Second to last paleontology talk of the summer in Voorhees last night! This was number 12 of the season!
Dr Dana Ehret
@drdanaehret.bsky.social
Paleontologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, curator, adjunct professor. Editor for: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Eastern Paleontologist and The Mosasaur he/him
I’ll be giving a virtual talk in addition to my numerous in person talks for the summer library reading program #unearthastory which is #paleontology themed!
Happy #FossilFriday ! Here’s a beautiful shark coprolite I just collected last week in the NJ Cretaceous!
Gordon Hubbell passed away. Gordon served on my Ph.D. Committee, opened his house to me weekly to learn from him and donated valuable specimens to the Florida Museum that allowed me to describe Carcharodon hubbelli in his honor. Gordon and Kate were kind, generous people that will be missed greatly!
Mike Burns, paleontologist at Jacksonville State University, who worked on ankylosaurs, passed last week. I knew Mike, travelled with him and took him in the field. A nice and funny man who was way too young and will be missed! #paleontology proze.jsu.edu/u/lp/employe...
And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Qt...
Les dinosaures d'Appalachie - La préhistoire du Québec, saison 2
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Dr Dana Ehret@drdanaehret.bsky.social · last yr.This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!
Visited the original carved skull for Haddy, #Hadrosaurus foulkii, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly yesterday! #Leidyiswatching #dinosaur
Here’s a note from the OG Turtle paleontologist Oliver Perry Hay to the NJ State Geologist in 1906. Hay described a fossil turtle from NJ called Amblypeza entellus. The taxon is no longer valid, it is a jr synonym of Taphrosphys sulcatus, but we still retain the holotype and Hay’s note #Fossilfriday
We sent out our Nile Crocodile mount for restoration. It’ll be included in a new upcoming exhibit and needed freshening up!
It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.
Talking to the DVPS in a few moments online about the Ellisdale fossil site! Since I’m doing it from my office, I can show off some specimens including this large theropod phalanx!
RIP Lungy 😞 I don’t know how old he was but I had him for about 20 years and he was already a good size, I would guess he was at least 30…. He moved with me from Florida to Jersey to Alabama and back to Jersey again
#svp2025 today is my poster on Hybodont shark egg capsules from New Jersey! Poster number 393. Come say hi!
Princeton Allosaurus! Giving a departmental lecture today
Press Coverage for my latest exhibit: Ecosystems at Risk: Threatened and Endangered in New Jersey! whyy.org/articles/new... #endangered #ecosystems #newjersey
New Jersey State Museum gives flowers to its native flora and fauna
The exhibition highlights the state’s natural habitats and efforts to protect them.
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This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!
The New Jersey State Museum is hiring a Curator of Archaeology and Ethnography!
#SharkWeek appearance #2 filming completed! Look for me talking about fossil makos this summer!
It’s been 5 years since we lost paleobotanist Brian Axsmith to Covid… he was a good friend and I still think of him every time I see a plant fossil
Died This Day: Joseph Leidy (Sept 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891). The Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology described the holotype of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the 1st American mostly complete dinosaur. He also mentored a young E.D. Cope and pointed he and Marsh to the rich fossil resources of the West
Great day giving a tour to a Princeton University comparative anatomy class at the NJ State Museum today!
Our newest exhibit, Ecosystems at Risk opens on April 19th at the NJ State Museum! I’ll be there to give tours and talk to visitors!
Among the “largely obscure” (to use the NYT’s phrasing) agencies included in this order? The IMLS. [gift link]
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent (Gift Article)
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.
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