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🚨Calling all animal lovers and aspiring paleontologists! 🚨 ANCIENT ARCTIC MAMMALS is officially available now. ⁣
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Learn all about the ancestors of Canada's Arctic wildlife including the puijila, the dire wolf, and giant short-faced bear.
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2020-12-11

Paleontologists discovered 3 extinct species in Orange County, CA, one of which has “semi-tusks”. This contributes to our understanding of tusk evolution.
Photo credit: (Biewer et al., 2020)
https://t.co/ieWnSDm6p7

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2020-11-20

And of course he breathed fire.
(Paleontologists, I love and respect you, please don't @ me)

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2020-10-05

Sphenacodon

A 3 meter long pelycosaur with a low bony crest running along its back, they where apex predators until therapsids like gorgonops replaced them

ALT: sphenacodon was actually discovered before dimetrodon, but didn't get much attention by paleontologists at the time

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2020-09-27

y’know it just hit me that dracovish and arctovish being fossilized dunkleosteus skulls is probably a joke on the fact that real paleontologists haven’t found fossils of the rest of the body yet

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2020-09-20

i thought the tully monster was a bad reconstruction by old paleontologists but like no, the fossils are very well preserved and show exactly uh. that

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2020-08-16

“Paleontologists: 80 million years ago, this monster ate on the giant alligatoroid /v

https://t.co/g4ArbdccFb

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2020-07-29

Some more pixel art cavepeople. %100 accurate to what paleontologists believe our ancient ancestors looked like. Really happy be a pixel paleoartist.

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2020-07-12

I was today years old when I learned that these 4 pokemon, who you get by taking fossils and resurrecting them in a certain order, are based on the real practice of paleontologists putting parts of different dinosaurs together to one-up each other in discovering new species.

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2020-06-17

Irritator, a Spinosaurid who got its name from the irritating hours it took paleontologists to fix the tampered skull they got from fossil poachers.

(Credit Fred Wierum)

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2020-06-10

Ankylosaur brain! From : "To Think Like a Paleontologists Created the Most Detailed 3D-Model of Ankylosaur Brain " https://t.co/0W2dmdP5HP

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2020-06-09

Greg S. Paul reassigned the species Deinonychus antirrhopus to the genus Velociraptor, as Velociraptor antirrhopus. This was not adopted by any other paleontologists, but Paul’s book was a primary source for Crichton.

Learn more: https://t.co/c0rQWhugEi

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2020-06-08

Dinosaur paleontologists have tons of options for simple icons of their taxa to use in talks, etc. I figured it's time us therapsid enthusiasts had something nice to use!
DM me to get the non-watermarked versions for $1. I'm happy to alter colors or add taxa if requested!

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2020-05-23

Our 2nd CENTRUM paleo series is this Friday! Join Dr. Mary Schweitzer, Dr. Phil Currie, Dr. Kristi Curry-Rogers, , & ! See what questions these paleontologists ask when the tables are turned and they get to interview one another. (more info below)

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2020-05-03

Paleontologists reveal ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’ https://t.co/SmFtTlSY88

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2020-04-26

A neat idea from
Ever wanted to make your own Well, you can!
Click on the link for a downloadable PDF, and you're on your way!
https://t.co/XFByGsrFk9

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2020-04-01

Paleontologists Solve Mystery of Cambrian Worm-Like Creature
https://t.co/Ff4Y5wlAKH

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2020-03-10

“Through paleoart, we can bring the often complex and abstract work paleontologists do to a general audience in a way that is interesting, eye-catching, and inspiring.” talks dinosaurs & more with on the blog: https://t.co/OzVp6JdIMm

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2020-02-28

Sixteen years later, paleontologists discovered a new species named Gigantoraptor in Inner Mongolia, China. Since Gigantoraptor is a giant oviraptor that could grow as long as 26 feet (8 meters), it isn’t surprising that they laid huge eggs.

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2020-02-15