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Main thrust of the piece is that efforts to move #cryptozoology into 'mainstream science' haven't succeeded, and that cz has functioned as a 'museum of ideas', and a hotbed of speculative thinking ... (image by me)
More #cryptids from the Bernard Heuvelmans list -- results at my patreon .... https://t.co/k1Q9BitOvy
False killer whale (#Pseudorca crassidens): described as a fossil by Owen in 1846 for a skull found in the Lincolnshire Fens of east England, but then discovered as a modern animal thanks to strandings of 1861 and 1862 [pics PD; Juan Ortega, CC BY-SA 3.0] 5/n #whales #cetaceans
Sorry to rain on the parade -- can't find a record of me saying this, and it's not true. He wasn't ever called Harry. #PrehistoricPlanet #Deinocheirus
Confession. I have lots of #PrehistoricPlanet memes and jokes and such on my phone. It was a golden age.
It's taken a few decades to get here but... FINALLY: the #Eotyrannus monograph (the bulk of my 2006 PhD thesis) is out and in print at @thePeerJ. I've published lengthy thoughts at #TetZoo (https://t.co/Jaa7ABXtvD) but here's a thread...
We describe Qianzhousaurus as ‘about 30 ft long’, which is a bit longer than what’s usually given (23 ft). However, we confirmed with @SteveBrusatte that this length is perfectly acceptable… [skull images from Lü et al. 2014: https://t.co/QLkaLhobyY] #dinosaurs