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Crater Fossils from Brazil from 110 million years ago. These fly specimens are amazing & are part of the impressive fossil insect collection behind the scenes, which is actively being worked on & developed thanks to David Grimaldi & co-workers

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2019-11-23

UPDATE: SUE: Welcome to the World of Tyrannosaurus Rex will, at last, be on store shelves next week!

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2019-11-23

Lower jaw growth in Homo naledi (yellow-green-blue = infant-juvenile-adult)

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2019-11-22

fossil shark teeth may inspired shark-like monster myths found in South American cultures🦈 Carcharocles megalodon, Pisco-Formation, Peru
https://t.co/Z8x1moePHJ

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2019-11-22

First Fossil Evidence of Feathered Polar Dinosaurs Found in Australia https://t.co/rt0zwfWNnA

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2019-11-22

A Natural History museum isn’t complete until it has a cast of the Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx.

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2019-11-22

For here's my 2017 of the largest known ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, as featured in the Palaeoartist's Handbook and my upcoming book, Life Through the Ages II. It's sharing the scene with a Homo erectus.

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2019-11-16

A mashup between Jefferson and Megalonyx jeffersoni

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2019-11-16

For a sabertooth cat enthusiast, there is nothing like experiencing first hand the excavation of a skeleton like this Machairodus from Batallones in Spain. Being there just gives you the goosebumps!

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2019-11-15

For here's Haplophrentis carinatus from Stanley Glacier (#BurgessShale) with feeding tentacles preserved. This was a key that provided a link between and and it may have a cameo in my upcoming NPGS talk...
https://t.co/85Hb9E961N

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2019-11-09

Sketch of the newly described Ferrisaurus sustutensis, a leptoceratopsid ceratopsian from Cretaceous Canada. Perfect for today’s I really like the anatomy of all these small ceratopsian species. Done In Peocreate.

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2019-11-09

This year for Halloween I was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (except birds!). Poor was one of my victims. 🦖☄️☠️

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2019-11-02

For here's some of the newly-named azhdarchid Cryodrakon made several years before the specimen was named. The two older images here are from 2009 (a whole decade ago!) and the newer, prettier version is from 2016.

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2019-11-01

Two sides of the same coin for

Side A: skull of the new Mesenosaurus efremovi
Side B: postcrania of a mystery

Varanopid paper : https://t.co/MIMSCuYeCG
Dissorophid paper : https://t.co/pXBvY3l00Z

https://t.co/ofQLgjakO1

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2019-10-25

Mutagenesis in land plants during the end-Triassic mass extinction https://t.co/aLp03YDjxg

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2019-10-26

Spent October "break" getting caught up on research. Here's Krapina 3, different virtual reconstructions of its endocast put its size at around 1275 cc

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2019-10-25

Subject of my next scene: one of my favorite Cenozoic mammals, the Late Eocene brontotheriid Embolotherium. Wasn't planning on this color scheme, but I kinda love it

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2019-10-25