252MYA

We did it! The Sternberg Museum of Natural History is staying open. Fort Hays State called off the December closure after people who love the place raised the money in less than a month. There's still matching money to unlock, so if you can, chip in. fossi.ls/sternberg-252

Joschua Knüppe's new book is nearly here. He flips through the proof of #Paleostream 3, and it opens on Kickstarter November 2. Follow it at fossi.ls/ps3

Last day for 20% off everything at 252MYA. The National Fossil Day sale ends tonight at 11:59 PM Eastern. https://fossi.ls/nfd-252

Everything at 252MYA is 20% off for National Fossil Day, Wednesday through Sunday. No code needed. https://fossi.ls/nfd-252

The next book from 252MYA. #Paleostream 3 by Joschua Knüppe goes to Kickstarter on Monday, November 2. Follow the pre-launch page and you'll know the moment it opens. https://fossi.ls/ps3

14 extinct echinoderms, painted by @franzanth.bsky.social. Seirocrinus, the long pink one in the middle, was a sea lily that hung upside down from driftwood in Jurassic seas. Now a poster and a framed print. https://fossi.ls/wdRVYb

Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops gets the Miami Vice treatment on our Flaming Cliffs retro merch. https://fossi.ls/KJKDPz

Atopodentatus went from zipper-mouth (2014) to vacuum-cleaner-faced (2016) when two new fossils revealed the first was crushed. Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social https://fossi.ls/tgvnRD

Dimetrodon teutonis was the first Dimetrodon found outside North America. It lived in Germany's Tambach Formation with Eudibamus, the oldest known reptile that ran on two legs. Diorama by Stieven Van der Poorten, now a poster. https://fossi.ls/YNx8bJ

Funded. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide closed on Kickstarter at $61,525 from 965 backers, more than five times our goal. Thank you. The book goes to print, painted entirely by hand, and ships in January. Late pledges still open: fossi.ls/ks

PaleoTube just went live. Every great paleontology video on YouTube, organized by time period and taxon. @paleotube.com — https://fossi.ls/fZz9gG/bs

We're publishing Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, and it's at 201% with 25 days to go. 388 pages, every known pterosaur, illustrated by the paleoartists whose work you've seen on our prints and shirts for years. https://fossi.ls/ks

From the team behind 252MYA: Pterosaurs: The Field Guide is now funding on Kickstarter. 252 species, fully illustrated, in one volume, including the one paleontologists named after the flying creature in Avatar. Twenty paleoartists, several of whom you already own on a shirt. https://fossi.ls/ks

Five years in the making. Our book launches on Kickstarter this Saturday, August 1 at 10 AM Eastern. @pterosaursfieldguide.com — over 200 genera, every one illustrated, by twenty paleoartists. https://fossi.ls/fgKS/bs

Meet Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the vampire squid from hell. Not a squid, not an octopus, doesn't drink blood, grows to 30cm. Sole surviving species of its order, lives 600–900m down in oxygen-minimum zones. Eats "marine snow." Art by Lucas Lima. #Vampyroteuthis #DeepSea

How do you get an entire animal wrong? Twice. Hallucigenia sparsa was drawn upside-down and back-to-front. Better fossils in 2015 revealed the actual head, with eyes and a ring of teeth. What everyone had called the head was a decaying gut. Cambrian lobopodian. Art by Andrey Atuchin. #Paleoart

Xenokeryx amidalae. Named after Padmé Amidala from Star Wars because its horns resemble her hairstyle. Miocene ruminant from central Spain, about 16 million years ago. One of the extinct three-horned palaeomerycids. Poster by Lucas Lima. fossi.ls/Xk8mBz #Xenokeryx #Paleoart

Here's the flip-through video we teased yesterday. Five years, twenty illustrators, 200+ genera. Kickstarter August 1. pterosaursfieldguide.com #Pterosaurs

Our new book, Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, just showed its printed hardcover for the first time. Five years, twenty illustrators, 200+ genera. Kickstarter August 1. https://fossi.ls/Nev1YT/bs #Pterosaurs

Every T. rex you've seen came from Hell Creek. The formation preserves the last 700,000 years of the Cretaceous in badlands across Montana and the Dakotas. Right above sits the K-Pg iridium layer from Chicxulub. Art: Franz Anthony. fossi.ls/HcRk8T #HellCreek #Paleontology

252MYA helped kick off the Paleo Network, so of course we're in it. Go find the other sites, each one made with the same care we put into ours: paleo.network

Pteros has a new look! And includes a complete hall of exhibits!

Ten glyptodont heads, side by side, so you can see just how different the group was. They were giant armored cousins of armadillos, the biggest the size of a small car. Drawn as a classic natural history plate by @joschuaknuppe. See it at https://fossi.ls/1ABDut/bs

Our new book is launching on Kickstarter August 1! Click through to get notified.

New drop: the Yeehaw F**k the Law rocks glass. Featuring Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis — a Late Cretaceous tyrannosauroid from Alabama, recast as the outlaw it was always destined to be. Art by Caroline Fleet. Go on, skedaddle. 252mya.com/yeehaw

New apron drop. Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis, Cretaceous tyrannosauroid from Alabama, recast as the outlaw he was meant to be. The long American tradition of telling unjust authority to kindly go to hell, in time for July 4 grilling. Art by soft biology. fossi.ls/Yh7CtF/bs

DJ Washington's Be Gay Velociraptor has been in the lineup since 2023, still a Pride classic. Soft cotton tee and men's tank live at https://fossi.ls/xTDBFd/bs. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists.

Day six of six. Tupandactylus tank + sticker are live, completing the Mortimer Moudry Pride series. Patterned in the Progressive flag, rainbow plus trans and BIPOC stripes. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. 252mya.com/tpf

Day five of six. Ouranosaurus tank + sticker are live. Patterned in lesbian-flag red-orange, orange, white, pink, and dark pink. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. https://fossi.ls/DlWsef/bs

Day four of six. Velociraptor tank + sticker are live. Patterned in asexual-flag black, grey, white, and purple. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. https://fossi.ls/tpMzKF/bs

Day three of six. Dilophosaurus tank + sticker are live. Twin head crests rendered in nonbinary flag yellow, white, purple, and black. We're adding both formats to all six Mortimer Moudry Pride designs this week. 10% to 500 Queer Scientists. https://fossi.ls/9VBtJm/bs

Day two of six. Amargasaurus tank + sticker are live. Those paired neck spines patterned in bi-flag pinks, purples, and blues. We're adding both formats to all six Mortimer Moudry Pride designs this week. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. https://fossi.ls/oMOvza/bs

Day one of six. Spinosaurus tank + sticker are live. We're adding both formats to all six Mortimer Moudry Pride designs this week, one species a day. 10% of every Pride sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. https://fossi.ls/sQzQGR/bs

Happy Dinosaur Day. 🦕 Six favorites from the catalog, in honor of the day. https://fossi.ls/90hCxm/bs

Happy Pride Month. We announced our new Pride collection last week. Now, 10% of every Pride Month sale goes to 500 Queer Scientists. 🦕🏳️‍🌈 https://fossi.ls/79Xghg/bs

Titanis walleri was the only terror bird to make it north of Central America. This Pleistocene apex predator stalked Florida's grasslands with powerful legs and a hooked beak. Art by @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social. Available at 252mya.com/titanis

Ground sloths were built different. Check out the new merch featuring art by @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social at 252MYA.COM/GSLOTH

Smilodon's iconic canines are now on merch, courtesy of @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social. Grab the design at 252MYA.COM/SMILO.

Doedicurus rocked a body built like a tank and a club tail that could deliver serious damage. Now it's on merch by @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social: 252mya.com/doedicurus

PaleoTube: paleontology videos, curated. Discoveries, digs, deep-time explainers, organized by time period and topic. Coming soon. Early-access signups at paleotube.com. #PaleoTube #Paleontology

T. rex or Spinosaurus? Land predator GOAT debate. T. rex: 5 tonnes of bite force, bone-crusher. Spinosaurus: nearly 2x as long, semi-aquatic, eats fish. Pick a side. #Paleontology #Dinosaurs