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I don't know who needs to hear this but you can call for the regulation of the private fossil market AND call for Brazilian fossil repatriation. Big Rex auctions just increase the demand fulfilled by the illegal trade of Brazilian fossils.

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Among the thousands of dire wolf specimens at La Brea #TarPits is this 𝘈𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘺𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘶𝘴 lower jaw. Known as “The Endling”—the last known #direwolf fossil on Earth—this fossil is dated to be approximately 13,082 years old. See the fossil now on view in our Fossil Lab!

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Watching more movies and decided to play into me being a mid-20s white guy and made a Letterboxd. May God have mercy on my pasty soul. letterboxd.com/paleodude/

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Happy #TylosurusTuesday! Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

A guide to the exoparia: the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account: #scicomm #paleontology #dinosaur #sciart

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

#SciArt Spotlight 🎨 Florida Pliocene Scientific art helps to illustrate Florida's evolving ecosystems, bringing life to the fossils we display in our exhibits. 🗝️ Check out the art + key and bonus fossils for gomphotheres, early artiodactyls and more: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/blo...

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Begging Democrat politicians to stop fighting to win over conservatives, and start winning over the 90 million Americans who just didn’t vote at all in the last national election. A meaningful chunk of those 90 million are absolutely looking for progressive policy directions.

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Happy #FossilFriday! For today enjoy this itty bitty baby Triceratops and the much more irritable mammal Didelphodon. Both of these animals (the species not the skeletons) lived during the last days of the dinosaurs. Side note; more universities should have fossil displays. #paleontology 🧪

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I'm super excited to announce that I'll be joining the Maddin lab at Carleton University for my PhD this Fall! Expect lot's of really cool synapsidy research on this feed soon!

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

This is like the highlight of the year so far I'm not even kidding.

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Join our team teaching Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Calgary! We are hiring two positions to start in the Fall teaching in our new integrated curriculum.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Unicorns are one thing but every kid I knew who got into dinosaurs was equally interested in extant animals. Dinosaurs are just a gateway into the natural sciences for a lot of kid. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Rewatching the Simpsons Season 8 and oh my god it's kind of impressive how basically every episode in it is absolutely peak. May just be my favorite.

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I present you the whole collection of bonobo drawings. These are all part of the same illustration, but they are not the final version; I still want to correct some details and then I will share the whole composition. #Sciart #art #primates #mammals

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Museum peeps, what's your least favorite conversation to have with people outside the field? For me, it's screens and buttons. "I hate how new exhibits are full of screens and buttons" or "you should add more screens and buttons for the kids." Both takes are missing the point! A thread. 🧵

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most accurate representations of grad school applications.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

There's nothing more heartbreaking than finding out that you've missed out on a PhD position thanks in entirety to the hell that is the federal government at this point. Science in the states is basically dead or dying.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Hoping all of you stayed warm this #FamilyDay with Alberta's last cold snap of the year hitting hard. Luckily I was able to escape the cold at the Royal Tyrrell Museum where I didn't have it as bad as these snowy Pachyrhinosaurus. #paleoart #paleontology #museum

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone who uses any other palico voice besides the funny meows in Wilds is insane and I do not trust their moral character.

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Pair of small dicynodonts Diictodon snoozing in their comfy burrow

submitted 99 days ago • 12 comments

Any recommendations for reliable phones? Thoroughly disappointed by Google Pixel having to replace a screen due to a manufacturing error and now dealing with the phone not charging properly.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Homo sapiens

submitted 113 days ago • 9 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 114 days ago • 1641 comments

Looks like with the NSF funding freeze I'll really have no other option than to remain in Canada for graduate studies. What an absolutely devastating and cruel administration the GOP has run.

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

I made a Lythronax

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Who has two thumbs and submitted his first manuscript? This guy! Stay tuned for the deep history of bad luck within Synapsida. #paleontology

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Day 5 of rebuilding a #LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the largest lizard Varanus priscus (the artist formerly known as Megalania). Larger than today's Komodo dragon, V. priscus would've been the top predator of the Ice Age outback. 🧪

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Day 4 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Finally decided to build a dinosaur out of the dinosaur set, that being the Mongolian weirdo Therizinosaurus. When it's extremely long claws we're found scientists thought they belonged to a giant turtle! 🧪

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Day 3 of rebuilding a LEGO set into a different critter. Today it's the "first apex predator" Anomalocaris. With complex eyes and a set of grasping claws it was the terror of the Cambrian seas. 🧪

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Day 2 of rebuilding the same LEGO set into different critters. This time it's a life size Tully monster! These weirdos are found only in Illinois and for the longest time people weren't sure what kind of animal they were. Recent studies suggest they are chordates. 🧪

submitted 131 days ago • 4 comments

Having found a site which gives you alternative instructions for LEGO sets I've decided to do one for the Creator Dinosaur set daily. Day 1 this awesome Diplocaulus by Ambrosino.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

Slow year for dinosaurs if "Labocania aguillonae" is considered news worthy, let alone in the Top Ten Discoveries. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

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I may have just turned 24 today but this funny little robot toy is still cool as hell. Here's hoping 2025 has even more cool robot toys.

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Happy #FossilFriday! This terror bird at the Science Museum of Minnesota is harassing a glyptodont, an enormous armadillo relative. While the group is extinct their closest relatives, the seriema, still terrorizes small prey across South America. #paleontology #paleoart 🧪

submitted 159 days ago • 2 comments