Darren Naish

tetzoo.bsky.social

23 February 2026 09:28

Hello again from the Natural History Museum at night

Dr Dave Hone

davehone.bsky.social

30 October 2025 21:49

I have literally seen people online referring to photos at a random angle of an incomplete arm on a table with no scale being used as an argument that Nanotyrannus had long arms. It was not exactly a compelling case!

Sophie M.

sophiesaurus98.bsky.social

30 October 2025 21:49

I so hope you’re wrong about this, but my intuition knows the wrong message is going to be taken away by people who have hinged a lot of their ego on Nanotyrannus. Good science is good science and there’s a world of difference between what a lot of pro-Nano arguments have been and this paper.

Dr Dave Hone

davehone.bsky.social

30 October 2025 21:49

this should be considered a victory for evidence and proper evaluation of data and science. But I'm sure it'll be considered as vindication that wanting something to be true and arm waving about what someone else said they measured on a specimen no one else had seen, gave the *right* answer.

Dr Dave Hone

davehone.bsky.social

30 October 2025 21:49

to be convinced. Now that has happened, people like me and @arctomet.bsky.social and @stevebrusatte.bsky.social are saying 'yes, this is convincing, Nano appears to be valid' *because* the scientific method was followed, and *not* because people *thought* that it was. In short...