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MeetBrevirostruavis macrohyoideus! This Enantiornithine bird is notable for the hyoid structure which indicates it likely had a long tongue, similar to today’s woodpeckers. Here it uses that tongue to lick up small insects from early flowering plants, and maybe a bit of pollen too.
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Yessss! Finally, I get to share the illustrations I did for Casey Youngflesh and his Ph.D research! Go check out Youngflesh et al. 2022 for the details, but in short, he used a whole lot of bird banding data (from The Institute for Bird Populations’ Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship program) to demonstrate differences in wing shape and body size within species, and how those things are actually changing in response to climate change (as the world gets warmer, birds get smaller). Crazy stuff!
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Liopleurodon t-shirt
Liopleurodon was a short-necked plesiosaur that lived during the Jurassic and rose to fame because of its appearance in Walking with Dinosaurs.
And plesiosaurs weren’t dinosaurs! Dinosaurs never evolved fully aquatic forms, the closest they got to it are penguins and Spinosaurus.
Design by Greco Westermann
Therizinosaurus t-shirt
Therizinosaurus lived in the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia some 70 million years ago. It is also one of the latest dinosaurs to be turned into a movie monster by the Jurassic World franchise. Available as a t-shirt in multiple sizes and colors.
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Design by David Orr
Eudimorphodon t-shirt
Eudimorphodon is a pterosaur from the Late Triassic and one of the oldest known pterosaurs.
Design by Greco Westermann
Dinosaur Fancier t-shirts
Like most paleonerds, you probably have a favorite type of dinosaur. Maybe you are a fan of theropods, maybe you are more into sauropods or maybe you are more of a ceratopsian person. No matter what sort of dino you prefer we’ve got you covered! Choose one of out t-shirts and let us know what you fancy.
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Designs by David Orr
Survive unisex t-shirt
At first I was afraid, I was petrified…
If Lystrosaurus survived the greatest mass extinction event on Earth, you can probably make it through the week!
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Design by David Orr
Pteranodon t-shirt
Pteranodon is one of the most iconic and well-known pterosaurs. And pterosaurs were not dinosaurs.
Design by Greco Westermann
Spinosaurus unisex sweatshirt
Have you heard about the newest Spinosaurus paper? It suggests that Spino may have been able to swim after all!
Design by @grecovia
Ask me About t-shirts
Do you ever wish you could get the chance to talk about paleontology more often? Of course, you do! Well, problem solved with any of these fun t-shirts. Get conversations started with strangers over topics like pterosaurs, dinosaurs (even feathered dinosaurs!) and evolution.
Designs by David Orr
Prehistoric Amphibians poster
These prehistoric amphibians, ranging from the tiny Microbrachis to the 30 ft long behemoth Prionosuchus, roamed the earth’s swamps and wetlands millions of years ago. They are now gathered together for a primordial swamp party in this charming full-color poster.
Design by Caroline Fleet
Paleo Pattern sweatshirts
Spring is just around the corner, but it can still get pretty chilly. Keep warm with these lovely paleoart pattern by Caroline Fleet.
Hell Creek Tyrants unisex t-shirt
The Hell Creek Tyrants, perhaps the only sports team you truly care about now.
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Design by David Orr
Dimetrodon unisex t-shirt
Dimetrodon was a predatory non-mammalian synapsid from the early Permian, and definitely not a dinosaur.
Design by Greco Westermann
I Left My Heart In t-shirts
You may be living in the present day, but you left your heart in a different time. Choose from 16 different ages in multiple t-shirt sizes and colors.
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Design by David Orr
Bird Evolution sweatshirt
A fun pattern showing some of the stages in the evolution of non-avian theropod dinosaurs into full fletched birds. Can you spot the transition?
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Paraves > Eumaniraptora > Euavialae > Ornithothoraces > Aves.
Design by Greco Westermann
