My is now on display in Overland Park in the new exhibit To learn more, check out this short video I made on the science of creating this ft WATCH VIDEO > https://t.co/GN3il7f1sQ

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Morphology & phylogeny of fossil snake mackerels and cutlassfishes from Eocene London Clay Fm (Isle of Sheppey) https://t.co/CvnbrNV8mA

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For here's of battling Iguanodon. We're used to the idea of igaunodonts having huge thumb spikes to fight with, but they're quite small and/or blunt in many species. Iguanodon has very large thumb spikes however, and may have used them antagonistically.

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Dinosaur art by artist Charles R. Knight.
1) Leaping Laelops
2) Tyrannosaurus confronts a family of Triceratops
3) Nesting Protoceratops
4) Allosaurus eating a Brontosaurus

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CT scanning of a well-preserved Erlikosaurus skull revealed traits associated with a beak, & close relatives of this were known to sport feathers as well.

📸 Lautenschlager et al., 2014: https://t.co/gIiMsFutK6

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Drepanosaurus: genus of tree-dwelling reptiles that lived during the Triassic Era,~250-201MYA. They were insectivores & lived on coastal spots of what is modern-day Italy& midwestern USA. Discovered in 1979. They had hooked tails to aid in climbing&holding branches.

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Scientific illustrations in the mid 1800s were just stunning. This is a skull of a cave hyena from Somerset, in 'British Pleistocene Mammalia' (1866). (Art by J. Greene).

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Have spent a lot of this week working on a new Jurassic marine life mural (will be released soon), so here's for on the same theme: Jurassic ichthyosaur Ophthalmosaurus, plus bonus pterosaurs.

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Given the recent publication of young Spinosaurine material from Morocco, as well as the subsequent flood of artwork depicting a speculative young Spinosaurus, I thought I'd contribute for day one of and https://t.co/Nau6qh8cee

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Oh yeah, if this is a on the first day, I just can’t leave it without showing off with true events of feathered coloration of both Anchiornis (melanosomes) and Caihong (structural color).

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Looking forward to seeing the exhibit . Photos and reconstruction of the type specimen of Antarctosuchus, from my JVP article with Seb Steyer and Bill Hammer.

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~74 MYA, a Velociraptor & Protoceratops were locked in a fierce battle. Velociraptor plunged its rear claws deep into the neck of Protoceratops which responded by trying to rip the former's arm off. 1971: Polish-Mongolian team discovered them in S. Gobi Desert.

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yeah why are Chalicotheres so unloved?

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I thought this design created by my twin sister back in 2014 for one of our PSSA conferences would be appropriate to share on and

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For here's some of the British wukongopterid Cuspicephalus boldly facing a blustery day. Note that 'boldly' meant 'cowering behind quillworts' in the Jurassic.

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Sue is the largest, most extensive & best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen ever found at over 90% recovered. It was discovered in August 1990, by Sue Hendrickson, & is named after her. The fossil was auctioned for $8.3 million, the most ever paid for a fossil.

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