Rev. Matt's Monster Science

The Rev. Matt Kessen. Comedy cryptozoologist, founder of Rev. Matt's Monster Science. Wedding solemnizer, half centaur, kaiju hunter, dinosaur tamer. Very tall.

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Behold! It's my final-ever tweet (unless a lot of things change significantly)!

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And yes, I know this doesn't make the world a better place. But it definitely makes my life better.

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I've slipped on over to Mastodon! In part because of the name! For daily content, look me up there as @RevMatt!

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Hmm. Am I following her? Discuss.

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Dinovember 3, day 6: Maiasaura peeblesorum.
Size: 30' long, 7 tons.
Ecosystem: Two Medicine Formation, Montana, 77 ma.
Maiasaura's nesting ground discovery showed that dinosaurs looked after their young. As opposed to, I dunno, trying to stomp them into the ground or something.

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Dinovember 3, day 5: Huayangosaurus taibaii.
Size: 15' long, 2 tons.
Ecosystem: Shaxmiao Formation, China, 165 ma.
Possessing a fairly stegosaurid-normal set of plates and spikes, and also some spikes immediately over the hips. Because the hips were in...danger? I don't know.

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Dinovember 3, day 4: Sinosauropteryx prima.
Size: 3'6" long, 2 lbs.
Ecosystem: Yixian Formation, China, 123 ma.
The first non-bird dinosaur to be discovered with feathers! And the first to have evidence of coloration, including a ringed tail! It was a little dinosaur lemur! Yisss

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Dinovember, day 3: Saltasaurus loricatus.
Size: 42' long, 7.5 tons.
Ecosystem: Lecho Formation, Argentina, 70 ma.
Basically, this was a 40-foot-long animal that still had to have armor plating because the late Cretaceous did not mess around.

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Tomorrow at 7! Bryant-Lake Bowl! The truly fascinating history of Medusa and other monsters you can't look at! Plus comedy jokes!

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Dinovember 3, day 2: Centrosaurus apertus.
Size: 20' long, 3 tons.
Ecosystem: Dinosaur Park formation, Alberta, 76 ma.
A basic, simple workhorse of a ceratopsian, just the one horn, round frill, nothing too showy. And yet still a ceratopsian and hence totally badass.

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Dinovember 3, day 1: Megalosaurus bucklandii.
Size: 30' long, two tons.
Ecosystem: Southern England, 166 mya.
In 1824, Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur ever to be described by science! They thought it was kind of a hippo-crocodile for awhile. This is better. Not by much!

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Funnybook Monsters, day 24 (weirdly belated): The Oozing Horror.
First Appearance: "Web of Mystery" #23, March 1954.
A man becomes a fluid man-monster, able to meld with anything, and he gets very upset about this because he is not awesome.
(Happy Halloween, my friends!)

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Funnybook Horrors, day 31: Creature Z.
First Appearance: "The Amazing Spider-Man" (vol. 5) #91, March 2022
A genetic amalgam of Morbius, the Living Vampire and the Lizard, because of course you would do that. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF SCIENCE.

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Funnybook Horrors, day 30: Bigby Wolf.
First Appearance: "Fables" #1, July 2002.
The Big Bad Wolf from stories, living with other storybook characters in the real world, himself as basically a werewolf. Which sounds maybe kind of adorable but which is REMARKABLY good.

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Funnybook Horrors, day 29: The Turnip Demigod.
First Appearance: "The Amazing Screw-On Head," 2022.
Look, I'm revisiting this single comic once again this month because it it ONE OF THE BEST COMICS EVER CREATED.

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And then both Sat and Sun at 7pm, my Victorian horror show, along with a presentation on 19th-century serial killer Harry Hayward by the Hennepin History Museum, at said museum!
They're all great! Will I die of exhaustion? Come and see and find out!
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Alas, my Thinking Spot show tonight has been canceled; which leaves a mere 4 chances to see me this weekend!
Tomorrow at 4:30, the final performance of my Guillermo del Toro show at the Twin Cities Horror Festival! And Sunday at 1:30, my final Milicent Patrick show at same! (1/2)

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Funnybook Horrors, day 28: Scaly Monster.
First Appearance: "Web of Mystery" #27, November 1954.
Sure, vampires and werewolves are all very well; but now face the horror of...PEER PRESSURE

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Funnybook Horrors, day 27: Dracula (Marvel Comics).
First Appearance: "The Tomb of Dracula" #1, April 1972.
Obviously Marvel Comics didn't invent Dracula; Bram Stoker did. But Bram Stoker did NOT invent Dracula's castle on the Moon, so who cares about him?