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Today I’ve been writing about one of the coolest groups of theropod dinosaurs, the penguins.🐧🦖

This is the foot of a giant penguin called Anthropornis grandis. It is roughly 36–38 million years old & was collected from Seymour Island, Antarctica.

Remember,

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2021-01-27

ALL the crazy combs on Chickens, pheasants, combed ducks Andean Condors, the snood on turkeys & lots of other flamboyant structures that leave NO evidence on the underlying bone are all nourished by the blood supply identified by et al.

GO WILD.

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2020-06-11

is trending? I'm assuming this because most people don't realize they still do. people! They are a group of theropod that evolved in the Mesozoic and survived the mass extinction that killed off their non-avian cousins.

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2020-02-05

A Natural History museum isn’t complete until it has a cast of the Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx.

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2019-11-22

Cassowary feet will always amaze me. When I do wear gloves in the lab, I wear a men’s size large. These feet are gigantic.

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2019-11-09