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Taylor McCoy 🦖

@TM9380

Paleontology volunteer at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Field/lab experience, research, and scicomm. Career Counselor. Opinions my own

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'I didn't think it was that close'

-Taylor McCoy after seeing a dormant nuke behind me and thinking it'd be funny to shoot it

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Hynerpeton, made famous for its appearance in the Walking With series. This Pennsylvania native is in fact among the most important finds in the history of vertebrate paleontology…

Hynerpeton, made famous for its appearance in the Walking With series. This Pennsylvania native is in fact among the most important finds in the history of vertebrate paleontology…
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While tyrannosaurs generally have horns/crests, albertosaurines have quite prominent, pointed horns over the eyes that really set them apart…

While tyrannosaurs generally have horns/crests, albertosaurines have quite prominent, pointed horns over the eyes that really set them apart…
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The head and neck of Leonardo, the Brachylophosaurus. This may not be a mummy in the technical sense of the word, but among dinosaurs, this is one of the premier “mummies” ever found…

The head and neck of Leonardo, the Brachylophosaurus. This may not be a mummy in the technical sense of the word, but among dinosaurs, this is one of the premier “mummies” ever found…
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“Anybody hear that? It's an... It's an impact tremor, that's what it is... I'm fairly alarmed here..”- Dr. Malcolm, Jurassic Park

“Anybody hear that? It's an... It's an impact tremor, that's what it is... I'm fairly alarmed here..”- Dr. Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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At 10.5 meters in length, Gnathomortis is a fairly large mosasaur, closely related to Prognathodon. This giant predator swam the seas roughly 80 mya

At 10.5 meters in length, Gnathomortis is a fairly large mosasaur, closely related to Prognathodon. This giant predator swam the seas roughly 80 mya
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While the late Cretaceous is known for its derived and often large dinosaurs, their environments were also home to smaller dinosaurs, sometimes with traits harkening back to the more basal members of the groups. Leptoceratops is a good example…

While the late Cretaceous is known for its derived and often large dinosaurs, their environments were also home to smaller dinosaurs, sometimes with traits harkening back to the more basal members of the groups. Leptoceratops is a good example…
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Most of the time we’re used to seeing the upper skull of Herrerasaurus, a roughly 3 meter animal. But the jaw below shows just how big it could really get.

Photo by Jack_Lovegrove

Most of the time we’re used to seeing the upper skull of Herrerasaurus, a roughly 3 meter animal. But the jaw below shows just how big it could really get. Photo by @JackL0vegr0ve
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Local freak discovers the joys of arson. A speculative painting inspired by how some modern birds will spread active fires to flush out prey, and extending that idea to azhdarchids like Quetzalcoatlus and possible hunting strategies. Also included the early initial color rough!

Local freak discovers the joys of arson. A speculative painting inspired by how some modern birds will spread active fires to flush out prey, and extending that idea to azhdarchids like Quetzalcoatlus and possible hunting strategies. Also included the early initial color rough!
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Man cassowary legs are thick. Like, even other large birds like ostriches and emus have fairly thin “bird” legs and then there’s these fools…

Man cassowary legs are thick. Like, even other large birds like ostriches and emus have fairly thin “bird” legs and then there’s these fools…
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At 2 meters in length, the filter feeding Aegirocassis was one of the first large animals to appear in the fossil record, living roughly 480 mya

Art by Joschua Knüppe

At 2 meters in length, the filter feeding Aegirocassis was one of the first large animals to appear in the fossil record, living roughly 480 mya Art by @JoschuaKnuppe
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