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  1. Oct 15

    Your reminder that sauropods were bloody huge.

    13 replies . 89 retweets 890 likes
  2. Oct 15

    Mild pet peeve of mine: depicting Pteranodon during the KPG event. While there may have been some late surviving pteranodontids, Pteranodon itself was extinct already for nearly 20 million years.

    19 replies . 134 retweets 1,005 likes
  3. Oct 15

    Stunning preservation in this arboreal varanopid that lived 290 million years ago, long before dinosaurs evolved. Found in a Pompeii-like fossil forest in Chemnitz, Germany, spectacular details of the skin, scales, body outline & even eyelid ossicles are preserved.

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  4. Oct 15

    with the cast of a Tyrannosaurus tooth

    15 replies . 54 retweets 497 likes
  5. Oct 15

    For , of early Earth from Life Through the Ages II: the formation of the planet, the enigmatic biochemical sites that (probably) first gave rise to life, and stromatolites: rulers of Earth for longer than most other types of life have even existed.

    5 replies . 58 retweets 292 likes
  6. Oct 15

    'under the hood' of a glyptodont carapace, fixing cracks

    1 reply . 14 retweets 94 likes
  7. Oct 15

    The apex predator of late Cretaceous Madagascar, Majungasaurus is best known as the cannibal dinosaur.

    1 reply . 61 retweets 424 likes
  8. Oct 15

    🤩 Check out this absolutely amazing specimen of the armoured Mesozoic marine reptile Sinosaurosphargis younguiensis from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China 🇨🇳 displayed at the Shanghai Natural History Museum! The specimen is in ventral (belly-up) view 👀 (1/3)

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  9. Oct 15

    here’s some of my pocket crinoids 😂

    16 replies . 41 retweets 490 likes
  10. Oct 15

    First time back in museum collections in a while, so for here's a beautiful skull of Centrosaurus (CMN FV 348) from the fossil collections

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  11. Oct 15

    Today has been a truly glorious and much anticipated CT scanning hadrosaur skulls at with ! Days like today I get emotional thinking that this is my actual job

    3 replies . 17 retweets 76 likes
  12. Oct 15

    Jaw of Arsinotherium, the paenungulate that cosplayed as a rhino…or really the other way round. Fayum, Egypt

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  13. Oct 15

    So, these are the three pieces I did for the Tyrannosauroid series by Beast of the Mesozoic: Daspletosaurus, Proceratosaurus and Lythronax

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  14. Oct 15

    The prettiest mounted skeleton at the Field.

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  15. Oct 15

    On this of , megalodon has its mouth full of geoscientists!

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  16. Oct 15

    The Ediacaran fronds at Spaniard's Bay/Upper Island Cove might mostly be smaller than a credit card, but the level of detail they preserve in their branches is absolutely astonishing - as can be seen in this Trepassia we photographed and cast last week

    2 replies . 11 retweets 39 likes
  17. Oct 14

    DNH 134 (Simon), a ~2.04 million year old juvenile Homo erectus cranium from Drimolen Cave in South Africa; named after Simon Mokobane, our too soon departed & much missed colleague

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  18. Oct 15

    Belantsea montana for and

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  19. Oct 15

    🐘🐘 usually chew on one set of🦷 (upper part: lower jaw with 2 molars). Humans replace their 🦷 vertically, so a new 🦷 forms underneath the old one. 🐘🐘 replace their 🦷 horizontally. The new tooth pushes from behind to the front as you can see below in section.

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  20. Oct 15

    Magnificently preserved and prepared Jurassic marine crocodylomorphs from SW Germany in the collections of the Naturmuseum in Winterthur ().

    Complete skeleton of the teleosauroid Macrospondylus bollensis in dorsal view. Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Holzmaden (southwestern Germany). Collection of the Naturmuseum in Winterthur (Switzerland).
    Complete skeleton of the teleosauroid Macrospondylus bollensis in dorsal view. Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Holzmaden (southwestern Germany). Collection of the Naturmuseum in Winterthur (Switzerland).
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