In fact, the oil and gas companies paid some of the very same spokespeople, after they lost their jobs with the tobacco industry. Want to know more? Watch or read Merchants of Doubt!
Same As It Ever Was...
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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Tyrannosaur Expert; Dinosaur Paleontologist; University of Maryland Geology Faculty; Director of the College Park Scholars-Science & Global Change Program; Science Author; Cat Dad; 🦖🦕
In fact, the oil and gas companies paid some of the very same spokespeople, after they lost their jobs with the tobacco industry. Want to know more? Watch or read Merchants of Doubt!
Same As It Ever Was...
Osteohistological evidence for terrestrial adaptation and an extended growth period in mekosuchine crocodylians and its potential role in their extinction - Hoffman - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Airam Rodríguez-Borges, Javier González-Dionis, Leonardo S. Filippi, Ignacio A. Cerda, Yuong-Nam Lee & Penélope Cruzado-Caballero (2026) Ontogenetic variation in an ornithopod femur from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. Geologica Acta 24.17, 1-17, I-XXVIII. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
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T. Li, R. Wang, L. Xing, X. Xu, Y. Qin, P. Yan, B. Liu, P. Li & Y. Yang (2026) The First Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Bayan Gobi Formation in the Western Yin'gen-Ejinaqi Basin of Inner Mongolia, China Earth History and Biodiversity 100044 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The First Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Bayan Gobi Formation in the Western Yin'gen-Ejinaqi Basin of Inner Mongolia, China
The Bayan Gobi Formation is an important Early Cretaceous dinosaur fossil-bearing horizon, although the number of known dinosaur taxa remains relative…
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Albert Vidal-Martí, Jesús Gamarra, Kelly Ann Vega-Pagán & Àngel H. Luján (2026) Reassessment of the entelodontid (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) remains from the Rupelian site of Rocallaura (Ebro Basin, Iberian Peninsula) Geologica Acta 24.14, 1-13. D revistes.ub.edu/index.php/GE...
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Frontiers | Using ecological niche modeling to investigate why the pronghorn (Antilocapra) did not disperse during the Great American Biotic Interchange
We examine whether ecological niche modeling (ENM) can account for the fact that some taxa did not disperse in the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) d...
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Dietary Adaptation in Paranthropus robustus Postcanine Teeth - O'Hara - 2026 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Dietary Adaptation in <fi>Paranthropus robustus</fi> Postcanine Teeth
Upper premolar enamel thickness in Paranthropus robustus increased significantly over time, especially in the occlusal region.
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E. James Dixon (2026) Convergent Science Supports Human Dispersal along the North Pacific Rim during the last Ice Age Quaternary Science Advances: 100343 doi: 0.1016/j.qsa.2026.100343 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Just checking in on the eastern/central Pacific. 😬
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
My man looks like the second lieutenant who was voted Most Likely to Get Fragged at West Point.
My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card
BREAKING: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's top court blocks Trump-backed U.S. House map from being used in November and orders it to be put to a vote.
Postcranial osteology of the giant oviraptorosaur Gigantoraptor erlianensis: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Postcranial osteology of the giant oviraptorosaur Gigantoraptor erlianensis
Gigantoraptor erlianensis is an unexpectedly large-bodied oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China. Exhibiting a bizarre body plan, G. erlianensis is key to reve...
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#Geol104playlist For the discovery of fossils, extinction, and dinosaurs youtu.be/HkMn_n5KzCc?...
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (2017 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
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For #FossilFriday, the mysterious & geometrically satisfying deep-sea trace fossil Paleodictyon, preserved on the bottom of a Miocene (~10 mya) stratum in southern Spain. Similar traces are in modern deep-sea environments, but we still don't know who makes them. 🧪 #ichnology
My son wanted me to share this picture of Jimothy that she drew! 🙂 #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
You should pre-order Tyrant Lizard Queen.
Tyrant Lizard Queen
From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehisto...
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You know, just doing author stuff, throwing on a cheesy horror movie to entertain myself while I sign hundreds of book plates for the cool people who’ve pre-ordered Tyrant Lizard Queen.
One of the many hats I wear is that of a taxonomist who understands the important of accurate representation of morphology and I cannot stress in strong enough terms how you should not do this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Generative <fc>AI</fc> for Scientific Illustration in Insect Taxonomy: A Human‐Supervised High‐Efficiency Workflow
Morphological illustrations are crucial in research on insect taxonomy and phylogenetics. Although traditional manual drawing and digital tracing techniques have undergone continuous evolution, they ...
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Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument Now THIS is what I want my membership dues going towards @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social vertpaleo.org/svp-sues-the...
SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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A new postcranial skeleton of Sinovenator changii (Theropoda, Troodontidae) from the Jehol Biota of the Ningcheng Basin, Inner Mongolia, China sjp.pensoft.net/articles.php...
A new postcranial skeleton of Sinovenator changii (Theropoda, Troodontidae) from the Jehol Biota of the Ningcheng Basin, Inner Mongolia, China
A new, well-preserved troodontid postcranial skeleton from the Jehol Biota of the Ningcheng Basin, Inner Mongolia, China, is described and assigned to Sinovenator changii based on an autapomorphy: the...
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The trace fossil Paleodictyon was/is (probably) made by short arthropods, like amphipods or isopods: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can arthropods produce Paleodictyon?
Paleodictyon is a common structure documented in marine sediments from the Cambrian to the present times. Despite its pervasive distribution and disti…
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Yes!! This is a fantastic first step - every governing body everywhere should take note and begin work to get genAI out of schools (and out of our lives in general) ASAP.
Mayor Mamdani announces a ban on generative AI in schools through 8th grade: AI is not going to replace student-teacher interaction in NYC public schools. We have also heard the importance of protecting childhood—allowing students the opportunity to ask questions, to engage, to fail, to learn.
I've already had multiple climate denial replies in my feed, and now I've got one on vaccine denial. What's going on today, Bluesky?
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