The Substation Quarry dig by the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is going swimmingly! Great finds are popping up, and it's incredible how the community has come together to help with such a unique site.
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Happy #FossilFriday, check out some darling crocodylomorph tracks! 200 million years ago, small and snappy distant-croc-relatives, like Protosuchus, darted and splashed along a ripple-marked lakeshore and through silty riverbeds, leaving behind their traces. (1/2)
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A new book highlights the work of Jay Matternes, the paleoartist whose work adorns the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and American Museum of Natural History, as well as the pages of National Geographic and Scientific American. @Smithsonianmag takes a peek inside the pages.
Link: https://flip.it/DPP0Yz
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If you’re in France or Germany, you can currently find the documentary on ARTE or ZDF under the name Dinosaures, la chasse aux fossiles / Auf der Jagd nach Dino-Fossilien. I highly recommend checking it out!
Important article drawing attention to the escalating illegal fossil trade with insights from Jeremy Xido (xido.org), director of the documentary film The Bones.
https://lequotidien.lu/culture/dinosaures-lincontrolable-ruee-vers-los/
Le QuotidienDinosaures : l’incontrôlable ruée vers l’osLes fossiles de dinosaures, convoités par les collectionneurs et découverts en majorité par des amat...
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2021 I created a bunch of paintings for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. I painted four murals and three illustrations for graphics boards. Here's one of the illustrations featuring the ichthyosaur Baptanodon.
*Drumroll*... review #500! The Future of Dinosaurs is a fresh take on pop-palaeo that flips the script by charting the limits of our knowledge.
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The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don’t Know, What We Can, and What We’ll Never KnowThe Future of Dinosaurs is a fresh take on pop-palaeo that flips the script by charting the limits of our knowledge.
Please welcome the journal Historical Biology to Mastodon and give them a follow: @HistoricalBiology
The journal "Publishes papers on developments in the sciences concerning the history of life through geological time and the biology of past organisms."
Hi everyone!
I am a vertebrate #paleontology PhD student at the University of Portsmouth, UK 
My research is centered around the #biomechanics and functional morphology of extinct animals.
I study the locomotion of #pterosaurs and #dinosaurs, specifically focusing on the semi-aquatic theropod #Spinosaurus 
Happy #FossilFriday, take a look at the skull of Teratophoneus! This tyrannosaur made southern Utah its stomping grounds roughly 76 million years ago, and it may have used those massive teeth to prey upon hadrosaurs such as Gryposaurus and Parasaurolophus. (1/2)
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"The past, as they say, is a different country, and so it was for 1925. *Nature* back then makes for often grim reading — paternalistic, male-dominated, imperialist, colonialist and, at times, nakedly racist. Had Dart’s paper been submitted today, it would at the very least have included the names of several others, notably, Josephine Salmons, a student demonstrator of anatomy at the same university as Dart, who brought the fossil to his attention."
www.nature.comOut of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins researchA landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.
Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird.
New Scientist reports: "Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived around 150 million years ago and had a short tail like those of modern birds."
New Scientist · Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Happy #FossilFriday, check out this beautifully preserved crinoid! These animals have inhabited the oceans for 480 million years, and they're relatives of sea urchins and sea stars. This specimen is long fossilized, but looks like it just died and fell into the seabed's embrace. (1/3)
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
In 2021 I created a bunch of vignettes for a new book, called SEA MAMMALS, by Annalisa Berta. They were quick to produce and a fun change from my big Mesozoic landscapes, which take weeks to complete. The animals here are not to scale.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zoom into my Wulong reconstruction, from 2021. This was the press release artwork for a paper describing "The iridescent plumage in a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur" (Croudace et al).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
and we flap into 2021 with Wulong bohaiensis, from Early Cretaceous China. This was the press release artwork for a paper describing "The iridescent plumage in a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur" (Croudace et al).
Happy #FossilFriday everyone. For your viewing pleasure here is, what I think is, a Proceratopyge canadensis, a trilobite I found from the McKay group Cambrian deposits. That means this little critter was likely alive around 490 million years ago
Have you ever seen fossilized vomit?
From @npr: "66 million years ago, a fish chewed up and spit out food. It's now a fossil in Denmark."
Paleontologists claim to have re-discovered dinosaur species in pre-WWII photographs.
From @Gizmodo: "The fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images."
Gizmodo · Paleontologists Claim to Have Discovered Terrifying New Dinosaur Species in Pre-WWII PhotographsThe fossil, destroyed in an air raid 80 years ago, had faded from memory until a paleontologist found archival images.
Happy #FossilFriday, check out this phytosaur skull being prepared! Phytosaurs slunk around waterways during the Late Triassic, likely snapping up any animals that ventured too close to the shoreline. (1/3)
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