David Mckay

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[David Mckay @Davidmquote]

Bon courage.
Isolation time w family 💚

[David Mckay @Davidmquote]

@tim_fedak It's not easy being a mast++++ on this bird platform.
https://t.co/W498PM6kkI

[Hannah Hoag @hannahh]

I first wrote about the Anthropocene in 2006. It was a review of @ElizKolbert 's book Field Notes from a Catastrophe. Today, scientists came closer to declaring that we have entered a new geological time: The age of humans, the Anthropocene. https://t.co/ItAI1rNxvO

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

The preserved body of an #ankylosaur called Zuul crurivastator has broken and re-healed armour plates that were likely damaged by strikes from another Zuul rather than a T.rex https://t.co/YIA2WNAYuU
@VictoriaArbour @ExpeditionLive @DavidEvans_ROM | #BiologyLetters #FossilFriday

[Radio-Canada Info @RadioCanadaInfo]

Des trésors archéologiques enfouis depuis 500 millions d'années : un rare accès à un lieu unique au monde, en Colombie-Britannique.

Le reportage de @JulieCarpentier au #TJ22h

#archeologie #BC

[Kris Abel @RealKrisAbel]

From secret Paris labs to the Wizarding World at the ROM, here’s my 2022 highlights from my work for @globalnewsto and Montreal Now, @CJAD800 . Thank-you so much for watching, I hope it’s been fun. I’m excited to see what next year brings.

[Quirks & Quarks @CBCQuirks]

Ankylosaurs might have developed their spiky, club-like tails to fight each other in violent battles over mates or territory, according to new research by @VictoriaArbour.

https://t.co/5PmfeNOUHY

[CNN @CNN]

Armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs might have wielded sledgehammer-like tail clubs against one another in conflict, in addition to warding off predators like the Tyrannosaurus rex https://t.co/7xecxdakjN

[NC Museum of Natural Sciences @NaturalSciences]

Did ankylosaurs use their tail clubs as weapons?

New research by @ExpeditionLive & colleagues in @RSocPublishing explores. Learn more in this NYT story:

https://t.co/TZCjjnIrjc

Illustration: @Paleoartologist

[U of T Arts & Science @UofTArtSci]

View some of the most interesting images from A&S stories from the past year: from Tomlinsonus dimitrii to Sonny & Cher to the lives of 19th century Black New Yorkers to the first woman to serve in Canada’s parliament.

See the images: https://t.co/1CL9zJkpf6

[Victoria Arbour @VictoriaArbour]

Did ankylosaurs use their tail clubs to fight each other? @DavidEvans_ROM, @ExpeditionLive and I share new research in Biology Letters on Zuul crurivastator, showing it had healed osteoderms on its flanks - evidence of battle damage from another Zuul. Art by @Paleoartologist.

[David Evans @DavidEvans_ROM]

Today we reveal Zuul all put back together and what its completely preserved armor & skin might tell us about armored #dinosaur evolution. #DinoZuul’s injured & healed armor suggest tail clubs were used to fight w other Zuul—and intraspecific combat drove club evolution in anks

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Zuul crurivastator, a dinosaur named for a demon dog in “Ghostbusters,” lugged around a sledgehammer-like tail club capable of delivering a bone-cracking blow.

A new study found it could both shatter shins and woo potential mates.
https://t.co/d0nBNdtWvp

[Brad Wheeler @BWheelerglobe]

Also glorious.

[Bat1k Genome Project @bat1kgenomes]

Are you sequencing #bat #genomes? 🦇 Then please let us know and DM / email us! It's important for us to understand what species you are working on so that we can avoid sequencing the same species🧬🔬

🦇You can always reach out to our project coordinator Meike

[David Mckay @Davidmquote]

Yikes. Probably not rabid, just hungry and precosius, but rabies is almost always fatal if you don't get treated right away. Once symptoms begin it's too late for treatment.
https://t.co/vtJlMheVZI

[Jim Handman @JimHandman]

Hey @mattgallowaycbc - here's your trash panda video of the year.

[Royal Ontario Museum @ROMtoronto]

Be on the lookout for pieces of rock with a black crust - a feature developed as the meteor passes into earth's atmosphere. Meteorites are typically heavy for their size, and usually magnetic. If you think you may have found a piece, get in touch with us!

https://t.co/7TCOpmfBC7

[Ben Goldfarb @ben_a_goldfarb]

So many wonderful little moments in @josh_sokol's profile of @DavidQuammen (and what a great pairing), but the below might be my favorite. Just a perfect metaphor to include in an essay about a writer whose oeuvre is steeped in evolutionary history.

https://t.co/t4MraEeEBa

[Dr. Kim Tait @KimTTait]

Thank you @cara_nickerson for the nice article. https://t.co/rP9GbJjRVM

[Joana Órfão @JoanaOrfao]

. @DavidEvans_ROM kick starts the #2022SVP conference by introducing the amazing @Laelaps. Riley is the invited speaker for this years public talk, titled “Going the way of the dinosaurs: catastrophe survival and the future we make”. Give it up for her, folks!!!