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Happy #FossilFriday! Tyrannosaurs were hotheaded - read all about this recent @JurassicFDN-supported research here: https://t.co/1BfSeCecCz
First #FossilFriday of the decade!Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum (such a cool name), an ankylosaur I saw on display at @DenverMuseumNS. Lookin’ good!
Protoceratops box art I illustrated for @wildpast_studio's figurine! #FossilFriday
Today for #FossilFriday we have a VERY rare specimen. A Parapeytoia yunnanensis appendage. These species’ classification is argued in the paleo community between being an Anomalocariid and a Megacheira. Picture 4 shows the possibly morphology of each classification.
Can you believe that the humerus (upper arm bone) of a T. rex is nearly the same size as yours? Research shows a single T. rex arm could wield up to 200 pounds of force. Sounds like a T. rex might not find all those jokes about its short arms HUMOROUS afterall. #FossilFriday
#FossilFriday Middle Pleistocene hominins. Elandsfontein skull from South Africa (~400 ka), Kabwe 1 skull from Zambia (~250 ka); Elandsfontein mandibular fragment superimposed to the Mauer mandible (~600 ka).
Source: https://t.co/UbZTKE8eYn Photo: Roberto Sáez.
Results from the #paleostream
Hoffstetteria, Nigersaurus, Dimetrodon teutonis (christmas edition) and Saurorhynchus.
#paleoart #toxodont #fossilfriday #africa #sciart #dinosaur #sauropod #fish #christmas #sketching #art
"Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis" (1846) describes Indian fossil collections made by paleontologists Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley in the 19th century. @amjukar explains how publications like this are important for modern research ➡️ https://t.co/mfJ16uhs37 #FossilFriday
This is a small reconstruction of Tianyulong confuciusi, an heterodontosaurid from Late Jurassic China, for my in-prep book. Some basal ornithischian dinosaurs are known to have been fuzzy... some could have been VERY fuzzy! #FossilFriday #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur
To help us forget about politics, here's some #FossilFriday Rhamphorhynchus muensteri #paleoart. The 3 big animals are based on the largest known (1.8 m wingspan) muensteri specimen, which was once thought to be a unique species. Turns out it's just a really large adult.
Type specimens of Australopithecus africanus/prometheus (yellow endocast) and Homo naledi (blue). Similar brain size/shape between very distinct species #FossilFriday
For #FossilFriday, here's a private #paleoart commission of Tiktaalik I completed earlier this year. It took some time to get the body shape right as there's lots of subtle nuances to tetrapodomorph anatomy. They weren't just gars with funky heads and limbs.
#金曜日だから化石貼る
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#FPDM のザナバザル。チベット仏教の初代化身ラマから由来している名前のせいか、他のトロオドン類より知的な雰囲気を感じるのは僕だけでしょうか?(あくまでもそう感じるだけなので科学的根拠はない)
Results from the #paleostream!
Lajasvenator, Helodermoides, Squatinactis and Mimodactylus
#paleoart #animals #dinosaur #pterosaur #sciart #fossilfriday #shark #art #sketch
#Loricatosaurus priscus
Découvert ≈ en 1880 en 🏴 et nommé en 1887.
Du latin "loricatus" : cuirassé. Ses os ont également été trouvés en 🇫🇷, en Normandie !
C'est un stégosaure de 5m qui vivait au #Jurassique, il y a ≈165 Ma.
🖌️M. Fontaine
#UnVendrediUnFossile #FossilFriday
Today is #FossilFriday and a new pterosaur species comes to light! Welcome to #Mimodactylus libanensis. Follow here our publication in @SciReports: https://t.co/iSAKySWsDc
Hope everyone got to save the turkey’s wishbone yesterday? Theropod dinosaurs like #Tyrannosaurus also have a wishbone or furcula. You can see the furcula that’s present on @SUEtheTrex of @FieldMuseum
for #FossilFriday.
Watch out for flash floods Borealopelta (Northern shield)! A nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Alberta. This dinosaur was the one washed out to sea and became the exquisite fossil housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller. #Dinovember #FossilFriday
Who doesn't want to spend a #FossilFriday among Mesozoic flora and fauna?! And even more when you have a vacuum cleaner with you!
Conservation involves taking care of our specimens, and that sometimes means cleaning their cases so dust doesn't affect the collections 🧹🦕