What could be spookier than being eaten by a Tyrannosaurus? Fossil evidence reveals the diet of T. rex and this tyrannosaur foot bone (MOR 1602) preserves a bite mark, revealing cannibalism in Tyrannosaurus.
#Fossil #Montana #Tyrannosaur #MOR1602
#Fossil #Montana #Tyrannosaur #MOR1602
November 3, 2026 at 3:02 AM
#fossilfriday wood impression from Maryland
October 30, 2026 at 2:56 PM
#fossilfriday wood impression from Maryland
#FossilFriday: an Edmontosaurus annectens mummy, with skin impressions and a preserved beak, on display at the Senckenberg Nature Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
October 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
#FossilFriday: an Edmontosaurus annectens mummy, with skin impressions and a preserved beak, on display at the Senckenberg Nature Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
October 20, 1859, birthday of British paleobotanist Margaret Jane Benson, pioneered the research on Carboniferous plants 🌿
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October 30, 2026 at 11:50 PM
If I could, I would dress up as Hypsognathus for #Halloween #FossilFriday -
Specimen from Nova Scotia Museum, Collections Online: collections.novascotia.ca/object-nsm99...
Specimen from Nova Scotia Museum, Collections Online: collections.novascotia.ca/object-nsm99...
October 30, 2026 at 7:27 PM
If I could, I would dress up as Hypsognathus for #Halloween #FossilFriday -
Specimen from Nova Scotia Museum, Collections Online: collections.novascotia.ca/object-nsm99...
Specimen from Nova Scotia Museum, Collections Online: collections.novascotia.ca/object-nsm99...
#fossilfriday Successful removal of the large whale fossil blocks at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History last week! 🐋🦕🧪
October 30, 2026 at 5:05 PM
#fossilfriday Successful removal of the large whale fossil blocks at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History last week! 🐋🦕🧪
#FossilFriday The tiny calcareous Ediacaran organism Namacalathus, which is totally NOT a jack-o-lantern... #HappyHalloween2026
October 30, 2026 at 12:53 PM
#FossilFriday The tiny calcareous Ediacaran organism Namacalathus, which is totally NOT a jack-o-lantern... #HappyHalloween2026
#FossilFriday is so nice, we're doing it twice! This is just a cute little replica Mesosaurus, a freshwater aquatic reptile of Permian Gondwanaland.🧪⚒️
October 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
#FossilFriday is so nice, we're doing it twice! This is just a cute little replica Mesosaurus, a freshwater aquatic reptile of Permian Gondwanaland.🧪⚒️
October 30, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Two Asian early humsn specimens for class today: Homo (georgicus? I guess) (L) from Dmanisi, and Homo erectus (R) from Indonesia
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
October 30, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Two Asian early humsn specimens for class today: Homo (georgicus? I guess) (L) from Dmanisi, and Homo erectus (R) from Indonesia
#FossilFriday
#FossilFriday
October 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
It's #fossilfriday AND almost #halloween!
#creaturedesign concept art from The Uncanny Valley, a #dinosaur #bodyhorror story I am making together with @storyboardklaus.bsky.social.
#creaturedesign concept art from The Uncanny Valley, a #dinosaur #bodyhorror story I am making together with @storyboardklaus.bsky.social.
October 30, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It's #fossilfriday AND almost #halloween!
#creaturedesign concept art from The Uncanny Valley, a #dinosaur #bodyhorror story I am making together with @storyboardklaus.bsky.social.
#creaturedesign concept art from The Uncanny Valley, a #dinosaur #bodyhorror story I am making together with @storyboardklaus.bsky.social.
October 30, 2026 at 4:39 PM
#FossilFriday: Holoptychius flemingi from the classic Late Devonian Upper Old Red Sandstone locality of Dura Den in Fife in eastern Scotland. This specimen on display @morethanadodo.bsky.social
October 30, 2026 at 8:08 AM
#FossilFriday: Holoptychius flemingi from the classic Late Devonian Upper Old Red Sandstone locality of Dura Den in Fife in eastern Scotland. This specimen on display @morethanadodo.bsky.social
#FossilFriday One from the past. Pigmented cup and arm bases of the unattached crinoid Ailsacrinus abbreviatus, a species I described way back in 1982. Jurassic (Bathonian) of Eastington, Gloucestershire.
October 30, 2026 at 7:18 AM
#FossilFriday One from the past. Pigmented cup and arm bases of the unattached crinoid Ailsacrinus abbreviatus, a species I described way back in 1982. Jurassic (Bathonian) of Eastington, Gloucestershire.
Scientists put a face to the Denisovans. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #FossilFriday 🧪
This is what the mysterious Denisovans looked like
Archaeologists identified skull fragments from China as belonging to this group of ancient human relatives.
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October 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Scientists put a face to the Denisovans. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #FossilFriday 🧪
A pair of stem holocephalans for International Ghost Shark Day and #FossilFriday: the iconic Cladoselache (Devonian) and the weirdly wonderful Edestus (Carboniferous).
October 30, 2026 at 10:04 PM
A pair of stem holocephalans for International Ghost Shark Day and #FossilFriday: the iconic Cladoselache (Devonian) and the weirdly wonderful Edestus (Carboniferous).
Happy #FossilFriday!
This week brought to you by #Fractofusus andersoni from #Innermeadow and my interpretive digital sculpt of the same 🐠.
What could be spookier than the ghosts of an #Ediacaran 551 Ma seafloor?! 👻 So happy halloween too 🎃!
This week brought to you by #Fractofusus andersoni from #Innermeadow and my interpretive digital sculpt of the same 🐠.
What could be spookier than the ghosts of an #Ediacaran 551 Ma seafloor?! 👻 So happy halloween too 🎃!
October 30, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Happy #FossilFriday!
This week brought to you by #Fractofusus andersoni from #Innermeadow and my interpretive digital sculpt of the same 🐠.
What could be spookier than the ghosts of an #Ediacaran 551 Ma seafloor?! 👻 So happy halloween too 🎃!
This week brought to you by #Fractofusus andersoni from #Innermeadow and my interpretive digital sculpt of the same 🐠.
What could be spookier than the ghosts of an #Ediacaran 551 Ma seafloor?! 👻 So happy halloween too 🎃!
#FossilFriday In 1931, no dinosaur had been found in Antarctica, yet Lovecraft filled a cave there with dinosaur bones. The first dinosaur remains on the continent were discovered during the 1986 Antarctic campaign by 2 Argentine geologists, Eduardo Olivero & Roberto Scasso: Antarctopelta oliveroi
October 30, 2026 at 8:58 PM
#FossilFriday In 1931, no dinosaur had been found in Antarctica, yet Lovecraft filled a cave there with dinosaur bones. The first dinosaur remains on the continent were discovered during the 1986 Antarctic campaign by 2 Argentine geologists, Eduardo Olivero & Roberto Scasso: Antarctopelta oliveroi
Wrapping up #gomphtober2026 is a skeleton of the titular Gomphotherium. Found in the late Miocene of Nevada and on display at the Sierra College Natural History Museum, Rocklin, California.
#fossilfriday #sierracollegenaturalhistorymuseum #prehistoricnevada #elephant
#fossilfriday #sierracollegenaturalhistorymuseum #prehistoricnevada #elephant
October 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Wrapping up #gomphtober2026 is a skeleton of the titular Gomphotherium. Found in the late Miocene of Nevada and on display at the Sierra College Natural History Museum, Rocklin, California.
#fossilfriday #sierracollegenaturalhistorymuseum #prehistoricnevada #elephant
#fossilfriday #sierracollegenaturalhistorymuseum #prehistoricnevada #elephant
Sacamoto et al. report a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Smokejacks Brickworks, southern England: buff.ly/3JP8mFK
The herbivore 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙤𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙞, is the only iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Weald Clay Formation.
#PaleoSky #FossilFriday
The herbivore 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙤𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙞, is the only iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Weald Clay Formation.
#PaleoSky #FossilFriday
October 30, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Sacamoto et al. report a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Smokejacks Brickworks, southern England: buff.ly/3JP8mFK
The herbivore 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙤𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙞, is the only iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Weald Clay Formation.
#PaleoSky #FossilFriday
The herbivore 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙤𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙞, is the only iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Weald Clay Formation.
#PaleoSky #FossilFriday
October 31, 2026 at 12:57 AM
#FossilFriday! Here's a Cretaceous fish tail from the Mooreville Chalk of Alabama! The specimen was prepared by postgraduate assistant K.E. Walker and discovered by J. Lamb. It was surrounded by roots but many could be removed. @mosasaurologist.bsky.social identified it as an ichthyodectid fish.
October 30, 2026 at 12:46 PM
#FossilFriday! Here's a Cretaceous fish tail from the Mooreville Chalk of Alabama! The specimen was prepared by postgraduate assistant K.E. Walker and discovered by J. Lamb. It was surrounded by roots but many could be removed. @mosasaurologist.bsky.social identified it as an ichthyodectid fish.