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The best type of day out: fossil hunting on the dramatic Scottish (Fife) coast with undergrads. Field trips during class time are wonderful... Carboniferous crinoids, corals, trees, trace fossils galore!

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2019-09-24

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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2019-09-23

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

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2019-09-23

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

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2019-09-22

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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2019-09-21

Since hair can't be saved in fossils, we can't rule out the possibility that dinosaurs looked like this

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2019-09-19

Me on my first day: Yeah I'll probably just clean some less significant fossils today since its day one

Them: Hey you wanna help out with this mammoth skull from our most complete specimen?

Me:

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2019-09-19

Our new paper describing first fossils of rauisuchian archosaurs from Triassic of southern Africa:

https://t.co/sSpRZ9S7ET

Paper led by Rick Tolchard of , with & Julia Desojo.

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2019-09-18

Fossils like this smilodon are dark brown because they were preserved in a tar pit!

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2019-09-17

"Homo sapiens appears to have originated from the coalescence of South and, possibly, East-African source populations, while North-African fossils may represent a population which introgressed into Neandertals during the Late Middle Pleistocene" https://t.co/8Lms0QFVMp

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2019-09-10

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

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2019-09-06

For the oldest European ruminant! Bachitherium thraciensis from Bulgaria & Serbia (ca. 38My, Late Eocene). These fossils explain a tectonical diachronism of the faunal dispersals into Europe at the base of the Oligocene (34My vs 31My).

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2019-09-06

For those unfamiliar, Arsinoitherium was a horned prehistoric mammal. Contrary to its looks, it was closer related to elephants and sea cows than rhinos. Its fossils have been found in Africa & the Middle East. (Reconstructions by Zdenek Burian, , Rod Ruth, & ???)

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2019-09-03

I went and saw some fossils in Drumheller

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2019-08-31

A new species of named cani was recently described in Cretaceous Research. This study was conducted by Elisabete Malafaia of the and was based on fossils from the Lower of Spain. To know more: https://t.co/ij8nUu7na5

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2019-08-29

Alcione was recently found in a treasure trove of pterosaur fossils in Morocco. https://t.co/fFvfXvSI8w

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2019-08-28

There are a lot of really cool fossils here at the Fukui Museum. One of my favorites is this almost complete Camarasaurus from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation- including a very nice skull. They recreated the dig site at actual size too. Very well done.

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2019-08-26

August 20, 1831, birthyday of Austrian geologist Eduard Suess: He studied volcanoes 🌋 fossils (named a dinosaur) 🦕 and realized that there were various orogenic phases in time 🌍He also named the early supercontinent of Gondwana https://t.co/rCH4iglPxx

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2019-08-20

Happy Discovery Day! 110 years ago TODAY Earl Douglass discovered the site we today call the Carnegie Quarry Exhibit Hall at From the first 8 tail vertebrae of Apatosaurus discovered, to now, this site has yielded fossils from 100s of individual dinosaurs!#NPSPaleo

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2019-08-18