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Happy Here’s something I haven’t done in a while.

Yutyrannus huali, a giant, feathery Tyrannosauroid from the (sometimes snowy) Yixian Formation. It was a pack hunter, probably living in small family units.

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2020-04-25

Ammonite Fractals for + —Check out the suture patterns found inside fossilized shells. https://t.co/tzCleES4of

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2020-04-25

Something a little different for
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When we say fossils are X, Y and Z million years old, it can be hard to place them into a geological timeline.⁣
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Reconstructions like this by the excellent Ray Troll really help bring evolution and deep time to life.

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2020-04-24

A juvenile albertosaurus still has yet to lose his coat of feathers, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t seen tough times in the winters of northern Laramidia

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2020-04-18

announcement: I'm doing a new digital series through the ! Called CENTRUM: A Paleo Roundtable, see what questions some of paleontology’s tops minds ask when the tables are turned and they get to interview one another. (more info below)

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2020-04-17

It's chucking it down here on this so here's some of the plotopterid Copepteryx getting rained on. Plotopterids were a group of Eo-Miocene penguin-like birds that lived in the Northern Hemisphere. Some grew quite large - about the height of a human.

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2020-04-17

Meet 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘪, a tiny, newly described and the earliest known from North America. This discovery sheds light on mustelid and in the Oligocene.
Out now in our April issue! https://t.co/uq7vJMkh69

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2020-04-17

Anurognathus, small, big eyed Pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic. A watercolour commission for !

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2020-04-17

Quick watercolours I’m not the happiest with - but going to share them with you anyway. An anurognathid and Bellubrunnus. Coeval creatures of diminutive size

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2020-04-17

The end-Triassic extinction: A tale of Death and Global Warming. https://t.co/mRhRsqgLy8

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2020-04-11

A quick study of a basal sauropodomorph skull lying on a desert during the Late Triassic!

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2020-04-11

Happy ! Here’s last nights procreate sketch of a Spiclypeus skull, ( spiked shield ) an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

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2020-04-11

For here's of two giant flying birds: Pelagornis and Teratornis. Pelagornis was the largest flying bird of all time, out-spanning even the largest teratorns (those early 8 m wingspan Argentavis estimates were over-enthusiastic).

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2020-04-10

The Tully Monster aka Tullimonstrum, what a weirdo

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2020-04-10



Elessaurus gondwanoccidens

"A new archosauromorph from South America provides insights on the early diversification of tanystropheids"
Tiane M. De-Oliveira et al, pubbl. 08-04-2020
PLoS ONE 15(4): e0230890
https://t.co/QekHPyEY8l

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2020-04-08

DH 7 Homo naledi hip (light green), reconstructed along with the Lesedi ilium (dark green) scaled up since it's from a developmentally younger kid, mirror-imaged (blue) https://t.co/g2pZfNtLog

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2020-04-04

lost fauna, protopteryx fengningensis a starling sized prehistoric bird the beautiful fossil remains.. and my reconstruction

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2020-04-04

A recent discovery of a Paranthropus robustus cranium (notice the sagittal crest) at the Drimolen site in South Africa confirms that species of Austalopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo overlapped in South Africa ~2mil years ago DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw7293

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2020-04-04

I'm late for but better late than never, right? Here's some of Cimoliopterus, one of the last of the toothed pterosaurs. The genus seems to have been widespread, occurring in both Britain and the United States.

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2020-04-04

This conifer branch sure looks great for being ~180 million years old!! It’s one of the oldest species of the Cypress family, named Austrohamia asfaltensis, from Patagonia Argentina. Before flowering plants took over, conifers like this one ruled the world 🌲🌎🌲#FossilFriday

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2020-04-03