Today's dinosaur for is Therizinosaurus! A large theropod who lived in the late Cretaceous period. 🦖

This dinosaur's look is based on incomplete fossils, including forearms with gigantic claws (loaning to its name which means "scythe lizard"). 🦴

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November 10, 1852, died British geologist Gideon Algernon Mantell who was quite puzzled by strange fossils found in 1822 https://t.co/p9xdqcpYVx Famous for the scientific description of 1st herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon - a genus of this group was named after him 🦕

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Forgot to post these on twitter! Watercolour illustrations for an upcoming article about Koolasuchus, a giant amphibian known from 115 million year old fossils discovered in Victoria.

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First up, Vespersaurus. A noasaurid theropod where the third digit is the sole (lol) weight-bearing digit. https://t.co/hOrnTE4RPt

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Imagine if gen 1 fossils came out now. Scyther 2 is saturated and ready to party.

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Ladies and gentlemente, fossils and mummies
Thanks to The Nerd Palace Carl enters the battlefield!!
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Has reach our world, have you ever want to work with Carl? now you can

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Had to update my Caihong illustration... definitely not because I made a ROOKIE MISTAKE wrt hallux placement 🤡🤐🤦🏻‍♂️

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Ladies and gentlemente, fossils and mummies
Im so glad to announce that thanks to the great work of The nerd Palace
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Has reach our world, have you ever want to work with Carl? now you can

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Happy We are pleased to announce the OI's 2-week onsite/online class "Dinosaurs and Other Fossils of Egypt" for February 2020! Register here: https://t.co/R04gGkjSzm

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Not much from me today for just a simple coloured sketch
- Fraxinus wilcoxiana
Fraxinus wilcoxiana is a type of fossilised seed placed within the modern genus Fraxinus, Ash Trees. Its fossils hale from the Eocene aged Claiborne Formation of North America.

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Miles likes fossils. He's good at finding them. So locating difficult things is really his strong point, along side patience, resilience & noticing things other people don't.  He finds it hard to have an opinion on Sloan & once he does it’s possible few will know what it is.

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Earliest were different from modern, huge bone-crackers like Crocuta. Protictitherium, from the Miocene of Batallones, was no larger than a jackal and had a varied diet including carrion. From fossils to sketches to full reconstruction

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September 23, 1832 a young Charles recovers his 1st South American at Punta Alta, Buenos Aires. Among other fossils, he recovers also remains of Toxodon, an enigmatic mammal https://t.co/4znXdw82Qw 🦴 Artwork by Pelycosaur24 https://t.co/lGeEtF1Pp6 🖌️

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Took a character redesign request and churned out a very Spoopy Swoop! Inspiration? FOSSILS.

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I had to join.
Big cats, fossils, pizza, Pepsi. All you need to know.

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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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September 6, 1802, birthday of French naturalist Alicide d'Orbigny, pioneer of the study of microfossils 🦠🔍 https://t.co/ap7oCtO9dj

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