#albertonykus

[cypressure]

men will see a termite and eat it

Albertonykus borealis

[fishsfailureson]

A watercolour drawing of Albertonykus

[hasellia]

It's actually a close relative of potoos and frog mouths.

As well as hummingbirds.

Great eared nightjar

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Result from the Pleistocene Cuba #paleostream! SO many cool creatures from here, and we JUST missed them, mostly because well, ourselves

Here the labeled version. This one was rather easy to research because i already ad done most of the research for a island size chart years ago.

This one. The only overhaul that was really needed was Antigone cubensis, the flightless crane, for which it is really hard to come by the original description.

Thankfully @albertonykus was able to provide and another friend quickly made this graphic showing some of the proportional differences between it ant its modern relatives.

[new-dinosaurs]

Happy New Year, everyone! It has been a very enjoyable four years running this blog, and I'm deeply grateful to all of you for reading and supporting it. In terms of recorded follower count, this has probably been the most popular long-term passion project I've ever done. However, New Dinosaur Alert will be taking an indefinite hiatus from here on out.

Having kept track of developments in dinosaur paleontology for over a decade, I had a pretty good sense of what I was getting into when I started this blog, which is probably why I was able to keep it going for as long as I did. To an extent though, I think it was inevitable that I'd have to bring this to a close at some point.

Long story short, 2025 is poised to be a turning point in my professional and academic journey, and I predict that it will soon become increasingly less sustainable for me to spend my diminishing free time on a project that requires me to post in a timely manner on an often unpredictable schedule.

Thanks again to everyone who read, followed, liked, reblogged, described new dinosaurs, and otherwise helped make this blog a success! For other websites that provide up-to-date coverage of new discoveries in dinosaur paleontology, I recommend the Wikipedia articles on paleontology by year, as well as the Dinosaur Mailing Group (the new incarnation of what was formerly called the Dinosaur Mailing List).

If you're interested in following what I'm up to, my main Tumblr blog is @albertonykus, which contains both fandom and science content. I also post about dinosaurs and occasionally other things on Bluesky and (for now) the site formerly known as Twitter. Take care, and I hope to see you around!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

basically I'm too bad at math (or too unwilling to try to figure it out exactly) but at small numbers I try to just represent the three major groups of dinosaurs (ornithischians, sauropodomorphs, theropods) as accurately as I can, which often means using a bird for theropods as there are thousands of bird species and not nearly as many nonavian theropods, until I can afford to have a nonavian theropod, and from there I just divide until all major forms of dinosaurs are represented at least once, and from there I represent proportionally to the number of dinosaur genera/species there are per group, which means as the number of dinosaur species to be represented goes up, the number of birds goes up, because there are SO many more birds than nonavian dinosaurs (unless we're just doing fossils, which, makes it proportional to time, roughly, so that's fine. Way less lopsided.) So if you ask for a ridiculously high number, it's just a bunch of birds and most nonavian dinosaurs we know. At 10,000, you're just asking for the Dinosauromorpha Masterlist created by myself and maintained by my friend and colleague @albertonykus who runs @new-dinosaurs as well, so I provide it here but be warned that it's by genus and most living dinosaurs have plenty of species per genus so the number of species of dinosaur is somewhere between 10k and 20k so that's why I draw a hard line around there:

[marble-pop]

this is so fking stupid,,.., the gay cockroach.

Dont ask me why this took me a week 2 complete, I was going thru some stuff

Putting all that aside, I've decided on what 2 make my doraemon au thingy abt, basically if dorami was sent 2 nobita instead of doraemon. This was basically inspired by albertonykus " Shizuka is the main character au ". And the fact that dorami is growing to be one of my favorite characters too

I might do a few tweaks in my version b4 I start yapping my mouth off abt this again

Anyways, since I got my motivation back, I'm gonna head back 2 finishing my other drawings

[killdeercheer]

Hey! If you don't know already, I co-host a natural history-themed YouTube series called Through Time and Clades with my good friend @albertonykus! We cover all sorts of topics from biology to anthropology, but in about a week we're going to be hosting an interview with our friend and paleontologist @zygodactylus (of the amazing blog you know and love @a-dinosaur-a-day). If you have any questions for Meig, feel free to leave a comment or DM me or Albert, and we'll be sure to get it! Many thanks and see you there!

[voidpunk-kenku]

Took a long second to draw out some characters of people that’ve inspired me, and then my comic characters in their worlds. Going to post it on my webcomic’s blog because i am talking about comics!

First one is Raptormaniacs by @albertonykus . I used to read these a bunch when i was little and a bullied autistic child, and I probably wouldnt have my sense of humour or interest in strange interesting things(including paleo-stuff!) without raptormaniacs. Also, i got to meet Mx. Tonykus at svp about a year ago and he said a nice sentence about me on the raptormaniacs blog! Really nice experience

Next is @lackadaisycats. If you are ever writing a early 20th century furry webcomic(i am!) you will hear about lackadaisy. People will tell you. And you will be delighted to read something with such nice art and well thought out characters! I learned about lackadaisy later in life then the other two comics, but i am so happy i know of it now!

The last is Ethan Kocak. Similar with raptormanaics, i read his The Black Mudpuppy when i was bullied and little. Also Chile and Yi, and Tetzoo Time. TBM was really important to me at the time, and still is today(same with raptormaniacs!) i am really happy it exists. I drew pre-reboot TBM as his wacky cartoon form is very appealing to me

[doraemonfanclub]

Birdwatching, creepily.

If someones know the name of the bird, please tell me. Thanks!

Update: Thanks @albertonykus for identifying the bird as a Java sparrow!

[thesumlax]

More paleo stuff, this time it`s the synapsid ears. Oh, those goddamned jaw-ears!

Again, I'm not an expert but this is my educated guess. The best eardrum recontstruction for a Thrinaxodon-like animal I`ve seen is this, but it still feels kinda wrong to me, so I present a rough schematic of how I envision it (left is view from the outside, right from the inside of the jaw). I believe the eardrum (yellow) should be located horizontally in the notch of the angular bone (red) so that the articular/malleus (blue) can touch it from below and the nascent tympanic cavity (green) can easily reach it as it branches off the throat. In this configuration, if you simply flatten the angular and turn the whole thing 90 degrees you can get basically the modern mammalian condition.

Finding good reference for non-cynodonts is nigh impossible but I still attempted an Aelurognathus, assuming the gorgonopsid condition also features something like an eardrum and an earhole (also showcasing the proto-tympanic cavity bulging out of the throat). I don't actually know at which point and how exactly all that stuff first appeared.

Hey @albertonykus is any of this plausible or am I talking nonsense?

[jhanettesticle]

hi @albertonykus, you made a post about ears a really long time ago.

unfortunately, google has decided that post cannot be accessed.

im currently scrolling theough you blog, in a mad search for ear information so i can add external ears to a very weird skull.

any help would be appreciated, but regardless i hope the rest of your day goes well.

New update to the paleocolor chart with the addition of Wulong.

More detailed description

[aripithecus]

Tree of Birds by Albertonykus

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

https://vxtwitter.com/albertonykus/status/1757175498378219573?s=20

Curious as to your thoughts on the legitimacy of this study? Cause it doesn't seem to line up with what we know of previous studies and the fossil record

I study how birds adapted to the PETM and I am extremely skeptical about their claim that this water bird clade they recovered emerged right after - one of the best bird fossil records from the Paleocene we have is stem-penguins. So clearly, they were around before then. And they don't even acknowledge that in the paper!

The phylogeny is interesting but as always I am a major skeptic about molecular clocks and this is no exception, given, again, the fossils that directly contradict the damn conclusion.

Other than that I haven't had time to go in depth enough, but those are my initial thoughts

Side note, when will a stable Neoavian phylogeny return from the war

The paper, for those curious:

[paleoart]

Had the pleasure of working on these absolute weirdos for PBS Eons's latest episode, the alvarezsaurids Bannykus and Albertonykus. Check out this week's video on the evolution of these dinosaurian anteaters! 

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