PACHYRHINOSAURII: A Paleontology Blog

Honoring all that have come before.

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this video has been all that i think about for days now

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Hell Creek Shenanigans

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A little result from tonights #paleostream. We looked into the diversity of aetosaurs, Triassic tanks that are actually related to crocodiles.

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a visitor

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Long Water Doggos (Ambulocetids)

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Another #paleostream sketch

An Archelon, killed and washed ashore by a storm, investigated by a swarm of birds, waiting to see the carcass opened by a bigger carnivore.

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an angel 🌠 Iberodactylus

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This Fossil Friday, meet an exceptionally preserved feathered dinosaur. Sinornithosaurus millennii lived some 130 million years ago and was about 3 ft (1 m) long. When it was discovered, it joined a growing list of dinosaur fossils showing evidence of feathers. But this specimen is especially unique because the imprints of its feathers are astonishingly clear. Scientists think Sinornithosaurus had three types of feathers: simple hairlike filaments, downy tufts (like those on modern birds), and modern feathers along the edges of its limbs! 

Photo: M. Ellison/ © AMNH

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Diplodocus carnegii

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Happy 118th birthday to Tyrannosaurus, every documentary's favorite obscure theropod.🎂🎉

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Rene van Druten Art

Smilodon Populator, based on the skull from Bone clones by Rene van Druten

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The ferocious 3ft long garfish. Lunch for a giant Austroraptor. They are relatives of Velociraptors but much, much bigger. 20ft from head to tail, and weighing over 800lbs. And with teeth not unlike those of a crocodile, these dinosaurs are very skilled at catching fish.

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What a magical moment, the swelling music over the sauropods in the beautiful setting give that joyful awe that these titans should evoke. These animals have that same beautiful majesty of whales in my eyes and I adore when paleomedia takes a second to just marvel in the wonder of them.

This death has such a tearful melancholy to it. The old Alamosaur doesn’t die from a space rock or a T. rex pack, he just… lays down. His life is long and his body is old, he can’t make it any longer, so he lays down on a serene beach and falls asleep, peacefully passing away to the sounds of the waves on sand.

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Prehistoric Planet finally gives us the True Rival to the Tyrant Lizard King and it’s NOT a Dinosaur.

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As someone who spends a pretty decent amount of time hunched over dusty old dinosaur bones, this scene has me in a chokehold. 

The realistic muscle tone, how the Tyrannosaurus distributes his weight as he maneuvers his way across the sand. The awful gurgles and honks of the Quetzalcoatlus, and the way such supposedly ungainly animals can drop onto the beach from an aloft position.

These are not pretty little CGI puppets. These are real animals, behaving as real animals do. If not in flesh, then in spirit, and all of us have caught a little glimpse of their past lives over the curve of the ether.

Fuck, I love Prehistoric Planet.

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little cenozoic guys

(hyaenodon, langstonia, smilodon, dromornithidae, stegotetrabelodon, glyptodon, moropus)

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little cretaceous guys + guest appearance of our even older friend the gorgonpsid (triceratops, pteradon, carnotaurus, parasaurolophus, deinonychus, ichthyosaur, gorgonopsid, repenomamus)