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we use lasers to vaporize small amounts of enamel from fossil teeth (like this troodontid allowing the released gases to be analyzed for their chemical composition?

This can reveal info about the diet, habitat, and physiology of extinct animals.

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2020-06-26

Byronosaurus one of the bird-like troodontids

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2020-06-23

Meet Hesperornithoides, a Jurassic Troodontid from the Morrison Formation! Congratulations to and all other authors. I was lucky enough to be commissioned to reconstruct it! Read the paper here: https://t.co/KUyUd9y6cf

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2019-07-10

With the Mesozoic narrowly in the lead, here are a couple Late Cretaceous troodontids that I drew in colored pencil around Fall 2017: Gobivenator & Saurornithoides.

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2019-06-14

This furtive little creature is Nodontoraptor australis, a descendant of derived Dwelling in the subtropical open forests of Late Eocene Texas, Nodontoraptor was named for one surprising anatomical feature: a completely toothless beak!

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2019-04-18

WIP very early stages of this reconstruction of the yet unnamed purportedly troodontid from the Late Jurassic Morrison formation often referred to as “Lori”. It is basically still a sketch at this point but I am starting to see how I want it to look

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2019-04-04

Half-hour speedsketch 3 featuring Arctodus, Alaskan Troodontid, Hyperodapedon( what my smiles look like ), and Temnodontossurus

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2018-09-12