Yixian pterosaurs //

This formation in China is among the richest known site for Cretaceous Period fossils all over the world. It was a lakeside environment with a number of feathered dinosaurs and a variety of pterosaurs that fed on fish.

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Famous British paleontologist Richard Owen mistakenly identified Lonchodectes as Pterodactylus way back in 1851. This seems to have happened a lot. https://t.co/93epUzaQtU

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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. But if we drew modern animals the same way - well, baboons might look like this. 🖼️: https://t.co/kmWy3LBW5J

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Every time someone tells me “crocodiles are living fossils, they have never changed in millions of years” I go and reconstruct one of the MANY odd looking pseudosuchians (croc-line archosaurs) that will appear in my book

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時期的にはもう少し前でしたが「Daily fossils」というMVを作ってました。1年早いなぁ。part1

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It's not a garlic. Or maybe it is?

Inaria is a shallow water thingy that lived 550 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Australia and Russia. It's a ~mysterious~ creature but paleontologists suspect it might be related to corals and jellyfishes.

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Both fossil specimens of Prejanopterus show a snout curved to the left. If this is not distortion of the fossil, Prejanopterus is surely one of the weirdest https://t.co/OJgmPKFOga

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New at Enough With the 'Duckbilled Dinosaurs'! Do you know how long it took to draw all those goddam scales? https://t.co/J0ULT5WYF3

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Illustrations inspired by the complexity of rocks and fossils: https://t.co/QL76DCyrY9

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The exceptional fossil of Beipiaopterus contains preserved skin with blood vessels that may have been used for regulation of body heat. https://t.co/3aOLdA5HCj

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Vampyronassa //

Vampyronassa was described as a vampire squid relative from the Mid-Jurassic. Though similar in appearance, some people doubt the classification due to the trickiness of analyzing cephalopod fossils.

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NEW Spider Bandana & Invertebrate Fossil Bandana up for preorder, each in 2 colors! I'm really excited to introduce these new designs! https://t.co/U7XMQrW3jb

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DO U REMEMBER THESE FOSSILS??

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Sauropod-dominated tracksite discovered on Scottish Coast. Middle Jurassic dinosaur fossils are exceedingly rare, but new discoveries from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, are beginning to fill this gap, read more.. https://t.co/ldkiRjDCQB

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Here's some of Blathers because he's very under-appreciated!

If it wasn't for his passion to inspect your fossils only for you to sell them off to Tom Nook for a metric ton of cash anyway, you'd probably spend your whole life in debt to that filthy raccoon!

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March 23, 1769 marks the birthday of pioneering stratigrapher William Smith, who is credited creating the 1st true geological map & introducing the concept of index fossils to distinguish sedimentary layers https://t.co/2WGVnh9FJM

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Alcione was recently found in a treasure trove of fossils in Morocco. https://t.co/f1r95xrP2L

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This is Trefin, she likes the coast, fossils, cool rocks and girls

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Look at all the fossils found by year 1 from Magdalen Gates Primary as part of our Fossil Hunter workshop!

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