Back to the end of the Cretaceous period for today’s fossil, 66 million years ago in China’s Nanxiong Formation. Qianzhousaurus was a 20 foot long, 1,600 pound tyrannosaur of a particular subset known as the alioramin tyrannosaurs. In stark contrast to the bone-crushing jaws and more robust builds... read more

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James

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Fossil of the Day #10 - Ancylotherium

49 million years ago, during the middle of the Eocene period, a rather odd family of animals rose to browse on the shrubs and trees of Asia. This family of animals are known as the chalicotheres, and are built a bit like horse-faced gorillas, with long forearms and shorter legs adapted to help... read more

Reconstruction of Ancylotherium in life. By Jfstudiospaleoart

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James

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Fossil of the Day #13 - Inostrancevia

Headed back to the Permian for our fossil today, almost 260 million years ago in what would become Siberia. First, though a little background. Take your pointer finger and put it in the middle of your temple. Now take your thumb and put it right next to your eye (don’t poke your eye, please be... read more

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James

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Fossil of the Day #7 - Ornimegalonyx

It’s a short trip in time for today’s fossil, only 126,000 years ago back to the Pleistocene, more commonly known as the Ice Age. Cuba at this time was of a similar climate as it is today, which fostered a diverse ecosystem full of oddities. Turtles, water birds, monkeys, and nutrias were a common... read more

Ornimegalonyx flaring its wings out while standing on a rocky outcrop. Exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History.

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James

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Fossil of the Day #9 - Nectocaris

The Cambrian period was the epicenter of an evolutionary event rightly known as the Cambrian explosion, which describes the sheer speed with which multicellular animals diversified from one another. Arthropods and molluscs were the dominant life forms of this period, both of which have a link to... read more

Three separate fossils of Nectocaris, depecting the side-on and head-on views, and a crushed animal. Credit Martin Smith

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James

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Fossil of the Day #8 - Homalocephale

We’re heading to Mongolia around about 70 million years ago for today’s fossil, Homalocephale! This little guy was a 6 feet long, 1.5 foot tall pachycephalosaur that lived in the Gobi Desert during the late Cretaceous. Unlike its more well known and much larger cousin, Pachycephalosaurus, it had a... read more

Homalocephale wants to know if you have any treats for it. From the Dinosaur Store at Space Coast, Florida

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James

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Fossil of the Day #6 - Liopleurodon

Likely to be our most well known fossil that we’ve gone through so far, today’s fossil is the magical Liopleurodon! Shown off in style during the first episode of the Charle the Unicorn series and in the third episode of BBC’s Walking With Dinosaurus, Liopleurodon has enjoyed a…shall we say... (edited) read more

Size comparison between Lioplerodon and the average human

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James

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Fossil of the Day #4

I’ve got a particularly odd specimen for y’all today, all the way from the Devonian period, roughly 365 million years ago. An almost 5 foot long stem-tetropod, Ichthyostega was at an impressive size for an animal that wasn’t an invertebrate during the Devonian, with most of it’s kin being much... read more

A timeline showing the split between lobe-finned fish and early stem-tetropods in their preferred habitats

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James

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Fossil of the Day #1 - Pachyrhinosaurus

Hey all! Today marks the beginning of September, and while we have yet to reach the fall equinox (also known as Mabon to those aware of the Celtic names for the equinoxes) on September 22nd, I see no reason why I couldn’t begin a little fun project on here. I dub today the beginning of Fossil... read more

A comparison between Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis, the largest species, and an average human.

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James

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Fossil of the Day #2 - Eurypterus

TW FOR ARACHNOPHOBIA Coming all the way from the Silurian period for today’s Fossil of the Day, from roughly 432 to 418 million years ago, swims Eurypterus, the staple sea scorpion! This early arthropod is the most well studied of its family, the eurypterids, which as a group existed for about... read more

An image of three Eurypterus swimming in the Silurian ocean, one of which is touching down to look for food under the sand.

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James

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Fossil of the Day #3 - Hyaenodon

We’re headed back a short 42 million years for our third fossil of the day, back to a time when mammals had just figured out how to get big and scary without dinosaurs to compete with, save for birds. The Eocene was a very warm period of time on our planet, though not the warmest it’s ever been,... read more

An image of Hyaenodon stalking through a prairie at either dusk or dawn, it’s enlarged teeth exposed in a growl. By H. Harder

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Susan LeeAnn Smith

2mo

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Best Christmas present ever!! Resin fossil.

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Frank Toth

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ENTJ

Libra

Found this little guy while unpacking some decor

I'd been looking for him for years! Glad to have my little dude back

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3mo

INFJ

Cancer

Lab. Day 🔬

Have you found your own fossil(s) ? Do you collect any fossil(s) ? (was having this during my break time) #geology #science #books

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James

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Fossil of the Day #16 - Haidomyrmecinae

We’re sticking to the Cretaceous period for our fossil today, though it might be more accurate to say fossils, as we’re covering a whole family for our topic today. Found in Myanmar, France, and Alberta, Canada, meet the Haidomyrmecinae, the Hell Ants! These fun little critters are some of the... (edited) read more

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James

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Fossil of the Day #5 - Diplocaulus

From the Devonian to the Carboniferous, tetrapods (aka animals with four limbs and a spine) saw extreme diversification, with their first major adaptation being proper lungs, though they still needed the water to reproduce. The first amphibians developed from animals akin to Ichthyostega,... read more

A model skeleton of Diplocaulus from the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle et Vivarium in Tournai, Belgium

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James

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Fossil of the Day #12 - Koolasuchus

Amphibians got the short end of the stick in my opinion, at least when it comes to which animals are the most adaptable to their environments. They rely on water to keep themselves from drying out, but rely on air to breathe, and have slow metabolisms when compared to more active animals. They had... read more

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Aaron

5mo

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Gemini

🦖 😄

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA #dinosaurs #fossils #nerd #science #paleontology #history #museums #travel

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Eli

9mo

ISTP

Gemini

🍖

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Susan LeeAnn Smith

10mo

INFJ

Best gift EVER!!!!!!!

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Rita

5mo

ENTP

Aries

There's no such thing as too many belomnites!

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James

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Fossil of the Day #14 - Aiolornis

What? No, I definitely didn’t forget that I had to do Fossil of the Day, that’s…wild of you to say… Anyway, today we’re covering Aiolornis, one of the largest flying birds to have ever left the ground and soared into the sky. It and its family, the teratorns, were specialized scavengers, likely... (edited) read more

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Kaylah

INFJ

Favorite dinosaur?

Share an interesting dinosaur or your absolute favorite dinosaur? Mine is Dilophosaurus!

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Susan LeeAnn Smith

INFJ

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Annamari

INFJ

Virgo

"Small" tooth

Still the biggest fossil in my collection.

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Rui

ENFP

Dinosaur trackway

A theropod trackway at Vale de Meios, Portugal. I'm standing far up above the trackway on a higher rock bed, so those are much larger than they appear there. (edited)