Today's awesome Hell Creek find are these 2nd & 4th metatarsals (foot bones) from a troodontid
raptor dinosaur, or possibly ornithomimid (ostrich mimic)
If this is troodontid then I think they're the first troo metatarsals from the Hell Creek
#dinosaur#fossilfriday
Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on newly described osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today by Maidment et al. in Nature:
https://t.co/H0uMYqHSWB
So pleased I was able to visit the @ROMtoronto recently with @eliaswarshaw to research a #daspletosaurus specimen of theirs! Many thanks to Shino, Bryan and @DavidEvans_ROM for granting access. Thanks to @df9465 for fostering amazing research and collaboration.
@DavidFerris Something we’ve been saying over in the Midwest for a while. Unfortunately, because of short sighted installs, owning a CHAdeMO is still a necessity for long distance travel here.
NEW PAPER DAY! After A LONG TIME in the works, I want to share with you all the VERY 1ST CASE of an avian-style RESPIRATORY INFECTION in a non-avian DINOSAUR! You heard me right readers – AND IT’S IN A #SAUROPOD!
(Ewan Wolff, Matt Wedel, Sophie Dennison, & @WitmerLab)
@Mosasaurologist We had a guy come in this past summer who actually whittled a piece of petrified wood to look like a bone… it was myself and summer intern in the lab, and quite frankly, thank goodness it wasn’t just one of us. He seemed quite upset that we didn’t live in his reality.
Two dinosaurs lifted successfully out of the badlands! This articulated tyrannosaur is going to be PRETTY! Lots of news to come on this. 9000lb of dinosaur and 1000lb of steel needed a Chinook, and that is a HUGE helicopter! #dinosaurs#scicomm#FossilFriday
The US has tossed out 15 million doses of vaccine (& is stockpiling hundreds of millions more).
These 15 million could have protected ALL of the nurses & doctors in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, where <3% of people are vaccinated. https://t.co/G8RMNw4wYf