Dromeoraptor
@dromeoraptor.bsky.social
Likes paleontology and Monster Hunter, among other things.
I'll try not to spam my profile with retweets this time around
He/Him
I'll try not to spam my profile with retweets this time around
He/Him
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Over at #Patreon, I've been discussing my latest #specevo #dinosaur piece for my upcoming book. Meet Thalassoraptor maximus: non-bird dinosaurs have finally made it into the oceans! About time, guys, sheesh.
Lots more detail at www.patreon.com/markwitton/p....
Lots more detail at www.patreon.com/markwitton/p....
September 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Over at #Patreon, I've been discussing my latest #specevo #dinosaur piece for my upcoming book. Meet Thalassoraptor maximus: non-bird dinosaurs have finally made it into the oceans! About time, guys, sheesh.
Lots more detail at www.patreon.com/markwitton/p....
Lots more detail at www.patreon.com/markwitton/p....
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There's also things like elephants not always growing tusks, or the variation and late development of avian crests and several ungulate horns. We also have a prescience for this in marginocephalians: Styracosaurus only starts to develop its iconic mature features past 80% adult size.
August 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM
There's also things like elephants not always growing tusks, or the variation and late development of avian crests and several ungulate horns. We also have a prescience for this in marginocephalians: Styracosaurus only starts to develop its iconic mature features past 80% adult size.
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I did a thread on paleontologists contributing to eugenics & fascism. What about the opposite end of political spectrum?🧵
Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.
Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.
July 26, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I did a thread on paleontologists contributing to eugenics & fascism. What about the opposite end of political spectrum?🧵
Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.
Ernst Untermann (1864–1956) palaeontologist by trade, painted murals for the Dinosaur National Monument. A prolific socialist, first in US to translate Das Kapital into English.
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Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
February 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
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Ho-lee moly! Mac baby, this croc's giving King Hippo a run for his crown, AND lunch money! That belly armor looks tougher than a truck, so you're gonna have to match it with something just as shiny as its gold plate! Don't swing too wildly now, or he's gonna counter when ya least expect it!
May 23, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Ho-lee moly! Mac baby, this croc's giving King Hippo a run for his crown, AND lunch money! That belly armor looks tougher than a truck, so you're gonna have to match it with something just as shiny as its gold plate! Don't swing too wildly now, or he's gonna counter when ya least expect it!
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It needs to be realized: by the time Titanis went extinct about 1.8 Ma, it was in North America for >3 million years. To put this into perspective, felids first appear in South America's fossil record in the Ensenadan (at earliest 1.95 Ma).
May 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
It needs to be realized: by the time Titanis went extinct about 1.8 Ma, it was in North America for >3 million years. To put this into perspective, felids first appear in South America's fossil record in the Ensenadan (at earliest 1.95 Ma).
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A juvenile Diplodocus is slipping out post-bedtime for a late #FossilFriday post. Like other Mesozoic dinosaurs, young diplodocids were proportioned differently than adults, bearing shorter necks, faces and tails. The mottled skin pattern is based on (very tentative) palaeocolour data. #paleoart
April 24, 2026 at 7:44 PM
A juvenile Diplodocus is slipping out post-bedtime for a late #FossilFriday post. Like other Mesozoic dinosaurs, young diplodocids were proportioned differently than adults, bearing shorter necks, faces and tails. The mottled skin pattern is based on (very tentative) palaeocolour data. #paleoart
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Cool thing I learned the other day: the Dayak people tied spearheads at the ends of their blowguns, so that when they ran out of projectiles, they could still use them for melee combat. Pretty clever idea.
April 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Cool thing I learned the other day: the Dayak people tied spearheads at the ends of their blowguns, so that when they ran out of projectiles, they could still use them for melee combat. Pretty clever idea.
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March 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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this is an approximation but if anyone has the original or know who made it i'd be happy to have it
January 28, 2026 at 5:29 AM
this is an approximation but if anyone has the original or know who made it i'd be happy to have it
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Kremling Krew! Kremling Krew!
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Kremling Krew! Kremling Krew!
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
Where are those no-good banana bandits, anyway?
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Results from the Nanotyrannus #Paleostream!
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Results from the Nanotyrannus #Paleostream!
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
First two are N. lancensis, 3 and 4 are N. lethaeus.
You might notice some paleoart homages here ;)
#BackInHell
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I had a go at drawing steppe #lions chasing a European bison recently, based on Palaeolithic artworks. I'm unsure about the markings around the lions' eyes but my main reference, which seems to otherwise give good data about colour distribution, suggests _something_ was there. #paleoart
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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they're just like little cartoon mouths sitting on the ground among the pine needles, like the things that eat that guy in the Dark Crystal miniseries
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
they're just like little cartoon mouths sitting on the ground among the pine needles, like the things that eat that guy in the Dark Crystal miniseries
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yes! completely correct. P incarnata is also edible though and also weirdly hard to find for sale here
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
yes! completely correct. P incarnata is also edible though and also weirdly hard to find for sale here
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there is a distinction to be made here though, that what we understand as culinary passionfruit "passiflora edulis" is native to South America, while the purple passionvine native to the US is "passiflora incarnata." there are hundreds of species of passionflower but passionfruit is a lil different
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
there is a distinction to be made here though, that what we understand as culinary passionfruit "passiflora edulis" is native to South America, while the purple passionvine native to the US is "passiflora incarnata." there are hundreds of species of passionflower but passionfruit is a lil different
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similar thing happens with passiflora. enjoy the tropical and mysterious passionfruit, from the steamy, exotic jungles of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
October 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
similar thing happens with passiflora. enjoy the tropical and mysterious passionfruit, from the steamy, exotic jungles of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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the main reason they don't last very long as houseplants is because they're adapted to weather the harsh and deadly North Carolina winters, so they get sick unless you put them in the fridge
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
the main reason they don't last very long as houseplants is because they're adapted to weather the harsh and deadly North Carolina winters, so they get sick unless you put them in the fridge
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still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina
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Sometimes I remember this, and I think about how funny it is that its original context is the complete opposite of how it’s used as a meme.
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sometimes I remember this, and I think about how funny it is that its original context is the complete opposite of how it’s used as a meme.
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woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
September 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The internet doesn't have many hi-res images of what is possibly the only image of Steller's sea cow drawn from life (itself a copy of a now-lost sketch), so I'm uploading this version from Stejneger (1936). Very sad that this simple graphic represents the total in vivo art record for this speies.
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#DinoConUK @grahancock.bsky.social: How to hide a T. rex
August 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#DinoConUK @grahancock.bsky.social: How to hide a T. rex
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The thing about swallowing dinosaurs as real animals is that it’s not just about getting past popular myths. It’s about having as wide an understanding of real animals as possible to properly judge what is realistic and what’s not.
July 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing about swallowing dinosaurs as real animals is that it’s not just about getting past popular myths. It’s about having as wide an understanding of real animals as possible to properly judge what is realistic and what’s not.