#fossilfriday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fossilfriday, aggregated by home.social.
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🐂 Its a #MinnesotaMuseum #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪Today I'm spotlighting the Redwood County Museum. If you’re a naturalist — and a lover of #LostBones — this one’s for you.
The museum displays a large collection of mounted mammals and birds, along with a collection of skulls including a most wonderfully crusty bison skull. The museum also features historical and military history exhibits, a doctor’s office, and Native American artifacts.
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Saltasaurus
Between 1975 and 1977, José Bonaparte, Martín Vince and Juan C. Leal excavated the first fossils.
In 1977 they were reported in the scientific literature.
In 1980 they were formally named and described as Saltasaurus.
In 2010, Gregory S. Paul estimated the maximum length at 8.5 m (28 ft) and the weight at 2.5 tonnes (2.8 short tons)
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There are some lovely fossils at @[email protected], including this skull, jaws and teeth of an extinct toothed whale; a couple of Megalodon teeth; and a mammoth's tusk with a cross section showing growth rings #FossilFriday
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"Data and code from: The genus Coryphodon in Europe: Contribution of the new exceptional material from Le Quesnoy (northern France, early Eocene, MP7)"
🔍 Explore the dataset: bit.ly/4gHTQCa
📖 Read the article
@thepalass.bsky.social
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Our 4th annual #PaleoCon workshop is going on at Western Science Center this week. More than a dozen paleontologists, writers, and artists spend 3days at the #museum doing research & outreach. Today they’re meeting 6th grade students from Western Center Academy. #paleontology #palaeontology #scicomm #FossilFriday
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This sauropod is known from the Late Cretaceous, Argentina.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by TheDinosaurDave.
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Have a long time I do not post these things but here we are:
#FossilFriday! and for you an ichthyosaur!
Remember to go to your local or regional museums when you can and support them! they need you and we all need them! And remember there is always a museum close to you #Mex #USA #CAN -
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Albertaceratops.
In August 2001, Michael J. Ryan found a skull and postcranial fragments.
In 2007, Ryan formally named and described the fossil Albertaceratops nesmoi. He described it as the most basal centrosaurine.
In 2010, Ryan et al, thought they had found a bonebed in the Judith River Formation. Further study determined those were a different, but closely related species, Medusaceratops.
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New blog post! An Ice Age horse foreleg:
https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/horse-forearm-from-murrieta/
As always, if you like this content please consider leaving a tip or becoming a paid subscriber. All proceeds support research and education at the Western Science Center. #paleontology #palaeontology #fossil #FossilFriday #horses
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Selkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, aka Tyndall Stone commercially, as seen in Winnipeg, Canada.
Complex 3D burrows are interpreted as Thalassinoides; the color difference is due to dolomite vs calcite matrix. #FossilFriday urban #geology -
Selkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, aka Tyndall Stone commercially, as seen in Winnipeg, Canada.
Complex 3D burrows are interpreted as Thalassinoides; the color difference is due to dolomite vs calcite matrix. #FossilFriday urban #geology -
An Ichthyosaur by Hermann Post, 1930s.
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🦌🦥🐘🐪 #FossilFriday — During and after the drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz into glacial River Warren—now the Minnesota River—river-level fluctuations, combined with the gneiss bedrock at Granite Falls, created a shifting landscape ideal for collecting sedimentary deposits and preserving bones. The Yellow Medicine County Historical Society holds a collection of bison remains from the area, some from a famous bison kill site: the Peterson Site.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This is known from the Late Cretaceous, Canada.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by TheDinosaurDave.
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"Data from: Divergent feeding biomechanics in Late Cretaceous marine reptiles from the Western Interior Seaway"
📊 Dataset: https://datadryad.org/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.j6q573nts
📖 Article in Paleontology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70051
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🦌🦥🐴🐘🐪 For #FossilFriday — Megaloceros giganteus, the Irish elk, which I was able to visit in June. Specimen USNM 7051 is masterfully mounted at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
The mount features a massive steel armature to support its nearly 3.4–3.6 meter antler spread. Studies show Megaloceros dropped and regrew its antlers each year.
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#pleistocene #megalocerosgiganteus #paleontology #iceage #giantdeer #citizenscience Skull mount photos credit: NMNH/Loren Ybarrondo -
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Suchomimus
In 1997 a large hand claw was found in Niger by David Varricchio
Through 1997-98 American palaeontologist Paul Sereno and his team at Gadoufaoua discovered Fossils that represented about two-thirds of the skeleton.
In 1998, Sereno, et al named and described the type species Suchomimus tenerensis, meaning crocodile mimic.
In 2026 it was suggested, but not confirmed, that it might be a junior synonym of Cristatusaurus.
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For Fossil Friday, here are all four artworks I've created for The Etches Collection: "The Sea Rex", "Deep Blue Buffet", "The Twisted Feast", and "Consuming the Fallen".
#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurus #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Alt4Me
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This is known from the Early Cretaceous, Africa.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
The was designed by LaurensPostHuma .
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Rare and most complete #mammoth #fossil discovery in North Dakota being excavated from beneath a garage!
Funds were allocated by the North Dakota legislature specifically for this project. #FossilFriday
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Rare and most complete mammoth fossil discovery in North Dakota being excavated from beneath a garage!
Funds were allocated by the North Dakota legislature specifically for this project. #FossilFriday
North Dakota mammoth dig unear... -
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Camarasaurus
The holotype was found in the late 1800s in Quarry 13 at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
In 1889, Othniel Marsh described it as a new species, Morosaurus lentus
In the 20th century it was found to be the same species as one named by his rival, Edward Drinker Cope.
This resulted in Morosaurus lentus being renamed to Camarasaurus lentus.
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Here are some crops from "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.
#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Pliosaurs #Pliosaurus #Sharks #Ammonites #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me
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Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴👣
A few moments from our recent fieldwork in Baringo, Kenya 🇰🇪 Exciting things ahead!
Many thanks to our team members and to the local partners whose support and assistance were invaluable throughout the fieldwork. 🙏🏼✨️
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🐯🐾🦥🐴🐘🐪 For #FossilFriday, a fantastic mount from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Fossils. The Smilodon on display — specimen v10928 — is a composite skeleton, greeting visitors with its wide saber toothed smile.
California’s state fossil, Smilodon fatalis, lived from roughly 400,000 to 11,000 years ago. Every bone in this composite came from the La Brea Tar Pits.
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#pleistocene #smilodonfatalis #paleontology #iceage #citizenscience
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'Bag of Bones' preserves rare three-tier prehistoric meal in Outback Queensland https://phys.org/news/2026-07-bag-bones-rare-tier-prehistoric.html 🐬 #FossilFriday #Prehistoric #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Science
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#52wochenfotochallenge Essen & Getränke & #fossilfriday
Heute mal wieder ein spannendes #Fossil aus meiner #Sammlung - ein Kieferfragment vom urzeitlichen #Wal #Basilosaurus 🐋 Anders als moderne Wale hatte er noch kleine Hinterflossen und zwei verschiedene Sorten Zähne im Maul 🦷 Das ist bei der #Versteinerung gut zu erkennen und verrät uns, dass Basilisaurus wohl auch andere Urwale gefressen hat: Dafür spricht die Kombination aus Greifzähnen vorne und dreieckigen Reißzähnen hinten im Maul 🍽️
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This chonker is known from The Jurassic of North America.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
The was designed by Timcraft_06.
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Dromaeosaurus
In 1914, Barnum Brown found the first fossils in the Red Deer River formation.
In 1922, William Diller Matthew and Brown named and described the type species of Dromaeosaurus.
Between 1922 and 1988 seven other species were named under the Dromaeosaurus unbrella.
Several of these have since been reclassified as other species or nomia dubia.