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Dinosaur art by artist Charles R. Knight.
1) Leaping Laelops
2) Tyrannosaurus confronts a family of Triceratops
3) Nesting Protoceratops
4) Allosaurus eating a Brontosaurus

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2018-06-22

CT scanning of a well-preserved Erlikosaurus skull revealed traits associated with a beak, & close relatives of this were known to sport feathers as well.

📸 Lautenschlager et al., 2014: https://t.co/gIiMsFutK6

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2018-06-16

Drepanosaurus: genus of tree-dwelling reptiles that lived during the Triassic Era,~250-201MYA. They were insectivores & lived on coastal spots of what is modern-day Italy& midwestern USA. Discovered in 1979. They had hooked tails to aid in climbing&holding branches.

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2018-06-15

Scientific illustrations in the mid 1800s were just stunning. This is a skull of a cave hyena from Somerset, in 'British Pleistocene Mammalia' (1866). (Art by J. Greene).

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2018-06-08

Have spent a lot of this week working on a new Jurassic marine life mural (will be released soon), so here's for on the same theme: Jurassic ichthyosaur Ophthalmosaurus, plus bonus pterosaurs.

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2018-06-08

Given the recent publication of young Spinosaurine material from Morocco, as well as the subsequent flood of artwork depicting a speculative young Spinosaurus, I thought I'd contribute for day one of and https://t.co/Nau6qh8cee

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2018-06-02

Looking forward to seeing the exhibit . Photos and reconstruction of the type specimen of Antarctosuchus, from my JVP article with Seb Steyer and Bill Hammer.

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2018-06-02

~74 MYA, a Velociraptor & Protoceratops were locked in a fierce battle. Velociraptor plunged its rear claws deep into the neck of Protoceratops which responded by trying to rip the former's arm off. 1971: Polish-Mongolian team discovered them in S. Gobi Desert.

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2018-06-01

yeah why are Chalicotheres so unloved?

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2018-05-26

I thought this design created by my twin sister back in 2014 for one of our PSSA conferences would be appropriate to share on and

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2018-05-26

For here's some of the British wukongopterid Cuspicephalus boldly facing a blustery day. Note that 'boldly' meant 'cowering behind quillworts' in the Jurassic.

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2018-05-11

Sue is the largest, most extensive & best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen ever found at over 90% recovered. It was discovered in August 1990, by Sue Hendrickson, & is named after her. The fossil was auctioned for $8.3 million, the most ever paid for a fossil.

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2018-05-04

Lepidodendron: or 'the scale tree" was a genus of primitive, vascular, tree-like plant related to the club mosses. They reached heights of over 30m (100 ft), with trunks over 1m (3.3 ft) in diameter. They thrived between 359-299 MYA.

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2018-04-27

Hanging with the most complete skull of at 's paleontology collection while at Found at , this massive had canines the size of soda cans. This is, hands down, my favorite mammal fossil ever!

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2018-04-27

It's not a garlic. Or maybe it is?

Inaria is a shallow water thingy that lived 550 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in Australia and Russia. It's a ~mysterious~ creature but paleontologists suspect it might be related to corals and jellyfishes.

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2018-04-20

I'm talking Diprotodons, world's greatest (and largest)-ever marsupial this Sunday on Channel 11's

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2018-04-20

Almost forgot here's some of azhdarchid pterosaurs wandering over a riverbank, seen from above. Their pacing matches that of the azhdarchid ichnofossil, Haenamichnus, one of the only pterosaur tracks with an ID beyond 'pterosaur indet'.

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2018-04-14