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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

Extinct monster penguin which lived 60 million years ago was bigger than Danny DeVito https://t.co/EQBwr2Ki2D

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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

Just in time for new paper by Campbell et al: Temporal range extension and evolution of the chasmosaurine ceratopsid ‘Vagaceratops’ irvinensis (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta https://t.co/RSGEtsJOrb

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2019-08-10

Announcing “Palaeontology in Popular Culture” event on Monday 2 September, 18:00-20:15 at King’s College London, attached to the next workshop (in time for

Attendance free. Sign up here if you want to come along: https://t.co/StVXywOBV2

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2019-08-10

Morning warmup sketch for I was thinking of this scene where a Pristerognathus (therocephalian) chases a Diictodon (dicynodont) that was caught too far out of its burrow. Permian (Capitanian) of South Africa.

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2019-08-09