I'm gonna miss the Milwaukee Public Museum's ominous, crunking, probably unsafe escalators

Zimbabwean unaysaurids in a nutshell

Of course, I had to visit the Pokémon Fossil Museum while I was here

While y’all are at Dino Shindig or DinoCon, I am elsewhere this weekend

20 years ago today, the first episode of Prehistoric Park aired. If you haven't seen it yet in the intervening time, I highly recommend tracking it down. It's a very fun show, a grounded (excepting time travel) take on the dinosaur park concept that we haven't seen on screen since

I am at a Godzilla film festival, carrying around a tiny Mothra

Bonehead Detectives of the Paleoworld, a re-edit of Paleoworld that gave it a totally radical Bill Nye-esque tone. It’s partially lost media - this is the entire home media release

The killer shrews

Exhibit designers will see an orthocone and think "put that thing in an aquarium"

At some point I will revive the No Context Paleodocumentaries account. Once I have the time. For now here's Bob Bakker in a tank

Odontogriphus is an oval. That's all there is to it

What is a bar if not the coffee shop of the night?

Like this

I'm not sure what specimen it's cast from, and it was labeled T. proriger when I visited in 2025. Here's a close-up if that helps

Tarbosaurus! I didn't get a direct photo of it though

It's Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum Fsunday

Oh the huge manatee

The American re-edit of Godzilla Raids Again, Gigantis the Fire Monster, added a bunch of stock footage to pad out the film. This includes a montage of prehistoric creatures. Not all of the footage sources have been identified. Whatever this goober came from is as good as lost media

Behold, the mystery goober (who looks quite like an ornithopod) from the second Godzilla movie

Incidentally the CAS's blue whale has also needed extensive refurbishment due to spending 66 years outside in an open shed. By 1982, some of the bones were missing and enough people wrote their initials and "X loves Y" that some of the bones had to be painted white

Spotted in San Diego

Why is the Basilisca of Our Lady of Aparecida so HUGE???

Another underrated ecosystem engineer: arborescent lycopods! Plants do a lot to shape their ecosystems, but these things in particular hoovered up so much water from the swamp - and then had it transpire out through the leaves AND the trunk - they sustained the high humidity of the peat swamps

Have we all forgotten the magical Liopleurodon?

There's this broad, flattish and somewhat rugose area on the snout of Ischigualastia that may be sexually dimorphic. Having toughened soft tissue there is a very plausible speculative addition

While criticizing the quality of recent paleontology documentaries, remember: it could always be worse

They've got decently large olfactory bulbs and, according to Hillenius (1992), olfactory turbinates - indicating a more developed sense of smell than most other non-cynodont therapsids. Here's the brain endocast of Cynariops (Bendel et al. 2018)

Alpha male 👎 Beachmaster 👍

This beast was made in-house by @calacademy.bsky.social in the early 1950s and stayed in daily use until the end of 2003 - with nothing but the bulbs ever needing to be replaced. It weighed 8,000 pounds and could project 3,800 stars, which twinkled realistically

The old Morrison Planetarium projector is one of the coolest looking things ever. The absolute contraption