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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 31. sij

    Only 1 week to go to win this stunning 195 million year old pyrite Ammonite! To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is RETWEET this tweet and make sure you are FOLLOWING me! Genuine accounts need only apply.

  4. 31. sij

    Two zooids of the primitive cheilostome bryozoan Wawalia from the Gault Clay (Early Cretaceous) of Kent. Discovered among the fossils requested to the NHM by the late Joe Collins, crustacean expert

  5. 31. sij

    Adult (Cope's original holotype!) and juvenile skulls of one of my very favorite animals: the lower Permian amphibian Eryops megacephalus from Texas.

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  6. 31. sij

    Happy ! Today's featured -supported research is the description of the brand new microraptorine Wulong from China! Read all about it here:

  7. Can you guess what this is?

  8. This goes out to all of the Stegosaurus fans out there! Did you know that at one time, some scientists thought Stegosaurus had a “second brain” because the one in its head seemed so small? The dinosaur did, however, manage with one walnut-sized brain.

    A charcoal-colored Stegosaurus fossil skeleton on display in the Museum. It has plates of armor along the ridge of its back.
  9. 31. sij

    This fossil leaf has been buried for about 65 million years and now it’s free!

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  10. 31. sij

    I love these: ammonites with nacre preserved by rare earth elements (not opalized) as a gem called Ammolite from Canada. This one with mosasaur bite marks. Out of my price range. Legally collected and exported by

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  11. 31. sij

    a teeny little sauropodomorph from the early Jurassic of Antarctica.

  12. Animals don’t always fossilize as complete skeletons. Palaeontologists study articulated specimens and isolated microfossils to determine which animals lived in different areas. Can you guess what this microfossil is?

  13. 31. sij

    Terminonaris robusta, fittingly nicknamed “Big Bert,” is a giant found near Carrot River, SK, dating back almost 92 million years. Funny about this specimen, is that I saw the holotype before I saw the exhibit

  14. 31. sij

    This fossil block is made of breccia, a natural kind of concrete composed of mud and stones. It contains a number of Karabo's bones and some fossils from other animals. Some of Karabo's bones were found in anatomical position, which is extremely rare. 🤯

  15. 31. sij

    That face you make when you realize they took your ribs and tail 😦 is packing more and more bones. It's a busy at the 's Great Hall! Come say goodbye to Monoclonius and other dinosaurs through the Discovery Room!

    Selfie of me with a concerned face and Monoclonius looking startled
    Monoclonius mount with no ribs or tail
    Monoclonius's ribs and tail with labels on top of foam
  16. Dinosaur teeth less than 5mm long have revealed that dromaeosaurs, the group of carnivores that evolved to include Velociraptor, were roaming Britain 167 million years ago:

  17. 31. sij

    Walking with giants🦕 This 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 is actually a tiny juvenile, but I am a small Sicilian boy🙄

  18. 31. sij

    Did you know there are many kinds of saber-toothed cat? The brown skull is a replica of Smilodon, the famous Ice Age cat. The white skull is the older Machairodus, which might be the cat we have here at Gray, but we need more fossils to know for sure!

  19. 31. sij

    Happy ! The next time you visit the Museum of the Earth, look for our giant, paperclip-shaped specimen of the heteromorph ammonite Diplomoceras maximum from Cretaceous-aged rocks from Seymour Island, Antarctica. Learn more:

  20. 31. sij

    Past, present, and future... Mosses growing on the fossilized remains of 390 million year old horn coral. Just below you can see a little aster seed. Happy !!

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