Cool new undescribed fossils coming from the Shenzhen Natural History Museum. A mass mortality bed of oviraptorids, and two new specimens showing nesting behaviour
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Fun Facts about dinosaurs - Formerly DailyDinoFacts on that other app. Paleo volunteer trying to break into the world of collaborating on research papers.
Musango: The new Zimbabwean dinosaur discovered from a boat www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Musango: The new Zimbabwean dinosaur discovered from a boat | Natural History Museum
Musango matusadonaensis is the fifth dinosaur ever named from Zimbabwe.
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20 years ago today, the first episode of Prehistoric Park aired. If you haven't seen it yet in the intervening time, I highly recommend tracking it down. It's a very fun show, a grounded (excepting time travel) take on the dinosaur park concept that we haven't seen on screen since
Welcome the new dinosaur Ceratocaudia antiqua on this #FossilFriday! Found in the Gujarat region of India, the holotype of this ~180my old longneck is small by sauropod standards. But, the authors propose that despite its size, it's not a juvenile.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · 3w agoA new diminutive Jurassic neosauropod from the Kaladongar Formation (Khadir Uplift) of the Kachchh Basin, western India: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Worse than I could have imagined with near total loss of our Campanian dinosaur beds. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org @natgeosci.nature.com @paleosoc.bsky.social No one asked my opinion as Utah's State Paleontologist! @paleontologizing.bsky.social
TBH, I don’t give a damn if another T. rex is getting auctioned. How about every fossil site we’ve ever worked in Grand Staircase NO LONGER being within the monument?!? Let’s talk about protecting fossils on PUBLIC land.
Happy #FossilFriday from this cute little tyrannosaur premaxillary tooth! Tyrannosaurs were heterodont (having different forms of teeth) with the premaxillary teeth at the front of the mouth being shorter and more "D-shaped" in cross-section than the rest. Judith River Formation - Montana, USA
Happy #FossilFriday from this gorgeous Anzu claw fresh out of the ground in the Hell Creek Formation! This is from a very productive microsite that we visit every year to see what's eroded out over the winter. It's best to get these things excavated before the cows trample on them.
A new parasaurolophin dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from the Oldman Formation of southern Alberta cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...
A new parasaurolophin dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from the Oldman Formation of southern Alberta
Lambeosaurines are abundant in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, but are poorly known from the underlying Oldman Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian). A new partial skull roof and braincase f...
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Nilpanapan, A., Manitkoon, S., Suteethorn, V. et al. A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand. Sci Rep 16, 21205 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A new mamenchisaurid sauropod from the Lower Phu Kradung Formation, Upper Jurassic of northeastern Thailand
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Had a crappy day? Well, me too. This is fossilized poo. Coprolites are known from many fossil formations and can be valuable for research. The word "coprolite" is Greek for "dung stone" which is as apt of a name as there is.
Wait everyone shut up for a second: the discovery of the Brachiosaurus holotype is at the exact midpoint between the founding of the United States and today (July 4, 1901)
Ben Miller@extinctmonsters.bsky.social · last mo.Happy discovery day to these two upstanding (lol) Americans
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
Please see your SVP member email for the full message with embedded hyperlinks so you can join the fight to help save intellectually rigorous, merit-based, independent US scientific research funding from this politically motivated attack! 1/3
I recognize these... At a dinosaur themed Mini Golf business, I saw these two blatant copies of Raul Martin's iconic #PaleoArt. These were far from the only recognizable art lining the walls, but most were of animals from the Jurassic Park franchise. I am curious if anyone else has seen similar
A new Cretaceous pennaraptoran dinosaur preserved with feathers, Changzhousaurus sinensis, has been described in Vertebrata PalAsiatica. Unfortunately, I hear that the journal website appears to have been compromised and is currently redirecting users to spam... 🪶🧪 (📷Xu)
One of my favorite dinosaur names is #Dacentrurus - meaning "the very spikey tail". Living at the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary, fossils attributed to it have been found across Western Europe. Though less famous than Stegosaurus, it was the 1st "well-known" of its group Art: @ferrutxoart.bsky.social
ferrutxoart.bsky.social@ferrutxoart.bsky.social · last yr.Dacentrurus is a large stegosaur known from many incomplete remains. Its appearance and relationship were a bit difficult to pin down...and then Miragaia appeared. They may not be the same animal, but they are very similar
GREAT DINOSAUR MISTAKES trailer! A new picture book written by Jonathan Emmett and palaeontologist Dr Adam S. Smith, Illustrated by yours truly.
New unenlagiid from the Chorrillo Formation (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian), SW Patagonia, Argentina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New unenlagiid from the Chorrillo Formation (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian), SW Patagonia, Argentina
Unenlagiids constitute a group of paravian theropods up to now represented in Gondwanan landmasses. They are particularly diverse in northern Patagonia, where at least seven species were discovered...
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Happy #FossilFriday from the "Icy Crested Lizard" - #Cryolophosaurus! This Antarctica native lived near the beginning of the Jurassic and represents one of the first known theropod dinosaurs to stand taller than your average human. In fact, this photo was my perspective looking up at its toothy grin
Nanotyrannus lancensis (1:1) Based on the Duelling Dinosaurs specimen that helped validate the genus. This one went to its new home in Canada last week, but Ive another on the way that I might bring along to #dinoconuk in July!
A new paper compiling ~200 years of dinosaurs was just published by Don Henderson of the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta. This is a goldmine for dinosaur trivia. For example, the study identifies 1259 unique and "reliably known" non-avian dinosaur species! (Henderson, 2026) peerj.com/articles/213...
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It's Fossil Friday! What's the tallest freestanding dinosaur mount in the world? The Museum's Barosaurus & Allosaurus in the rotunda, which stands 50 ft (15 m) tall. How does it defy gravity? The Barosaurus is constructed using casts from real fossil bones in our collection.
An interesting tidbit tucked away in the "Dueling Dinosaurs" paper is that the authors propose the Naturalis Tyrannosaurus "Trix" is roughly the same age (~66.9my old). They base this on microfossils, the specimens occurring at roughly the same stratigraphic height, & being discovered ~8km apart.
Andy Farke@andyfarke.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe "Dueling Dinosaurs" are ~66.9 million years old. Super important data to sort out correlations of the Hell Creek Formation!
UFOP lecture May 14, 7:00 PM MT Jacob Freewin "New evidence of a large theropod dinosaur in the Yellow Cat Member (Barremian) of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA." Utah Dept. of Nat. Res., 1594 W North Temple St, SLC. The online meeting link is: meet.google.com/kyg-eyoe-pdf
Biomechanics and muscular reconstruction of alvarezsaur forelimbs support a digging function: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Very excited to see this out! 🧪 (📷 @sidneyleedham.bsky.social et al.)
New pterosaur alert! Laueropterus vitriolus, a new very complete genus from southern Germany that I reconstructed for a new paper by @davehone.bsky.social, out now in @peerj.bsky.social: peerj.com/articles/212...
Our very best 100th birthday wishes to Sir David Attenborough 🦖🎂🦖 Sir David has visited the Dinos in the past, and we were thrilled to have his support back in 2020 - when the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs were added to the Historic England Heritage at Risk Register (Letter wording in ALT text)
