Officially the second most valuable dinosaur ever sold.

https://reddit.com/link/1xgtdmt/video/a43igkzql0yh1/player

Possibly the best reconstruction I've ever seen. Thoughts?

Hi, im french and the situation is devastating, an holotype will be auctionned in november 18 in Paris

Few days ago, a petition was made to boycott and protest against this auction and to save the fossil and scientific patrimony in France

If you feel concerned (and you MUST be) please sign in and express your opinion,

WE can change this

Here is the link : https://c.org/z7rbbtZqkX

A rare fossil of a giant marine reptile discovered on a beach by a Belgian couple is on display in a new exhibition.

The remains of the 10 - 10.5 (33ft) meter long ichthyosaur were found on the coast of Dorset by Michel and Carine Plissart, who have been scouring the area for fossils for 35 years.

Ichthyosaurs were predatory marine reptiles, and this one lived about 175 million years ago, towards the end of the Early Jurassic Period.

The fossil, the first ichthyosaur found in its rock layer, has been called "globally significant" and is the subject of an exhibition at Bridport Museum.

The Plissarts came across dark shapes in a sandstone bed while exploring a local beach.

"We knew we had found something of immense scientific interest, so we contacted the Charmouth Fossil Centre immediately," said Mr Plissart.

The landowner later gifted the fossil to Bridport Museum.

Grant funding was used to prepare it for study by experts at Bristol University, whose paper on the find is being peer reviewed

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026/5975-new-megaraptorid-from-patagonia

I don't see a lot of news regarding this is foreign media, but we are very excited in Croatia. Everything is still being excavated, so good luck to the team, especially cause it's an underwater site.

In this area a new species was already discovered back in the 90's, Histriosaurus boscariollii ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histriasaurus ).

Raleigh could be at the forefront of the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, as crews delivered the skeleton of a 75-million-year-old dinosaur to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Wednesday.

“ We’re thrilled, we’re thrilled, and everything went really well ” said Lindsay Zanno, the museum’s head of paleontology.

Paleontologists will research the skeleton inside the museum’s State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) Dino Lab.

“Really exciting moment for us. We brought in the coiled up skeleton of probably a new species of dinosaur,” Zanno explained.

Visitors will get an opportunity to visit the Dino Lab, which is part of the museum’s free admission, to see researchers work on the new dinosaur, as well as others.

“It’s just following along with what we built here at the North Carolina museum a few years ago when we opened the new dino lab.

We did that to study the dueling dinosaurs, which everyone knows and loves, but this is sort of the next phase of what’s going to take place at the museum,” said Zanno.

Zanno says the dinosaur would have looked like a large ostrich with a long tail. A scientist that collaborates with the museum discovered the skeleton in southern Utah.

The name is Paludohadros proudlovii it is an hadrosauroid that came from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of England, in the UK.

It is known from a partial skull and skeleton, both coming from the Weald Clay Formation, meaning it likely coexisted with animals such as Baryonyx.

The generic name, "Paludohadros" means "Swampy snout", referring to the belief that the fossils came from what once was a swampy environment. The specific name, "proudlovii", William Proudlove, who passed away not long before the material was excavated.

Here's a link to a article with more information on it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2026.2726221

Credits to Guilherme Gehr for the art

(They are miserable)

Hello everyone! I'm currently interested in the Mesozoic Sea. After some research, I found these two books that seem interesting. I want to know what the general opinion is on them, especially for a beginner level.

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou.

The amphibian is an armored, giant salamander-sized, bottom-dwelling ocean creature that the researchers named Gerrothorax maritimus. 

The research, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is based on the analysis of two nearly complete skeletons that date to the Late Triassic period nearly 237 million years ago. The fossils were discovered in an area of China’s Guizhou Province that was once covered by ocean and located hundreds of miles from large land masses. 

“This area is part of an ecosystem that we’ve been looking at and trying to reconstruct,” said study corresponding author Ryosuke Motani, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis.

“We’ve been mostly studying marine reptiles and the fish from this place, but now we also have this amphibian and it’s a sort of very unusual member of the lineage.” 

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant salamander-sized, bottom-dwelling ocean creature that the researchers named Gerrothorax maritimus. 

The research, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is based on the analysis of two nearly complete skeletons that date to the Late Triassic period nearly 237 million years ago. The fossils were discovered in an area of China’s Guizhou Province that was once covered by ocean and located hundreds of miles from large land masses. 

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01449-6

Researchers in northern Italy now get their turn at a cave full of prehistoric bear remains. Officials in South Tyrol have finished locking down the site, which sits high in the Dolomites near Badia. The bones belong to cave bears, either Ursus spelaeus or Ursus ladinicus, and the find has drawn attention well beyond the region.

Kurt Walde found the cave in early July. Archaeologists called the discovery a sensation. Christian Terzer, who directs the provincial Office of Archaeology, welcomed the public interest but saw a downside. Press coverage tells looters where to go. The cave entrance is remote, yet Terzer said his team expected treasure hunters to show up anyway. Keeping the site intact became the first priority.

Hey guys a bit of a weird request i know but if it's not a problem could you sine in a petition fore me? There is a fossil only one of the holotype thats about to be sold. Some people have started petition to stop it so that it dosen't become a private property. You don't have to pay or eneything. It would ask you to share thou. I can provide link if eneyone is interested.

It only asked fore name, surname and mail.

https://x.com/PaleontologieFr/status/2114748495835918540?s=20

Hi there! I think some of you may have seen a post I made a while back related to a project I’m hoping to start soon… I am making a life size Buitreraptor sculpture… and I was hoping to base the colors off of a great blue heron. The picture I attached to this is of a skeleton that is to scale that I drew over. The coloring is VERY messy (I apologize for that) and I did it just to get an idea of where the colors would go and what they would look like. I didn’t have the right shades of blue, but I think my vision is pretty clear?

Anyway I would love some feedback… do these colors look too vibrant? Do they work? Should I change the color placement? Etc…

Thank you in advance! The help is greatly appreciated!

(I do think I need to make the wings less dark and more of an ashy blue… and maybe fade the colors better…??)

The dilophosaurus is a bit chubby