Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontologyさんのイラストまとめ

Halloween is just around the corner! Here’s an eerie photo of our “Black Beauty” T. rex specimen.
Let’s check in on our friends @RoyalAlberta and @ROMToronto. Knock knock, what have you got for us?
#MuseumTrickorTreat

This partial Cryodrakon skeleton is from a juvenile. Adults may have had a 10-metre wingspan. The tibia has tooth marks and a broken Saurornitholestes tooth embedded in it, the first of its kind in a Cretaceous fossil, evidence of scavenging. Art © @MarkWitton.

The fossils were initially thought to belong to one of the largest flying reptiles ever known, Quetzalcoatlus. In 2019, researchers recognized it as a new species, and named it Cryodrakon boreas, ‘cold dragon of the north winds.’ Art © Gabriel Ugueto @SerpenIllus

For this week’s #MonthOfTheArtist spotlight, we’re highlighting the work of Eric Fossi. Eric is a classically trained artist who graduated from @AlbertaUArts in 1999 with a B.F.A. He then completed a B.Ed. from @UCalgary in 2006 with art pursued as a hobby in his spare time.

A new paper sheds light on face-biting behaviour in tyrannosaurs. Researchers led by our Dr. Caleb Brown found that facial bite scars link aggression between rival tyrannosaurs of comparable size, likely coinciding with sexual maturity. Learn more: https://t.co/ZlyPSNMpaf

In the Cambrian Period, this was the ‘it crowd.’ Show some love by tagging your squad! #MemeMonday

Check out this @CanadianMint glow-in-the-dark hatching hadrosaur coin from 2019! Alberta is one of the few places in the world where dinosaur embryos have been found. A large nesting site was discovered at Devil’s Coulee in southern Alberta in 1987.

T. rex only survived for ~2 million years before the extinction event. Canadian T. rex fossils include our ‘Black Beauty’ and ‘Huxley’ specimens from Alberta, and ‘Scotty’ from Saskatchewan. The coin’s illustration by Julius Csotonyi had scientific input from our Dr. Therrien.

Happy Easter to you and your family!

Introducing Fluvionectes sloanae, a new elasmosaurid plesiosaur from southern Alberta! This species was found in river and estuary settings, unlike most plesiosaurs, which are marine. Illustration by Andrea Elena Noriega.