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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 months

when you fall into the solnhofen lagoon and your membranous wings get caught in carbonate rich mud

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

@yoofilos This Struthiomimus shows the death pose beautifully. However, it does take time for the neck muscles/ligaments to contract creating the death pose so it's fine to show them in a limp pose right after dying.

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Skye McDavid

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TIL that this amazingly preserved specimen of Corythosaurus (AMNH 5240) is the holotype. Some patches of scaly skin are even preserved.

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4 months

The technical term for a pterosaur you can hold in the palm of your hand is smol-smol flappy-flap.

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Beautiful complete skull of Sinosaurus triassicus, previously only known from fragments, published today by Zhang et al

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

@GatorsDaily Americans would rather use Ariana Grande than the metric system

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Skye McDavid

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Skye

@Rioarribasaurus

1 year

Starting a new religion called Cotylorhynchism. We worship the eternal Cotylorhynchus.

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Skye McDavid

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1 year

@coole_cats @mrfishtopher As a dino nugget enthusiast and cat lover, I simply had to buy this. Thank you.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I think this means I'm officially a paleontologist now.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

10 months

Say hello to Petrodactyle wellnhoferi, a new large crested ctenochasmatoid from Jurassic Germany. Skeletal diagram by me. Blog post to follow.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Hypsognathus is another cute triassic weirdo. I love them.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

5 months

Hi, I switched fields from electrical engineering to biology. "Moore's law" is literally just an industry trend, not a scientific law. It is about semiconductor transistor density, which is completely inapplicable to the evolution of life.

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*takes off glasses* *pinches bridge of nose* *very deep sigh*

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

@depthsofwiki So much better than "just disappeared" Hypotheses for what happened to migratory birds in winter included transforming into mice and hibernating underwater!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus four different versions

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

7 months

boop the devil frogge

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

This is how I want to die

Dan F

@DanPalaeon1

2 years

BTW

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

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so happy to see a major museum showcase Poposaurus - superficially similar to dinosaurs but not a dinosaur, an early croc-line archosaur

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

6 months

Hello Tiktaalik holotype

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Every fossil that was illegally obtained by museums in rich countries should be repatriated.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 months

"Dinosaurs were more diverse than mammals during the Mesozoic." This is often repeated with the implication that this is no longer the case in the Cenozoic. Except dinosaurs are *still* more diverse than mammals. ~6.5K extant mammal species ~11K extant avian dinosaur species

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

4 months

the OG dinosaur not a cast

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

The existence of Great White Sharks implies the existence of Mediocre White Sharks.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Skin impression from a Ceratopsid (likely Centrosaurus based on locality)

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

An important dinosaur specimen, a second specimen of a species only known from the holotype, is most likely lost to science. I spoke with the person in possession of the fossil today, and he apparently has no interest in having it published. I'm very disappointed.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

10 months

@oldenoughtosay For those who don't know, Tyrannosauroids is the formal term for Tyrannosaurs in general, and there are differing terms for tyrannosaur subgroups.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

The SUE the T. rex exhibit has renewed my appreciation for Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

7 months

Officially my new favorite lizard.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

10 months

I'm really excited for this... and not just because I consulted on the Triassic part.

BBC Studios

@bbcstudios

10 months

4.5 billion years in the making... Presented by @ChrisGPackham , #Earth is the ground-breaking new series from BBC Studios Science Unit, using immersive CGI to tell the astonishing story of the planet we call home. 🌍 Coming soon to @BBCTwo & @BBCiPlayer .

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

The real question is whether Tyrannosaurus had feathers on its lips.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

8 months

Centaurs are mythical creatures? Explain this!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

@fimango Parasaurolophus, of course.

Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Girls want one thing. It starts with a P and ends with an S.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Stegouros size chart. Friend-sized.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Cool new paper from @skeletaldrawing et al on Thermoregulation in Triassic Amniotes! Supports hypothesis that Coelophysis and Megapnosaurus were at least partially nocturnal. And some fabulous skeletals of course :D

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Girls want one thing. It starts with a P and ends with an S.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

So Dakotaraptor may be a chimera of turtle, caenagnathid, dromaeosaur, AND tyrannosaur parts.... This is worse than I realized.

Tristan Stock

@RaptorX863

1 year

@TomHoltzPaleo @bonz_us @JGN_Paleo @SkyeMcDavid @FossilLocator I don’t remember who first pointed this out to me, but the 2nd claw of Dakotaraptor also has some obvious similarities to published T. rex hand claws. I agree there’s definitely a big dromaeosaur somewhere in Hell Creek based on other work, but I don’t think Dakotaraptor is it.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I'm trying to imagine how much more annoying the Bone Wars would have been if Cope and Marsh had been on Twitter.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Imagine if people were in denial about extinct animals that have similar extant relatives the way they are about dinosaurs. "Paleontologists want you to believe that there used to be turtles that look similar to modern turtles but a little bit different!"

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

7 months

Reminder that Simosuchus

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

SMF R 4970, the specimen that allowed for the description of Psittacosaurus' cloaca and today's paper on the umbilical scar (not the true belly button of therians) was smuggled out of China illegally and is currently in Germany. Reminds me of another famous feathered dinosaur....

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Child just pointed to the Mosasaurus mount and excitedly said "that's a megalodon!"

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

This is a Struthiomimus altus appreciation tweet. @AMNH 5339

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Tyrannosaurus rex may be famous for having proportionally tiny arms, but since the dinosaur itself is enormous, its arms are about the same size as an average human's. SUE and me.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Dilophosaurus couldn't outrun Usain Bolt. Neither can I so I guess that's something we have in common. @thebrucemuseum

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

sBInosaurus

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

ACM 84, the Humboldt penguin who was mummified in the poop of their friends, finally gets the display case they deserve!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

New paper from @Dave_Hone and illustrated by me: The anatomy and diversity of the pterosaurian sternum. This was a lot of work and I'm glad to see it finally published. (Link in next tweet)

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

@depthsofwiki they could have made a boring figure comparing the two cabbages. but they chose them to have them held by a man with an expressive face and heartwarming smile. this is one of the reasons I love Wikipedia

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

I feared this day would come.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Let's spare a thought for this Ptycholepis fish whose skull exploded 199 million years ago.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

fossil preparation is an important part of paleontology - here we see a preparator carefully removing matrix from this exquisitely preserved sneaker fossil from the Jurassic Period

Lôzinha

@_pequenalo

2 years

Eu limpando meus tênis quando eu voltava das festas universitárias

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

If Eurypterids were still alive, would we eat them?

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

7 months

boop the snoot

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Re: Willoughby I'm sad to see prominent paleoartists defending her. Some accusations against her are poorly substantiated, but her "research" is still based on racist pseudoscience, and that on its own is unacceptable.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

@ASKusmer @FossilLocator This is the same reason battery packs capacities are always given in mAh not Ah. Because 10,000 sounds better than 10. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a 10 billion nanometer walk.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Emily Willoughby's "research" is pseudoscience with explicitly and intentionally racist origins. This isn't a new revelation though. Her nonsense paper claiming political views are genetically determined was published last November.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

22 days

Coelophysis 😍

Mercedes Blanche

@mszrsmerci

24 days

Girls want 1 thing and it starts with a C

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

Bringing back the Lesbian Sinosauropteryx couple for Pride Month.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Tyrannosaurus rex skull AMNH FR 5027

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I just overheard someone tell their kid "look at the dinosaur" while pointing to a mammoth and I'm just ready to give up on scicomm

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Guys, this isn't a Velociraptor. This is an Oviraptorosaur.

Faine Greenwood

@faineg

2 years

When your pleasant day at the beach is interrupted by a velociraptor.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Starting today, I'm working part time as an intern in the paleo lab at the New Jersey State Museum. I'm looking forward to helping with research and outreach!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

The Tyrannosaurus holotype is such a beautiful fossil.

Taylor McCoy 🦖

@TM9380

3 years

I can’t wait to see my baby tomorrow!!! Remember, Super Science Saturday tomorrow if you can make it! #FossilFriday #dinosaurs #paleontology

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I love how Tyrannus tyrannus is not a Tyrannosaur, but rather a very cute smol birb.

Manhattan Bird Alert

@BirdCentralPark

2 years

"Feed me!" says the young Eastern Kingbird by the Central Park Pool.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

10 months

SVP Abstract Accepted!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

10 months

High resolution version of the Petrodactyle wellnhoferi skeletal diagram available on my website + blog post (link in thread)

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Normal people in a museum hall: look dinosaurs! Me in a museum hall: why was this skull reconstructed without a mandibular fenestra?

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I love Confuciusornis 💙

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

4 months

Dear Stock Photo Sites, We are not archaeologists. Sincerely, Paleontologists

Dr. DJ King✝️ 🐚🦖💛🤍💜🖤

@TheDJ_King

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

@depthsofwiki Worth noting that the fossil in question was illegally smuggled out of Brazil and purchased by the Stuttgart Natural History Museum on the black market.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 months

This is also cool because it shows how encephalized modern birds are compared to non avian dinosaurs.

Jordan Bestwick

@JordanBestwick1

2 months

Directly opposite is a 10ft tall, 3D printed modern magpie skeleton, x20 scaled This fantastically showcases the skeletal similarities between modern and extinct theropods, and in my opinion is the scarier of the two! (2/6)

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Tarbosaurus bataar skull ZPAL Mg-D-I/4

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I am watching Prehistoric Planet with my girlfriend. This is my happy place.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

There will soon be aquaculture and commercial fisheries for Dunkleosteus, apparently.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Velociraptor mongoliensis holotype skull AMNH FR 6515 (eventually I will draw several skulls to compare them but I figured it would be good to start with the type)

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

@Zazamyodor Automotive alternator, polyphase AC generator with a bridge rectifier made of diodes on its output, being held by a loser. I don't know much about cars but I did study electrical engineering 🤷‍♀️

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus tail anatomy

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

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Paleontologist touches living breathing dinosaur

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

This is a Coelophysis bauri appreciation tweet.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

Speculation about Tyrannosaurs and Abelisaurs losing their forelimbs entirely is a lot less interesting to me than the Dinornithoforms, real actual dinosaurs that have no forelimbs at all.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

8 months

TFW a notorious bully and a bigoted colonialist co-describe a dinosaur and hire a neo-Nazi for the press art 🫠

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

I am going to eat Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

How many times did a woman make an important discovery only for a man to steal/fake data, publish first, and take credit?

News from Science

@NewsfromScience

1 year

Exclusive: Paleontologist Robert DePalma has been accused of faking data in a paper showing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth in the spring.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I don't buy the Tyrannosaurus split. I still think the genus Tyrannosaurus should be monotypic. Also, the name "Tyrannosaurus regina" doesn't comply with the rules because -us is masculine and -ina is feminine.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I met Dearc!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Reconstructed skull of Bisticeratops froesorum holotype NMMNH P-50000.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I love it when people on Twitter try to teach me extremely basic facts about dinosaurs. Of course there's a lot that I don't know, but like, I know some dinosaurs had feathers.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

a beautifully preserved paddlefish from Tanis When I saw this in 2021 I was surprised by its quality of preservation, and since it was labeled as indet, I assumed it was undescribed. Today this specimen was made the holotype of Parapsephurus willybemisi.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

Impromptu collections visit to ROM while I'm technically on vacation, feat. the holotype of Parasaurolophus walkeri. Thanks to @DavidEvans_ROM for arranging this last minute!

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

The existence of Heterodontosaurus implies the existence of Gaydontosaurus, Bipandontosaurus, and Acedontosaurus.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

168cm and Tyrannosauripus pillmorei (footprint of T. rex or similar large tyrannosaur) for scale

Aline Ghilardi

@alinemghilardi

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1,76m e um ossinho da perna de um saurópode como escala

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Reconstructed skull of Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

3 years

Velociraptor mongoliensis

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Skeletal reconstruction of Bisticeratops froeseorum holotype NMMNH P-50000.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Dear stock photo sites, We are not archaeologists. Sincerely, Paleontologists

Dr. Holly Walters

@Manigarm

2 years

As an archaeologist, I too routinely take a pick axe to a fully articulated dinosaur skeleton... ...just to show those paleontologists who's boss! #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

I regret talking about Spinosaurus.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

Boop the snoot of Spinosaurus(?)

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 years

If Emily Willoughby and people like her had their way, I would not be allowed to exist. Think about that.

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

Everyone is talking about whether Spinosaurus was aquatic or terrestrial, but I want to ask the important question: Did Spinosaurus have lips on its feathers?

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

2 months

@FossilLocator reading old-timey descriptions of newly synthesized compounds, and they say it's "sour tasting and irritating to human mucous membranes" and I'm like... you ate it before checking to see if it's poisonous???

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Skye McDavid

@SkyeMcDavid

1 year

Dear Media, We are not archaeologists. Sincerely, Dinosaur Paleontologists

Robert Patalano

@RobertPatalano

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