DinolabNaturalis

Wij zijn het Dinolab van Naturalis geplaatst in LiveScience (gratis te bezoeken). Momenteel prepareren we triceratopsbotten.

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@museumnaturalis @erpenterig @SVanDerDeure De hoop is wel dat we volgend jaar nieuwe mensen kunnen gaan trainen... @erpenterig: stuur ons even een DM, dan kunnen we je verder helpen. Hopelijk tot snel!

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@SVanDerDeure @Naturalis_Sci Geen kop dus?

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Sacrum (4/4): ...middle of them. Spectacular!
#dinosaurus #sacrum #dinosaur #triceratops #naturalis #lowerback #fossil
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Sacrum (3/4): ...bone. Today we finally opened the sacrum package bottom-side-up. And it turns out we were right: we can already see a beautiful underside of a sacrum: notice the beautiful hourglass-shaped vertebral discs and the trench that runs exactly in the...

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Sacrum (2/4): ...another explanation: maybe we were looking at the top of a sacrum. This bone, which in your case is between the bottom of your back and what's left of your tailbone, is gigantic in dinosaurs: you can still see the individual vertebrae that make up the large...

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Sacrum (1/4): In the first years of our Triceratops excavations we saw a place where several tops of vertebrae protruded right behind each other. That was strange, because at no other place in the excavation did we have vertebrae in any form of biological order. There is...

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We have lift-off (2/2): ...chuffed people pictures. The tibia has suffered a bit and will have to be broken along the large visible tear, after which in can be fortified and repaired and put back in place. Great success! #hurray #hoera #ohyeah #dinosaur #triceratops
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We have lift-off (1/2): A lot of hard work has been done the last few days, and with great result: the tibia is now loose from the femur! We worked patiently with our drills in between both bones, and today we chiseled away the last pieces of rock. So here we present you some...

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Big success (5/5): ...also very neat and clean, so we will be able to fix it later on. Lovely! #careful #dino #bone #femur #triceratops #dinosaur #dinosaurus #naturalis #fragile
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Big success (4/5): ...so tight that it will take parts of the bone with it. Luckily that all went very smoothly today: there was some damage to the tibia, but that could be fixed easily. Earlier, however, there had been a large fracture in the femur, but that fracture is...

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Big success (3/5): ...the field, first. This is a dangerous job, because both bones can't be strengthened very much yet, because we can't reach them properly (they are in each other's way). What might happen is that the field plaster jacket which is more of a snug fit, is...

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Big success (2/5): ...has to be removed, and only then we can start with the heavy thighbone. But unfortunately, the femur turned out to laying ON TOP OF the tibia, so we had to turn the plaster jacket over again and remove the old plaster jacket, which had been applied in...

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Big success (1/5): Today was an important day at the Dinolab: There is an enormous femur of Triceratops in the lab, which seems even bigger than it actually is: the tibia of the animal is still attached to it, but is tilted in relation to the femur. First the (lighter!) tibia...

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DIY-Triceratops (3/3): ...Matthijs was very stoked to show us the results of the first prototype. Looks pretty nice, no? #diy #3dprint #skeleton #dinosaur #dinosaurus #naturalis #plasticfantastic
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DIY-Triceratops (2/3): Apparently, more and more schools have a 3d printer. They can use their own printers to print a scale model of our Dirk the Triceratops. Today,...

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DIY-Triceratops (1/3): Our entire museum is proud of our new Triceratops. Our colleagues from the Education department are experimenting with a 3d-scan of our newest dinosaur hall member. The goal is to offer an online lesson package to schools here in The Netherlands. ...

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Dinopoo (part 5 of 5)

in which the dark #plant #fossils look more like a single mass instead of crumbling pieces of #coal.
Could it be?????
MDG & YG

#fossils #MuseumsUnlocked #naturalis #Triceratops #dinosaurs #Dirkje #paleontology

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Dinopoo (part 4 of 5)

contains so much plant material that it actually looks like a #fossil plant but in that familiar poo shape. On today's picture you see such a promising #poo form,
#Dinosaurs #Triceratops #museum #naturalis #oddshapes #poop

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dinopoo (part 3 of 5)
we also searched with that same searching eye. We did find a few forms that are likely candidates. It's difficult to find that #Triceratops poo, or #herbivore #poo,
#museum #dinosaurs #museum #naturalis

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Dinopoo (part 2 of 5)
Because it will probably only be recognized if people are already searching with a searching eye for #fossils and other irregularities in the #rock.
Since we have been searching for #dinosaurs in #Wyoming for 5 summers,
#dinosaurs #triceratops #naturalis