Terry Gates

Educator, Paleobiologist, & Science Communicator

[NC State Sciences @NCStateSciences]

From the dig site to the spotlight! 🦕

A @montanastate student’s four-year journey in paleontology leads to a well-deserved reward and acceptance into a doctoral program @NCState.

Learn more. ➡️: https://t.co/O0HqKCaIVm

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

More of our small ankylosaur turning up. We now have pectoral, forelimb, pelvic, foot, and verts which is fantastic. The only problem is… the bone layer is under 10 meters of overburden 😩 #dinodig25

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Tyrannosaur tails, duckbill #dinosaur footprints, and ashes the past couple of days. And more bone turning up at the quarry. #dinodig25

[Chinzorig @Dino_Chinzorig]

#FossilFriday #MADEx24 team’s last few days in this year fieldwork. The Bayanshiree Fm is known to rich the most major vertebrate groups. But, question I have is this year we found several ankylosaurs one example is anterior L & R dentaries with a nice suture besides microsites.

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Last two days of our #MADEx24 expedition and I’ve found two partial skeletons of a new trodontid #raptor #dinosaur. Great way to wrap up the #gobi season. Gotta get this beaut out! #dinodig24

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

A psittacosaur skull hiding under our last troodontid skeleton was a nice surprise on our last day of the #MADEx24 expedition. Jacket pulled and that’s a wrap folks! #dinodig24

[Chinzorig @Dino_Chinzorig]

#FossilFriday DAY-13. #MADEx24 team started to close down “Shangri-La” quarry at the Eastern Gobi & be ready to move to the last basecamp of this year in a few days after loading up this big girl, which is weighing ~ more than 2,000 lb and the one of the largest hadrosauroids.

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Lots of new theropod material turning up this week including two skeletons of a super important new species ❤️#MADEx24 #dinodig24

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Can’t believe this went off without a hitch. Clean separation, flip, and load of a 2,000 lb block of hadrosaur. A very good day indeed #MADEx24 #dinodig24

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Stopped by an ancient temple on our way to base camp#4. Wicked. #MADEx24 #dinodig24

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Someone pls tell me why we always find our sauropods in sandstone? And doubly why I don’t just walk away? #MADEx24 #dinodig24

[Matthew Johnson @KSL_Matt]

Hail Core! Amazing photo from the west end of the Salt Lake Valley showing a severe-warned thunderstorm absolutely dumping on the east bench of SLC. Incredible photo here showing that sharp line of clear skies and heavy precip. #utwx

📍: Herriman, UT
📸: David Johnston

[Terry Gates @terryagates]

@AAlechiarenza @ExpeditionLive @gravelmonkey_76 Happy birthday!!
Gorgeous photo

I’m sorry you had a sauropod jacket pull! But it is an experience you won’t forget

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Kamaz are incredible off-road trucks and easy to repair but they sure make you work for it. We’ve broken down three times. Anxious to get to base camp 2 and hit the outcrop. #MADEx24 #dinodig24

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

western Gobi yielded hatchling psittacosaur skeletons like this tiny jaw. As much as we love baby psittacosaurs, we’re packing up early and moving to base camp two - a totally new area. Hopes are high! #MADEx24 #dinodig24

[Jordan Mallon @Jordan_Mallon]

Had a wonderful chance to meet the great-grandkids (and great-great-grandkids) of Canada's first vertebrate palaeontologist Lawrence Lambe last week. It was surreal showing of his holotypes of Euoplocephalus, Styracosaurus, Gorgosaurus, and more. #CMNPalaeo

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Welcome Fona herzogae! A new species of subfossorial #dinosaur from our mid-K @NSF funded research that fills a gap in our record of North American thescelosaurs. Art by Jorge Gonzalez. https://t.co/n8fSEdGYWA

[The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord]

New dinosaur! Meet Fona herzogae, a new small bodied thescelosaurine from Cedar Mountain Fm, Utah. It fills a gap in our understanding of early diverging ornithischians, revealing they were well-established in N. America by the Cenomanian
Avrahami et al:
https://t.co/0tYX4uM42v

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Overnight camp at the end of our second day of driving to the western Gobi. Almost there! #MADEx2024 #dinodig24

[Lindsay Zanno @ExpeditionLive]

Came across some random glyphs in the Naturita SS while prospecting today #dinodig24