While the paper hasn't come out just yet, the news certainly has. Proud to announce our discovery of color patterning in a sauropod dinosaur. Will go in depth tomorrow.

"These guys are not iridescent! But maybe some other one was ... I don't think anyone's gonna listen to me, I think they're all just gonna go crazy" - Tess Gallagher Yes, this is correct, behold her shine.

This just in! Tess Gallagher🦕(@tessasaurus.bsky.social) and co. have found the presence of melanosomes in the fossilized skin of Diplodocus! They can't tell precise colors, but they found these things probably had much more complex and brighter colors/patterns than anyone would've guessed.

More Fossil Fighters Friday commissions!

Spine time baby! New Fossil Fighters stickers are available! 🦖🦴

Dimetrodon #9

More Fossil Fighter stickers and other friends available in my shop as well!

Drew her again

Spica-chan (Cretaceous grasshopper girl) .....

Deinonychus

Just taking a moment to think of all the non-theropods I can think of with full or extensive preserved skin, people don’t get weird enough. Even relatively “plain” ones like the juvie diplodocid or large hadrosaurs have lots of variations in scale size and shape.

Haolong dongi

stop underestimating Leaellynasaura(?)'s tail. If you think you've drawn it long enough, double it.

dangerous beast.