That feeling when you see a paddlefish for the first time. These prehistoric river dwellers open their mouths wide to filter feed on tiny organisms. Their long paddles are thought to help them locate their food.

Demonic 🐸 sends his regards #PrehistoricPlanet

Victorian dinosaur designs are so slept on as fantasy critter designs

A pair of Kelenken

Acanthodians (early shark relatives) are usually quite small, and often depicted as a snack for bigger things in palaeoart 😢 Some got pretty big though: here's the mighty jaw of the enormous Lower Devonian acanthodian, Xylacanthus, as a #FossilFriday from Oslo.

Me on Tatooine about to find 45 buried lightsabers.

This is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a Star Wars property

The public version of the paleontological inventory report for Theodore Roosevelt National Park that I had been working on for 2 summers is now available! ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/36…

✨️Great talk by Cass Morrison on the urgent need for decolonisation and equity in Palaeontology! A truly fantastic talk, please consider following and joining Palaeontologists against Systemic Racism ✨️

A minute of peaceful & affectionate crows. #crows #corvid

Close-Minded Man Not Even Willing To Hear Out Argument On Why Homosexuality An Abomination bit.ly/3Hp88o2

#PrehistoricPlanet may be done, but I sure can't stop doodling them!

Last one for the day

The adventure begins! On our way to Valencia for 16th ISELV! We’ve got some nifty science stuff to show, and are looking forward to seeing folks 😃 (I’ve heard excellent things about the paella…😋) See y’all in Spain!

Jumping on That Damn Phone to celebrate Vishruth Venkat’s first conference repping the #coateslab, presenting his research on lateral line development at 16th ISELV!

Continuing the #coateslab highlights, today Abigail Caron presented her first in-person paleo talk on the precious Pennsylvanian pisce with phylogenetic portents Trawdenia at 16th ISELV! Some really marvelous CT scans and detailed anatomy expertly discussed!

The time has come! My dissertation defense presentation is Wednesday at 10:45am Chicago time, and you're invited! Click here 👇 to register for the Zoom link. See you in the Paleozoic1 uchicagomedicine.zoom.us/meeting/regist…