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.

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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 !

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In honor of Junchang Lü, I painted this watercolour portrait of “the mud dragon”, one of the oviraptorids he discovered during his prolific career as a palaeontologist.

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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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🌴Born 1802, Alcide d'Orbingy - zoologist, palaeontologist, 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 🌴

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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)

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Who Wants to Be a Palaeontologist game and digital dino caricatures in the salon, 3rd floor. = awesome!

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All the dinosaurs found in Wales mapped - A guide to all the dinosaurs that have ever been discovered in Wales, article in with Palaeontologist Caroline Buttler https://t.co/JeX1gtNmMh

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Henry Thomas De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist, was born in 1796. He was the first director of the Geological Survey and President of the Palaeontographical Society.

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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

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Dorothea Bate, a palaeontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by & spent 50 years there https://t.co/07shx6afvN

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Dorothea Bate, a palaeontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by & spent 50 years there https://t.co/07shx6afvN

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Do they have no concept of the hours and hours of thought and research that palaeontologists have put into this subject? :)

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Find out more about our new with our palaeontologists who will be at from 2pm

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