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New artwork for sale! - "strange fossils and sedimentary rock" - https://t.co/D2SzPnvn0i

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2018-09-05

Renowned paleontologist Sir Richard Owen named Coloborhynchus back in 1874. https://t.co/uq6i8sofdC

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2018-09-05

Unique fossils of the spinosaurids Oxalaia and Irritator are probably lost in the fire of the National Museum in Rio De Janeiro 🇧🇷
Art by Márcio Castro

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2018-09-04

New fossils show that the Spectacled Cormorant, an enormous bird once native to Japan, had a much wider range than anyone thought. https://t.co/aKaxrAmFJE

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2018-08-27

Yixianopterus is a mysterious from a strange group of flying reptiles known as the lonchodectids. https://t.co/xQ45aOqT3l

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2018-08-22

Since fossils don't preserve soft tissue, it's hard to tell what dinosaurs might have looked like. Many artists just leave off possible feathers, quills and skin flaps. If we drew modern animals this way, baboons might look like this.

(Credit: https://t.co/hxmDVQ3jf2)

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2018-08-15

Explore our scientific collections in a whole new way: From black rhinos to green abalones—& all the skulls, starfish, fossils, & California basketry in between—explore our new 700-specimen collection here: https://t.co/teIU1MOojY.

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2018-08-11

From the master of Peter Trusler. Come and see the real thing from today

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2018-08-09

010: Mayor

The name "Villager" is used for the classic Animal Crossing player's proportions, so I think "Mayor" is a good name to distinguish the New Leaf onward design!

Why's she got a shovel? TO DIG UP DIRT ON HER POLITICAL OPPONENTS and also to find fossils.

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2018-08-08

and I've finished my book chapter on wolves, so here are some views of the Pleistocene gray wolf (Canis lupus) skull found by Rev. MacEnery in Kents cavern. It was one of his favourite fossils.

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2018-08-03

in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology.

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2018-08-03

Scientists named Alamodactylus after, you guessed it, the Texas symbol of independence otherwise known as the Alamo. https://t.co/u5Ek8DxNge

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2018-08-01

Austriadraco is a basal from the Triassic Period of Austria. https://t.co/UBd9fSu1J6

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2018-07-26

Is it a shrimp? Is it a jellyfish?
Nope. It's pseudo-anomalocaris! Extremely happy because of how its fossils would confuse paleontologists in the future.

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2018-07-15

Eumecichthys fiski //

The unicorn crestfish lives in open water at around 1000 m (3300 ft) deep. Despite its slender body, fossils suggest that its early relatives looked more like their shorter, round-bodied cousin, the opah.

https://t.co/T8lXEbS5WF

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2018-07-13

new phylogeny of tetras and allies (4th largest fish family) based on huge morphological dataset: 520 characters for 473 species, including several fossils
Morphology, molecules and the phylogeny of Characidae (Teleostei, Characiformes)
https://t.co/2rANtNI2xH

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2018-07-05

Remembering French paleontologist Marcellin Boule His study of Neanderthals in the early 1900s is often pointed to as the source for the creatures' brutish image https://t.co/tNohDfb21W

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2018-07-04

Bergamodactylus is named after Bergamo province in Italy where it was found in the 1970s. https://t.co/YNvLG0koUs

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2018-06-06