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fourth is KNM-ER 17400. This is a skull, eroded on the front, that has been attributed to Paranthropus boisei. The individual lived around 1.8 million years ago. At around 390 ml, its brain is one of the smallest in the hominin fossil record.

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2019-10-04

Earliest were different from modern, huge bone-crackers like Crocuta. Protictitherium, from the Miocene of Batallones, was no larger than a jackal and had a varied diet including carrion. From fossils to sketches to full reconstruction

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2019-10-04

Today's focus is the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, one of the richest fossil sites in the entire world. More than 3.5m specimens from over 600 species have been found here! 😮 So, why did so many animals meet their demise at & what can we learn from them?

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2019-10-04

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Well, it looks like this poor Cryodrakon is living (or dying) up to its name; it was downed during a storm and eventually succumbed to the cold, as it tried to shelter in the gully of a frozen river.

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2019-10-04

Yutyrannus huali is an early relative of T. rex known from fossils which preserve impressions of feathers covering most of its body. This is another of the dinosaur recons I have recently licensed to a museum in The Netherlands

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2019-09-21

For my first post on this the fantastic appendages of Anomalocaris magnabasis! Unlike Anomalocaris canandensis, A. magnabasis had a bunch of thin “spinules” projecting from the front side of each spine, used to help snare soft prey.

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2019-09-20

the oldest Machimosaurini marine crocodile. Very aboundant in the Late Jurassic of Europe, we have found this fossil in Moroccan early Bathonian deposits (ca. 168Mya). This is the oldest blunt-toothed marine crocodile.
https://t.co/zmVn1BnQCi

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2019-09-13

Happy Enjoy this aka the Shasta Ground Sloth.

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2019-09-07

I have an unexpected opening for a commission! A series of illustrations I was scheduled to start right now got cancelled, so I have time for a commission for the beginning of September. If interested DM me or write me an email (details on my bio)

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2019-09-06

The holotype of the primitive hadrosaurid (Eotrachodon orientalis) from the Santonian of Montgomery Co., AL.

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2019-09-06

Happy Here's a photogrammetry model of an Eryops pelvis from the Cambridge Museum of Zoology. It finally finished computing the dense point cloud (after days of continuous processing!). My first time using photogrammetry to model a specimen, pretty exciting!

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2019-09-06

An Upper Palaeolithic engraved human radius associated with ritualistic cannibalism (Gough’s Cave, UK – 14.700 cal BP). 💀💀 https://t.co/FykhQ4eciq

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2019-09-06

September 6, 1802, birthday of French naturalist Alicide d'Orbigny, pioneer of the study of microfossils 🦠🔍 https://t.co/ap7oCtO9dj

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2019-09-06

For the oldest European ruminant! Bachitherium thraciensis from Bulgaria & Serbia (ca. 38My, Late Eocene). These fossils explain a tectonical diachronism of the faunal dispersals into Europe at the base of the Oligocene (34My vs 31My).

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2019-09-06

The 5 Dmanisi skulls (CT-based visualization): D2700/D2735 adolescent; D2282/D211 young adult virtual reconstruction; D2280 adult; D4500/D2600 adult; D3444/D3900 old edentulous adult. Source: Lordkipanidze et al 2013 DOI: 10.1126/science.1238484

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2019-08-24

The genus Dicynodon was established 174 years ago by Richard Owen. There are two species of this icon: D. lacerticeps 🇿🇦, and now D. angielczyki 🇹🇿 named yesterday (!) for the outstanding Ken Angielczyk of the and my

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2019-08-23

Old-middle-new of wucaii over the course of about 6 months.

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2019-08-16

Worked two historic Cloverly Fm quarries this summer with & : the Gobiconodon & Deinonychus quarries!

= top 5 coolest ever

= almost as cool as a mammal

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2019-08-17

Happy and Unearthing day to my MASSIVE friend, !!

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2019-08-16

Happy discovery day and to , the largest Today marks the anniversary of when Scotty was discovered. Artwork by Beth Zaiken

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2019-08-16