Carrie Herbel
@cherbel18.bsky.social
Paleontologist/scientist. Climate change is real. Liberal & positive person. Stay politically active. Support LGBTQ. Loves dogs & Natural History Museums.
Amazing detail.
Ben Miller@extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 5mo agoNo shade on 19th century preparators doing their best, but it’s very striking how chunky the London Archaeopteryx looks compared to the recently-prepped Chicago specimen. Imagine all the data that was lost on old specimens, and what future preparators will think of today’s work. #FossilFriday
A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution. n.pr/4plIDcz
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution.
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New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart: www.earth.com/news/new-str...
New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart
New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management
earth.com
Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms
Study finds fresh evidence for Nanotyrannus, a dinosaur whose existence has long been debated
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One Bone at a Time. Meet our Chief Preparator, Carrie Herbel - who is celebrating 10 years at the Museum. news.unl.edu/article/herb... @cherbel18.bsky.social @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
Herbel helps preserve Nebraska’s legacy, one bone at a time | Nebraska Today
A full-circle moment brought Carrie Herbel back to Nebraska to take a position once held by a mentor. The chief preparator at the University of Nebraska State Museum is being honored today for 10 year...
news.unl.edu
I missed #MosasaurMonday but holy moly, Winnie is prepped! Here's the main part of the skull, without the palate laid out. She came out great and im so happy she's covered in pathologies. Just like me, we both have interesting skeletal injuries. Lower Niobrara, 86.5 million years old 🧪
Bone-crushing dogs! Bone-crushing dogs! Modern canids crush bones, too, but Borophagus and kin were extra adept at busting up skeletons. Fossil feces packed with bone back up what the jaws imply. 🧪
This episode, @oddpride.com joins us to investigate just what was the deal with one of the most infamous figures in early American paleontology.
Episode 211 – Edward Drinker Cope
Listen to Episode 211 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! He’s one of the most famous names in early American paleontology, and often not for good …
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Lemur-like primates would cling and leap through the forests of North America about 50 mya. This particular cousin of ours is Smilodectes, not an ancestor but a member of an early primate group called adapiforms. The forward-facing eyes and grasping hands are key adaptations to life in the trees 🧪
My little Dyson passed away tonight after suffering from a severe stroke. 09/2001-01/2025 (picture from 11 years ago).
BABY #Mammoth alert!!! Not 100% complete, but another awesome specimen!
Dr Ross Barnett@deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 2y agoSince its only half there Im gonna call bullshit on the "best preserved" claim. Nun Cho Ga from Yukon is clearly better preserved and it was only found in 2022. Dima, Yuka, Lyuba, Khroma, from Siberia all more complete too. Sounds like Russian vranyo. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Mayr, G. et al. 2024. Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma geiselensis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a57. doi.org/10.26879/1438 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...
Review of Gastornithiformes
Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma geiselensis
doi.org
Blue Jays having an intense discussion
Hi, BlueSky! We're here for the party, and we brought a NEW dinosaur with us. Meet Apex. Discovered in 2022 near Dinosaur, Colorado, this Stegosaurus is the largest ever found, measuring 11 ft (3.4 m) tall & 27 feet (8.2 m) long. You can see it at the Museum starting on Sunday, December 8! 🦴
I decided to redo the 1st ever piece in my cave painting series, Megaloceros. Although the cave artwork I used in the original is glorious and often labeled as depicting Megaloceros, the antler configuration does indeed look more like the non-palmated ones from red deer. #paleoart #artbyjulio
Greetings and Happy #FossilFriday A quiet end of the week here at UNSM, but I'm kept company by some of the largest beasts to ever walk the Earth. Here's one of our better Bison latifrons specimens, with horns spanning over 2 meters - if I lay down next to it they'd be longer than me! ⚒️🧪🦕
Move over, blue whale. This 300+ year old 34m coral is now the largest animal* known. Hopefully its depth, as described, can keep it going 🦑🧪 *colony of animals
Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.
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Coelacanths are pregnant for five years, the longest gestation of any known animal, and do not reach maturity until they are around 55 years old.
Blue skies above San Diego Canyon near Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
