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wow apparently a lot of people also need the healing properties of the carboniferous swamp

ngl a swim through the Surviving Earth primordial swamp would actually heal me

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not to be controversial, but hadrosaurs should have the same level of fear and respect being put on their names as moose

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Tupandactylus imperator with Ginkgo huolinhensis. Both species from the Early Cretaceous. There is an interesting paper which discusses how pterosaur pycnofibres may be synonymous with bird feathers featuring T. imperator. Cool stuff!

Colours and patterns were inspired by toucans, various parakeets and monarch butterflies :)

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Doodles from yesterday's flocking paleostream featuring Hesperornis, Asiatyrannus, Manis palaeojavanica, and Khankhuuluu.

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just saw a post about how magpies in australia will swoop down and attack people and are general menaces

and honestly now i want to see a paleo doc that shows an archaeopteryx or a microraptor just harassing the fuck out of a big theropod dinosaur that wandered too close to its nest. like seriously, let the little guys be the menaces and dive bomb a confused and slightly terrified predator like the ancient magpies they are

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The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

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Frederic Wierum, fredward95 on instagram, Fred the Dinosaurman on youtube. May 18th 2023. Zookeeper with Allosaurus.

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Day 8#: Borealopelta markmitchelli

Today's animal of the day is Borealopelta markmitchelli!

Image Credit: Royal Tyrrell Museum

Borealopelta, whose name means "northern shield, was a nodosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period in what is now Alberta, Canada. It was about 18 ft long, weighed 1.4 tons, and was covered in rows of armored plating and spikes that helped protect them from predators.

Photo credit: Royal Tyrrell Museum

The holotype specimen of this dinosaur was discovered in an oil sands mine near Fort McMurray and was remarkably well-preserved. It seems like the corpse of this dinosaur had somehow been washed out to sea, where it floated for a few days before it sunk to the sea floor and was quickly buried by sediment. This effectively mummified the body and helped preserve it for millions of years.

Image credit: Robert Nicholls

This specimen was so well-preserved that paleontologists were able to see what this dinosaur's last meal was! Its stomach contents consisted mostly of ferns, as well as charcoal, meaning that there had possibly been a forest fire where it had lived shortly before its death. It is possible that this Borealopelta had been eating charcoal to counteract the toxins found in the ferns it had eaten, which is something that many modern animals do as well.

Image credit: cisiopurple on Deviantart

Not only could paleontologists tell what this dinosaur ate, but they could also tell what color it was! The fossilized skin impressions were so well-preserved that paleontologists were able to look at the shape of the fossilized melanosomes inside of the skin. Melanosomes are the pigments that give animals their color, and no matter which creature they appear on, the same color will have the same shape. So, even though there was no actual color in these fossilized melanosomes, by comparing their shape to those of living animals, the paleontologists were able to determine that Borealopelta was a reddish-brown color with lighter coloration on its underbelly. This tactic has been used to determine the coloration of several other dinosaur species, but usually, these are small feathered dinosaurs. I believe that Borealopelta is the largest non-feathered dinosaur that we know the coloration of (at least for now).

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He arrives

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rip Aladar, you will be missed and cherished

DID YOU GUYS KNOW THE IGUANODON DOESNT TECHNICALLY EXIST?? IT WAS RENAMED IN 2012 BY GREGORY SAINT PAUL!!! ITS CALLED MANTELLODON CARPENTERI NOW!! MANTELLISAURS?? MANTELLISAURUS??

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coping with the reality that we’ll never get another season of prehistoric park by imagining that bob and nigel would learn that hadrosaurs enjoy jazz kind of like cows do and would end up mesmerizing a herd of them by jamming out on some trombones in a field

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The final design for my Sinosauropterix acrylic keychains! Im so happy with the design i think the leaves really work. With the prototype that came back i found that the tail was long and prone to snapping so i needed a filler and it turns out that theres an absolutely incredible fossil plant from the same formation as them called Leefructus mirus! Its a prehistoric fossil BUTTERCUP! Ill be selling these at my local con but after that theyll be for same somewhere online possibly kofi?

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Paleoart from a paleostream. Lots of big dinos.

Amargasaurus, Bajadasaurus, Stegosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus

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Last night's flockign paleostream paleoart :3

Himalayasaurus, Typothorax, Lunataspis, Kunpengopterus

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#Paleostream 14/06/2025

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we sketched Hesperornis (i drew H. regalis), Asiatyrannus, Manis palaeojavanica, and Khankhuuluu