He Do Be Skating.

A Coelophysis pair enjoying the early morning hours

Below the poll is a series of animal images labeled A through J. A is the least close to the birds we have today; J is the closest. If you encountered these animals in the wild, which would you call birds? If you pick a higher up option, then that means you consider all the below ones birds as well - so if you pick A, then BCDEFGHIJ are all birds. If you pick J, only J is a bird.

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PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO IT CAN LEAVE PALAEOBLR. I NEED PEOPLE WHO DON'T RECOGNIZE THESE ANIMALS ON SIGHT TO VOTE.

I apologize to all of y'all with vision impairments for whom this poll is inaccessible. Alas, this is an experiment, and I cannot name the taxa. Thank you.

All alt text includes artist attribution; I did not make these pictures myself.

reblog and put in the tags 3 extinct creatures you would bring back if you could

Stair conure?

I present

Ellie on the Stairs

The Observer: Well, at least I didn't reveal my true form to them!

The Guardian: Oh yeah? Maybe because your true form is just the FONT!

Anne and Seeker: Uhm...

thinking abt amphibia's guardian and serina's observer again. i think they should be rivals

"The wrong Amazon is burning"

Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska

Capital letters ||

Wait. WAIT.

WAIT-

Fig. 1 - "Compy" fans and people with OCs who are "compsognathid" fans.

But hey! on the bright side, even if Sinosauropteryx was a juvenile, we know that there were baby dinosaurs that looked like red pandas. :) And such is the way of science.

NEW PAPER FROM CAU HUGE IF TRUE

Cau A. (2024). A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution. Bulletin of the Italian Paleontological Society , 63(1): 1-19. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2024.08

KULINDAY APPROACHES

TOMORROW, July 24th, is the tenth anniversary of the description of Kulindadromeus! And we want YOU to be there for the tenth annual Kulinday livestream! As always, the ADAD crew and a bunch of other paleontologists and paleoartists banter about dinosaurs, paleontology, and whatever else comes to mind. We'll be using Henry's Twitch channel this time - fittingly enough, https://www.twitch.tv/kulindadromeus. We start at 4 PM UTC / 10 AM MOUNTAIN TIME and will go forth for as long as we can. It's gonna be fun! Join us!

A silly little meme I made for the tenth anniversary Kulinday, hosted by @a-dinosaur-a-day.

This IndiHome Paket meme was made on Scratch 3.0 (don't judge me, I don't have proper video editing software).

Meme template adapted for Scratch by @-PhantomAnimations- on Scratch, aka https://scratch.mit.edu/users/-PhantomAnimations-/ .

Happy Kulinday, fellow palaeonerds!