Cafnir's Paleo Blog

Cafnir • they/them • evolution/biology/palaeo • I do those cgi dinos • real artist anti-ai

[paleo-cafnir]

Boys gotta eat, boys gotta have his supper

[biologizeable]

I can relate to this on every level

[ceekari]

“postmortem decay set in SERIOUSLY quickly”

[mf-dude]

[paleo-cafnir]

Just letting people know this is caused by animal neglect. Plecos NEED driftwood to suck on or they will look for other alternatives. This means living things. This pleco is sucking off their slime coating. This is an essential barrier fish need and can die without, and is very much comparable to layers of skin being stripped.

[joitiks]

his greed sickens me

[vulturescale]

Alsooo a megaraptoran i painted a while ago. I love megaraptorans. My pretty little princess ❤️

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Here is my lekking male acrocanthosaurs illustration (2023) from the Courtship and Mating chapter of DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton Uni Press). An amazing fossil site in Colorado, USA.

[maidthings]

anomalocaris is a maid

[dietspam16]

statements that would make absolutely no sense on any other website

[maidthings]

she has frills and stuff

[brynkiwi]

She has frills and stuff

[mossworm]

I feel like "trump wants to throw away literal dinosaur fossils" would really turn heads if we actually had a functional opposition party in this country to get messages out, but I guess I'll just have to get a paint pen and write it on my car. fine, I'll do it.

[mossworm]

Trump and friends are trying to get rid of IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Science, USA Federal agency). Everyone is on leave/in admin limbo while the DOGE kids do whatever and lock people out of their emails. Already-awarded federal grants (that's how I get paid) for museums and libraries are now being terminated early via executive order. Museums are already closing (to be fair it has been bad for decades) and a lot of large and delicate fossil material will need new homes with space and funding, which almost no one has. It's bad. I don't know what to do except to keep working and occasionally scream into the internet.

[mossworm]

Not trying to be a bummer, but this is pretty much the only thing anyone at my job can think about right now. I can only speak for museums, but specimens need periodical tending or they will decay or get lost. Grant funding is how we do everything: it's how temporary workers get paid, how we get access to subscription-based software, and it's how we buy new label paper for cripes' sake. We are still fighting, but everyone is honestly loopy with stress all the time now. People should know what they are destroying.

[mossworm]

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IML

[toskarin]

me: if I become the evil overlord I will never harm my minions

[5 years later]

highly throwable imp: hoohoohee

me: hmm

[toskarin]

[cipheramnesia]

Just checking in with the chuckable imp union, how's negotiations going?

[wildhaunt]

it's really up in the air right now

[butteredwizard]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by RobtheDoodler Doodle Of Boredom

[myrfing]

blogging

[weepingwidar]

John Brosio (American, 1967) - Dinosaurs Eating CEO (2013)

[pseudomantis]

Have you seen how Carolina wrens sleep

[doctormcrib]

[paleo-cafnir]

Boys gotta eat, boys gotta have his supper

[makovietz]

Perseverance

[barghest-land]

ancient sun cast your light cause there’s no hope in endless winter

Bogolubovia