AltonDooley

@AltonDooley@mstdn.social

Paleontologist, Executive Director of the Western Science Center. Views are my own. He/him.

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AltonDooley, to SciComm

There are a lot of Ice Age bison fossils @westernsciencecenter, and each one tells us something about the life of an individual bison. What can we say about a fragment of a jaw?

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AltonDooley, to SciComm

What are paleontologists talking about when we say things like “gomps”and “zygs”?

@westernsciencecenter #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossil #scicomm #elephants #Miocene

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AltonDooley, to SciComm

For , here’s a big lump of a bone that occurs is so few species that sometimes even professional paleontologists will struggle to identify it.

@westernsciencecenter

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AltonDooley,

@llewelly @westernsciencecenter Yes, a number of species with large, heavy heads end up fusing some parts of the neck. It's interesting that, even with the syncervical, ceratopsians still seem to have maintained a very flexible and mobile neck through their remaining articulations.

AltonDooley, to random

Birthday present from my wife! Been wanting to read this for awhile!

@drskyskull

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Wow, that's crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

AltonDooley,

@lowqualityfacts I always heard that it was Buzz Aldrin, not Alan Shepard.

AltonDooley, to SciComm

Max’s Mobile Museum is on the road again! Today we’re at San Jacinto Elementary School in San Jacinto, CA for an after-school program.

@westernsciencecenter

AltonDooley, to roadtrip

On our way to Oregon, Brett and I started the day at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada. Under a shelter are 9 partial skeletons of the giant Shonisaurus popularis. With a length of up to 15 meters, Shonisaurus was one of the largest known ichthyosaurs.

Shonisaurus skull
Shonisaurus vertebrae
Shonisaurus partial flipper, ribs, and vertebrae

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