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At 36 I've begun working @hastings_museum. In this display is Williamsonia carruthersii, a cycad found at Fairlight by Philip J Rufford who coincidently retired to Hastings at age 36. There's also his sketch of the type specimen he sent to @NHM_London next to it. #FossilFriday
Pouring one out for the old mounts you totally forgot aren't in #deeptime. Dolichorhynchops, Cotylorhynchus, Paramylodon, and Eurhinodelphis. #FossilFriday
#FossilFriday The 5 Dmanisi skulls (CT-based visualization): D2700/D2735 adolescent; D2282/D211 young adult virtual reconstruction; D2280 adult; D4500/D2600 adult; D3444/D3900 old edentulous adult. Source: Lordkipanidze et al 2013 DOI: 10.1126/science.1238484
The genus Dicynodon was established 174 years ago by Richard Owen. There are two species of this icon: D. lacerticeps 🇿🇦, and now D. angielczyki 🇹🇿 named yesterday (!) for the outstanding Ken Angielczyk of the @FieldMuseum and my #postdoc #advisor #FossilFriday
#FossilFriday @NHM_London The first adult Neanderthal discovered (Forbes’ Quarry, Gibraltar, 1848)
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August 20, 1831, birthyday of Austrian geologist Eduard Suess: He studied volcanoes 🌋 fossils (named a dinosaur) 🦕 and realized that there were various orogenic phases in time 🌍He also named the early supercontinent of Gondwana https://t.co/rCH4iglPxx
Former SRELian Jim Knght & #SCStateMuseum Curator of Natural History Dave Cicimurri discover a new species of shark, Isogomphodon aikenensis, from studying fossilized teeth found in kaolin pits near Aiken, SC. It is very similar to modern daggernose sharks. #AikenSharks #UGASREL
Happy Discovery Day! 110 years ago TODAY Earl Douglass discovered the site we today call the Carnegie Quarry Exhibit Hall at @DinosaurNPS From the first 8 tail vertebrae of Apatosaurus discovered, to now, this site has yielded fossils from 100s of individual dinosaurs!#NPSPaleo
A Quick Overview of Some of the Evidence for Evolution
🧬 The Fossil Record
🧬 Anatomical Similarities
🧬 Evolutionary Vestiges
🧬 Selective Breeding
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Old-middle-new #paleoart of #Guanlong wucaii over the course of about 6 months.
#FossilFriday
Worked two historic Cloverly Fm quarries this summer with @astrophocaudia & @paleorocco : the Gobiconodon & Deinonychus quarries!
#Gobiconodon = top 5 coolest #MesozoicMammals ever
#Deinonychus = almost as cool as a mammal
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Happy #fossilfriday and Unearthing day to my MASSIVE friend, @SCOTTYtheTREX !!
Extinct monster penguin which lived 60 million years ago was bigger than Danny DeVito https://t.co/EQBwr2Ki2D #FossilFriday
Happy discovery day and #fossilfriday to @SCOTTYtheTREX, the largest #tyrannosaurus. Today marks the anniversary of when Scotty was discovered. Artwork by Beth Zaiken
Could Evolution Ever Bring Back the Dinosaurs?
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Enormous penguins evolved rapidly after the demise of the dinosaurs. Human-sized penguin fossil discovered in New Zealand https://t.co/yCzzVuDgcO