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Others, such as & the strait-shelled spent most of their time in deep water - as indicated by isotopes in their shells. These, like many groups ate plankton, as indicated by clumps of plankton found in the body cavities of some

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2021-03-22

The travertine site at Bilzingsleben, Germany, has fossils from straight-tusked elephants, woolly rhinos, and macaques dating to an interglacial probably 400,000 years ago. The population left tools and remains of at least two individuals.

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2021-03-22

As the smallest mandible in the highly variable Sterkfontein Member 4 sample, Stw 404 has been a key fossil in understanding whether all these fossils represent Australopithecus africanus, or some of them may represent a second, larger species.

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2021-03-19

buried fossils last for millions of years, but fossils in museums tend not to persist past the building burning down or being swallowed by the ocean. this is why Derelictideusaurus, or "God's forsaken lizard", was pieced together in 2069 (nice) from fragmented digital archives.

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2021-03-19

The exhibit features over 40 pieces of original inspired directly by the they're displayed along side, which explore the Western Interior Seaway from its briny depths to the beaches.

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2021-03-18

The Large, late Cretaceous Mosasaur; Taniwhasaurus oweni. Fossils of this genus have been found in New Zealand, Antarctica, and Japan.

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2021-03-15

missing some of my fav QM fossils

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2021-03-14

One of the most amazing fossils I have studied is KNM ER 18925, a complete skull and mandible of Theropithecus oswaldi that allowed me to reconstruct the animal's head with unusual confidence. Exepctional specimens like this are a paleoartist's dream!

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2021-03-12

For I drew Mary Anning, a paleontologist who discovered marine fossils on the shores of Southwest England that helped changed the scientific thinking about prehistoric life as well as new dinosaur species.

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2021-03-09

Today I celebrate the privilege of collaborating with some of the most wonderful women in paleontology, like Meave Leakey and Nina Jablonski. Back in 2004 I worked with them on the study of amazing fossils of Rhinocolobus and other fossil monkeys from Koobi Fora. What a ride!

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2021-03-08

When John Robinson ran out of government funding and left Swartkrans for a month, he returned to find miners blasting out dripstone to sell to a toothpaste manufacturer. Over the next two years, his team retrieved fossils from the miners.

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2021-03-06

By the late 1950s, scientists had recovered fossils that showed that Australopithecus and Paranthropus were bipeds in a humanlike pattern. The pelvis evolved a form different from any other living or fossil primates.

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2021-03-05

Here have my jelly dino. She's really squishy and she can change her size and shape(but they shape she takes is always dinosaur themed), also she has fossils in her stomach

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2021-03-05

https://t.co/MrsYSYBAnk Hot off the press we got our third newly described Lagerstätte for 2021!! This is a big one, because this would be the earliest known Lagerstätte in South America (Edicaran~563 MA) beating the Permian Mangrullo FM by almost 300 my.

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2021-03-04

The Toploje Member chert is an Antarctic Permian site preserving a high-latitude swamp. The environment is quite unique given its time and location and yields a variety of plant fossils with arthropod and fungi interactions.
https://t.co/pAWoZswHMs

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2021-03-01

This is my professor OC Rock! He loves fossils and is an overall sweet guy.

He’s the professor of my fakemon region based on Antarctica

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2021-02-28

Tenontosaurus was popularly depicted as prey fodder for Deinonychus. Come on, they deserve better than that, for a lone Tenontosaurus could potentially injure a lone Deinonychus. Fossils have been common, having remains found from Montana to possibly even Maryland. Wild!

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2021-02-28