Dr Dave Hone @Dave_Hone Twitter profile

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Dr Dave Hone

@Dave_Hone

1 year

Elon has really dug himself into a deep hole here. Has anyone considered lending him a submarine and calling him a pedo?

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New anuroganthid research! Featuring art by @himarudolf

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4 years

People forget, or simply just don't realise, how big the largest hadrosaurs were. Shantungosaurs was likely comparable in mass to even some of the larger sauropods. #FossilFriday

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People who are not frightened of wild pigs are unaware of their capabilities.

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For #FossilFriday here's some very generic and low-key theropod that someone thought to ruin the foyer of a perfectly good museum to display.

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@Dave_Hone

7 months

Palaeoartists, sharpen your pencils.

YouFuckingIdiot 𝕏

@YouFuckingIdio9

7 months

"You fucking want some you feathery cunt??!!!"

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8 months

New entry for the pigeon equivalent of the Darwin awards.

Red Blooded Son Of The South: Brock Lee Florets

@BrockLeeFlorets

8 months

The falcon couldn’t believe the pigeon’s stupidity, 🤣🤣🤣. “Are you fckn serious?!”

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People occasionally tell me I should be writing more kids books on dinosaurs to get better stuff out there. And I'd like to, but as an indication of just how saturated the market is and how hard it is to fix that, check this out

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2 years

I took this photo in Mongolia. I'm convinced it would make a great album cover.

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1 year

New paper out today - Microraptor ate mammals! Art by the awesome @AttaBoyRalph

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10 months

So, word is leaking now but yes, we have a new Solnhofen region pterosaur: Pterodactyle wellnhoferi. A large ctenochasmatid with a big crest. Here's the amazing fossil and a link to the paper: (Fully OA)

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2 years

Something palaeontologically big is on it's way some time 'tonight'. I'm expecting some, let us say, 'mixed' comments from colleagues when it appears.* *Dinosaur paper that I have no connection to but know about it as I was asked for comment by some news outlets.

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2 years

I'm avoiding subtlety at this point: buy the damn book you cowards. #FutureOfDinosaurs #dinosaurs #books

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3 years

Highly relevant when thinking about dinosaur vision, colours and socio-sexual signaling.

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3 years

UV imaging shows us what apparently drab birds like starlings look like to each other.

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3 years

Everyone always thinks animals are so 'perfect' but this kinda thing is entirely normal. In this case, it's also funny.

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3 years

Miscalculation...

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10 months

When your mom says "We have Spinosaurus at home", the Spinosaurus at home:

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2 years

Not exactly a secret, but I'm off to the Gobi in 2 weeks, my first time in a decade and my first trip to Mongolia. Here's some ?dinosaur eggs I found last time I was there in China. #FossilFriday

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2 years

Quick bit of early morning office rearrangement needed to fit in the newly acquired Allosaurus arm and how I have some floor space again.

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2 years

I'm utterly, utterly failing to get anything written on a book chapter I need to finish, so I'm posting some awesome dino pics from Mongolia so I can bask in the glory of the likes to reduce my guilt.

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2 years

It's been put for months but it ws only today that I finally saw my book in the wild and for sale.

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5 years

@978eva978 @kaylasheagg @cherryemoticon Yeah. Most birds have baths of some kind or another and that's a large parrot in an open space if he (it's male) wasn't happy he'd simply move or would be kicking up a fuss. An unhappy parrot is hard to overlook.

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So here it is. The unsurprising news that a bunch of researchers (including me deep in the authorship) think there's no good reason to split T. rex up into three species as recently proposed. Bye bye T. imperator and T. regina.

Insufficient Evidence for Multiple Species of Tyrannosaurus in the Latest Cretaceous of North...

Evolutionary Biology - The Late Cretaceous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex was recently split into three species based on the premise that variation in the T. rex hypodigm is exceptional, indicating...

link.springer.com

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5 years

I have the world's best doorstop.

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2 years

It's been a while coming, but I'm delighted to discover on my return from Mongolia that I've been promoted and am now a Reader in Zoology. Here's an attempted selfie of me at the famous Flaming Cliffs to celebrate.

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2 years

I rescued a chameleon from the middle of a road and it wasn't exactly delighted about the experience but at least he wasn't flattened.

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4 years

For #FossilFriday we have, OK Dave, deep breath, you can do this, we have.... invertebrates. It's not just dinosaurs showing some incredible exaggerated and likely sexually selected features, trilobites are a great example too.

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2 years

Tyrannosaur paper coming this afternoon. Stay tuned.

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6 months

It's finally out, my new paper on bite traces on sauropod bones. Lots of data, lots of interpretation, dive in! It's in @thePeerJ so fully OA: Art courtesy of Davide Bonadonna, used with permission.

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2 years

Do you like long armed theropods? Well boy howdy do I have a deal for you this #FossilFriday . Presenting both the arms of Therizinosaurus *and* Deinocheirus for your viewing pleasure.

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2 years

Only a week away now! Buy early, buy often! #dinosaurs #science

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3 years

I'm nearly at 10 000 followers to better bust out some T. rex photos since that's what most people are interested in.

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11 months

Controversial take, but I think at some point it's likely that T. rex had some kind of behaviours during it's life. I'm sure this will promote savage arguments in the replies.

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1 year

For #FossilFriday , have a truly fantastic mounted skeleton of the Mongolian hadrosaur Saurolophus.

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@jayforeman Milli Vanilli never sang the words to any of their songs.

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3 years

I'll have the first blog post up any minute but for people who have been getting excited by my teasers, here it is. A huge new paper by me and @TomHoltzPaleo on the ecology of Spinosaurus.

The ecology of Spinosaurus

Evaluating the ecology of Spinosaurus: Shoreline generalist or aquatic pursuit specialist?

palaeo-electronica.org

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Today I returned the proofs for my next book which is on the behaviour of #dinosaurs as illustrated by @SerpenIllus . Slowly creeping towards publication. :)

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5 years

The world is poorer (though safer) for not having Tyrannosaurus in it.

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6 years

A fantastic little Solnhofen pterodactyloid on display at the ROM. To my knowledge this specimen is not described in the literature. #FossilFriday

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3 years

What would a cool new paper be without supporting artwork and here @Paleocreations has been keeping his involvement quiet for some time now as he made this for us. #Spinosaurus #Dinosaurs

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3 years

I've been in Nottingham today for the unveiling of #Titus the Tyrannosaurus. #FossilFriday

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2 years

Remember this odd little and unnamed anurognathid specimen? Well unnamed no more, meet Cascocauda:

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2 months

A very sizable paper just dropped that suggests Spinosaurus was not a good diver or swimmer, and supports something closer to a wading fisher:

Diving dinosaurs? Caveats on the use of bone compactness and pFDA for inferring lifestyle

The lifestyle of spinosaurid dinosaurs has been a topic of lively debate ever since the unveiling of important new skeletal parts for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus in 2014 and 2020. Disparate lifestyles...

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5 years

Quolls

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3 years

Because I've been going through photos again, here's a thread about fossils of various tyrannosaurs. We'll start with Tyrannosaurus so that hopefully at least some people will look this far. This one is on display in the Carnegie, in Pittsburgh.

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3 years

Upside down for some reason, but here's the skull of the holotype of the Velociraptor-alike dromaeosaurid dinosaur Linheraptor. #FossilFriday

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1 year

So for #FossilFriday check out this massive Spinosaurus dentary! And it fits with the excellent news that I've just signed a contract with @BloomsburyBooks to write a book on these amazing #dinosaurs with the also amazing @MarkWitton !

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2 years

A friend of mine sent me this kids magazine he found. The first two fights might not be especially close but I'd give about 50 million to one on the Spinosaurus.

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2 years

Got around to seeing Dominion last night thus allowing me to complete my table of Jurassic Park franchise cliches. There were, inevitably, loads.

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2 years

Now I'm back from South Africa I've got time to sort and post a few of the better photos I took of the wildlife.

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@Dave_Hone

5 years

The Jurassic Park series is already far too repetitive. Sure action films and whole series have tropes but this recycling is tedious and boring.

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@Dave_Hone

3 years

@5five0oh4four Next they'll put up a billion dollar prize for anyone who can work out how to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.

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1 year

For #FossilFriday here's a shot I took of the incredible armour of the ankylosaur Zuul. You can basically see every osteoderm and even the little ridges up the sides of the spikes. Fantastic preservation.

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5 years

Let's be quite clear, thae armoured #dinosaurs have some of the best and most gloriously weird skulls out there. Here's a small selection for #FossilFriday Ongoing reminder, please take a minute to complete my outreach survey:

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3 years

The new #Spinosaurus skeletal by @GET_AWAY_TRIKE features prominently in the new paper by me and @TomHoltzPaleo and especially the Figure 1 where we tried to summarise all of the arguments in the paper in one place. Here's a long thread trying to put that to its best use.

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2 years

So as it's #FossilFriday , here's some excellent tyrannosaur-based news. Just signed a contract to produce a revised, updated and improved 2nd edition of the Tyrannosaur Chronicles! As before it'll be with @sigmascience and illustrated by @skeletaldrawing .

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1 year

So 'Dinosaur with @stephenfry ' is finally coming to UK screens. It starts on Feb 12th and I'll be appearing in episode 3 on the 26th talking Tyrannosaurus rex and again a week later (much more briefly) on Triceratops.

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2 years

It's been a while but my new book is finally out in it's North American edition! Here it is, please buy it! Available now in print, ebook, audiobook etc. (This is the same as The Future of Dinosaurs but in new clothes, if you have that, you don't need this).

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2 years

"Is this picture accurate?" is the new "Who would win in a fight between?" of paleontology.

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4 years

I've got a paper coming out on Tuesday (woo), so here's a very (very) vaguely tangential picture to that. More coming soon of course. #FossilFriday

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So, now it's been put up online, for those who didn't know, my next book on #dinosaur behaviour is going to be out soon: . It'll be available in early November. Here's a short thread of what to expect...

Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior

How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontology

press.princeton.edu

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1 year

For #FossilFriday , here's some amazing Neave Parker dinosaur pictures. My photos of these were taken when they were on display at the NHM. Classic and important palaeoart.

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4 years

If there is a compeition for 'best named anteater' this would win, and if there isn't a competition for 'best-named anteater' I intend to create one so that this one wins.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park 🦁

@YorkshireWP

4 years

Licki Minaj our Giant Anteater is 1 today! Happy Birthday not so little one 🎉

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Your occasional reminder that just because a peer reviewed paper has been published, doesn't mean that it's true / definitive / official. That goes quintuple if it's a very bold assertion based on limited data and has yet to have any further investigation by other experts.

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2 years

Finally remembered a #FossilFriday early enough to get some photos up. Here's a selection of Mongolian oviraptorosaurs.

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5 months

So the Gorgosaurus new has dropped. Anyone with more interest in the specimen, here's a 30 part photoessay of how it was prepared:

Darren Tanke’s Gorgosaurus preparation: final roundup

I have been less than brilliant at cross-linking all the various Gorgosaurus posts that have been running now since December and finished yesterday with Darren’s final summary and update. It …

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4 years

Say hello to the newest pterosaur on the block: Luchibang. OA paper here: Blogpost: with coauthors @AdamJamesFitch Feimin Ma and Xu Xing.

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1 year

Found my new grant proposal.

Take That Darwin

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1 year

"If scientists are so smart, then why don't they just inject chimpanzees full of fossils until they shapeshift into humans?" I'll tell you why: COWARDICE.

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2 years

For #FossilFriday here's a wonderfully well-preserved pterosaur, Dorygnathus, this one held in the superb museum in Stuttgart.

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You want dorsally positioned orbits in a semi-aquatic animal? *These* are dorsally positioned orbits in a semi-aquatic animal.

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2 years

Mondays…

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@EricIdle Man. Woman. Camera. Covid.

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2 years

Look at what just arrived. #FutureofDinosaurs

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5 years

Let's not forget that the real villains of the Jurassic Park franchise are not so mucht he sceintists who created the dinosaurs but the incompetent architects who don't understand how to build suitable enclosures for animals.

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Bit late but here's some 'Easter' #dinosaur eggs from Inner Mongolia I found in 2009.

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5 years

People say if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. With that in mind, here is an animatronic model of a theirizinosaur from China. It exists. I will not add further to this description. #dinosaurs

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4 years

So my paper on sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs with gharials as a model is now out: Thanks to my coauthors @WitmerLab @Jordan_Mallon @thepatrick_h Long and detailed blogpost here:

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3 months

On this #FossilFriday , which is your favourite overhyped carnivorous theropod that's on display in Chicago?

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2 years

Setting up early for my @Ri_Science lecture this evening.

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2 years

The rare headless giraffe.

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6 months

I do love the weird interlocking nature of tyrannosaur gastralia, such a neat arrangement of bones. #FossilFriday

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4 years

Release the platyp... oh.

Charles Sturt University

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Watch the moment when a platypus is released back into their home! They were evacuated because of the drought last December by a group of experts including zookeepers from @tarongazoo , @UNSW & #CharlesSturtUni . Now after a stay in special enclosures at Taronga, home time 😍

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I've been too popular on the internet of late so here's something to annoy lots of people: I don't like palaeoart that uses living animals as a source of colours and patterns:

Why I don’t like using modern animal patterns in palaeoart

I remember from some years ago a pub chat with John Conway about what makes ‘good’ palaeoart. We came to the conclusion that it was down to three main things, 1) is it good artistically – is there …

archosaurmusings.wordpress.com

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5 years

The embargo is over so say hello to a new #pterosaur from #Canada - Cryodrakon boreas. A quick thread of n posts on this lovely animal.

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3 years

It is apparently #InternationalDinosaurDay which is good timing as the new series of my #dinosaur #podcast withh @iszi_lawrence drops tomorrow. So click on to catch up. :)

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For #FossilFriday here's a very late catchup I promised to several people of dino art I got at and around TetZooCon time. So, quick thread of awesome dino stuff, starting with the incomparable @Himmapaan and their Ouranosaurus.

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3 years

I'm engaged with a new Tyrannosaurus project coming soon and so for #FossilFriday I could hardly avoid inclduing everyone's* favourite theropod. Here's a very young animal on display at the LA museum.

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1 year

Was delighted to see my book foe sale in the Salt Lake City Natural History Museum. Sadly not all the books available were up to that standard.

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1 year

Here's me writing about #PrehistoricPlanet and saying why it's so utterly awesome. (Note: I didn't write the headline or standfirst).

David Attenborough's new series at last shows dinosaurs in all their feathered glory | David Hone

The prehistoric age has been stuck in a cultural rut since Jurassic Park. As a palaeontologist, I’m glad to see this era is over, says Dr David Hone of Queen Mary, University of London

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

It's #FossilFriday so let's celebrate with @cracked 's list of #dinosaur facts that are exaggerated, debatable, vague, and grossly oversimplified while (mostly) short of actually being wrong.

13 Now-You-Know Facts About Dinosaurs They Didn’t Teach At School

Every T-Rex skeleton you’ve seen is kind of a lie.

www.cracked.com

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10 months

Freddie is no slouch with the pens either and produced this amazing lie reconstruction (he retains copyright on this, it's not in the OA paper):

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2 years

It's a beyond obvious entry for #FossilFriday but is a relevant one for a paper that's coming soon.

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1 year

A classic example of pterosaur sterna nightmares for #FossilFriday . Despite the extremely good preservation of this specimen down to rare soft tissues like the propatagium, the sternum is barely present as a smudge. The damn things do not preserve well.

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4 years

@EstOdek @MauriceElphick I think you two need to know about this:

Why Are These Sea Urchins Sporting Cowboy and Viking Hats?

An aquarium owner noticed his sea urchins covering themselves with rocks and other objects, so he started 3D printing goofy hats. But a marine biologist confirms that sea urchins are making more than...

www.newsweek.com

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2 years

I can buy this as a locomotory mode with the use of the legs too, just like giant salamanders. Great color design too.

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Swim cycle for Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

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When you swim in the sea, and an eel bites your knee, that's a moray.

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When the jaws open wide and there’s more jaws inside, that’s a Moray

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I've made the mistake of engaging with a pro-Nanotyrannus person on Reddit. I am not smart.

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Been utterly failing to take advantage of all my Mongolia photos so here's a smattering of panoramas. TLDR: the Gobi is flat.

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Spent too long teaching labs today. I'm fried. Here's a wonderful violet-backed starling as a distraction.

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2 years

Therizinosaurs are just prosauropod mimics.

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2 years

Since I got annoyed again by being on reddit, here's my bingo card for hanging around on the dinosaurs page. I'm sure I could get 4 corners or a line most days and fill the whole card out every 2-3 weeks.

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Ohh, creeping up to 6000 followers. Better do an obvious sexy rexy Tyrannosaurus for #FossilFriday in an obvious attempt to get a few more.

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