Thomas Scaife

Yes, good!!
(now, gotta not screw this up when coloring)
#art #paleoart #comic

Reconstruction of the bizarre branching crinoid Iocrinus. Done as part of an internship reconstructing Ordovician invertebrates with Paul Mayer, curator of fossil invertebrates at the Field Museum of Natural History
#sciart #paleoart

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

Result from the Wadi al Hitan #paleostream!
The "valley of the whales" as it is better known is a classic locality from the late Eocene of Egypt. Most famously it is place filled with the remains of early whales, Archaeoceti, but it's less straight forward as a piece than one...

“Voting against the troops”

Looking forward to them! Especially the wakatelu. He’s been lurking around for ages

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Episodes for the next 3 months all done! Got the April Fools left to record, but then it’s all about writing this Dragonrider novella!

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

the future is for trans people

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

A shallow creek running through a pine forest with several colourful foliage

A Creek in the Woods

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Some alien species drawings based on Pokémon

Some alien species drawings based on Pokémon

Would like to find time to revisit these Pokémon aliens I drew...

#Pokemon

Last week, amidst the hoopla over a new Speen, @fishfetisher.bsky.social suggested a review of naming papers in fancy journals in response to a post by @daveyfwright.bsky.social - I got bored after work and now I have (some) data!

🧵👇

#FossilFriday
#CharismaticTaxaAreOverrated

Coelophysis jumping (for joy?)!

Arquebusier with squire

Two young parents hold up a baby to look at a giant sloth fossil skeleton

How to fall in love with the world, step 1: come to the museum.

"No species in Prehistoric Planet last forever"
#prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts
#ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

Socks with toasters and other kitchen appliances on them, one says “Thorugh the Magic” the other says “Buying Two of Them”

The @techconnectify.bsky.social socks do not disappoint

WHY THE FUCK would you even go to university if you intend use this?
Part of this is because education is so geared toward getting a good grade and not the process of learning but MY GOD how stupid can you be to think this is a good idea?!

A phylogenetic framework of the lower vertebrates.

"We describe the only known example of a three-dimensionally mineralized heart, thick-walled stomach, and bilobed liver from arthrodire placoderms, stem gnathostomes from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in Western Australia"
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

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A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

a painful but necessary part of thet skeletal-making process is to realize that everyone has been drawing a certain prehistoric creature really wrong

Trump post: "Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" - President Donald J. Trump

Literal desperation.

Some creatures I've been working on for my fantasy setting
On one hand, there are chimeras, artificial hybrids created through magic for different purposes, from guarding to military use, and on the other hand, there is a basilisk and a salamander.

#worldbuilding #fantasy

I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS.

WE EAT THEM.