Tom Parker

Its my birthday today, and good news! You can celebrate by reading my fully illustrated new article on the prehistoric animals of Jurassic World Dominion, what we know of their life appearance & behavior, and how that compares to the film: jurassicparkterror.com/jurassic-par...

An assortment of ferns from the Late Cretaceous of North America, as described by Holian et al. 2026. Specimens come from the Denver, Hell Creek and lower Raton Formations. I only included those found in the Cretaceous (and excluded a couple I deemed not worth illustrating.)

I just used an extremely cheesy line on an extremely beautiful girl and it worked

Apatosaurus sketch while watching Apex (2026), based on an old GSP skeletal

Kentrosaurus - Beasts of the Mesozoic

There's a dude at the gym rn watching avatar the last airbender on his phone during his workout

There was no milk left in the work fridge so i had to have soy milk for the first time and it's lowkey really good I get it now

Saw about 15 guitarfish on my walk this morning, so I don't have any problem picturing how common Myledaphus was in Hell Creek anymore

Sketch: dacentrurine and stegosaurine stegosaurs coexisting in the Morrison Formation

Alnashetri cerropoliciensis

Tired but couldn't help myself, so quick Spinosaurus mirabilis sketch. Proportions just taken from the paper (Sereno et al. 2026).

Taurovenator violantei sketch (very much based on skeletal by Dan Folkes)

Tyrannosaurus rex 2026 AMNH 5027 is the best one, sorry. In my mind there is no contest.

The new iguanodont with novel skin coverings. In addition to the large scute-like scales on the tail, the body is covered with what the author's describe as "spikes". The largest ones are about 4 cm long but almost a cm thick, resembling short quills. The smaller ones are hair or eyelash-like.

We've only got a trailer to go off but is the new monster from the Monarch show the best original kaiju Legendary has done? I do like the MUTOs and I though the ones from the first season of monarch weren't bad either.

The fact that "edtwt" is not a bunch of people supporting each other in their eating disorder recovery journeys, but instead a frighteningly large community of very mentally ill girls in social competition with each other over who can eat the fewest calories is a genuine horror story to me.

I just read this passage in The Lost World (the Crichton one) describing the main villain, and it's hysterical how perfectly this describes Elon Musk.

So tiktoks now have little button thay just says "AI" on them 🙄 I'm scared to even find out what it does

Earliest Cenozoic ammonoids: Machalski, M., Olszewska-Nejbert, D., Landman, N.H. et al. Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark. Sci Rep 15, 45802 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Why did they even make Minya so busted? Like they didn't have to do that. Godzilla Junior isn't busted

Check out this piece by Jason Broughham from 2013 btw, he was cooking. He even describes it as having Ptilophyllum leaves.

Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.

Yoooo the teaser for a game I did creature designs for came out. Stay to the end to see my beautiful baby boy youtu.be/iUY6bFjivWU

A dear friend of mine has had an awful event happen right before the holidays - their home caught fire and they've lost so much. They and their pets are safe, but it's really been a massive blow to them. Anything helps - even just spreading the word. gofund.me/c7f1ff97f

Corporations don't give you free stuff for naming your child after them anymore. Netflix would be a beautiful name for a baby girl but they don't respond to my emails.

I've been listening to The Hobbit audiobook and there is a line that directly implies that football exists in Middle Earth.

#Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern Last week, I attended the EMBO workshop in Vienna on early land plants and terrestrialisation. There, I presented my research on rhacophytalean evolution, focusing on a reappraisal of the genus Cephalopteris from the latest Famennian of Bjørnøya. 🌿🌿

I haven't had much time or energy to do illustrations for myself lately, but yesterday I finally got the drive and managed to do two. This is Edmontosaurus annectens, incorporating the new soft-tissue data, as well as some inspiration from the re-described Red Willow Edmontosaurin.

Nanotyrannus lancensis (pencil lines, 2025)

Alright, now that I'm not on the road - full thread on our new azhdarchoid phylogeny paper and what it means for pterosaurs big (like this one) and small! 1/23

I am losing my mind at the tiny babies oh my god

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

Got aged like 50 thousand years today when my co-worker told me she STARTED year 7 in 2019. She's 19 now and graduated last year. Wtf do you mean 2019 wasn't like 2 years ago? I had to do the maths in my head like 3 times over.

I wanted to do something for this little guy (Zavacephale), especially because there are good plant fossils from the same formation he is found in, but this is all I had the energy for.

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

Lmao rest in piss bozo

New dromaeosaurid, Shri rapax. What an amazing fossil!

Let me cook

I've seen lots of suggestions for what real prehistoric animal could have replaced the "mutadon" in Jurassic World Rebirth. Having seen the film now, I couldn't stop thinking what if it was a ground-dwelling predatory pterosaur, like has been suggested for Thalassodromeus.