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People are really starting to forget that Emily Willoughby is a Nazi. Her artistic talent is irrelevant to the fact that she's a eugenicist piece of shit. For reference, her PhD was just "white people are genetically predisposed to having a higher intelligence than people of color". She has never taken accountability and has continued to double down with the classic "sorry but that's just the truth". There are professional paleontologists on Facebook praising her. Why is she still allowed in these circles or anywhere in science? Why are her opinions still valued?

Her continued presence in these spaces puts people's complacency on full display. She throws people of color and Jews under the bus and the fact that she hasn't been fully shut out tells me a lot about our field.

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Love that pterosaurs are finally starting to get some of the love they deserve, just want to point out that, with the exception of anurognathids and some of the very earliest groups, they should have heads as long or longer than their bodies

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pachy by way of carpenter bee

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SPREAD THE WORD!

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Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece!

I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love.

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Oh to have a dinosaur that behaves like a big, friendly Golden Retriever.

Do you think I wouldn't forfeit all of my worldly possessions to Lucky? You'd be wrong. The Rancher literally upped moved to find a bigger home for their prehistoric child and that is a VALID life choice.

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Where could one buy the English version of the Europasaurus book? I am very interested in reading about this dwarf sauropod.

totally not asking for another wish

I'm glad you ask!

The Europasaurus graphic novel is bilingual, available in German/English. So no matter what copy you get you should be able to read it ;)

When conceptualizing this book we were aware that it would be a very niche subject, but we still wanted to reach a international audience. Since we didn't know if we would be able to print two editions we decided to go for this approach from the very start.

It can also help people to learn a new language, my biggest problem with learning English was that I lacked the motivation and didn't have any interesting literature at hand to motivate me.

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Prehistoric asshole cat  (X)

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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jackdaw microraptor. a microdaw, if you will

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behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

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Some hungry Abrictosaurus consors checking out a dried out river bed in Early Jurassic South Africa

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A full animation using toon shaders! I'm really liking this style!

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heron puppet wip 3

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