A CT scan of an often-overlooked, plant-eating #dinosaur skull reveals that while it may not have been all that “brainy,” it had a unique combination of traits associated with living animals that spend at least part of their time underground, including a super sense of smell and outstanding balance. #Paleontology#sflorg https://www.sflorg.com/2023/11/pal11072301.html
This photo was snapped as I walked along the bit of the #Boston Harbor Walk that abuts the #UMassBoston campus, from the Integrated Sciences Complex deep in the cove to the new buildings looking over the bay next to the JFK library. The freshman-level #dinosaur class is in a beautiful 100-seat room in the recently built University Hall.
Who needs sheep when they can fall asleep counting dinosaurs, unicorns or elves ? These imaginative counting books help young readers to count to 20 with their favorite magical creatures !
Visited Dinosaur Valley State Park, TX last week. The dino tracks in the Paluxy Riverbed are such a cool site. To think we can today walk where those humongous beasts walked ~130 million years ago. 🫢 🦖 🦕
There are so many tracks at one of the sites that the site is called "Ballroom".
Happy #FossilFriday, have a look inside of a sauropod limb bone! By taking thin sections of limb and rib bones, paleontologists can study the growth patterns and formation of bone. This in important for determining how these dinosaurs grew and aged over their lives. #paleontology#sauropod#dinosaur
A strange species of tiny titanosaur has finally been given a name, nearly 50 years after its bones were unearthed from the Egyptian desert. Live Science explains how Igai semkhu, or “Forgotten Lord of the Oasis,” fills a void in dinosaur history. https://flip.it/xd8G47 #Science#Dinosaur#AncientEgypt#Fossils
Last, but not least, is Yoot the Utahraptor, mascot to our Were-House events.
Yoot is the tenacious spirit of creativity and survival in the face of daunting circumstances. They live in their ancestral homeland in what are now the Rockies, adapting through wild climate changes and tectonic uplift, and now through the presence of humans.
Happy #NationalFossilDay! I'd like to celebrate by showing some of the incredible fossils from my neck of the woods, southern Utah! I'd like to start off with some tracks, naturally! Theropods related to Megapnosaurus and Dilophosaurus left behind these three-toed traces.(1/5)