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Glyptodont skull diversity is genuinely wild. Line ten of them up side by side and every single one looks different. These giant armored cousins of armadillos trundled across the Ice Age Americas, the biggest of them the size of a small car. This poster by Joschua Knüppe draws them like a classic natural history plate, with a human silhouette in the bottom row for scale. Printed on heavyweight luster paper with archival color. Available at https://fossi.ls/1ABDut.

Pterosaurs: The Field Guide just showed the printed hardcover for the first time. Five years. Twenty illustrators. Over 200 pterosaur genera. Kickstarter launches August 1. https://fossi.ls/Nev1YT

Rizzing up the academic volunteer groups in my @morningwitchy shirt n' skirt. Mountain Pygmy Possum socks by @thesockery. Mask from @252mya. Shoe recommendations welcome.

Went axe throwing today. Because I'm masc.

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Least I could do when I used your database’s art! 

DJ Washington's Be Gay Velociraptor has been a fan favorite since 2023, still going strong this Pride Month. Available as a tee or men's tank at 252mya.com/begay. 10% of every Pride sale this month goes to 500 Queer Scientists.

Atopodentatus has one of the best paleontology glow-ups. When it was first described in 2014, scientists thought this marine reptile had a genuinely bizarre zipper-like mouth. Then in 2016, two new fossils showed up and revealed that the original specimen was badly crushed. Its actual face looked way more like a handheld vacuum cleaner than a zipper. Art by Joschua Knüppe. Merchandise available at https://fossi.ls/I5mFds.