Say hello to our newest addition- Thescelosaurus, the Marvelous Lizard! CT scans reveal enlarged olfactory bulbs and small inner-ear canals- a sensory combination typical of modern burrowers, suggesting #Thescelosaurus may have shared similar underground habits.
#dinosaurs #paleontology #scicomm
The scleral rings still need to dry, but I'm thrilled with how this Thescelosaurus skull has turned out. A huge thanks to the Cackling Crow for printing the piece out, and to BioBuild Studios for designing such a fantastic piece!
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Me: here is something I have intensely studied over decades
You: I disagree based on vibes
Me:
Here I am with our new life-sized Leptoceratops bust! This small, hornless cousin of Triceratops lived in the Hell Creek Formation during the Late Cretaceous. Soon we'll be painting it to bring this fascinating little herbivore to life with realistic colorations as part of our Hell Creek exhibit.
Today's interesting wildlife encounter- while leaving our property, I spotted some crows putting a bald eagle on the run over a neighboring field. At one point the eagle swooped fairly close to my car as it tried to lose them, which was probably the closest I've ever been to a truly wild eagle.
I love the work @rubrennanart.bsky.social does! I've got a lot of his 1:1 skulls.
All in all, I spent probably around 200 dollars on materials to the finished product.
Say hello to Anzu- the “Chicken from Hell”! This oviraptorosaur lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops in the Late Cretaceous. About 12 feet long and covered in feathers, it looked like a nightmarish ostrich with large claws and a powerful beak. It likely fed on plants as well as small animals.
#dinosaurs #dinosaursarecool #dinosaur #paleontology #paleo #sciencecommunication #scicomm #science #naturalhistory #museum #fossils #fossil
I am a simple man- I see a post by Natee Himmapaan on social media, I share it.
It's #Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year! ☀️🎊
I have nothing interesting to post, so I'm just re-sharing this Kinnareemimus, I suppose. 🤷🏻♀️
A Triceratops strolls towards a stream, passing through a densely vegetated swampy woodland. Vines and small trees obstruct our view of the dinosaur.
Today’s random piece of nostalgic palaeoart: Douglas Henderson’s Triceratops!
Leave it to Henderson to be able to make something as mundane as an animal walking through a forest look so compelling! Henderson’s greatest talent lies in his rich, natural-looking environments. (1/3)
Either I've missed a fairly important paper or two concerning the size or Anzu or this AI is wildly incorrect.
I'll let you guess which it is.
#dinosaurs #dinosaur #paleontology #paleo #sciencecommunication #scicomm #science #naturalhistory #museum #fossils #fossil
Hadrosaur skin impressions with dorsal osteoderms at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Many hadrosaur fossils found at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument include skin impressions. #FossilFriday
Dr. Jim Kirkland presents "Eggs, Nests, and Dinosaur Behavior: Evidence from the Morrison Formation, Colorado Plateau" at the February Great Basin UFOP Chapter meeting in SLC. #paleontology #jurassic www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4W1...
Edmontosaurus ~ Edmonton lizard 🇨🇦🦎
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The trio for my ‘polar collection’ is now complete! However, I thought I would try a different background with this hadrosaur getting caught in the rain ☔️
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#paleoart #dinosaur #edmontosaurus
Painterly digital illustration of 3 Tenontosaurus migrating along a muddy trackway next to a body of water. The sky is stormy with the last sunlight of the day peaking from behind a low mountain range with trees and bushes in the midground. The closest Tenontosaurus is about to eat a cycad frond which may or may not be toxic to it.
Tenontosaurus dinosaur illustration art directed by James Stryker for a paleoart project. #Dinosaur #Tenontosaurus #Paleoart
For #FossilFriday today, Homer the Triceratops, at the Burpee Museum's Paleofest last weekend
My Camarasaurus vertebra arrived and honestly, the pictures did not do it justice. This thing is MASSIVE, it's like carrying a toddler around.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Wing bones
Appendicular elements
Proximal articulation of a wing
Working on a new gigantic task. Describing over 300 well-preserved, diverse pterosaur bones from a niche Late Jurassic locality. An independent project led by me and an army of eager local fossil collectors and preparators. 🤫 Look out for it hitting the press later this year!
A German model of Diplodocus from the 1930's- at that time the scientific community in Germany favored the idea of sauropods walking with sprawled legs, leading to a bit of a spat with the Carnegie who were mounting their Diplodocus skeletons in an upright position.
Here's Galeamopus all painted and ready to join its fellow sauropods during public events. Eventually I'll have to look into getting a Brachiosaurus or Giraffatitan in there, but all in due time.
#scicomm #paleontology #dinosaur #dinosaur #fossil #naturalhistory #sauropod #museum #paleosky
And here's my new Utahraptor skull all finished, painted, and ready to go! The second image includes the skull of a Velociraptor to give you an idea of just how massive and robust these things really were!
#scicomm #paleontology #paleosky #dinosaur #fossil #raptor
Daeodon (Zbrush sculpt, resin print) #sciart #paleoart
Coggeshall would go on to become the director of the Illinois State Museum (1930-37) and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (1937-58). Visit the Coggeshall Bowl the next time you are in Santa Barbara!
L.S. Coggeshall preparing a fossil specimen collected by Earl Douglass's team from the Carnegie in 1922. Originally described by Charles Gilmore in 1925 as Camptosaurus medius, the specimen's classification has been revised twice: first to Camptosaurus aphanoecetes, and then to Uteodon aphanoecetes.
That always blows peoples minds during my presentations, because the average person tends to think of them as being very solid and thick like a modern cow. Nope, absolutely chock full of air.
The massive length of some sauropod necks seemed to pose a major challenge for pumping blood to the brain, but recent research proposes that stiff, springy cervical ribs along the neck may have functioned as accessory pumps, helping to maintain blood flow without requiring an impossibly large heart.
Unlike T. rex, which used powerful lateral head thrashing to tear flesh, Allosaurus seemingly employed a "grip and pull" technique similar to modern falcons. This would have involved driving its head into the prey, gripping with its jaws, and then rapidly retracting its neck and head to strip flesh.
