These are fossils of something with wings. Remember they said we'd be getting flying animals in the future, right?

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My first and only fossils! Lumped the Zolt body parts into a single piece since it’s the same type anyways..it just works and made a fun composition!
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day 2 - I saw someone post the 'heavy claw' of the spinosaurid dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri for so here is my watercolor illustration of the same specimen - I love doing watercolor paintings of fossils.

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Wrapping up talk - join the pterosaur panel to learn about publishing on fossils (which should be useful even for the small number of people NOT into pterosaurs)

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23. Probably fossils I guess because I like that we have this cool thing that turns into even cooler Pokemon

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A bit of temporal mob backfill. This lovely chap is the Permian gorgonopsid Rubidgea. Coming soon.

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A-Qi the Sinoceratops was a large ceratopsian with fossils found in present-day Shandong Province, China. Sinoceratops is the only ceratopsid discovered outside North America so far.

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More thoughts on Cretalamna today. The most unexpected thing about the body fossils is the position of the first dorsal fin above the pectorals. In all other lamniforms, the first dorsal is behind the pectorals.

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Although these fossils tell a tale of ice age titans, they also tell of the decline of the Avaluggs of Hisui in a few centuries, losing their tundras and being unable to adapt.

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was an armored dinosaur native to and the Northwest roughly 76 million years ago. Reaching roughly 6 meters long, this club-tailed ankylosaur ate low-lying vegetation like ferns and horsetails.

Art by , Fossils from NHM in London

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Doodling some marine paleofauna over fossils while listening to a lecture on marine paleobiology (im havin a great time rn) 😄

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Researchers from the Federal University of Santa Maria working with a colleague from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, have identified a new species of Triassic-era reptile that was unearthed recently at a dig site in Brazil.

https://t.co/vHehXukrZH

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TFW people don’t know I ACTUALLY worked on fossils and this isn’t just an act 🤣

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~500 million years ago: in a relative short time of 20 million years many organisms with hard outer shells evolve, some bizarre, like Anomalocaris, some today common fossils, like trilobites
https://t.co/z8rc1ExIUa

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I love these 19th century palaeobotanical illustrations.
I started my path studying plant fossils looking at this one:
https://t.co/Hpb4MSbzBu

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A new Opabinia relative has been discovered but this time in the Ordovician! Mieridduryn was found in Wales with soft tissues preserved. Its name means "bramble-snout."

https://t.co/dBEFICbDy4

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Working on a few more fossils for my upcoming indie game Its a space farming life sim akin to stardew valley. Here are the sprites when you inspect them after turning them into the research center.

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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/p9xdqc8nwX Famous for the scientific description of 1st herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon - a genus of this group was named after him 🦕

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