Andy McGrath

Vert Paleo PhD Candidate @ UCSB b/c professional baseball dreams died in 2005. Love South American ungulates and rodents. He/Him

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

See if I can rt this for #FossilFriday

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

I've decided to try something new that I'm going to tentatively call #FossilAthletes. Every week(?) I'll share an athlete and say which fossil species they remind me of. Simple concept that at the very least should lead to some funny Photoshops! #scicomm

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

Embiid and terror birds show that even though the new athletic wings/mammals rule the day there is still room for a truly great throwback!

(art by @JuliotheArtist, photoshop by me)

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

I've decided to try something new that I'm going to tentatively call #FossilAthletes. Every week(?) I'll share an athlete and say which fossil species they remind me of. Simple concept that at the very least should lead to some funny Photoshops! #scicomm

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

You know what else was a throwback? Terror birds! They were some of the top predators of #Cenozoic South America and some reached the USA during the #IceAge. Terror birds were a reminder of when theropod dinosaurs like T. rex and Allosaurus were top predators!

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@Yara_Haridy @2021MMMletsgo Obviously a chupacabra

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

Quote this tweet with a picture of you and a fossil, and copy/paste this text. Keep it going

[Dr Sophia Anderson 🦴 @OsteoSophia]

Quote this tweet with a picture of you and a fossil, and copy/paste this text. Keep it going

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@MiguelAndujarNa @tyrannoraptoran Thoatherium! An early Miocene South American native ungulate. Horses still have vestigial lateral foot bones but thoatherium did not

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@NeoprotFossil Emergency paleo club meeting this Tuesday?

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@KingRexy328 Pleistocene is the game they originally promised at E3 six years ago. Holocene is what actually got released.

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@JSilviria

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

#FossilFriday and #DarwinDay at the same time! (I'm for sure the first to notice this). Darwin collected the holotypes of many South American #fossilmammals on his voyage including #Macrauchenia and #Megatherium (pics from Fernicola et al. 2009)

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@JSilviria Hey Jason! Not notoungulates but I did this sort of thing with proterotheriid litopterns if that's what you're thinking of?

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@Formorphology I’d like to think I’d still do some casual paleo research but then I realize I’d be the worst collaborator ever. “Oh you had a question you needed answered right away? I check my email once every 3 weeks sorry.”

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@Yara_Haridy @FloridaMuseum @danpaluh @davidcblackburn I have absolutely no clue. Which means it must be a fish

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@OsteoSophia Sending this video to anyone who asks why I care about teeth so much

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@CentralCenozoic End every mammal name in -therium and no one bats an eye.
Have 4 glyptodonts ending in hoplophorus and everyone loses their minds

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@CentralCenozoic @dhruvfranklin It emphasizes how recent the end of the Pleistocene was

[Andy McGrath @mcgratherium]

@CentralCenozoic @dhruvfranklin Living animals alongside extinct megafauna is one of my favorite paleoart motifs