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It's What could be better than a nice little velociraptor episode of with the most famous juggler in the world, Penn Jillette! Here he is calling into question 'Survival Of The Fittest'. Listen to the rest here: https://t.co/Nncw2gAoKI

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2020-09-18

New for The three variants of Parvancorina a animal.

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2020-08-14

Ferocious Let me introduce you to the Late Miocene North American Eucyon ferox (previously Canis ferox), here in a wonderful by .

Wanna know what its was?
Read it in the work by me and Prof. Rook:
https://t.co/tGkuc3aEl6

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2020-05-30

Time for We like to think of tooth replacement as a tidy process. But here are 4 cross sections of jaws that show chunks of older teeth that were left behind in the bone! Happens a lot in animals that continually replace their teeth, like these extinct synapsids.

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2020-05-23

New paper by ME (and & Federico Anaya) for It's been such a boring week in so welcome my two new 13 Ma kids Olisanophus riorosarioensis (L) and Olisanophus akilachuta (R)!

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2020-05-02

Happy Here’s something I haven’t done in a while.

Yutyrannus huali, a giant, feathery Tyrannosauroid from the (sometimes snowy) Yixian Formation. It was a pack hunter, probably living in small family units.

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2020-04-25

Ammonite Fractals for + —Check out the suture patterns found inside fossilized shells. https://t.co/tzCleES4of

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2020-04-25

This display shows a growth series of claws and thigh bones (femora) from the Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus! This is why we love to have lots of specimens of the same species—we can learn tons about how these bones changed, inside and out!

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2020-03-06

"Houston...We have a PROBLEM🦖
Happy


[credits: artist unknown]

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2020-03-06

Happy We still don’t know how Radiodonts reproduced, but it probably started (at least in some species) during mass-moulting events, when large numbers of them got together to moult. See fossils of for example. (1/2)

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2020-02-15

Happy Tyrannosaurs were hotheaded - read all about this recent -supported research here: https://t.co/1BfSeCecCz

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2020-01-04

Two sides of the same coin for

Side A: skull of the new Mesenosaurus efremovi
Side B: postcrania of a mystery

Varanopid paper : https://t.co/MIMSCuYeCG
Dissorophid paper : https://t.co/pXBvY3l00Z

https://t.co/ofQLgjakO1

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2019-10-25

Happy Enjoy this aka the Shasta Ground Sloth.

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2019-09-07

Happy Here's a photogrammetry model of an Eryops pelvis from the Cambridge Museum of Zoology. It finally finished computing the dense point cloud (after days of continuous processing!). My first time using photogrammetry to model a specimen, pretty exciting!

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2019-09-06

19th century
Two marsupials pause on the spidery roots of a pandanus tree to watch ichthyosaur and plesiosaur prepare for battle. The scene, an for The Popular Encyclopedia (1888), features elements from several engravings by Riou.

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2019-08-30

Announcing “Palaeontology in Popular Culture” event on Monday 2 September, 18:00-20:15 at King’s College London, attached to the next workshop (in time for

Attendance free. Sign up here if you want to come along: https://t.co/StVXywOBV2

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2019-08-10

Happy

I drew this last year after opting into early access for a video game called This is a Dakotaraptor, the first of several playable dinosaurs in the game!

I need to draw more dinos.

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2019-07-20

A hefty for

Given their ponderous build and life in humid wetlands, I have her speculative algae growing on her filaments (inspired by sloths). Imagine it’s a way to get some camouflage without the nutrient cost of bright greens.

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2019-04-19

Happy Here's a hadrosaur skull I drew forever ago.

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2019-04-13