Lindsay Zanno
@ExpeditionLive
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Head of paleontology @naturalsciences & Associate Research Professor @NCSUBioSci . President of @JurassicFDN .
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If you haven't heard... the Dueling Dinosaurs experience is now open
@NaturalSciences
. It was an eight-year journey to get here filled with amazing moments and fueled by the hearts and souls of so many. Let's look back.
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well, secret's out! we have acquired the phenomenal Dueling Dinosaurs to protect and study in perpetuity. We are assembling an amazing team, building a new facility, & forging into the unknown with research transparency and public engagement... let the journey begin!
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New paper alert! Think Thescelosaurus is boring? Admittedly,
@ItsDavidButton
and I sorta did too, but a Eureka! moment led us to take a closer look. Whether via ancestry or adaptation, Thescelosaurus's lifestyle was linked to the ground.
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Acrocanthosaurus was one of North America's most fearsome megapredatory
#dinosaurs
. We
@naturalsciences
have the most complete skeleton & we're prepping some cool new research on the skull anatomy. While you wait, enjoy this holiday treat made by
@Ninjemys
!
#FossilFriday
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Excited to welcome Iani smithi to the world! Iani is our 3rd new
#dinosaur
from the
@BLMNational
Mussentuchit Mbr, UT (3+ on the way!) & helps fill data gaps at the dawn of the Late Cretaceous when Earth was becoming a 'super greenhouse,' part of our
@NSF
mid-Cretaceous project
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Bayshin Tsav has an insane amount of bone. First day prospecting I found 5 theropod claws, a therizinosaur humerus… oh yeah & a couple of hadrosaur skeletons too 🙄🤣
#MADEx23
#dinodig23
@natgeo
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8 years of waiting ended yesterday as we successfully moved the 14,000kg
#DuelingDinosaurs
fossils into our new paleontology lab
@NaturalSciences
! Sweating, pacing, a few gasps, and many celebratory high-fives were had by all. Welcome home dinos, welcome home.
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Very excited to share that we’ve found a skeleton (w/skull) of a new genus of Coniacian-Santonian ankylosaur! 🤩 filling a big glaring hole in North American dinosaur evolution
#dinodig24
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our new tiny
#tyrannosaur
#dinosaur
has arrived! meet Moros intrepidus, the oldest Cretaceous tyrannosaur in North America. see the fossil unveiling today
@naturalsciences
and follow along with the research!
@NCStateBioSci
@NCStateSciences
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Lots of new theropod material turning up this week including two skeletons of a super important new species ❤️
#MADEx24
#dinodig24
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Thrilled to announce that our work studying effects of Cretaceous climate change on
#dinosaur
evolution in
#Mongolia
has been awarded a 2yr
@NatGeo
grant! I'll be leading an incredible team of
#NatGeoExplorer
(s) on a 6-week
#dinodig23
expedition kicking off today! Wish us luck 🤩
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This
#FossilFriday
, a fan favorite, cult classic, and one of my favs too… the great and ridiculous (and for a long time, utterly mysterious)
#Mongolian
#dinosaur
Deinocheirus!
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Can’t believe this went off without a hitch. Clean separation, flip, and load of a 2,000 lb block of hadrosaur. A very good day indeed
#MADEx24
#dinodig24
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This
#FossilFriday
Acrocanthosaurus
@naturalsciences
had thigh surgery on
@lisaherzog_me
’s table. Small price to pay for a collaborative project on
#theropod
growth and resource ecology w/
@cullen_thomas
. Yes, that’s a metal bar in the medullary cavity 😮
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How about a
#FossilFriday
#WomeninScienceDay
mashup? Here's a lady Tyrannosaurus rex (MOR 1125)... otherwise known as B-rex
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Ankylosaurs, sauropods, and theropods oh my! It’s our third week in the east Gobi and we’re getting great biodiversity, climate, and age data on mid-Cretaceous ecosystems. And just for fun we’re finding many new species of theropods to dig up next year 😉
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This
#FossilFriday
T. rex prowls in the snow. Huge thanks to
@johnscannella
@EricMetz
and
@MuseumRockies
for hosting our week-long neornithischian speed session! Stay tuned for two new Mussentuchit
#dinosaurs
in 2022 🤞
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For
#FossilFriday
... meet Megalania! The largest land lizard ever. curtesy of the stunning
@melbournemuseum
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Now that’s a beauty! Toe claw of our new ceratopsian species turns up today!
#dinodig22
#livefromthefid
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Oooh la la! a theropod toe claw! Masterfully excavated by
@AAlechiarenza
in our last week of Utah fieldwork
#dinodig22
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congrats! to ZannoLab student
@EvanJevnikar
on a successful defense of his MS thesis on Tarbosaurus growth. This is one of the largest multi-element histological theropod studies yet undertaken (30 sections!) & includes the imposing MPC-D 107/2 & Tarbo tot 107/7. Awesome stuff.
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The bone in the Mussentuchit is typically jet black but when it’s been sitting on the surface it sometimes pales to a stunning shade of cobalt blue.
#dinodig22
#FossilFriday
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Someone pls tell me why we always find our sauropods in sandstone? And doubly why I don’t just walk away?
#MADEx24
#dinodig24
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we are hiring an assistant manager for our under-construction DinoLab
@naturalsciences
home of the
@duelingdinos
project. if you have excellent tech skills and are passionate about public engagement please apply to join our amazing team!
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This
#FossilFriday
, a hearty congratulations to newly minted Dr.
@palaeontolojosh
who just successfully defended an important body of work on oviraptorosaurian egg ornamentation and mid-K oodiversity 🥳🎉! Very proud!
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On June 1 we are departing for 14 weeks of fieldwork (3 states & 7 formations) across the American West. Follow our
#dinodig21
here & on Instagram
@zannolablive
or join our virtual live stream events
@naturalsciences
... Currently vacillating between utter panic and sheer delight!
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Our ankylosaur is a monster! Here’s the pelvis, verts, ribs, and lots of osteoderms. We’re getting around her thought!
#MADEx23
#dinodig23
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We found just a few 🤣 theropod teeth in our new bonebed in the Baynshire Formation, central Gobi
#MADEx23
#dinodig23
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On our second to last field day
@freewillie643
rocks it by discovering two skeletons of a new
#theropod
#dinosaur
. One day to pull this jacket and that’s a wrap on our 1.5 month Gobi expedition!
#MADEx23
#dinodig23
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Evolution of our ceratopsian quarry. Big hill = big hole! Almost to the bone layer. One more day of digging. Some photos of days 1-3 🥵
#dinodig22
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for
#FossilFriday
a big 'ol honkin'
#theropod
#dinosaur
tooth from the Cenomanian of Utah skillfully excavated by
@palaeontolojosh
and remarkably prepared by Aaron Giterman. What a beauty!
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Our
#dinodig22
fieldwork in Utah is a wrap and I already miss the incredible skies of the Mussentuchit. Here are a few of my favorite sky shots from this past month 😍
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this. is. just. fantastic.
HI! My new book 🦕EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS IS WRONG!🦅 comes out on September 16th! In the run up, I thought I'd share one of my favourite spreads from the book and introduce you to some amazing women in palaeontology 💪⛏️and
@gavillustrator
's lovely portraits!
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our giant oviraptorosaur nest of eggs
@naturalsciences
decked out for
#PrideMonth
on
#DinosaurDay
2023 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
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Lab paper alert! So much is known about
#dinosaurs
of western North America, but what was going on back east? We coupled osteohistology & anatomy and discovered two cohabiting species of ornithomimosaurs in Late Cretaceous Appalachia. One was a biggie!
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I CAN'T believe it's here! The
@expeditionlive
team
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
is headed out for our 4 mo US & Mongolia
#livefromthefield
season🤩 scroll down for our
#dinodig23
itinerary, live stream links & playlists
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and a shout out to
@paleobyliam
for a beautiful
#paleoart
line up of of
#HellCreek
critters 4 our new
#citsci
project
@CretCreatures
launching 2021 as part of the
#DuelingDinosaursProject
@naturalsciences
visit us & thanks to our partner
@BankofAmerica
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Field season is here! Crews from
@NaturalSciences
@NCStateSciences
are kicking off our 14-week streak across the Western US and the Gobi Basin of Mongolia. Find our itinerary and live-stream links below!
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I haven't posted for
#FossilFriday
in a while. Here are the stocky little feet of Montanoceratops housed at the
@MuseumRockies
. They compare well to the tootsies of our new early ceratopsian species from Utah...
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We are hiring a collections manager of
#geology
&
#paleontology
@naturalsciences
Come join our growing team! Position closes Dec 21st.
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now set up in my home away from home & one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Mussentuchit of Utah, land of Moros &
@SiatsMeekorum
. 6 quarries to work incl. a Cenomanian ceratopsian, new coelurosaurs, & a hadrosaur buried in volcanic ash! stay tuned
#dinodig22
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Iani is an early-diverging ornithopod & possible member of Rhabdodontomorpha, a clade of controversial membership. Luckily, Iani has a beautiful disarticulated skull useful for piecing together ornithopod phylogenetics. Paper out in
@PLOSONE
today
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Three jacket pulls in three days and that’s pretty much the whole hadrosaur! One of the most (the most?) complete from the Turonian of NA. Excited to bring her back to
@naturalsciences
for prep and study. Proud of the team for toughing out these long hauls.
#dinodig22
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Our 4.5-month western US expedition is underway! Follow the
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
#dinodig22
crew across 5 basecamps, 3 states, 7 ancient ecosystems, & ~80 million yrs. Scroll through this thread for our itinerary, links to live-stream events, summer playlists, & more
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western Gobi yielded hatchling psittacosaur skeletons like this tiny jaw. As much as we love baby psittacosaurs, we’re packing up early and moving to base camp two - a totally new area. Hopes are high!
#MADEx24
#dinodig24
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by the way, check out the incredible
#DuelingDinosaurs
#paleoart
by
@JCsotonyi
and
@anthon5001
amazing to work with these talented artists!
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For
#FossilFriday
this toe bone is one of the oldest Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. Collected by a crew including Barnum Brown in 1895 and on display
@kunhm
. It’s easy to forget how huge this animal was. Just one of these toes could crush my entire skull!
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Last night epic sandstorm. Had to hold the tents down for two hours. This was just the light stuff!
#dinodig21
. Menefee mummy stokes again.
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#FossilFriday
flashback! the ol'
@NHMU
paleontology crew back in 2002 after uncovering the skull of Velafrons coahuilensis just under the quarry backwall. Yes that's
@Bwana_Lund
@terryagates
as students. My 1st international paleontology field expedition, lol.
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🤔 hmmm if this is what happened to my boots in just two field seasons of hiking... I wonder what happened to my brain in the intervening 8 months of staring at a computer screen... thank god it's almost time to wear out a new pair!
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as.... a huge sample of the colossal tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus' limb bones arriving in my lab from Mongolia!!!! 🤩 This is going to be one awesome growth study by
@EvanJevnikar
@naturalsciences
@NCStateBioSci
the whole lab is abuzz
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Collecting from a Cenomanian plant site today
#dinodig22
. There’s something so special about collecting Cretaceous leaves.
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#FossilFriday
from the Gobi. Week 3…another ankykosaur (a big guy! Where’s
@VictoriaArbour
when you need her?), some baby psittacosaurs, and a surprise visit from a friend Yoshi Kobayashi!
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Ack! So excited!
#DinoLabCountdown
begins! Construction is underway on our "jewel-box" prep lab
@naturalsciences
. Designed it w/10-ton bridge crane & Flip-Rite system, removable glass walls to forklift oversize jackets from the street, live stream cams, & a public corridor!
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We’re out tracking Jurassic dinosaurs this muddy
#FossilFriday
in central Utah. So far beautiful ripples, mud cracks, and one Grallator track!
#dinodig2021
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That’s it for the Moreno Hill!
#dinodig22
couldn’t be going better so far. We cleared two quarries in 10 days incl. 1,200 lbs of fossils and 3 gnarly jacket pulls. Proud of this crew!
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
on to the EK of Utah…
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Our new paper on the anatomy of Beipiaosaurus is out in
@PLOSONE
. This feathered critter was a key piece of the puzzle for solving the broader relationships of therizinosaurs in 1999 and is still shedding light. Congrats to IVPP grad student Chun-Chi Liao!
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folks, DO NOT post
#2023SVP
abstracts on social without viewing the embargo policy in the abstract volume! Embargos only lift at the start of the presentation & ONLY IF PERMISSION IS GIVEN BY PRESENTER! This is an ethical violation. Any such postings must be deleted now.
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🤩JOB ALERT! We are hiring a TT faculty mbr in paleobiology
@NCStateBioSci
We have a top-notch team studying everything from dinosaur proteomics to hominin functional morph, shark ecology, trilobite biogeo, global paleoclimate, & more! come work w/us!
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We're here in Montana to excavate this beauty of a Triceratops skull, a rex site, and collect sediment for our new
#citizenscience
project
#CretaceousCreatures
@naturalsciences
@NCStateBioSci
@NCStateSciences
stay tuned!
#MTdinodig18
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just to clarify for folks reading fraudulent news stories on Facebook, we are NOT playing around with T.rex DNA in our lab, hatching baby
#dinosaurs
, or engaging in other cool, yet
#disastrousmovieplotnarratives
🤣 If we could do that, we'd be retired billionaires. just sayin...
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After 3 months in the western US we’re having a great time in the East Gobi this month finding
#dinosaurs
, eggs, and ashes w/
@ChinzorigMpc
@freewillie643
@gravelmonkey_76
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A lot of progress on our ankylosaur the last few days. Overlapping articulated ostederms are a bonus & a pain. Pulled some more jackets off the main block. Rewarded with a few spectacular sunsets.
#MADEx23
#dinodig23
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JOB ALERT! a new TT faculty hire in quantitative paleontology
@NCStateSciences
is posting SOON! It likely will not be posted by
#2022SVP
but members of the paleobiology research group (incl. myself &
@terryagates
) are happy to talk with prospective applicants in Toronto!
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Happy
#fossilfriday
from the
#dinodig22
team at week 14 in the field!! Hard to remember what day it is out here, which suits me just fine. Anyway, here’s a lovely Mussentuchit sunset for you all. For more updates, join us for a live stream tomorrow
@naturalsciences
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This
#FossilFriday
get a sneak peek at two of the newly prepped Cenomanian-aged caenagnathoid eggs from our just collected clutch!
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
@NCStateBioSci
@BLMUtah
@gravelmonkey_76
@terryagates
#dinosauregg
#researchinrealtime
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Hi friends! Tomorrow from 11-1 we will saw open the ~5,000lb jacket protecting our new Tricerarops skull live outside
@naturalsciences
! We’ll have touchable fossils, real T. rex teeth and trike bits, and 3D models. Come and visit us and learn about
#dinosaurs
and
#Paleontology
!
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Today we are studying the Non Tom track site in the Nam Phong Formation
#Thailand
great theropod
#dinosaur
tracks and some weird unidentified two-toes tracks as well!!
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
@NCStateBioSci
@hyland_ethan
@terryagates
@gravelmonkey_76
@lisaherzog_me
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Nice tyrannosaur caudal today
#dinodig21
@naturalsciences
@NCSUBioSci
plus another multiple bone hadrosaur site!
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This
#fossilfriday
more bone turning up at all of our quarries including more skull at our ceratopsian site Pit of Despair, theropod toe bones at Truth or Consequences & beautiful views just about everywhere
#dinodig22
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Just wrapped up a whirlwind 10 wks of
@NSF
-funded fieldwork in
#Cretaceous
of New Mex & Utah where we worked >30 sites, found new dinos, & tried to cope with extreme weather in the western US. Last stop is the Hell Creek Fm Montana. A few of my fav landscapes from Utah
#dinodig21
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For
#FossilFriday
here’s a perfect little phalanx from the fourth toe of a theropod. Found on the surface in the southeast Gobi on our
@NatGeo
supported
#MADEx23
expedition
#dinodig23
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Team hit the jackpot today!! Three Dino skeletons in an hour
#zunidinos
@naturalsciences
@ncstate
@terryagates
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For this
#FossilFriday
, undergraduate students in
@NCSUBioSci
's Paleontology Field Methods course piggyback a sauropod vertebra down from the famous Crystal Geyser Quarry
@BLMUtah
. Is it Mierasaurus or not? Only prep will tell!
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Well, we’re finally here in
@BLMNewMexico
day 1 prospecting and already some elusive chips of coelurosaur bone. Plus the killer view! I feel like I can breathe again!
#dinodig21
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Happy
#FossilFriday
from the Gobi. Here’s some tail vertebrae and a radius from an Early Cretaceous troodontid that I found today.
#MADEx23
#dinodig23
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Currently exploring a bonebed with croc, turtle, ornithischians and theropod dinosaur bones. Wild horses in our camp in the evenings.
#dinodig21
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Egg
#3
turns up! We have a second caenagnathid nest from the mid-Cretaceous of North America!
#summerdinodig19
#LiveFromTheField
@naturalsciences
@NCState
@NCStateBioSci
@NCStateSciences
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big day for big dinos! after major hiccups we finished reinforcing the
@naturalsciences
DinoLab floor w/ some serious steel. Our preparation cages for the
#duelingdinos
will weigh ~25,000 lbs ea. we felt like having them fall through the floor would be an unwelcome turn of events
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Oof. That’s a fresh cougar track! Time to keep my eyes on more than just the ground!
#dinodig24
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We went up the cliffs today. The black gate of Mordor is the last major hill out of the area 😭 and then home free.
#dinodig24
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Congrats to Dr. Khai Button on successfully defending his PhD on reconstructing theropod
#dinosaur
beaks!
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
@NCStateBioSci
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The
#MADEx2024
team is on the road! Our six-week Gobi expedition will take us to unexplored places hunting for new species of Cretaceous life. Follow us for updates!
#dinodig24
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Among today’s
#FossilFriday
finds are a toe bone and a microvertebrate locality with croc teeth, croc and fish verts, snails, and and turtle bits.
#dinodig21
@naturalsciences
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200 years of
#dinosaurs
was an absolutely superb event! Thanks
@Tweetisaurus
@NHMdinolab
and
@NHM_London
for a top-notch experience I will always remember. Bonus: I’ve now officially been elevated to a VIP 🤣
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we're halfway through our
#dinodig22
fieldwork! wrapped up @ the neverending Crystal Geyser
#dinosaur
quarry after 1-month w/a skeleton crew (no pun intended). pulled >600 bones. best finds incl. baby sauropod teeth & the 1st Falcarius max. bone enough here to last a century.
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Checking out the mid-Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation with old friends. A newly discovered tyrannosaur caudal makes the day much sweeter.
#dinodig24
#FossilFriday
#livefromthefield
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fab way to start the week!
@NCStateSciences
and
@naturalsciences
paleontologist
@terryagates
& colleagues
@DavidEvans_ROM
and
@DinosaurJoe
reveal the hidden mysteries of the fan-favorite
#dinosaur
Parasaurolophus today in via
@thePeerJ
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Our
#dinodig23
UT expedition is a wrap after 7 hot 🥵& buggy🦟 wks! 💯s of
#dinosaur
bones collected incl. new theropods & ceratopsians & some mysteries! now follow
@Bwana_Lund
4 updates on the
#dinodig23
Hell Creek expedition. Meanwhile, I'm off 2 the Gobi for 6wks😍 stay tuned!
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Pit of Despair has gotten larger in the last few days. We’re on the hunt for more bones of our new ceratopsian and not giving up easily
#dinodig23
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Overnight camp at the end of our second day of driving to the western Gobi. Almost there!
#MADEx2024
#dinodig24
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Big ‘old tyrannosaur metatarsal found by
@Bwana_Lund
unfortunately isolated
#dinodig22
@naturalsciences
@NCStateSciences
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