The myth, the legend, the carnivorous aetosaur lives! 🍖

#FossilFriday is for Coahomasuchus kahleorum

🚨New pub!🚨 Check out our new paper on the cranial ontogeny of a Brazilian traversodontid cynodont: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Life reconstruction by Márcio L. Castro

#fossilfriday me hanging out with the many skulls of Desmatosuchus at Texas tech.

Gloria 🤩!! #FossilFriday

Paes Neto, V.D., Pretto, F.A., Martinelli, A.G. et al. Continuous presence of dinosauromorphs in South America throughout the Middle to the Late Triassic. Sci Rep15, 18498 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

First look at adult Bobby in the ‘KING OF THE HILL’ revival series.

Thrilled to share our new research paper introducing a new massopodan sauropodomorph from the Late Triassic of Switzerland published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, coauthored by Dr. Ben Pabst and Prof. Dr. Torsten M. Scheyer. (1/7) 🔗 sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Our 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 fossil got some TLC! The armored aetosaur roamed Texas during the Triassic, 227 & 237 million years ago. This fossil, found in Howard County, got a gentle dusting as part of a regular cleaning of specimens in the Paleontology Gallery. #FossilFriday

The first allokotosaurian from South America and the Gondwanan radiation of non-archosauriform archosauromorphs [UNNAMED] Art by Caetano Soares academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

Aetosauriforms did it first.. in the Triassic 😎 but still gnarly

Ever heard of an aardwolf? Most people haven’t! These elusive relatives of hyenas feed almost entirely on termites and are almost never seen in U.S. zoos. Nashville Zoo is now home to TWO pups, and you can meet them starting Sept. 5! Learn more➡️ nashvillezoo.org/our-blog/posts…

Discovered the reason for why the pubis is excluded from the acetabulum in crocs - it’s to punt

A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation new taxon Anteavis crurilongus nature.com/articles/s4155… Art: Jorge Blanco

New Triassic discovery! Researchers describe Fabanychus monos, new drepanosauromorph from Upper Chinle Formation (~214 Ma), AZ. Study of claw (ungual) anatomy via CT + histology reveals distinct morphotypes tied to ecology & taxonomy. Megan Sodano et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

The time has come.. I will open that Rstudio program on my computer for the first time since 2020