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For #FossilFriday, "resting" trace a small sea star/"starfish" the Late Ordovician Sequatchie Formation (~445 mya) of northwest Georgia (USA), preserved as a natural cast & accompanied by thin & tiny invertebrate burrows. #ichnology 🪨⚒️🧪

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Oh to be a glyptodont and live as a big, shelled nerd banging on everyone else’s carapace because what else is there to do in the Pleistocene?

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Little and Large. For #FossilFriday a pair of ornithopod footcasts from the Early Cretaceous of the #IsleofWight.

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It's been a whole heaping load of a month, so I grabbed myself a little something by @restingdinoface.bsky.social to distract myself from constantly doomscrolling:

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We all know the iconic “mosquito” in amber from Jurassic Park, but how did such fossils form? In this excerpt from When the Earth Was Green, let me take you back to a time of goop - the Cretaceous Resinous Interval.

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Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online? I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎 www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...

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Colin Sumrall and I are at McClung Museum, celebrating a late Darwin Day. We're running the rock/mineral/fossil ID table, and we've actually seen several cool things so far.

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@science.org just published this article about the Paleontological Research Institution and its importance in this time of financial crisis for the institution. Please share widely as donations in any amount can make a real difference in the short-medium term. ⚒️🧪🦑 www.science.org/content/arti...

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It's not much, but it's there to help for any colleagues who find themselves needing it: www.paleosoc.org/paleontologi...

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Let's checkout a few mesoeusuchian grade terrestrial crocs from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmerigian)and basal Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the Colorado Plateau. The new Yellow Cat croc is twice the size of the 2 Morrison taxa. They filled role of skunks and racoons in mid-Mesozoic landscape.

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Our student geology club sold Valentines as a fundraiser today. Some were, uh... more romantic than others.

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A mom reached out to me about bringing her son to my university-level class because he was interested in becoming a paleontologist. I must have flaked reading the email, because I assumed he was a teenager. He was not. He brought me art. (I had to make extra certain not to cuss.) It was beyond cute.

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Full article: Revisiting Bird’s swimming sauropod: new insights on Manus-dominated Dinosaur Tracks from the Mayan Dude Ranch in Bandera, Texas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts

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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

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Continuing the International Day of Women in Science. Mary Ann Woodhouse (Mantell)(1795-1869) self taught artist who illustrated hundreds of plates and specimens for Gideon Mantell, helping with discovery & description of the Iguanadon, one of the first dinosaurs (celebrating 200 year anniversary!)

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Baby death roll 😍

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Check out this baby crocodile emerging from its egg 🥚 🐊 And read our recent article in @nature.com to learn how compressive forces sculpt their intricate head scales 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @lanevol.bsky.social @genevunige.bsky.social

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Thought the one on the left was made of chocolate for a second. Would buy, for the record.

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Mammals after the K-Pg Extinction:

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This photo shows the skeleton of Cricosaurus albersdoerferi, a metriorhynchid crocodylomorph found in a Late Jurassic limestone quarry in Painten, Germany. It is one of the best-preserved fossils of Cricosaurus, even revealing information about the integument. 1/2 #science #paleontology #fossil

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A gorgeous croc osteoderm from one of our "Mesaverde" Fm. vertebrate microfossil localities (Campanian, Bighorn Basin, WY; BLM-Paleo permit, accessioned @alfpaleo). Excellent work by our preparator J. Heuck!

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This paper has been delighting me for months, but I've been struggling to write about delightful things. I finally forced myself to sit down and just be delighted by the ocean. We still need delightful things. A tongue-eating isopod takes a 5-million+ year journey through fossilized feces:

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For people who are not aware, on the 8th of February I'm part of an event opening the first digital Paleoart exhibition. The whole thing will open with a charming little thing on a platform called Gather Town, it's like Star Dew Valley for organizers. More below #paleoart #sciart #exhibition

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Hey, it’s February and that means my new book comes out this month! 🌱 When the Earth Was Green is out in physical, ebook, and audio forms on February 25th. Pre-orders help a great deal, so please consider ordering a copy and asking for it from your local library (thanks if you already have!).

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I'm exhausted and this feels like the best option for #FossilFriday this week. This is coprolite. What is coprolite, you ask? It's fossilized feces. It's mineralized, doesn't smell. It's important for science to find pollen or pieces of bone. Also proves you can polish a turd.

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Hi, I'm Earyn, and I'm a lizard scientist! I created a game to teach people about lizards and increase the representation of Black women as herpetologists. #findthatlizard is a Where's Waldo-esque game where there is a lizard camouflaged in its environment. Your challenge is to find it. Will you? 🦎

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My oldest kid expressed an interest in doing a fossil project for science fair this year. We went up to Kentucky today to collect fossils, and he's getting the full field geoscience experience. Check out the mud on those boots.

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“…it shows that peaceful coexistence between crocodiles and humans is not only possible, but is the norm.” 🐊 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Caitlin Doughty (of YouTube's AskAMortician fame) and Bill Bass (of UT #ForensicAnthropology fame) crossover I have been waiting for: youtu.be/azYme6Dxs78?...

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For #FossilFriday, a 2-for-1 special: Apatosaurus ischium (= body fossil) bearing toothmarks (= trace fossil) made by a large theropod with serrated teeth. Specimen was displayed at the Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita CO, described by @uglyfossils.bsky.social, @drjmchugh.bsky.social & others.🧪🦖🦕

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Carnage & its aftermath from the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in CO. Of the 2,368 fossils studied, 684 had at least one, sometimes multiple, #theropod bite marks. #ichnology #FossilFriday 🧪 @drjmchugh.bsky.social @uglyfossils.bsky.social (Art by Brian Engh) arstechnica.com/science/2021...

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The echinoid fossil in this 400,000 year old handaxe from Swanscombe, Kent, had quite a journey. Living over 65 million years ago it survived Cretaceous seas, fossilisation, Ice Age rivers, Neanderthal culture, more rivers, & quarrying to enter our scientific record. #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🧪🦣🏺

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Sarcosuchus, um dos maiores crocodilianos conhecidos. Podia chegar até 9-9,5m. Viveu durante o Cretáceo na África ocidental e no NE do Brasil. #FossilFriday

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I did this to myself. (My kids are very excited about their Christmas present.)

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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I don't think I shared this here yet. This is the Edmontosaurus illustration very kindly commissioned by @ndgspaleo.bsky.social to accompany the return to public display of Dakota the Edmontosaurus dinomummy at the North Dakota Heritage Centre in 2021. 1/4

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Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

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See? My super niche research can have practical applications:

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youtu.be/MQYzJKTlYHA @uglyfossils.bsky.social talks about Dakota the Dinomummy taphonomy, in our ongoing miniseries "Deciphering the Dinomummy" #dinomummy #dinosaur #edmontosaurus #hadrosaur #cretaceous #NDGSPaleo #paleontology #mummy

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#GARWEEK schedule is HERE! Get ready for a FINtastic week celebrating gars, native fishes, freshwater biodiversity, and GARish puns! *while Gar Week is cross-platform, there will be content exclusive to Bluesky🦋😎

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