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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
Mostly posts about the art history of paleontology in museums. Exhibit developer at the Field Museum, opinions my own. Proudly from DC. he/him Website: extinctmonsters.net
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I’ve been waiting so long to share the most beautiful dinosaur display I’ve ever seen for #FossilFriday - spotted in downtown DC 😍

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Open today: Africa Fashion (touring from the V&A) and Connecting Threads, an in-house companion show of new pieces by Chicago designers inspired by Field Museum collections.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

An old buck Estemmenosuchus scratches itself on a dead tree with all sorts of little guys!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Yo, who’s going to the Burpee Museum Paleofest this weekend? Just got my ticket for Saturday. #FossilFriday

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Stills of the old NMNH Fossil Hall dinosaur dioramas by Jay Matternes. From the Smithsonian 1989 calendar “The Story of Dinosaurs: Lost In Time” (1/3): - Plateosaurus (with Trilophosaurus) - Rutiodons - Ceratosaurus attacking Camptosaurus - Allosaurus #paleoart #vintagepaleoart

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Sick

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 4 days ago • 211 comments

It should be illegal not to recreate historic photos when disassembling and remounting a sauropod skeleton

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This skeleton was found with a bonus partially-digested baby hadrosaur jaw (the small one in the pic) that was probably Daspleto’s last meal

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

give me Daspletosaurus or give me death

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I see your MOR 980 and raise you a tea drinking T. rex

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am extremely in this video and I extremely don't like it 🐢 www.tiktok.com/@dipsydiver/...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the pelvis, scapula, and reconstructed skeleton of the XL sauropod Supersaurus, under special Halloween lighting #FossilFriday

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The amazing brach gallery will make a humble brach lover cry with joy! 😀😀😀 The brand new Chengjiang Fossil Site Museum

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This wax Apatosaurus turned up in a cabinet. He has something to do with one of the old Life Over Time dioramas, but I’m not sure if he’s a prototype, master cast, or actual display model.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

This totally explains how and why the vibes have been off for awhile

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It's Twilight time in #Cambridge (the *real* night at the museum), and the skeletons are looking flipping awesome! @zoologymuseum.bsky.social @camunivmuseums.bsky.social #TwilightAtTheMuseums

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I’m looking for a reference that lists a standardized global temperature for each epoch of the Cenozoic (or, say, every 5-10 million years). Slightly overwhelmed by what’s out there and not finding exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks in advance!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 10 days ago • 1063 comments

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

I love making a significant scientific discovery and running blindly through the crowded halls of my early twentieth century university with a bundle of loose papers in my outstretched arms

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

One week to go until the online launch for Palaeontology in Public, which will be on Tuesday 18 February, 18:00-19:30 (UK-time) on Zoom All welcome! To attend, just sign-up here at least 24 hours before the event start: forms.office.com/e/gpWburvZPk

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

dunno about you all but I’d like it to be spring now

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“In geology or paleontology, you are shown what is in the earth, and it's amazing when you go back millions of years and you can find a fossil, hold it in your hand, and say, ‘This thing was living millions of years ago, and you're holding the remains of it in your hand to study…’.” Purnell

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

tag yourself (just kidding I’m moving into the sloth case tomorrow)

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments