue spews violet light from its eyes. Overlaid are captions. Along the top reads "Just Launched on Backerkit. New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 is live" Along the bottom reads "Share this post to unlock bonus stories".

⚔️THE CROWDFUND FOR NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY 2026 IS LIVE⚔️

Three issues - our Timeworn Terra special - a New Jirel of Joiry story...

The more re-posts this gets, the more bonus content we'll add to this year's issues!

Go here to learn more and back the magazine👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

A great, inclusive publication with fun and occasionally thought-provoking short stories. I'm looking forward to this next batch!

On this day that supports inclusive futures for women and girls in science, let's not forget all the women that were sidelined, ignored, or forced out of science because they:
- had children
- prioritised family/caring
- did science differently
- questioned boundaries & norms
- fought the patriarchy

For #FossilFriday , preserved fur and osteoderms (base for underlying armor) of Darwin's ground sloth, Mylodon darwinii

The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation - npj Biodiversity npj Biodiversity - The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation

Excited to present the flounder effect - how our biases in sampling and worker effort impact our view of organisms.

A long term collaboration with @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social, @bigfacecats.bsky.social, Jon Hendricks, and Curtis Congreve!

#FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

@garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @tuttran.bsky.social and myself are here at the @nhmu.bsky.social DinoFest! Come by today and tomorrow to learn about the #Idaho fossils from @imnh208.bsky.social that come from our ancient fliers!

Graphic illustrating the reconstruction process for Scyllacerta creanae (SAM-PK-K7710). The holotype aggregation specimen (left) comprises four skulls and at least six nearly complete skeletons preserved in lifelike positions. Using synchrotron micro-CT scans of the skulls, the bones could be segmented, digitally isolating them from the matrix and allowing their full morphology to be studied in detail (top center). Combining information from all four skulls, a reconstructed version could be assembled, depicting the likely life appearance (center, with each bone in a distinct color). This reconstruction can be used to make line drawings for science communication and skeletal reconstructions (bottom center). These reconstructions were the basis for a detailed life restoration of the head of Scyllacerta (bottom right, by @LiterallyMiguel). Despite its incredibly small size (top right, compared to a human hand), the known individuals were likely nearing full maturity.

Very excited to share Scyllacerta creanae, a new Permian stem-reptile from South Africa known from an aggregation of several individuals. This specimen provides unprecedented detail regarding the anatomy of the early reptile skull. 🦎

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Congrats to John Foster, Kelli Trujillo, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, and Spencer Lucas for seeing this latest Morrison volume across the finish line!!! There are so many new great things in this volume.
Papers galore; pdfs available through authors. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org

Bringing back this banger because ppl need some hope-core

#paleoart

Excited for this. Just received last year's volumes this week and have been diving in. Already looking forward to the next installments.

Happy #FossilFriday. Did you know Diplodocus skin glows orange under UV light? 🦕🟠

Braincase: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

Metatarsal: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

Incidentally, the braincase and metatarsal are accessioned here at the @imnh208.bsky.social and are available to view on Morphosource.

So we have the starting pieces of an interesting puzzle, and hopefully in the next several years we'll be able to say more about the diversity of animals roaming the Morrison countryside. A huge thanks to LJ for bringing me into this project and all my coauthors for their hard work on this!

All three specimens are from the same site (the Simon Quarry in Wyoming) and the Swiss specimen has most an associated skeleton with it! It is in the process of being moved to a new institution, so once that is finished and the skull CT'ed we should be able to say much more about the animal.

We also talk a little about a skull in Switzerland; it has several differences compared to Camptosaurus. Unfortunately, it has been partially restored and has not yet been CT scanned so the conclusions we could draw are limited.

The reason why is still unclear, but it may be a character that could be informative taxonomically! It may also be that other such PVPs have simply been prepared off, suffered taphonomic damage, or been otherwise unrecognized. An interesting avenue for future work, regardless.

We initially assumed that this prong was unique, but a little more work found similar (but not identical) posterioventral prongs on skulls assigned to Camptosaurus at the Tate Museum, BYU, and a skull formerly housed at Thanksgiving Point. It doesn't appear on most Camptosaurus skulls though.