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Very rough first attempt at a size chart here, I pretty much eyeballed it based on skeletals, etc. Mostly wanted to see what they all looked like together!

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2018-12-19

Pterosaurs had FEATHERS!?! In a 🌟NEW🌟 study released in : Ecology and Evolution today shows that two anurognathid fossils found in China had primitive feathers to help keep them warm just like many

Learn more: https://t.co/KPb5Xpk3gX

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2018-12-17

hello yes i have learnt what swans would look like if they were depicted "under-feathered" like we do dinosaurs, based on fossils. sweet dreams everyone

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2018-12-16

No. 138: Omanyte
Spiral Pokémon

It was restored from an ancient fossil. Those Helix Fossils are excavated from areas that were once oceans long, long ago.

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2018-12-11

My Australian Paleobotany 30 day challenge zine is now available! Link in bio. This full colour zine includes all 30 watercolour and gouache illustrations and follows 500 million years of plant evolution known from Australian fossils. 🌏🌿

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2018-12-07

Happy Enjoy this gorgeous piece by our featured paleoartist, Raven Amos. creates with vivid colors! Learn more about her and visit her digital art gallery here: https://t.co/943TiXuXTb

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2018-12-07

This is Mammut americanum, better known as the American It is the best-known species of the genus Mammut, and one of the best-known and most popular of Cenozoic animals.

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2018-12-06

Yet another named by famous paleontologist Harry Seeley, Ornithostoma hails from the Early Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand Formation. https://t.co/4OxXZI6kLR

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2018-12-06

of I hope they make a jurassic park type dealie in Pokemon someday, I feel like reviving fossils to populate a park (instead of just handing 'em over to a person at a desk) would be a lotta fun.

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2018-12-06

Loganellia, a jawless thelodont w/ a square body & distinctive covering of spiny scales (that I prolly made too large). Gave it a coloration befitting its likely habitat of shallow coastal waters or reefs.

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2018-12-02

Uktenadactylus was named after Uktena, a giant horned snake from Cherokee mythology. https://t.co/ZCY2yMHDFa

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2018-11-28

Art trade with
Remember, do not touch shiny fossils because they can include a curse inside of them
https://t.co/sF9plZYx7U

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2018-11-23

Paleontologists found Kepodactylus rather unexpectedly while digging up a Stegosaurus in the famous Morrison Formation of Colorado. https://t.co/rq5RoCxTqm

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2018-11-21

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

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2018-11-17

Megatherium is an extinct species of giant ground sloth. Charles Darwin Collected several fossils relating to Megatherium while exploring South America on the Voyage of the Beagle. (2/5)

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2018-11-16

One of my biggest "paleoart pet peeves" is when trilobites are reconstructed as if someone just dropped their chocolate-brown fossils right onto the seafloor. If living arthropods are any indication, they were likely very diverse in color and patterning!

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2018-11-12

If you don’t know, I love dinosaurs and ancient fauna, fossils are fascinating for me, so here’s a little idea I had to take off my system.

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2018-11-11

Found in Cretaceous rocks in Romania in the 1980s, Eurolimnornis was originally thought to be a bird. https://t.co/1znPjEtR5m

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2018-11-08

Basic Tools for collecting fossils/Minerals.

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2018-11-07