It's our last day excavating this new iguanodont species (for this year, at least) and thus my last stream from this site this year, too. Tune in and hang out with us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Danny Anduza
@paleontologizing.bsky.social
Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at twitch.tv/paleontologizing
And to think some people say you can't discern behavior from fossils theonion.com/new-evidence...
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras
BOZEMAN, MT—Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State Un...
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It's 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 C) in the shade out here in the Utah desert, but we've got iguanodont bones to excavate Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're up to and watch us all go insane in the heat
Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵
Happy #FossilFriday! Here's just a handful of the jackets we've pulled out of our bonebed over the past couple weeks. Unnamed (new!) iguanodont dinosaur Earliest Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, ~142 mya BLM federal public land Grand County, Utah, USA
Really exciting new paleobiogeographic publication 👀
Z. Jack Tseng@tsengzj.bsky.social · 6d agoExhilarated to share a 2nd @science.org cover article this month from our lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! A collaboration with US & Mexico colleagues on the role of a Mexican biogeographic holding pen in shaping the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)(1/11) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Don DeBlieux's talk in Moab was a big success yesterday -- and Paleontologizing got a shoutout!
I've been digging dinosaurs since 2011 and not had a bad flip yet 💪🏽
PaleoJim@paleojim.bsky.social · last wk.Fisher and Danny flip a jacket containing a basal iguanodont scapula from the Berriasian Doellings Bowl bonebed complex, eastern Utah. @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @renpoole.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @geosociety.bsky.social
Someone send this researcher some ice cold water and juice, STAT! He is out in the Utah desert digging up fossil dinosaurs with a crew from the Utah State Museum of Natural History.
Danny Anduza@paleontologizing.bsky.social · last wk.TOO HOT
Godzilla Nooo! Not the UN! You’ll be receiving a strongly worded letter for this!
THAT'S BETTER. Tune in now @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing as I uncover more of this bone
Danny Anduza@paleontologizing.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's still early in the excavation of our iguanodont quarry and I don't have any impressive bones to show you yet for #FossilFriday -- -- so here's a plastic model of Iguanodon instead. Fingers crossed we get into the Bone Zone soon 🤞🏽
It's still early in the excavation of our iguanodont quarry and I don't have any impressive bones to show you yet for #FossilFriday -- -- so here's a plastic model of Iguanodon instead. Fingers crossed we get into the Bone Zone soon 🤞🏽
You'd be disappointed to know how often I hear this from people, except they're being earnest
@mossworm.bsky.social · 2w agowe can use the machine to generate what dinosaurs looked like. no more yucky digging
When you're the junior member of an esteemed group
That scene got so much funnier to me after watching @paleontologizing.bsky.social and finding out how little a dinosaur dig costs. He's crowdfunded them via Twitch. I'd bet just one of those land rovers in the park alone cost more than funding Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler's dig for three years.
samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 2w agothe most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding
That's right! I'm back in the field and streaming on #Twitch (hopefully) every day through August 6
PaleoJim@paleojim.bsky.social · 3w agoWe will have Starlink with Paleontologizing live streaming every day from 3-5, -- August 6. #FossilFriday www.twitch.tv/paleontologi... Early work at Jim's Place at Doellings Bowl at the Dawn of the Cretaceous in eastern Utah. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
I'm back to digging in the earliest Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation near Moab with the Utah Geological Survey -- and you're welcome to tune in, watch, and chat @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
This might seem hot, but rest assured it'll cool down by the time I arrive there on Tuesday (the forecast says it'll only be 103)
Okay, today's mystery animal was placed in the wrong family altogether. I want my guesses back 🐈⬛ Animal #1076 🐼 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟧🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩 🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 5.7 metazooa.com #metazooa
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We'll be discussing FOUR newly-published dinosaurs that we didn't have time for yesterday (Kank, Phosphatotitan, Kryptohadros, and Gongshuilong) PLUS interviewing @denverfowler.bsky.social about the much-overhyped tyrannosaur auction happening in NYC next week. Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Not too shabby. Did today's challenge early, since there's some surprise stuff filling up this afternoon's livestream schedule 😉 🐦⬛ Animal #1075 🦔 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩 🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6 metazooa.com #metazooa
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It can't just be dinosaurs *all* the time. For this week's #FossilFriday, here are some lovely fossil leaves from the Late Cretaceous of Wyoming. Plant fossils like this are crucial for understanding these ancient ecosystems, giving us information about everything from rainfall to C02 levels
Gotta get that average down 😑 🐄 Animal #1074 🐏 I figured it out in 7 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩 🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 5.8 metazooa.com #metazooa
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*Several* new dinosaur genera and species were published while I was out traveling and doing fieldwork, so we'll be covering those today! Join us to discuss Changzhousaurus, Cryptarcus, Eopinacosaurus, Gongshuilong, Jian, Kank, Kryptohadros, Phosphatotitan & Uragasaurus twitch.tv/paleontologizing
250 million years ago there was a massive release of greenhouse gases and ok sure it led to the extinction of most life on earth but after that we got dinosaurs
Scott Waldman@scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 4w agoThe White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Not my most impressive showing, but this is a tricky clade 🐒 Animal #1073 🐹 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.3 metazooa.com #metazooa
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