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September 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
#fossilfriday An example of why the ANSP and its collections must be saved. Atlantochelys mortoni, a giant protostegid sea turtle - named in 1849 by Agassiz based on the proximal humerus fragment. In 2012, someone found a large distal humerus that FIT ONTO THE SAME BONE in ANSP collections. 1/ 🦖🧪
September 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
#fossilfriday An example of why the ANSP and its collections must be saved. Atlantochelys mortoni, a giant protostegid sea turtle - named in 1849 by Agassiz based on the proximal humerus fragment. In 2012, someone found a large distal humerus that FIT ONTO THE SAME BONE in ANSP collections. 1/ 🦖🧪
My thoughts today are with the >19 million specimens held by the Academy of Natural Sciences and the dedicated staff who care for them. This ANSP holotype specimen is special to me, as I named it for my advisor, John Lundberg, a former ANSP Curator and authority on all catfishes, living, and fossil.
September 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
My thoughts today are with the >19 million specimens held by the Academy of Natural Sciences and the dedicated staff who care for them. This ANSP holotype specimen is special to me, as I named it for my advisor, John Lundberg, a former ANSP Curator and authority on all catfishes, living, and fossil.
Eric Scott is visiting the ANSP on a very historical weekend for the ANSP.
For #FossilFriday: my first-ever visit to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which is slated to close permanently this weekend unless some sort of miracle occurs. I'm thrilled to finally be here after a lifetime of wanting to visit, but heartbroken at the circumstances for my trip. 🦖🧪
September 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Eric Scott is visiting the ANSP on a very historical weekend for the ANSP.
Port Kennedy at ANSP also has...hands down, the best sample of the Irvintonian ground sloth Megalonyx wheatleyi anywhere in the world.
September 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Port Kennedy at ANSP also has...hands down, the best sample of the Irvintonian ground sloth Megalonyx wheatleyi anywhere in the world.
Skeletal reconstruction of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis holotype ANSP 9995 and AMNH 2438. Scale bar is 1m.
November 15, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Skeletal reconstruction of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis holotype ANSP 9995 and AMNH 2438. Scale bar is 1m.
Near and dear to me (and a few of you)...are American mastodons. Although the type of M. americanum is in Paris, the Jefferson Collection of mastodon material provided key ammunition against Buffon's "theory of American degeneracy"
September 27, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Near and dear to me (and a few of you)...are American mastodons. Although the type of M. americanum is in Paris, the Jefferson Collection of mastodon material provided key ammunition against Buffon's "theory of American degeneracy"
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology stands with the Academy of Natural Sciences (ANSP) staff, and preservation of the ANSP Museum. SVP urges our member community and anyone who enjoys and supports the natural sciences to speak up on behalf of the ANSP and their staff!
#SaveTheAcademy
#SaveTheAcademy
September 8, 2026 at 2:31 AM
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology stands with the Academy of Natural Sciences (ANSP) staff, and preservation of the ANSP Museum. SVP urges our member community and anyone who enjoys and supports the natural sciences to speak up on behalf of the ANSP and their staff!
#SaveTheAcademy
#SaveTheAcademy
An (ecto)parasitic #Crustmas. This is Dolops (above), which swims around and attaches to fishes (below), but unlike its relative Argulus, which has suckers, it has hooks to hold on. Also, is bizarrely cute!
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December 8, 2023 at 3:42 PM
An (ecto)parasitic #Crustmas. This is Dolops (above), which swims around and attaches to fishes (below), but unlike its relative Argulus, which has suckers, it has hooks to hold on. Also, is bizarrely cute!
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Oh. And the type of Euceratherium collinum, SHRUBOX! From Burnet Cave, NM. The ANSP has the trifecta of North American muskox holotypes. (there may be more that I'm missing in my photos).
September 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Oh. And the type of Euceratherium collinum, SHRUBOX! From Burnet Cave, NM. The ANSP has the trifecta of North American muskox holotypes. (there may be more that I'm missing in my photos).
With all the dire wolf stories out there, how about we take a moment to enjoy some quiet time alone in Dinosaur Hall with the ghosts of the Mesozoic Era. Here we have a Chasmosaurus and Corythosaurus at ANSP. 🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🌎 #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #paleontology #geoscience #sciencemuseum
April 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
With all the dire wolf stories out there, how about we take a moment to enjoy some quiet time alone in Dinosaur Hall with the ghosts of the Mesozoic Era. Here we have a Chasmosaurus and Corythosaurus at ANSP. 🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🌎 #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #paleontology #geoscience #sciencemuseum
Every time a transphobe thinks they have the right to interact with something I make, the notification should come with a free button to delete their account.
October 17, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Every time a transphobe thinks they have the right to interact with something I make, the notification should come with a free button to delete their account.
Not from a cave, but still in the ANSP collections...this massive snoot of an Atlantic walrus dredged from coastal New Jersey. Now present no further south than the the Canadian Arctic.
September 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Not from a cave, but still in the ANSP collections...this massive snoot of an Atlantic walrus dredged from coastal New Jersey. Now present no further south than the the Canadian Arctic.
This particular specimen is in the Thomas Jefferson collection at the ANSP because Jefferson was really interested in Ice Age animals--bison, mastodons, mammoths, sloths. This particularly large bison comes from the Ohio River valley. Even today that are pretty rare in the Midwest.
September 27, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This particular specimen is in the Thomas Jefferson collection at the ANSP because Jefferson was really interested in Ice Age animals--bison, mastodons, mammoths, sloths. This particularly large bison comes from the Ohio River valley. Even today that are pretty rare in the Midwest.
ANSP 22341, an unassuming slab from the Famennian Catskill Formation with portions of a few articulated lobe-finned fishes (Holoptychius) and a placoderm (Bothriolepis). Special to me as the first fossil I found to end up in a museum, collected during the first summer of my PhD. #FossilFriday
September 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
ANSP 22341, an unassuming slab from the Famennian Catskill Formation with portions of a few articulated lobe-finned fishes (Holoptychius) and a placoderm (Bothriolepis). Special to me as the first fossil I found to end up in a museum, collected during the first summer of my PhD. #FossilFriday
My tracker of Peter’s rig through the years has been updated through summer tour with some exciting behind-the-scenes pics and info!!
Check it out -> ryanstorm.substack.com/p/peter-ansp...
Check it out -> ryanstorm.substack.com/p/peter-ansp...
July 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My tracker of Peter’s rig through the years has been updated through summer tour with some exciting behind-the-scenes pics and info!!
Check it out -> ryanstorm.substack.com/p/peter-ansp...
Check it out -> ryanstorm.substack.com/p/peter-ansp...
Skeletal reconstruction of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis holotype ANSP 9995 and AMNH 2438. Scale bar is 1m.
#Dryptosaurus160th #FossilFriday
#Dryptosaurus160th #FossilFriday
August 21, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Skeletal reconstruction of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis holotype ANSP 9995 and AMNH 2438. Scale bar is 1m.
#Dryptosaurus160th #FossilFriday
#Dryptosaurus160th #FossilFriday
To expand on my last post, it seems the ANSP isn't the only Natural History closing up shop this year. RIP Sternberg Museum
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September 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM
To expand on my last post, it seems the ANSP isn't the only Natural History closing up shop this year. RIP Sternberg Museum
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3/ NJSM paleontologist Dave Parris immediately thought it needed to be compared with Atlantochelys and that it was something similar. However, the two pieces fit together, indicating they were halves of the SAME INDIVIDUAL BONE, collected over 150 years apart. 🦖🧪
September 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
3/ NJSM paleontologist Dave Parris immediately thought it needed to be compared with Atlantochelys and that it was something similar. However, the two pieces fit together, indicating they were halves of the SAME INDIVIDUAL BONE, collected over 150 years apart. 🦖🧪
I, like many in the paleontology community, have been devastated to hear about the planned closures for two major museums in the past two weeks. I have seen more coverage of ANSP, so I want to highlight the Sternberg Museum of Fort Hays State University in Kansas. sternberg.fhsu.edu
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Explore Great Plains natural history at the Sternberg Museum (Hays, KS): fossils, rotating exhibits, educational programs, tours, and camps.
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September 26, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I, like many in the paleontology community, have been devastated to hear about the planned closures for two major museums in the past two weeks. I have seen more coverage of ANSP, so I want to highlight the Sternberg Museum of Fort Hays State University in Kansas. sternberg.fhsu.edu
Museums are a social good. They preserve the collective history of our communities. In the case of the ANSP, that history happens to be a wonderful story of the dev of the natural sciences in this country. So we'll start here...this is the holotype specimen of Bison latifrons, the BIG #bison.
September 27, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Museums are a social good. They preserve the collective history of our communities. In the case of the ANSP, that history happens to be a wonderful story of the dev of the natural sciences in this country. So we'll start here...this is the holotype specimen of Bison latifrons, the BIG #bison.
@diplotomodon.bsky.social @mosasaurologist.bsky.social Morning gents, either of you know who these guys at ANSP are?
March 10, 2026 at 2:40 PM
@diplotomodon.bsky.social @mosasaurologist.bsky.social Morning gents, either of you know who these guys at ANSP are?
The reconstructed skull from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' mount of Hadrosaurus (1868), formerly displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Photo from my last visit to ANSP in 2021. #FossilFriday
September 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The reconstructed skull from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' mount of Hadrosaurus (1868), formerly displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Photo from my last visit to ANSP in 2021. #FossilFriday
I find it interesting that the first two catalog numbers in the ANSP collection are Cope-collected Columbian mammoths from Wellington, KS. Very nice mammoths they are too! @commondescentpod.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I find it interesting that the first two catalog numbers in the ANSP collection are Cope-collected Columbian mammoths from Wellington, KS. Very nice mammoths they are too! @commondescentpod.bsky.social
Where are my DK Dinosaur Hunters at?! This game immersed me into a world as a kid (7 yr), and now is my career (36 yr)! I took the audio from the game and meshed it to our Dino Hall at ANSP. I need this game revamped for the new generation.
🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil
🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil
April 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Where are my DK Dinosaur Hunters at?! This game immersed me into a world as a kid (7 yr), and now is my career (36 yr)! I took the audio from the game and meshed it to our Dino Hall at ANSP. I need this game revamped for the new generation.
🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil
🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil