The awesome skull of the Brontothere, Megacerops. Distantly related to horses and rhinos, this beast lived in North America around 35 million years ago!
(Photo by me from display ; Art D. Bogdanov)

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Hoy es un día muy especial: se celebra la lectura de tesis de Ester Díaz Berenguer, una compañera muy querida en el equipo, sobre una de las piezas más importantes de nuestra colección: el holotipo de
⬇️Os contamos por qué este fósil es tan especial

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"A new genus of sinogaleaspids (Galeaspida, stem-Gnathostomata) from the Silurian Period in Jiangxi, China"

Xianren Shan et al.
PeerJ 8:e9008, published 15-05-2020
https://t.co/GDDC6605Bv

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"Large-bodied sabre-toothed anchovies reveal unanticipated ecological diversity in early Palaeogene teleosts"

A. Capobianco et al. (13/05/2020)
The Royal Society
https://t.co/pAwsFIx8Im
image 1 © Joschua Knüppe via Live Science

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I'm in whale mode right now for research, so gonna share one of my favorites for Remingtonocetus. Sounds very proper, I would absolutely have tea with Remingtonocetus (named for Remington Kellogg). It's a freshwater or coastal, early whale from the Middle Eocene.

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Stop Saying That There Are Too Many Sauropod Dinosaurs, Part 6 - now live at https://t.co/CbcdmG2VL1

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It's and if you want to see some really cool 3D models check out our new EddyLab account 🎉 https://t.co/Dhv276RvZU Vertebrates, invertebrates and even pine cones ! and (almost) all these beauties are downloadable 😍

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2020

"Re-examination of the cranial osteology of the Arctic Alaskan hadrosaurine with implications for its taxonomic status"

R. Takasaki et al.
Published: May 6, 2020
PLoS ONE 15(5): e0232410

https://t.co/lhP6qBKZDQ

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Today's takes us to in beautiful Beaufort Co.

It isn't officially but it might as well be!

Have you been to or Aurora Fossil Festival? Please share your images w/ the hashtag, & tag & follow the museum.

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Stop Saying That There Are Too Many Sauropod Dinosaurs, Part 5!!, new at https://t.co/qMtaj8yq3x

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The original lithograph of a skull of Toxodon platensis found by Darwin, from Owen's description in the "Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle", and the same fossil today at

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New paper by ME (and & Federico Anaya) for It's been such a boring week in so welcome my two new 13 Ma kids Olisanophus riorosarioensis (L) and Olisanophus akilachuta (R)!

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Some new for This 2018 Irritator image was destined for a future book, but it's now superfluous thanks some study or other that came out this week. This is a substantial update on a scene from my 2013 pterosaur book. Tapejara and Anhanguera also feature.

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Spinosaurus are the weirdest dinosaurs, and the latest research advocated that the tail structure could have been an excellent swimmer.
I want to see them and swimming together in the Prehistoric Park sequel.

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Say hello to Haootia!👋

This 565 million year old fossil contains the oldest evidence we have for muscles💪

I'll be discussing the discovery and conservation of Haootia in an upcoming online talk. Sign up now!

👉https://t.co/8IIeSRdcrh

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The Palaeocast Art Competition is back for 2020!

The internet's premier podcast has partnered with us to offer their largest prizes yet: $400 of merch among 5 categories.

Entry details: https://t.co/EUzqhTRCr8

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The Palaeocast Art Competition is back for 2020!

We’ve partnered with to offer our largest prizes yet: $400 of paleoart merch between 5 categories.

Entry details: https://t.co/GY4OXigjz6

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