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Happy Dinosaur Day 🦕 Six favorites from the catalog, in honor of the day. 🔗 https://fossi.ls/90hCxm #dinosaur day #national dinosaur day #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoart #science illustration #sci art #natural history #t rex #triceratops #parasaurolophus

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Happy Pride Month 🦕🏳️‍🌈 We announced our new Pride collection last week. Six fresh dinosaur flag designs joining the series we've been building for years. What's new this year is the donation. 10% of every Pride Month sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists, a community of LGBTQIA+ scientists building visibility in STEM. 252MYA is a queer-owned business and so are many of our paleoartists. Pride here isn't a campaign. It's community. 🔗 https://fossi.ls/79Xghg #pride 2026 #pride month #pride #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq+ #queer #queer art #queer artists #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoart #paleo art #trans pride #lesbian pride #gay pride #bi pride #ace pride #nonbinary pride #pansexual pride #500 queer scientists #queer science #queer in STEM #queer owned business

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Titanis walleri: the only terror bird tough enough to make it all the way to North America. This Pleistocene apex predator prowled Florida's grasslands on powerful legs, armed with a massive hooked beak that made short work of its prey. Art by Emily Higgs. Available now at 252mya.com/titanis.

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Ground sloths were genuinely massive Ice Age herbivores, and artist Emily Higgs has captured them in all their glory. The design is now on merch over at 252MYA.COM/GSLOTH. If you love megafauna and quality paleoart, this one's for you.

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Smilodon merch is live and it's gorgeous. Art by Emily Higgs brings the Pleistocene apex predator to life with serious detail work. Head to 252MYA.COM/SMILO.

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Doedicurus: the glyptodont that came equipped with serious defensive hardware and an attitude to match. This paleoart by Emily Higgs is now on merch over at 252mya.com/doedicurus. If you're into Ice Age megafauna with actual personality, this one's for you.

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Artist Sunday: meet Mortimer Moudry (@webvein), creature designer with a focus on reptiles and a serious eye for paleoart. His new Pride Collection brings dinosaurs and pterosaurs into the fold. Tupandactylus in progressive flag colors, Non-binary Dilophosaurus, Trans Spinosaurus, Asexual Velociraptor, Bi Amargasaurus, Lesbian Ouranosaurus. Six designs, six flags, one talented illustrator. Follow Mortimer at @webvein. Collection on 252mya.com. #paleoart #pride #pride month #lgbtqia #queer artist #queer paleontology #paleo art #paleoartist #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #sci art #science illustration #natural history #mortimer moudry #webvein #252mya

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Paleontology videos, curated. Coming soon. PaleoTube is the directory we've wanted to exist for years: discoveries, digs, deep-time explainers, plus the best paleontology creators on the internet. All organized by time period and topic. Billions of years of life, finally easy to watch unfold. Early-access signups are open now at paleotube.com. #paleotube #paleontology #scicomm #science communication #deep time #natural history #paleoart #fossils #prehistoric life #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #trilobites #paleontology videos #science videos #252mya

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T. rex or Spinosaurus? Land predator GOAT debate, settle it in the notes. The case for Tyrannosaurus rex: 5 tonnes of bite force, a skull built for crushing bone, the most thoroughly studied non-avian dinosaur on the planet. Direct fossil evidence of pack behavior. The terror of the Hell Creek Formation in the last few hundred thousand years of the Cretaceous. The case for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus: nearly twice as long as T. rex by some estimates, semi-aquatic adaptations confirmed by recent tail-shape studies, sail-backed and bone-dense and the only known piscivorous theropod of that size. Hunted in rivers across North African floodplains 95 million years ago. Different niches. Different superpowers. Different geologic moments. Pick a side. #t rex #tyrannosaurus rex #spinosaurus #paleoart #paleontology #scientific illustration #science illustration #dinosaurs #fossils #prehistoric life #deep time #natural history #scicomm #paleo facts #252mya #predators #theropods

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Damn I love fossils. (You probably do too.) From our catalog this week: a tee for the kind of person who has detoured 90 minutes to look at a roadcut. The kind of person whose phone camera roll is 60% rocks and 100% thirst trap. Designed by Greco Westermann. Available now: https://252mya.com/dilf #fossils #damn i love fossils #paleo merch #paleontology #paleo art #paleoart #fossil art #natural history #deep time #scicomm #science communication #greco westermann #252mya #wear deep time

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Imagine a giraffe with wings. Now make it carnivorous. Now teach it to fly.

Quetzalcoatlus northropi was the largest animal ever to fly. Wingspan: about 36 feet across, comparable to a small private plane. Standing height: equivalent to a modern giraffe. Body weight: surprisingly light for its size, somewhere in the range of a large kangaroo, because pterosaur bones are hollow and reinforced in ways that put modern aircraft engineering to shame.

It walked the floodplains of Late Cretaceous Texas on all fours like an oversized stilted heron, almost certainly hunting on foot. The flying came later, and the takeoff is still the wildest part of the story. Modern birds need a runway. Quetzalcoatlus pole-vaulted itself into the sky in a single explosive push, using both wing-arms and both legs at once. Biomechanical modeling suggests the acceleration was roughly what a fighter pilot experiences on a carrier launch.

68 million years ago this thing ruled the sky over what's now west Texas. A few million years later, the asteroid arrived and erased an entire branch of the tree of life. Pterosaurs never came back. Birds inherited the air.

Forty years of paleontologists arguing about whether it could actually fly. The current answer is yes. We just had to invent the right physics.

Art by Joschua Knüppe

#quetzalcoatlus #pterosaur #pterosaurs #paleoart #paleontology #scientific illustration #science illustration #dinosaurs #cretaceous #late cretaceous #fossils #prehistoric life #deep time #natural history #scicomm #science communication #paleo facts #252mya #flying reptiles #aerial predator

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Tupandactylus, my beloved. She had a sail on top of her head bigger than her actual body, 112 million years ago, because the Cretaceous demanded to be witnessed. Progress Pride design by @webvein. 252mya.com/tpf

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Dilophosaurus in nonbinary pride colors is the energy we needed and didn't know we were missing. Art by @webvein and available as merch at 252MYA.COM/DNB.

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There is something about a giant aquatic crocodile-snouted dinosaur with a sail down its back wearing the trans pride flag that just feels right. The real Spinosaurus (~99 million years ago, North Africa) is the only non-avian dinosaur we know that swam for a living. @webvein drew this one. It's on apparel at 252MYA.COM/STRANS.

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Ouranosaurus looking absolutely resplendent in pride colors and we are so here for it. Art by @webvein for 252MYA, and you can grab the merch at 252mya.com/lespride. Because sometimes your favorite extinct animal, and your favorite people, just need the love and visibility they deserve.

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Drop 2 is up! Velociraptor (real ones, feathered, turkey-sized) wearing the asexual pride flag in black, gray, white, and purple. Design by @webvein. 252mya.com/avelo Five more pride designs coming this week. one a day. Keep your eyes peeled.

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Amargasaurus said "what if i had TWO rows of spikes down my neck," 129 million years before mohawks were a thing. Nature was punk first. @webvein put it on a shirt and dressed it in bi pride because no one else dared. 252mya.com/bipride ALSO this is 1 of 6 pride designs dropping this month. There are FIVE MORE coming. Keep your eyes peeled.