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of I hope they make a jurassic park type dealie in Pokemon someday, I feel like reviving fossils to populate a park (instead of just handing 'em over to a person at a desk) would be a lotta fun.

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2018-12-06

Loganellia, a jawless thelodont w/ a square body & distinctive covering of spiny scales (that I prolly made too large). Gave it a coloration befitting its likely habitat of shallow coastal waters or reefs.

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2018-12-02

Uktenadactylus was named after Uktena, a giant horned snake from Cherokee mythology. https://t.co/ZCY2yMHDFa

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2018-11-28

Art trade with
Remember, do not touch shiny fossils because they can include a curse inside of them
https://t.co/sF9plZYx7U

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2018-11-23

Paleontologists found Kepodactylus rather unexpectedly while digging up a Stegosaurus in the famous Morrison Formation of Colorado. https://t.co/rq5RoCxTqm

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2018-11-21

New artwork for sale! - "strange fossils and sedimentary rock" - https://t.co/D2SzPnvn0i

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2018-11-17

Megatherium is an extinct species of giant ground sloth. Charles Darwin Collected several fossils relating to Megatherium while exploring South America on the Voyage of the Beagle. (2/5)

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2018-11-16

One of my biggest "paleoart pet peeves" is when trilobites are reconstructed as if someone just dropped their chocolate-brown fossils right onto the seafloor. If living arthropods are any indication, they were likely very diverse in color and patterning!

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2018-11-12

If you don’t know, I love dinosaurs and ancient fauna, fossils are fascinating for me, so here’s a little idea I had to take off my system.

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2018-11-11

Found in Cretaceous rocks in Romania in the 1980s, Eurolimnornis was originally thought to be a bird. https://t.co/1znPjEtR5m

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2018-11-08

Basic Tools for collecting fossils/Minerals.

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2018-11-07

Inktober: Day 27
This time I drew an Australian bilby. Apparently scientists have discovered 15 min year old fossils of a bilby, which means this species of marsupials is a living fossil.

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2018-10-28

Diopecephalus is from the famous Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone Formation of Germany. https://t.co/CsbmaXXOh3

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2018-10-17

The new PROJECT:OBJECT series, FOSSILS, launches tomorrow!
https://t.co/0RfkKkVwQF

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2018-10-01

See, dsungaripterids aren't that ugly, after all. Meet Lonchognathosaurus. https://t.co/aGv8TYhN9S

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2018-09-26

Hongshanopterus is named for the Neolithic Hongshan Culture of China whose people lived more than 5,000 years ago. https://t.co/sVM12BlqA2

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2018-09-12

reshuffles the phylogeny of Pleistocene rhinos using ~1.77 million y. old proteome sequences from Dmanisi. This extraordinary breakthrough extends molecular phylogeny based on fossils far beyond the range of preservation of ancient DNA.
https://t.co/ClNR9r7Q6F

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2018-09-11