Tom Parker
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Hello everyone, reminder that my book is officially OUT TODAY! Link in bio and replies!
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I mean this 100% sincerely and genuinely: what does this even mean? Like I quite seriously do not know that this means lmao, Sentences just can't have pronouns in them? In writing? In speech? How is this supposed to work?
BREAKING: The State of Idaho is BANNING all Pronouns in schools starting July 1.
Do you support this?
Yes or No
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Because that land was succeeded to the emus after the war.
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I really like the idea that in Idaho everyone has to refer to themselves in the third person like the Hulk
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@arvalis
@PressPauseCont
@papagaeio
@nameshiv
Mostly primitive ferns, alongside small cycads and friends. Here are some of the most common types from before flowering plants.
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I think a lot about how because of sport-fishing we may just never see the maximum sizes of certain ancient freshwater fish again, as they take decades to grow that large. So by killing giant fish we are depriving future generations of them. (Pictured: Alligator Gar)
this is the only “this is what they took from you” thing y’all are allowed to tweet
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As a kid in the 2000s I was on Jurassic Park forums and everyone's original character was a buff action-hero ex-military white guy who was also a dinosaur expert and expert animal tamer. So what I'm trying to say is he's a terrible character but boy did they know their audience.
#JurassicJune
Day 21, Happy Birthday Chris Pratt! What are your thoughts on Owen's character through the
#jurassicworld
trilogy?
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Sorry this had to happen a such a tumultuous time, but my article was just published. I put a lot of work into this, and it is meant mostly for people not up-to-date with dinosaur palaeontology, so if you could share it around I'd really appreciate it.
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This dragon design hit so hard that every movie and TV series in the past 20 years ripped it off.
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imo if it is an alien (origins left unclear in the film) then it's the best alien design in all of film. Either way it is still one of the best creature designs.
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Hey Creature Design Twitter, what is a design commonly regarded as bad that you think is good?
For me its Birdramon. Digimon fans seem to mostly think its ugly, but I have always thought it was fucking dope looking.
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Girls want Pachycephalosaurus ✍
There is only one thing girls want, and it starts with a P and ends in a S.
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Crocodilian enthusiasts do no read the comments under this post lest you despair
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Jurassic Park except Tyrannosaurus is a good girl who loves snacks and scratches.
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Here is a little project I have been working on slowly over the past month. I wanted to show how I would have done feathered raptors for the Jurassic World movies, but with the references I would draw from.
Note: this is how I personally would do it, NOT "how it SHOULD be done."
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This is scaled to the largest known specimen of Deinonychus, MCZ 4371. It is not quite as large as a Jurassic Park raptor (partially thanks to proportion differences), but I have no doubt this thing could kill someone.
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Look I understand T. rex has the best skull, really I do, but I wish creature designers would stop just copying it wholesale for fantasy creatures. It's pretty lazy tbh
Concept art of the Ghidorah skull by Kyle Brown
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But gen AI isn't stealing, right? 🙄
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Just saying this is clearly written by people who sit at home all day and don't work, or do any exercise, etc.
Daily showers are purely ‘performative’ and have no real health benefit, experts insist
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"How would you classify it, Billy?"
"Well, its a super-predator... Suchomimus. Its the snout."
"No, think bigger"
"Baryonyx?"
"Not with that sail. Spinosaurus aegypticus"
"I don't remember that on INGEN's list"
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Goddamn, that SLAP
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Extra food for thought on Spinosaurus, the caudal material we have from other spinosaurids doesn't really preclude a similar condition...
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conference on the best methods for destroying theropod shins
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Did a little sketch of specimen STM22-6, originally described as Similicaudipteryx, now thought to be Incisivosaurus.
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I've wanted to do something like this for fun for a while. It does not play well with Twitter crop. I wanted to depict more of the non-dinosaurian fauna originally but that would have gotten out of hand. It was enough just to include the most common plants & dinosaur families.
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Incredible specimen potentially lost to science forever
World's largest triceratops skeleton fetches nearly $8 million in an auction in Paris
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New early Cretaceous abelisaurid, Spectrovenator (ghost hunter). A neat little critter that fills in a crucial gap in abelisaurid evolution.
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It might be the worst movie in the Jurassic Park series, but I'm now convinced it has the best dinosaur designs.
Also, baby pterosaurs are adorable and the movie did them dirty.
Notes on my choices for Spinosaurus in the replies:
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A young Gorgosaurus has been found with the remains of two oviraptorosaurs as stomach contents. I simply could not resist at least doing a sketch of this neat find.
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I could not help myself but sketch this absolute weirdo pterosaur (Tupandactylus?). Fingers-crossed that PLOS lets it out of purgatory soon 🤞
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This piece captures the look of a Jurassic "field" I think better than any other I've seen
I had never heard of Jan Vriesen until a few months ago but his
#paleoart
is next-level. His attention to detail, particularly with plants & geology, is a sight for sore eyes
#paleobotany
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Goodbye to croc-rex you were... well, never really a good hypothesis tbh.
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Wow, hello and welcome to the literal hundreds of followers I gained over the weekend! Good news if you are interested in the world during the age of dinosaurs, I wrote a book about the environment T. rex, Triceratops and friends lived in! Link in bio and replies!!
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Incredible photo of a bird's nest in the crown of a cycad. Someone use this as palaeoart inspiration.
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MY BOOK IS OFFICIALLY OUT on October 12th via Titan Books. Link is in my bio.
Please share or consider pre-ordering a copy if you are interested in fossil dinosaurs and their environment! I'm very excited to finally be an official published author.
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Jurassic Park was first released on June 11th 1993, 30 years ago today. Happy anniversary!
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This is definitely the most moved I've ever been by a picture of rocks and dirt
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Just had to quickly sketch this one. Amazing specimen!
Xing et al. 2021, An exquisitely preserved in-ovo theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures.
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This dromaeosaurid sketch ended up looking real concerned, like 😐
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Thought it would be fun to contribute to
@jimmadseni
's
#DinosThroughTheDecades
art challenge, so here is Oviraptor (and Citipati) through the decades!
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The most common mesozoic environment I see people ask about are those of Late Cretaceous asia.
@ChrisMasnaOk
and I have put together an infographic exploring the flora you'd be safest placing alongside your Velociraptor, Gallimimus, or Tarbosaurus!
#paleoart
#dinosaurs
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This is maybe the hardest painting of all time
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@Kalinius_
@arvalis
@PressPauseCont
@papagaeio
@nameshiv
Open areas would have been covered by other types of plants, yes. We actually have one site from the Late Cretaceous where a volcanic flow preserved a bunch of open areas in full detail. Here are some reconstructions of that site by Mary Parrish, and some of the fossils.
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@italianpepsiman
Being charged with domestic battery is not "getting cancelled" hope this helps
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This headline is about a hadrosauroid known from a partial dentary.
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The Badlands episode of Prehistoric Planet 2 reminded me that a really great paper came out this year on Cretaceous desert environments, which palaeoartists should appreciate as I know this is an FAQ for restorations, and it has great figures -- and is open access!
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Reconstruction of the facial integument of Carnotaurus based on osteological correlates, as interpreted by Delcourt 2018.
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"Baby Blue" (or is it "Velociraptor Alpha"?)
This'll kill my engagement but I want to use the new logos
#JurassicWorldDominion
#VelociRaptor
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Previous work on calibrating the world's largest animals had to re-calibrated when a previously unknown giant marine reptile appeared in Tokyo Bay. (Figure modified from McClain et al. 2015)
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Donphan is an underrated/overlooked design. In my opinion, the best
#Pokemon
designs are those that look like an animal, but can't just be drawn as one single real species. Donphan here is drawn from aardvark & armadillo with a little bit of elephant.
#sketchbook
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We watched Gamera The Brave today and Gamera gets stuck in this building for like 10 whole minutes. Emotional stuff 10/10.
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A quick note for paleoartists on something I have noticed pop up again and again since the edmontosaur mummy manus was revealed. People are drawing them like ungulate hooves, which needs to stop. The main "big" nail actually points slightly outwards from the midline.
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I had never seen a baby coelocanth before! They are cute! (Shoutout to
@benjiopteryx
for finding the image I'm just spreading the good word)
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That's it, we need to stop climate change guys. No jokes anymore.
The Komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard, is now listed as
#Endangered
according to the latest
@IUCNRedList
, released at
#IUCNcongress
. Rising sea levels caused by
#ClimateChange
are a major threat
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No single image represents America better than a white guy writing "Private Property" over an ancient Native American painting.
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Lots of negative reactions to the MH movie. I'll admit it was an interesting choice to cross Monster Hunter with Tony Hawk Pro Skater.
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A friend has confirmed that my book is on shelves! If you're looking for a late Christmas present for a dinosaur lover then look no further! Also available online, link in bio!
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I'm going to use this to express something I was thinking recently: too many people think the point of Jurassic Park is literally "a dinosaur zoo is a terrible idea & would never work" but really the dinosaurs are just a metaphor for man controlling nature in general.
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"That doesn't look very scary. More like a... six foot turkey."
#jurassicpark
#jurassicworld
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The main bulk of the original 1933 King Kong movie is just the crew trekking through Skull Island and encountering various monsters. Other than being more modern, I don't see how this scene is any different.
There is no reason to have a scene like this in a King Kong movie 💀
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The new compsognathid Ubirajara jubatus, preserved with some very interesting feathers. The animal had long hackles on the back (we should be calling these hackles and not a mane) and strangely, at least 3 long broad filaments that may originate near the scapula.
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“We try to find the animal in the dinosaur as opposed to the monster in the dinosaur... we wanted their situation to be more like they were being stalked by an animal that is a carnivore as opposed to an animal that is psychopathic, and just out to get them.” - Rick Carter, on JP
While speaking to
@empiremagazine
about
#JurassicWorldDominion
, director
@colintrevorrow
teased the following about the all-new Giganotosaurus:
“I wanted something that felt like the Joker, it just wants to watch the world burn.”
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New
#dinosaur
#science
! Tiny (1cm) footprints suggest a sparrow-sized dromaeosaur. Probably a juvenile microraptorine.
#sciart
#scicomm
#FossilFriday
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I haven't seen anyone mention yet that JWE2 features the juvenile Gallimimus from Jurassic Park! This is actually a rather impressive deep-cut. Too bad we didn't get a 1993 Parasaurolophus too!
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Instead of dunking on Jurassic Park like the rest of the palaeo community because
#Velociraptor
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I will never stop drawing Tyrannosaurus, my hand just makes it happen without my input, no matter how much I might want to sketch something else.
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QRT with circular art from your gallery
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Your reminder that rail chicks have little T. rex hands.
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From the mountains of Johto comes Tyranitar. The thick ventral armour likely evolved as an adaption to protect its vital organs during territorial combat. Due to its physical strength and aggression, this
#Pokemon
is highly valued in the competitive battle scene.
#illustration
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Happy (belated) 200th anniversary to Plesiosaurus and Megalosaurus.
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Some very big mesozoic crocodyliforms, top-to-bottom: Sarcosuchus imperator, Deinosuchus rugosus and Stomatosuchus inermis.
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I knew Jurassic World homogenised dinosaurs, but I hadn't noticed before, their Baryonyx and Allosaurus have almost literally the exact same design...
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My attempt at recreating a classic 1993 promotional poster for Jurassic Park with my "updated" dinosaur reconstructions from my article. The original text at the bottom of the poster fit this concept suprisingly perfectly. I'd sell prints of this if Universal were't so brutal.
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Today is the 23rd anniversary of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. It has a bad script, I can't deny it, but I have really grown to appreciate its portrayal of dinosaurs. (Thread)
This is my favourite CGI shot in the whole franchise:
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Here is is, the final entry in the series (for now)! I couldn't fit the Battle at Big Rock dinosaurs, so they'll come as a supplement. I included an alternate Pachyrhinosaurus head for "Sinoceratops" as that is what the animal was "supposed" to be originally. Enjoy!
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Attention Palaeoartists!
I have a gift for you today. Artists keep asking me for a good all encompassing mesozoic flora. This doesn't really exist, but it got me thinking what are the plants with the highest "versatility". I may do more of these if this does well.
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Dinosaur Fantasy Map number two! Jurassic this time, specifically Utah (with a little Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico) at the transition from Kimmeridgian to Tithonian. I'm especially happy with the little apatosaur.
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Chris Pratt could never
”Karen, we’re not dealing with your shit today.”
Who is this priestess?
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I needed a Velociraptor mongoliensis to compare with Deinonychus, so here's ya girl Blue.
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Hadrosaurs are cool, actually (as is the Edmontosaurus design from The Lost World arcade game)
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