Steve and I did a hot wings interview challenge run by the guys from our IT department. We answer various questions about dinosaurs, mainly off-the-beaten track stuff I think. If you're interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_3...

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Metatarsal & tail vert from our gryposaurus, tibia & lower jaw from a small lambeosaur, & couple of bones from something small and fragile. And there's something way more exciting at the other end of the quarry. #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #publiclands

RAPTOR TOOTH: very large tooth from a raptor #dinosaur, Paronychodon. It's been really rainy here for a few days, but we're back in the quarries today and finding new things! Dinosaur Park Fm, 76M yrs old. From US public lands administered by @BLM_MTDKs #FossilFriday

#Tyrannosaur tooth of the day. Found by Laura. Dinosaur Park Fm, Montana. #dinosaurs #fossilfriday

#Tyrannosaur hand claw? Found 2 hrs ago, live on @Paleontologizin. From US public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. #dinosaur park Fm, 76 million yrs old, Montana. #fossilfriday #dinosaurs. Badlands Dinosaur Museum, Dickinson ND. Loads of good fossils today!

Big metatarsal from a Gryposaurus skeleton that we're digging up at Jack's bone bed. Lots of cool new bones turning up every day. This is where the raptors and pterosaur skeletons are too. Us public lands BLM #fossilfriday #dinosaurs

Trierarchuncus in Lego form!

The Dinosaur Dave@thedinosaurdave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The answer for #Guess that #Lego #Fossil is #Trierarchuncus. In 1980, fossils were found that were informally named as the "Hell Creek alvarezsaur" by Hutchinson and Chiappe in 1998. 1/2 @paleontologizing.bsky.social @denverfowler.bsky.social

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Professor Hayley Fowler has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her pioneering work on climate change impacts.

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NORTH DAKOTA'S BIGGEST HELL PIG: Our brand new exhibit, a Hell Pig from right here in Dickinson! The past few months we've been piecing this together, and today we got it finished! #fossil #fossils #paleontology #hellpig #entelodont #FossilFriday #NorthDakota #dickinson

Excited! I just found out that the FOSSIL BAT jaw my dad found 20 yrs ago was described in 2024! We'd collected macromammals from Boldnor, Isle of Wight (Oligocene) for over a decade, but in 2000, I discovered a rich concentrate of microverts in situ at the top of the beach /1

Made this nice Compsognathus. Adapted it a bit for our exhibit. Thinking of writing about how Compsognathids are a fake clade created by ontogenetic clustering (Cau's work). Cool stuff. model by Nova. #fossilfriday #dinosaurs

RECONSTRUCTING A HELL PIG: This really big entelodont snout is possibly the biggest found in North Dakota! To reconstruct it, Amanda laser scanned a smaller skull, then we scaled it up, and 3D printed the missing back half #fossilfriday #scicomm #museums #mammals #fossil

Ooh, diagnostic.

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For this week's #FossilFriday here's the holotype tooth of Troodon formosus, a specimen that has caused no headaches whatsoever in its long and storied history

This fossil may look small - that's because it's from a salamander, but what a salamander! It's actually very large and surprisingly complete for the late Cretaceous of North America. From US Public lands administered by the BLM. #FossilFriday #fossils #scicomm #salamander #microfossil

Today, Amanda is 3D scanning our Hell Pig (Entelondont) skull (usually in the lobby display). We're going to use the 3D scan to restore the enormous snout kindly donated 2025 by the Leppart family. Here UV light shows the skull is ~60% real. #FossilFriday #fossils #scicomm

BABY DUCKBILL: Steve just finished cleaning this super cute jaw, with rows of tiny teeth! This matches another jaw, femur, and vertebrae that we collected from the same site. A baby dino skeleton is coming out! #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #dinosaur #scicomm #fossils #publiclands

Stupid tyrannosaurs in a million bits. This is the left side of the snout of Holger, a Daspletosaurus c.f. wilsoni. The skull of Holger, our 2nd completed Dasp site, is currently being restored. From US Public Lands administered by the BLM; Judith River Fm, Montana. #dinosaurs

VOLUNTEER ON A DINOSAUR DIG: We run one of the only free dinosaur digs in the USA. We work public land and the fossils go in our public museum, forever. It's hard work, but we find some cool things. If this sounds like you, we're taking applications. Link in comms. #dinosaurs

CANNIBALISM OF AN ADULT TYRANNOSAUR BY A JUVENILE: Our new study on a Badlands Dinosaur Museum fossil reveals dinosaur cannibalism where a juvenile tyrannosaur feasted on the carcass of a dead adult! 3D reconstructions supervision Yu Xin, designer Shen Li, sculptor Liang Junwei /1

JOB: SEASONAL PALEONTOLOGIST BADLANDS DINOSAUR MUSEUM (DICKINSON, ND) 2026 summer tourist season. May/June start, 15wks, end Aug/Sept. Full-Time, 40 hrs/wk, $19.84hr. 50% working with public, 50% lab/collections. See link in comms for info. Come work with us!

A nice addition to our exhibit. This Ornithomimus skull was painted by one of our volunteers, Ty Patterson. #dinosaurs #fossils #fossilfriday #museums

A rare portrait of me with the snout of a hell pig (entelodont). Kindly donated to our museum this year by Betty Leppart, from the Gary Leppart collection. In the new year I will be 3D printing a back part of the skull, and getting this on exhibit. #FossilFriday

The field report starts in 55mins 6pm MT, 5pm PT, 8pm ET. See you soon! You can stream it non-live on the youtube channel. See the post for links:

Denver Fowler Ph.D@denverfowler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

TOMORROW (Thurs, 8pm ET/6pm MT/5pm PT) Our Annual field report! Learn about fossil discoveries so new we're still cleaning them up in the lab! Live & FREE on Youtube, Facebook Live, & Twitch (FossilPreparator and @paleontologizing.bsky.social . Links in comms! #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #scicomm

TOMORROW (Thurs, 8pm ET/6pm MT/5pm PT) Our Annual field report! Learn about fossil discoveries so new we're still cleaning them up in the lab! Live & FREE on Youtube, Facebook Live, & Twitch (FossilPreparator and @paleontologizing.bsky.social . Links in comms! #fossilfriday #dinosaurs #scicomm

Daspletosaurus wilsoni holotype skull full-size reconstruction. Went on display in our exhibit hall (Badlands Dinosaur Museum) Sept 2025. The nicest Daspletosaurus skull reconstruction I think. Casts possibly available in 2026. #dinosaurs #fossils #fossilfriday

NEW MAGNETS: Our shop now stocks magnets of Liberty the Lambeosaurus, & Daspletosaurus wilsoni, all in glorious shades of gold, silver & copper (only US$12 each!). Lambeo based on 3D scan of our skull (the only USA specimen); Dasp by Andrey Atuchin. Link in comments #dinosaurs #fossilfriday

Three very delicate bones cleaned in the past 2 days. SUPER RARE - 2 limb bones from a parrot-mimic oviraptorosaur, and the other is a neck bone from a flying pterosaur. From US Public Lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management

CLUMSY MALE DINOSAURS INJURED FEMALES DURING MATING: Our new paper (Filippo Bertozzo et al. 2025), shows that a common tail injury seen in duckbilled dinosaurs was probably caused by heavy male dinosaurs clumsily crushing the spines of females during mating. /1

BABY DUCKBILL #dinosaur: Deanna just finished prepping this cute femur. We have a couple of nice jaws from a similarly-sized baby hadro from this same site, so maybe they are part of the same skeleton. Dinosaur Park Fm, Montana. ~76M years old, Late Cretaceous #fossilfriday

Microbiology lecturer JOB: Dickinson State Uni. MSc required. $55-60k pa. If you're a paleontologist who can teach microbio, you can do the job! Badlands Dinosaur Museum (my institution) works with DSU paleontologists & students on a variety of projects. Join us! prd.hcm.ndus.edu/psc/recruit/...

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