Ashley W Poustさんのイラストまとめ

The Eocene world was a different place! 42 million years ago, Diegoaelurus stalked a warm, wet, forested California, hunting prey that may have included early primates and tapirs.

New species of Capybara from California!
H. hesperotiganites, the Western Pancake capybara (I'm not making this up, see the flattened skull)
1/4 #FossilFriday #ROUS @SDNHM

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.

Cusk, my Precious https://t.co/fQorXWfNIk

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!

@CoastalPaleo @MrDanZak @OKnox

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.