Dr Dean LomaxOvjeren akaunt

@Dean_R_Lomax

Palaeontologist 🦕🐬 🦖 Ichthyosaur expert | Author | Talk science on TV & Radio | Dug up the odd dinosaur or two — Adventurer 🌍

Early Jurassic
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2012.
Rođen/a 10. studenoga

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    Can we take a minute to appreciate just how frigging insane this fossil is. This is an ichthyosaur with actual skin preserved. Not just that, but even the dorsal and tail fins are preserved! Oh, and the skin around its fins. Ichthyosaurs are epic, just saying

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  2. Specimens like this offer so much information about these long-extinct giants, providing a unique window into the past. It was studied by my friend and mammoth expert, Dick Mol (left in the photo). Photos by Francis Latreille. Read all about it here: 

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  3. Today I’ve been writing about mammoths. This is the remarkably preserved head of the Yukagir woolly mammoth, found in Arctic Siberia in 2002. The skull is 1.7 metres long. To keep it ‘fresh’, the specimen is stored in an artificial ice cave in Russia.

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    Roughly a year after we launched the first episode and it is finally on YouTube. We will steadily get the rest on there in the coming weeks.

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    ...and here's the scary hairless version, based on studies suggesting Megatherium-sized sloths may have overheated in their relatively temperate/subtropical climates. It seems weird, but there might be something to this idea:

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  6. Here’s a really fantastic reconstruction of the enormous ground sloth, Megatherium by for the who have a Megatherium in the park! (Disclaimer, not a live one).

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  7. The constant cold and dry conditions of the cave enabled the exceptional preservation of this and many other specimens. It is part of the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

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  8. Did you know that ground sloths the size of elephants were a thing? Here’s some mummified skin with fur belonging to a ~10,000 year old ground sloth called Mylodon darwinii, found inside a cave in Chile.

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    25. sij
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    Date for your diary! Do you like marine reptiles? Who doesn’t, right?! You MUST check out the first-ever Marine Reptile Conference held at the amazing 5-7 May, 2020. Registration now open.

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    31. sij

    A wee additional post for : and I booked into yesterday, so here's Pliosaurus kevani to celebrate. The loop-de-looping calf embodies our excitement for attending the conference and isn't just something I drew on a silly whim, no sir.

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    31. sij

    This I get to tell you about the time we pulled out a Brachiosaur humerus with horses! YA’LL it was sunset in Utah and two massive Clydesdale horses pulled an extinct beast from the earth. I FUCKING LOVE MY JOB! 🦴 🦕 🐴

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  13. Image from Barling et al. 2015, who looked at the high fidelity preservation of fossil insects from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil: 

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  14. Insects make some of the most spectacular fossils. This is a 113 million-year-old antlion called Baisopardus cryptohymen, preserved with colour patterns, and collected from the Crato Formation in Brazil. Scale bar measures 15 mm.

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    Ummmmmm...... hi. Pleistocene megafauna peeps. We’re getting a MAMMOTH EMOJI THIS YEAR!!!!!

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    Who DOESN'T love marine reptiles??? Join us 5th-7th May to hear all about them! Early Bird Deadline for the Marine Reptile Conference is 31st January, don't miss out! Image © Bob Nicholls

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  18. Congratulations to Dan Chure and Mark Loewen, and everybody else involved. I know this has been a very long time coming. Awesome job. You can read the full paper and check out some beautiful fossils and artwork here: 

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  19. Amazing to see that Allosaurus jimmadseni is official. Yes. A new species of Allosaurus! It is known from two almost complete skeletons with exceptionally preserved skulls. I was lucky to examine the holotype skull at last year! (With thanks to !)

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    27. sij

    🎉New Paper Alert!🎉We describe a unique squid fossil with a tooth lodged in its mantle! First evidence of failed predation by a pterosaur. in . Lead author René Hoffmann

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  21. Sorry for the lack of replies, emails and posts over the last few weeks, but it's been an horrendous time dealing with a serious family illness. I'm trying to get back to work and some form of normality, but finding it v difficult. So, here's one of my fav photos

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