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

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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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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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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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fossils and flowers!

print available here:
https://t.co/BsYKVmC3FR

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

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New on Pteros: Carniadactylus lived about 215 million years ago near the northern shore of the ancient Tethys Ocean. https://t.co/4eKpuu9uB9

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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.

https://t.co/n5IwBL3H36

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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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Fish fact: The earliest relatively-complete fish fossils date around 470 million years ago. Here are artist renditions of Arandaspis from Australia (470my old) and Sacabambaspis (450my) from Bolivia. Both are armored jawless fishes.

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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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