Pete Larson

Pete Larson is the President of the Black Hills Institute and studies dinosaurs...especially T. rex!

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

"Nanotyrannus"? ...the doctors will see you now. #FossilFriday @jamesnapoli

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@DakotaDinos I have only skimmed through Carr et al., but I am in agreement with there methods, analysis, and conclusions.

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@PreparationsCk No that’s a big tooth!!! Skull should be there.

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@TyrannosaurCarr Nice art work!

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@TyrannosaurCarr It’s owned by the Government of UAE, but why would it matter as long as it’s on public exhibit and available for research?

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@TyrannosaurCarr Almost all public museums (and libraries) started with a nucleus of specimens (or books) from a private collection

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@TyrannosaurCarr With all your arm waving about STAN we now know that he is in a public museum.

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@TyrannosaurCarr It’s a good thing that private people own books, because public libraries are no longer safe repositories

[Pliosaurus @pliosaurus]

Shards of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs May Have Been Found in Fossil Site https://t.co/KiQZLfxHyi

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@TrieboldPaleo @Smitty227Smith He is on a mission.

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New Years resolution: find ways to help researchers obtain access to privately held fossils to substantially increase the fossil data base.

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@TrieboldPaleo @Smitty227Smith This was in answer to Tom Carr, whose New Years resolution was to not study privately held fossils😳

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@TyrannosaurCarr Data is data. As scientists, we should do our best to accumulate data. As long as it is real, what scientist would close their eyes?

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@TylerGreenfieId Published in Tyrannosaurus rex: the Tyrant King, Larson and Carpenter. 2008. Indiana University Press

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@PreparationsCk Lige was an awesome human being who cared about others. We will all miss him.

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@DakotaStandard Sort of like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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@PreparationsCk I LOVE show and tell. And I always learn something when asked questions or shown photos.

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@LukeSky26579838 @EthanTownsendM8 @CoastalPaleo @DakotaDinos @CMNHvertpaleo @histo_holly There is no pneumatic chamber behind the foramen in the Dasplstosaurus specimen, and even if there was, why do all Nanotyrannus have it but no T. rex specimen has it?

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@Collinson_C @LukeSky26579838 A T. rex tooth is easy to Differentiate from a Nanotyrannosaurus tooth and will bring 5 to 10 time’s as much. Why do you suppose most Commercial dealers are not on board with selling Nano teeth as juvenile T.Rex? I suspect that experience and honestly both play a big part.

[Pete Larson @PeteLarsonTrex]

@Collinson_C @LukeSky26579838 You are free to speculate as much as you want. Or you could come (or go) to see and measure the specimens for yourself. Wyrex hand is completely un-restored. As are the bones I posted for Sue and Jodi, and all but the unguals for Pecks Rex. Also no reconstruction on Sereno’s hand