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In 1896 palaeontologists discovered compelling evidence that prehistoric therianthropomegafauna celebrated Midwinter festivals, when a cave painting was unearthed showing a weremammoth, woolywererhino, giant weresloth & other palaeolithic werebeings conducting a ritual ice dance.
Palaeontologists encourage us to be patient and understanding during Dinolescence. At the same time, Rex really is being just awful.
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Find the Dinolescents now at @arthousecafe613 !
In honor of Junchang Lü, I painted this watercolour portrait of #Tongtianlong, “the mud dragon”, one of the oviraptorids he discovered during his prolific career as a palaeontologist. @SteveBrusatte
The fossilized skeletons of pterosaurs - which look quite different from any extant flying vertebrate - baffled many early palaeontologists. One early theory suggested that pterosaurs were flying marsupials.
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#paleoart
🌴Born #OTD 1802, Alcide d'Orbingy - #French zoologist, palaeontologist, #geologist and archaeologist (d. 1857). Find out more about d'Orbigny and our collection of his remarkable hand-coloured lithographs of Palms from South America: https://t.co/qjMiu8zBbb 🌴
Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951) was a prolific illustrator of both scientific works and children's books. Her natural talents and chosen career were greatly influenced by her father the geologist and palaeontologist Henry B Woodward (1832-1921) @NHM_London #FathersDay
Who Wants to Be a Palaeontologist game and digital dino caricatures in the salon, 3rd floor. #ScienceByNight = awesome!
All the dinosaurs found in Wales mapped - A guide to all the dinosaurs that have ever been discovered in Wales, article in @WalesOnline with @Museum_Cardiff Palaeontologist Caroline Buttler https://t.co/JeX1gtNmMh
Henry Thomas De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist, was born #OTD in 1796. He was the first director of the Geological Survey and President of the Palaeontographical Society.
Palaeontologists and their Prehistoric Pets by https://t.co/Z0pKFbxSoP
Henry F. Osborn and his Velociraptors
John Newberry and his Dunkleosteos
Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon
Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur
#paleoart #art #dinosaur
Dorothea Bate, a palaeontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there https://t.co/07shx6afvN
Dorothea Bate, a palaeontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there https://t.co/07shx6afvN
@TakeThatDarwin Do they have no concept of the hours and hours of thought and research that palaeontologists have put into this subject? :) #dinosaurs #sex
Find out more about our #JurassicWorld new #WelshDino with our palaeontologists who will be at @CineCardiff from 2pm