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r/Paleontology

Παλαιός / Palæos - The Story of Life. A science-based community for discussing fossil findings, prehistoric life, and ancient ecosystems. Founded 2009 · 329.6K members

329.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.2K upvotes, which works out to 113 per 1,000 members.

113peak upvotes per 1,000 members
329.8Kmembers
37.2Kbest post
966most comments
412posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

41% 29% 19%
Image 41% Gallery 29% Link 19% Video 5% Text 4% Question 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Fossils 89 Discussion 70 PaleoArt 68 Question 40 Article 38 Other 34 Meme 30 Paper 26 MOD APPROVED 3 PaleoNews 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Spread the word around, everyone!

↑ 37.2K 💬 383 image 2026

After two years my Phanerozoic leg sleeve is finally finished. I included a marine creature from every period. Thought you might like it

↑ 13.7K 💬 534 gallery 2026

This fossil chokes me up everytime

↑ 11.4K 💬 307 image 2025

80 million years old

↑ 10K 💬 220 image 2025

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age officially announced

↑ 8.4K 💬 397 image 2025

I met my hero. Big day for me.

↑ 7.2K 💬 95 gallery 2026

Made a life size velociraptor sculpture for my science fair

↑ 7.2K 💬 221 gallery 2025

Intact Eryops Skull found in Texas!

↑ 6.6K 💬 101 image 2025

It's dangerous to be too tall

↑ 6.5K 💬 157 image 2025

Did dinosaurs had defensive displays to scare against predators like this one?

↑ 6.2K 💬 164 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Paleontology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Paleontology?
r/Paleontology ("Παλαιός / Palæos - The Story of Life") describes itself this way: A science-based community for discussing fossil findings, prehistoric life, and ancient ecosystems. It was founded in 2009 and has 329.6K members.
How many members does r/Paleontology have?
r/Paleontology has about 329.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 412 of its posts; the biggest reached 37.2K upvotes, which is 113 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Paleontology?
"Spread the word around, everyone!" reached 37.2K upvotes and 383 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Paleontology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Paleontology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes.
What kind of posts do best on r/Paleontology?
Of the posts we hold, 41% are image posts and 29% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Paleontology?
Across 412 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Paleontology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Paleontology has 5.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 43 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Paleontology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.