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"A fight to the End" -bull Columbian mammoths. This fossil was found in Nebraska, 1962.
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LOCKED IN TIME
Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
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A short thread about my new book, PROJECT:TEPUI which is on Kickstarter right now. The book documents an imagined 1930s expedition to the jungles of South America, in search of Dinosaurs. (1/4)

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A pair of fighting mammoths – brought to life from one of the most extraordinary fossils you NEVER knew existed!

The specimen was found in Nebraska, 1962.

Learn more in my new book, “LOCKED IN TIME”, illustrated by .

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Happy Here’s Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ ‘Cretaceous Life of New Jersey’ (1877).

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The Bone Hunter in this months issue, is the fascinating story of Mary Anning, one of the greatest fossil hunters and the first person to discover a complete Ichthyosaurus skeleton. Brilliant art by Miriam Serafin https://t.co/OH00FUvuPO

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Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils https://t.co/VCefc1YnnK

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Arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur? Evidence of degenerative condition in fossil remains of marine reptile from the Jurassic.

Sassoon et al 2012 Palaeontology: Cranial anatomy, taxonomic implications and of an Upper Jurassic pliosaur
https://t.co/7lP3zsiNBS

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Day 5 of Today we have Prorastomus, the ancient ancestor of modern day Sirenia (manatee & dugong) that lived 40 million years ago. Unlike it's aquatic descendants, the fossils indicate it was more terrestrial-based.

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Here's old, outdated reconstruction of a tanystropheid - where it's elongate cervical (neck) vertebra were treated as extension of phalanges (pterosaur wings). Now it's accepted they likely were long-necked aquatic animals, based on its wonderful fossils (check out its skull!)

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Another closer look at 1 of the 50 paintings I produced for...
Locked in Time
Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
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This painting, The Carcass Collector, features Archaeotherium
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Many fossil mandibles and maxillae of Homo have multiple mental or infraorbital foramina. This happens when the nerves or vessels branch more deeply within the bone, instead of in the superficial tissue. It's not clear why this was more common in some past populations.

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Lucigenus...
... The Hallucigenia Pokemon - Psychic

Its primitive brain should not be capable of psychic power, yet it can create an odd, hallucinatory space around it when threatened. Even studying its fossils had anomalous effects that inflicts confusion onto researchers.

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Question: What’s your favourite fossil pokemon ?

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That pokemon fossil exhibit 100% revived my will finish my Jurassic Pokemon Region 😍🥺

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Tail weaponry in ankylosaurs and glyptodonts by
Victoria M. Arbour and Lindsay E. Zanno is now open access:
https://t.co/I2SQtAhAHH

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We have some fossils preserving soft tissue (including a polyctylid) showing plesiosaurs actually had pretty slim necks and that most of the fat was around the tail and front flippers

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Hey ~ De retour avec un de la 1g, on accueille le pokemon fossile, Kabutops ! ~

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Bird fossils best fossils

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