and I guess Exhibit C would be this cutie I described a few years ago: Enneaphormis tippula Renaudie & Lazarus 2016 (here the holotype from the late Miocene of ODP site 746A).

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As I recover from my wisdom tooth extraction on I was reminded of this amazing fossil shark from Peru in the collections of . I don't know why.

You can read more about the discovery here: https://t.co/sVIZ6qvJ8i

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Read the latest edition of Mesozoic Monthly to learn all about the dinosaur known as the “giant thunderclap at dawn.” https://t.co/efm9muZSiQ

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In Anth 211 this week, students will try to virtually reconstruct the Nariokotome Homo erectus cranium, based on the individual bones they digitized last week

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Our for this is truly transformative! We'd like you to write a short poem about the sea to land evolutionary transition. Our featured pictures were taken by and show a robotic skeleton model and accompanying artwork of Acanthostega!

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As voted earlier this morning, here is my sketch/speedpaint today: the large, big headed stem-tetrapod Crassigyrinus scoticus. My entry for today’s There are two Crassigyrinus here

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The primates in PALEOCENE aren't based on a known fossil species, but are hypothetical ancestors of tarsiers and monkeys. They'd be similar to this Archicebus (illustration by Mat Severson, CC-BY-SA 4.0 license).

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The second article all about the of This time taking a look at the first to take to the skies. this with the https://t.co/WZZAkPw9Ft

by

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E is for Euoplocephalus. It's name literally means 'well-armoured head'. And it was. This anyleosaurid giant, was tail whipping and head butting in Canada around 80 million years ago.
(Photo Victoria Arbour & Philip Currie; Art John Sibbick)

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Found these little creatures at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Wiwaxia (a bit squished after the transatlantic flight), Trilobite, Opabinia, and Marrella

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A very hungry Built by George H. Messmore and Joseph Damon, this beast roamed across the Fortunately, it was an herbivore so no harm done to the young woman.

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The type specimen of the Columbian mammoth was found in south Georgia (USA), in the mid 1800s. This one, mounted , was found in Kansas back in 1971!

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For our exhibition I chose these stomach stones & collected by Edward John Baily 1859-1939. We didn't know we had the fossil poos before I opened the box 3 months ago.

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For I'll share one of my favourite fossils:
Rhamphorhynchus flies over water.
Snap! Catches a fish.
Then (there's always a bigger fish) SNAP! get's caught by a Aspidorhynchus leaping out the water! But it's too chewy, entangles with the teeth! Oh no, all die!

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2010 brought news of the exciting discovery of Concavenator, a Spanish allosauroid. It's excellent, but the claim that it might have had forelimb feathers was questioned in this article: https://t.co/Oo1QxLUegZ

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More for
A fish corpolite that found in thailand. It was dated to be around the triassic period.

Interestingly that thai locals who found this think that it's a "stone pupa" a magical rock that can heal everything.

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For a species I am working with right now! Ampelomeryx is a kind of "#punk with several ossicones that lived in Europe 18Mya. It possesses ... YES a punk giraffe with sabertooth !!!

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2020

Carcharocles angustidens🦈

"There were no human beings to devour when this mighty relative of the existing white shark swam the seas"

D. Bashford - The Department of Fishes, American Museum
Natural History V. 23 (1923)

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First of the year. Not a sketch today, but a photogrammetry of the trilobite Crozonaspis struvei I did for my final essay of Invertebrates Palaeontological. Not the best specimen, but you can see most it's cephalon features, including the cool tiny eye lenses!

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