Harrison Brand

Passionate about all thing paleontology and herpetology related! 🦎🐊🐢🐍🦖🦕

[Harrison Brand @BrandHarrison]

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[Harrison Brand @BrandHarrison]

@bunsenbernerbmd Feel better soon Bunsen! You are in my thoughts and I hope you make a speedy recovery!

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

Croc time ! 🐊🐊🐊 34 of the ~175 bones of an Alabama specimen of the the alligatoroid 𝑫𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒘𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊, a giant semiaquatic predator from the Late Cretaceous. On display @UAMNH @uamuseums. #FossilFriday #fossil #RollTide Paper: Cossette & Brochu (2020)

[Harrison Brand @BrandHarrison]

Check out these amazing coral fossils! Always fun exploring the reefs of Devonian Arizona

[Harrison Brand @BrandHarrison]

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[Darío Estraviz López @DarioEstraviz]

Hey paleocommunity, for this #FossilFriday give a warm welcome to the new Portuguese croc Ophiussasuchus paimogonectes 🐊 by @victorlr15 , @EduardoSuchus et al. !

Yet another taxon from the Late Jurassic of #Lourinhã curated at #MuseuDaLourinhã !

https://t.co/Alkdouua7B

[Turtle Conservancy @turtletweets]

This cutie has no idea how important they are! One of the very Sulawesi forest turtles born at the center last year, they represent hope for the future of one of the most endangered species & mark a significant milestone in the ongoing fight to save them.

[Harrison Brand @BrandHarrison]

@Fossilcrates @PaleoCameron @palaeodownunder @CassCretaceous Very cool! I wonder if sauropods also played a part in theropod diversity. The different growth stages sauropods would have went through could theoretically support whole communities of different sized carnivorous dinosaurs.

[X @Pteroterror]

Today might I treat you to exceptionally well preserved salamanders/axolotls from Middle Jurassic of China! Look inside the hundred million (+) year old eyes! 🐸

[AZ Geological Survey @AZGeology]

Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Towering Spider Rock (Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá in the Diné or Navajo language) rises from the floor of Canyon de Chelly which has been carved into the west facing slope of the Defiance upwarp. W. Ranney / https://t.co/x2m4B8LbQB

[Sharks Daily 🦈 @SharksEveryDayy]

The actual reason behind basking sharks gathering in circles remains a mystery. A hypothesis suggests that they create this circles as a feeding strategy, creating vortex that concentrates and traps their food in the center, making it easier for them to feed efficiently.

[CrocResCoalition @CrocResCoal]

These beliefs thus connected the respect and reverence the Maya had for crocodiles pre-colonization as crocodiles were believed to hold sacred knowledge of the spirit world, and be a source of life (given their connection to water). (2/2)

[NASA Ames @NASAAmes]

Good vibes only…

Vibration testing of our VIPER Moon rover’s science instruments helps ensure that they are ready for flight!

More about the mission: https://t.co/VeA2BwWj6Z

[Dr Dave Hone @Dave_Hone]

The Conservatives are going to 'depoliticise science'. So a political party tries to depoliticise anything seems oxymoronic, but when it's the conservatives claiming to protect science the irony meter explodes and it proves to be both oxymoronic and simply moronic.

[Harrison Brand @BrandHarrison]

An amber specimen from work. The insect is a louse trapped inside Mexican amber from the Miocene epoch. 28 to 23 million years old.

[Donald McKnight @donaldmcknight2]

NEW PAPER: "The ecology and morphology of Australia's desert turtle (Emydura macquarii emmotti)." This is the closest I've ever gotten to writing an old-school monograph packed with heaps of novel information about a really neat, weird #turtle 1/
https://t.co/YSyCEglJxV

[invertebrate @crevicedwelling]

a male Paraphrynus cubensis I found under some junk in a Miami parking lot.