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Pterosaurs had FEATHERS!?! In a 🌟NEW🌟 study released in : Ecology and Evolution today shows that two anurognathid fossils found in China had primitive feathers to help keep them warm just like many

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2018-12-17

hello yes i have learnt what swans would look like if they were depicted "under-feathered" like we do dinosaurs, based on fossils. sweet dreams everyone

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2018-12-16

No. 138: Omanyte
Spiral Pokémon

It was restored from an ancient fossil. Those Helix Fossils are excavated from areas that were once oceans long, long ago.

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2018-12-11

Happy Enjoy this gorgeous piece by our featured paleoartist, Raven Amos. creates with vivid colors! Learn more about her and visit her digital art gallery here: https://t.co/943TiXuXTb

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2018-12-07

This is Mammut americanum, better known as the American It is the best-known species of the genus Mammut, and one of the best-known and most popular of Cenozoic animals.

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2018-12-06

Yet another named by famous paleontologist Harry Seeley, Ornithostoma hails from the Early Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand Formation. https://t.co/4OxXZI6kLR

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2018-12-06

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