Mastodon jaw comparison with photogrammetric Left, American mastodon from Louisiana, collection. Right, Pacific mastodon holotype , collection.

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Brain endocasts of immature Neandertals Engis 2 (left) and Krapina 1 (right). Although brain size of each was within the adult range of variation, similar to humans kids today, they probably still would have had lots of development left

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Here's my newest piece "Mountain Monsters" with detail shots in the other tweet below! Been a long time and there's definitely things I'd go over again, but it's done and time to move onto something else.

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day 12 : Acheloma
Coming from the early permian of north america, we have the big nose trematopid for the twelfth day of

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Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis

(Based on the skeletal by Scott Hartman)

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This students checking out iguanodon prints and dinosaur brains in the Cretaceous of Suffolk 🥳

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Know any good babysitters for This is the ‘Babysitter’ bone bed containing multiple, exceptionally preserved baby Psittacosaurus dinosaurs that were buried alive by an ancient volcanic debris flow.

I know, I know, that’s tragic. But it makes an incredible fossil!

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Studying some smaller but just as important fossil for

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New paper out! The virtual endocast of a Pliocene balaenopterid from Italy with chimp-like encephalization quotient!

Brain, Behavior and Evolution - doi: 10.1159/000519852

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It's been 1 year since the description of Eomonachus, the first southern monk seal! Here's the amazing reconstruction by 🦭

Paper: https://t.co/g7Wg74ljiV

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How did ancient Greeks interpret large, unfamiliar Miocene-Pleistocene fossils around the Aegean?

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Here's Zuul, who just wrecked a theropod's leg for getting in its way 💪

Really earning that name "Destroyer of Shins"

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Os Ceratogaulus são roedores extintos que se extinguiram no começo do Pleistoceno. São os únicos roedores com chifres e os menores mamíferos a ter chifres. Provavelmente eram usados para defesa destes simpáticos roedores cavadores

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Day 5: FIVE! On this and I present my five favorite paleontology cases at the showing off several cool from

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Happy ! Check out these super cool 3D images by of bones from Ferrisaurus sustutensis BC’s Mountain Dinosaur https://t.co/om5vbm8zPr
Click the image to move it around and examine every surface.

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It's so here are a few cool-looking dinosaur paintings.

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For the final of - and given it's nearly halloween - let's meet a fossil parasite! This beautiful tick was preserved in Eocene (~44–49 million year old) amber, and was reconstructed in 3D by using high resolution CT. Fossil left, digital render right.

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