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I had a really lovely time at Paleofest! It had been too long since I went. #BurpeeMuseum
March 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Jane.
BMRP 2002.4.1.
+ Skeleton.
Nanotyrannus / Young Tyrannosaurus rex. (?)

#HellCreekFormation #Nanotyrannus #Youngtrex #dinosaur #tyrannosaur #Jane #Theropod #cretaceous #cretaceousperiod #paleoart #palaeoart #paleontology #palaentology #prehistory #prehistoricanimal #animal #Burpeemuseum
April 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Dr. Jingmai O’Connor
When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 8, 2026 at 3:30 AM
museumguyscott.bsky.social
Well....yeah....a tiny sauropod......that has a serious drug problem :P #PaleoFest #BurpeeMuseum
March 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Dr. Jaelyn Eberle, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History “Life in an Ancient Arctic Rainforest”
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum #Paleontology
Rockford, Illinois, USA
Fossil tree stumps exposed at the surface of an arctic hillside with two people standing next to them. Dr. Jaelyn Eberle, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History “Life in an Ancient Arctic Rainforest” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum #Paleontology Rockford, Illinois, USA Dr. Jaelyn Eberle, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History standing at her laptop giving her talk. “Life in an Ancient Arctic Rainforest” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum #Paleontology Rockford, Illinois, USA Mammal fossil skeletons, teeth, and jawbones Dr. Jaelyn Eberle, in a warm red winter jacket in the arctic. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History “Life in an Ancient Arctic Rainforest” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum #Paleontology Rockford, Illinois, USA
March 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
museumguyscott.bsky.social
Quick reminder #Jane- the juvenile #Tyrannosaurusrex at #BurpeeMuseum is 100%, absolutely a die-hard, #ChicagoCubs fan!! Everyone knows this. I mean..its an near iron clad fact. FACT! Someone needs to mention this in the next paper on Jane. #paleontology #sports @arctomet.bsky.social looking at you!
January 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
toddrockford.bsky.social
All the presenters at PaleoFest 2025 at Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois, USA (except for Dr. Paul Sereno)
#PaleoFest2025 #Paleontology #BurpeeMuseum
March 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
museumguyscott.bsky.social
One of the preeminent paleo-artists out there. Had #TylerKeillor create the "fleshed-out" Jane mount at #BurpeeMuseum! Has come over several times with his amazing reconstructions!
toddrockford.bsky.social ToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · Mar 1
Tyler Keillor, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart”
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
Tyler Keillor, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA. Tyler Keillor, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA. Tyler Keillor posing with his reconstruction of Diabloceratops, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA.
March 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Dr. Thomas Holtz, University of Maryland
“A Small State with Some Big Dinosaurs: Maryland in the Mesozoic”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Dr. Sarah Losso, Harvard University “Eat, prey, love: Functional morphology of trilobites”
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum #Paleontology #trilobites
Rockford, Illinois, USA
March 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
It made a special guest appearance at #PaleoFest2025 at #BurpeeMuseum yesterday.
The very elongated Infernodrakon hastacollis neck vertebra.
March 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
museumguyscott.bsky.social
@joshmathews.bsky.social hey gang, follow my buddy Josh. Super swell guy, who's fantastically photogenic. Literally the only 2 pics I have of him. He's a Cheesehead Packer-Fan, but he likes paleo & runs exhibits/paleo at #BurpeeMuseum, so he's not all bad. Anyhow...give him a follow!
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Henry Thomas with newly described pterosaur neck vertebra from the new species now named "Infernodrakon". The bone was found under the fossil bones of "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus rex currently displayed at Burpee. This is the first pterosaur to be named from the Hell Creek.
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
Henry Thomas with his newly described pterosaur neck vertebra from the new species now named "Infernodrakon". The bone was found under the fossil bones of "Jane" the Tyrannosaurus rex currently displayed at Burpee. This is the first pterosaur to be named from the Hell Creek. #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum The very elongate neck vertebra holotype of Infernodrakon.
March 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
John Moretti, University of Texas
“Exploration of water caves in central Texas reveals previously unknown aspects of the Ice Age animal community”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Tyler Keillor, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart”
#PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
Tyler Keillor, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA. Tyler Keillor, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA. Tyler Keillor posing with his reconstruction of Diabloceratops, University of Chicago “Carving Ancient Beasts at the Burpee and Beyond: 25 Years of Tyler Keillor’s Paleoart” #PaleoFest2025 #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA.
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Dr. Maria Eugenia Gold, Suffolk University "Finding Your Passion Across the Academic Landscape"
#BurpeeMuseum #PaleoFest2025
Rockford, Illinois, USA
March 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Reg Sprigg, explorer and Geologist, is on Australia's hundred dollar bill.
Mary Droser
“Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo: The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Galcarius utahensis, earliest known:therizinosaurian
Willie Friemuth, North Carolina State University
"Utah’s Sister Sickle-Makers: paleobiological insights from two therizinosaurian bonebeds”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 7, 2026 at 3:34 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
First PaleoFest speaker of the morning:
Willie Friemuth, North Carolina State University
"Utah’s Sister Sickle-Makers: paleobiological insights from two therizinosaurian bonebeds”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Evolutionary changes to therizinosaurians over time.
Willie Friemuth, North Carolina State University
"Utah’s Sister Sickle-Makers: paleobiological insights from two therizinosaurian bonebeds”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Mary Droser
“Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo: The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
March 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Burpee Museum's PaleoFest will be held Feb. 28- March 2, 2025. Fun activities for the whole family, 2 full days of talks by paleontolgists from around the world presenting results of their latest work, and amazing fossils on display. Rockford, Illinois, USA.
#BurpeeMuseum #PaleoFest #PaleoFest2025
Burpee Museum of Natural History's logo with the silhouette of "Jane" the teenage tyrannosaurus.
November 25, 2024 at 3:37 PM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Does tooth count change during growth?
Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight”
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
March 7, 2026 at 12:50 AM
toddrockford.bsky.social
Dr. James Napoli: “Nanotyrannus lethaeus: how new evidence revealed Rockford’s own tyrannosaur species was hiding in plain sight” all about one of our favorite dinosaurs, Jane!
#PaleoFest2026 #BurpeeMuseum
Rockford, Illinois, USA.
March 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Paleo Analysis' Steve Vicari is at #PaleoFest2025 with his Utahraptor skull.
#BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA.
A smiling Paleo Analysis' Steve Vicari talking with fans of paleontology at #PaleoFest2025 with his Utahraptor skull held on his right shoulder #BurpeeMuseum Rockford, Illinois, USA.
March 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM