Happy Easter! Have this obligatory Greater Prairie Chicken help you through your coming week! Be safe!

Had enough frustrating, horrifying news for today? Perhaps you need to see some NYC pigeons snuggling.

Two years in the making, my take at illustrating bird phylogeny: deviantart.com/albertonykus/a…

This week in a nutshell.

A paper I coauthor is just out in nature The development of the bird pelvis tracks the evolutionary pattern observed in dinosaurs! Here a good thread by Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar Thanks to lead author CT Griffin for involving me in this. Field Museum 🦜🦚🦢🐓🐊🦖🦕

PROJECT:TEPUI was inspired by Conan Doyle’s Lost World. Its 100 pages are packed with colourful and (mostly) wildly inaccurate dinosaurs! Oh, and it comes with a separate map too. If that sounds like your kind of thing, see below for a link (1/2)

The Artemis Paleozoo is an artbook by a collective of illustrators, educators, and creatives that depicts a modern menagerie of creatures that time forgot. Follow us for updates and previews as we approach our pre-order date and official launch. Stay tuned! 🦕🦖

Not everything since 2016 has been bad: the #kakapo population has grown by 100% since then! 252 are alive today. #kakapo2022 #conservation Pic: Deidre Vercoe

Morning all another Super Seabird Sunday giving everyone an opportunity to brighten up their timelines with great seabirds. So go on and share…my contribution today; a pair of European Shags in a courtship dance…

I've had friends ask me for weird/interesting species of birds. So here's a long-wattled umbrellabird showing off: #birds #nature

Advance copy of Mesozoic Art... think Darren Naish and I can be pretty proud...

KATSUP BLAST

Another halszkaraptorine dromaeosaur has been described, and it has postcranial features indicating a streamlined body suited for swimming: it's Natovenator polydontus Lee et al., 2022 from the Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia. Paper is #OA ... nature.com/articles/s4200… #dinosaurs

PHYLOPIC 2.0 IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED! Go check out the newer, faster, more useful PhyloPic here: phylopic.org

Today see the publication of the latest in our group’s studies of #Wealden #spinosaurid #dinosaurs. As published in Journal of Anatomy, we generated and studied digital brain endocasts of British baryonychine specimens. Here’s a brief thread on the research and our conclusions…

These happy boyos. #MHWilds #MonsterHunter #TheGameAwards