We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday (Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)

It’s #SuperbOwl Sunday!

Hi! I’m Darcy, an evolutionary anthropologist turned science communicator. My PhD was on primate hips & locomotion in fossil apes. Now I’m an editorial director at Complexly, working mostly on the YouTube channels PBS Eons & Bizarre Beasts!

The angle of this shot makes Hesperornis’s feet look super long Hesperornis regalis, ~80 million years old, from Kansas @ummnh.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

Bats in the fossil record: yeah, pretty much always looked like this. No awkward stage to speak of. Onychonycteris finneyi, 53 million years old, from Wyoming @ummnh.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

I am, once again, asking #paleosky: is there anyone on here who is a big Permian nerd, has written about science for general audiences, and would like to do it again? DM me! Diadectes @harvardmuseums.bsky.social for eyeballs #paleontology #Permian #scicomm 🧪

This little guy is Arenahippus grangeri @ummnh.bsky.social. Dated to 50 million years ago, from the Eocene of Wyoming, it was one of the first horses 🐎 Can you see the family resemblance? #FossilFriday 🧪

Dazzled by Dimetrodon? Enchanted by Edaphosaurus? If you’ve ever wanted to write for Eons and the Permian is your jam, please DM me! #FossilFriday #scicomm 🧪

The Pleistocene giant beaver, Castoroides ohioensis at the New Jersey State Museum 🧪 #FossilFriday #paleontology

This is also not a dire wolf, even if it looks kinda wolfy. It’s Sinonyx, a 56 million-year-old meat-eating mammal from China that had little hooves on each toe. #FossilFriday 🧪

Just a little Bactrosaurus (a hadrosauroid from the Late Cretaceous of Asia) for #FossilFriday! Photographed at the Goseong Dinosaur Museum in South Korea 🧪

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A close encounter with a northern saw-whet owl for #SuperbOwlSunday 🦉

Paleozoic amphibians were big chompers in their day - @harvardmuseums.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

Just some Permian weirdos, including the classic Diplocaulus boomerang-head and a skeleton of Seymouria @harvardmuseums.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

I would’ve liked to see a giant lemur… This is the cranium of Palaeopropithecus maximus @nhm-london.bsky.social for #FossilFriday! 🧪 #paleontology

Quetzalcoatlus northropi at Le Musée des Dinosaures in southern France for #FossilFriday 🧪

Imagine this not-kitty staring in wonder at your Christmas tree… Dinictis is a nimravid or “false saber-toothed cat” from 30 million years ago & a member of the suborder Feliformia, which includes actual cats & cat-like guys, like hyenas & mongooses #FossilFriday 🧪 📸 taken @ummnh.bsky.social

Happy #FossilFriday! This is Maiacetus, a 47 million-year-old early whale from Pakistan, hanging out @ummnh.bsky.social 🧪 I helped prep this fossil in undergrad 🤩 (and was totally freaked out by it when it was mounted on a hanging frame in the dark basement of the old museum 😂)

It’s a throwback #FossilFriday to one of the coolest places I stopped on my move from NJ to CA: Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska. 12 million years ago, the horses, rhinos, camels, and other animals there were the victims of several feet of volcanic ash (pro tip: don’t breathe it in). 🧪 #scicomm

Happy #FossilFriday! The big guy here is Edops craigi, a temnospondyl from the Permian on display at Harvard MNH. I can only assume he chomp 🧪

Just wanted to introduce myself to all the new folks here! I’m Darcy, an evolutionary anthropologist-turned-science communicator. My PhD was on primate hips & locomotion in fossil apes. Now I’m an editorial director at Complexly, working on the YouTube channels PBS Eons & Bizarre Beasts 🧪 #scicomm

Meet Sinonyx, a 56 million-year-old meat-eating mammal from China. One weird thing about it? It had hooves…little ones on each toe. #FossilFriday 🧪

Just a chonky beaky guy from the Triassic of Brazil @HarvardMNH He’s labeled as Scaphonyx, but it looks like this material has been referred to Hyperodapedon. Either way, he’s an ancient relative of the living tuatara #FossilFriday 🧪 🦎

Just a pair of mastodon butts @ummnh.bsky.social for #NationalFossilDay 🧪 🦣 (Yes, I know, the emoji is a mammoth)

We need more living animals that are this orb-shaped The glyptodont Panochthus tuberculatus - an ancient South American relative of the armadillo at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History #FossilFriday 🧪

Dimetrodon is probably the Permian critter with the most recognizable name, but I kinda prefer its similarly sail-backed cousin Edaphosaurus (@HarvardMNH) What were all those sails for? #FossilFriday 🧪 #paleontology

I like to imagine he’s going “he he he” This is Xenacanthus, a shark-like critter from the Early Permian Red Beds of Texas. Photo taken @HarvardMuseum #FossilFriday 🧪

I hear you like weird skulls around here… Meet Tupuxuara, a 110 million-year-old pterosaur from Brazil @ummnh.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🧪

Another sea monster for #FossilFriday! 🧪 This mount of Dolichorhynchops (an ~80 million year old plesiosaur from Wyoming) @ummnh.bsky.social is so pretty