Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic #Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of #Thrissops, #Grendelius and #Nannopterygius #ichthyosaurs, diving #Rhamphorhynchus #pterosaurs, #Caturus, #Gyrodus, and #Pachycormus fishes, a #Dakosaurus croc, and three #Kimmerosaurus.
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NEW ARTWORK for #FossilFriday
Here's "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of #Thrissops, #Grendelius & #Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving #Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, #Caturus, #Gyrodus, and #Pachycormus fishes, a #Dakosaurus croc, & 3 #Kimmerosaurus.
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A #FossilFriday from the archives. Here's a cast of Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni, as it was on display in the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 2005, with curator Matt Williams for scale. I think the specimen was subsequently repainted to remove the green border.
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🏛️ Adam Savage goes behind the scenes at the American #Museum of Natural #History to see how preparators build lifelike #dinosaurs. The team used texture molds from the museum's #elephant collection for the #triceratops and painted the #mosasaur with colors inspired by caiman #lizards.
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🦖🏛️ Adam Savage goes behind the scenes at the American #Museum of Natural #History to see how preparators build lifelike #dinosaurs. The team used texture molds from the museum's #elephant collection for the #triceratops and painted the #mosasaur with colors inspired by caiman #lizards.
👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/triceratops-mosasaur-amnh-adam-savage-tested-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=amnh-dinosaurs
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New long-necked marine reptile species discovered in Germany's famous #Jurassic fossil beds https://phys.org/news/2025-07-necked-marine-reptile-species-germany.html paper: New long-necked marine reptile species discovered in Germany's famous Jurassic fossil beds https://phys.org/news/2025-07-necked-marine-reptile-species-germany.html
"The #NewSpecies Plesionectes longicollum represents a previously unknown type of plesiosauroid—the group of long-necked marine reptiles that inhabited Earth's oceans during the age of dinosaurs."
#PaleoArt by Peter Nickolaus
Ancient #BoneEatingWorms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons https://phys.org/news/2025-07-ancient-bone-worms-ate-mosasaur.html paper by Sarah Jamison-Todd et al.: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0326451
"These bone-eating communities are ancient, and have been on Earth for at least 100 million years. Before #whales existed, bone-eating #worms were eating into the skeletons of #mosasaurs, #ichthyosaurs and #plesiosaurs... New research has named seven of these burrow types... some are very similar to the burrows of living #Osedax worms."
@DinoDadReviews Ooh, I love the textured images, lovely!
That's not a skeleton of Plesiosaurus on the Plesiosaurus spread, though, it's clearly based on a skeleton of Rhomaleosaurus from Yorkshire (the one I did my PhD on, so there). And there's also something very odd going on with its anatomy.
Mystery of very odd #elasmosaur finally solved: One of North America's most famous #fossils IDd as new species https://phys.org/news/2025-05-mystery-odd-elasmosaur-north-america.html
"Long-necked and measuring in at 12m, #Traskasaura sandrae possessed heavy, sharp, robust teeth, ideal for crushing... Its unique suite of adaptations, a strange mix of primitive and derived traits, enabled it to hunt prey from above, perhaps one of the first #plesiosaurs to do so... The 85-million-year-old fossils are not new to science, though, far from it"
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to a "very odd" new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known.
Happy Fossil Friday! Meet the short-necked plesiosaur, Cryptocleidus oxoniensis. This marine reptile’s short tail could only function as a rudder, leaving the limbs as its main organ of propulsion.
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