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October #Paleomoji game #3!
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Can you guess this FRIGHTNING FOSSIL? Stay tuned for HAUNTING HINTS, and put your GOULISH GUESSES below. As always answers tomorrow on #FossilFriday.
Mirarce is a cool animal, and I'm excited to help continue its story - I hope it'll play a role in continuing to learn how birds evolved their quick growth and fast-paced lives.
Art by @BrianEngh_Art from original paper.
In short, we found a lot of variation across the skeleton - implying that Mirarce grew differently, but also that multi-element sampling might be necessary to better understand the origins of bird growth.
Now that it's a New Year, relax and destress with #Paleomoji!!
It's the game where you guess the Paleontology animal or idea - This week a classic fossil!
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Welcome first timers! Please comment and retweet - but hint the answer if you're sure so others can guess!
Excited for #Paleomoji ? I am!
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#Paleomoji is a Paleontology centered #scicomm guessing game, with emoji as Paleo ideas - often extinct animals, but not today!
Tag friends to see if they can solve it! Put brags, jokes, guesses below, but try to hint - keep the mystery!
Uniquely, they had strange tooth-like structures in their bill. Birds lost teeth starting in the Mesozoic, but these giants re-evolved a substitute made of pointy bits of bone.