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Bob Nicholls Art

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

An adult Brontosaurus rearing up to reach high vegetation, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Brontosaurus #Apatosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday

Jun 20, 2025, 14:43 · · 2 · 0
Daniel Dvorkin

Open access article, and the "non-technical summary" section near the beginning gives an overview everyone can understand. 🧪🦖

cambridge.org/core/journals/jo

Very short version: #Troodon was considered a valid #genus for well over a century, until it was merged with #Stenonychosaurus about a decade ago, and due to specimen quality Stenonychosaurus took priority. Now careful examination indicates Troodon is a valid genus again.

This process is familiar from other famous #dinosaur genera, most notably #Brontosaurus and #Apatosaurus. Even *living* animals are hard to classify a lot of the time; nothing between #kingdom and #species is really set in stone. The tension between "#lumpers" and "#splitters" never ends.

Troodon is special. Maybe it was intelligent, in a way we'd recognize as such, and maybe it wasn't. But it was almost surely *smart*, and quite possibly social, and likely an omnivore. Does that remind you of anyone?

Maybe I'm fooling myself, when I feel a kinship across deep time. And maybe I'm not.

May 13, 2025, 18:59 · · · 1 · 2
Mark Witton

I can't NOT post this to sauropds.win: New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: BRONTOSMASH! II: the BRONTOSMASHENING. High-resolution version just posted to #patreon along with lots of discussion about the apatosaur neck combat hypothesis: patreon.com/posts/120678428

HT to @mike, because I believe he likes this sort of thing.

#sciart #palaeontology #fossil #dinosaur #sauropod #naturalhistory #illustration #art #digitalart #brontosaurus

Two long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs engaged in pushing and shoving matches, their necks entwined. They are mostly in blue shadow but their necks and heads have emerged into the golden light of the rising sun. They are in a parched, dry environment with only the only landscape features being distant mountains, over which the first rays of yellow dawn sunlight are just visible. Two long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs engaged in pushing and shoving matches, their necks entwined. They are mostly in blue shadow but their necks and heads have emerged into the golden light of the rising sun. They are in a parched, dry environment with only the only landscape features being distant mountains, over which the first rays of yellow dawn sunlight are just visible.
Jan 24, 2025, 17:10 · · 15 · 0
Amber Grey

Brontosaurus Liberation 2025!!!!!! :scremcat: Finally the science reaffirms the TRUTH about my favorite Dino!
#brontosaurus #DinosaurNews

Jan 08, 2025, 16:48 · · 0 · 0
Jack Liddle | JF

#brontosaurus excelsus, colouration inspired by Charles R. Knight's 1897 painting of this giant.

#art #dinosaurs #paleoart

Dec 09, 2024, 23:10 · · · 3 · 0
Ann

Let's be adventurous!

♡

Danke an @StefanKarstens für die Fotos!

#DinoContent #brontosaurus

Foto von Ann mit ihrem niedlichen kleinen grauen Stoffbrontosaurier Gertrude auf dem Kopf, beide in die Ferne guckend vor einem blassblauen Himmel mit weißen Wolken. Ann trägt ein schwarzes verspieltes Leinenkleid und Gertrude eine schwarze Spitzenschleife.
Foto von Ann, wie sie sich anschickt, Gertrude über den Kopf zu streicheln
Oct 24, 2024, 15:52 · · 0 · 0
Ann

Bronto bag!

The brontosaurus stencil is mine and my own work.

And yesss, this is my new bag for serious business!

#brontosaurus #toteBag #DinoContent

Ann standing at a pond with her hands clasped behind her head. She's wearing a rust-colured linen skirt and a yellowish-green shirt and is carrying a black tote bag with a white bontosaurus on it.
Jun 19, 2024, 11:54 · · 0 · 0
Daniel Dvorkin

#Troodon may once again be a valid #genus. Or, uh, so I've heard.

#Brontosaurus is smiling, and #Diatryma is waiting patiently.

Apr 13, 2024, 20:54 · · 0 · 0
Sean Murthy

How big were T-Rex' feet? Well, my size 8-8.5 shoes (US) sit completely inside one T-Rex footprint. So, pretty big. 🦖

But, a Brontosaurus was even bigger. There are many tracks all over but they're just a big mush because of how Bronto's feet were. 🦕

T-Rex was big, like 8-tons and 30+ feet, but a Brontosaurus weighed 4 times that and was 75 feet long. The lifesize models at the park illustrate the differences quite well.

#dinosaur #texas #statePark #nature #history #tRex #brontosaurus

A blue human shoe lengthwise inside a dino footprint.
A blue human shoe widthwise inside a dino footprint.
A green model of a Brontosaurus inside a wooden fence.
Aj orange model of a T-REX inside a wooden fence.
Oct 25, 2023, 22:50 · · 0 · 0
kurtsh

TIL that my favorite dinosaur from my childhood, Brontosaurus, after being demoted in the 1970s, was reinstated as an official dinosaur genus in 2015!

That's right! It's not an Apatosaurus, dammit! The 6yo in me is jumping for joy!

"Brontosaurus Stomps Back to Claim Its Status as Real Dinosaur" - National Geographic
nationalgeographic.com/science
#dinosaurs #brontosaurus

Brontosaurus Stomps Back to Claim Its Status as Real Dinosaur

Like Pluto losing its standing as a planet, Brontosaurus…

www.nationalgeographic.com
Sep 15, 2023, 23:04 · · 0 · 0

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