since last time I shared an unfinished piece (the mangrove one now finished) I’ll share another this time my old dunkleosteus I started while volunteering

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A new study on one individual of Parasaurolophus finds that it must have suffered some serious (yet healing) injuries to the ribs, hip, and face. The paper has some great discussion about reconstructing the necks of hadrosaurs [🎨: Marco Auditore, Marzio Mereggia]

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Some love for Deinocheirus this depicted with sparse feathering (on account of its size) and a sail rather than a hump (there's no reason to think Deinocheirus had a camel-like fat store: Deinocheirus humps are an art meme, not a hypothesis).

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-Hurrengo asteazkenean informazio berria neandertal honi buruz
-Come wednesday, new information about this individual
-El próximo miércoles, nuevos datos sobre este neandertal

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By gum, it's 19:35 on time to call it a day. Here's some 2016 of the Cretaceous mammal Spinolestes to sign off for the weekend with. The fluffy tails are speculative, but the other soft-tissues are evidenced by fossil data.

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Nabozhenko et al. Taxonomic notes on the Eocene Helopini, and a review of the genus Isomira Mulsant, 1856 from Baltic amber (#Coleoptera: https://t.co/Lc5laIUdUt

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Day 138 of drawing one pokemon per day. Our lord and savior. Follow me to see the upcoming pokemon drawings.

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Hoploparia are represented by some really cool fossils in Canada, like this one! They also might have been occasional prey for mosasaurs https://t.co/F9MvtEZT59

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Happy Here's the Allosaurus I finished this week.

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Have spent the afternoon with ammonites, so here's some of biggest one of all for Parapuzosia. A small mosasaur is being scavenged (we don't know what the ecology of Parapuzosia was, but lots of ammonites are thought to be nektobenthic scavengers).

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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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Since we want to be more active, here's a reinterpretation of saharicus for After waiting for 2 decades, we finally have some figured materials from this gigantic theropod! -RT

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Happy We've got a new paper by John Scannella () on a new chasmosaurine premaxilla from the Hell Creek Formation for you to enjoy today. https://t.co/a2JNDKIlLE

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Fossils are the dead remains/evidence of past organisms. Burrows, footprints & poo can also be preserved as

has a legacy of ancient marine creatures, dinosaur bones/eggs & rare hominin (modern human) fossils.

thread on some of India's relics:

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