"The middle of nowhere is generally where we dinosaur paleontologists find ourselves digging up the best specimens these days.. the badlands around Fort Peck Reservoir in eastern Montana are beautiful and bountiful." 🧵 #Montana #Dinosaur #Science

"But when it’s 100°+ and a person is many miles from the nearest inhabitants by land or water, the landscape can be daunting! The heat gets to me these days but as long as I can push through a few days, I wouldn’t dream of staying home." 🦖🦕Jack #Education #dinosaurs

First look at this year's #WildlifePhotographerOfTheYear entries! 😮 Celebrating the wonder of the natural world, take a look at some of the most extraordinary images of our planet and book your tickets now 👇 brnw.ch/21wMaGo

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The world of paleontology lost Euan Clarkson today. Absolute legend. The guy who wrote the undergrad textbook I used. And who later welcomed me School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh to continue the legacy he built here. Expert on trilobites. Friend and mentor to many. One of Scotland's finest. RIP!

So cool!

For #FossilFriday The largest number of complete and ontogenetically variable Mongolian Late Cretaceous tyrant theropod, Tarbosaurus bataar (Maleev, 1955b). The length of the skulls ranges from ~less than 18 cm in a juvenile individual to over 1 meter in an adult individual.

Happy Birthday Colin!

Monstrous #hadrosaurs! Great stuff - great pic #livefromthefield Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum!

It happened! After a summer of digging we took out one of the largest and most complete skulls of #pachyrhinosaurus lakustai ever from Pipestone Creek. Nicknamed Big Sam it is so freaking cool! It will add so much to ceratopsian research! #dinosaur #samthesmallpachyrhinosaurus

Don’t miss Ashley Hall (Taylor's Version) on tomorrow’s #VirtualFossilFriday!

Wow! Fantastic!

Dive into #fossilfriday with #Borealosuchus! This 🐊 #crocodile relative (#MOR725) swam through the Cretaceous rivers of the #HellCreek ecosystem while #Trex and #Triceratops roamed western North America 66mya. 👨‍🎨 Artist Credit: Robert Spannring ow.ly/myNe50TxFl2

Arigato! And congratulations Steve!

Congratulations!

Many will endure hardships. For me (and committed colleagues), it means the struggle to defend science + counter antiscience forces becomes more complicated/daunting. This time we’ll need better support from the societies, college presidents, elected leaders who care. Tough times

✊We who communicate science to the public: we'll need to work harder & more creatively than before. Not just preach to those who already treasure science & scholarship. But reach those audiences who don't know us, doubt us, question us. Let's get going.

#HappyFossilFriday! Jack’s message: “Victoria Community College in Victoria, Texas! Amazing two year college with lots of fossils and a great STEM program!! I’m here to give a lecture on Jurassic Park! 🙂🦖🦕# #JurassicPark #dinosaurs #STEM #scienceteachers

Happy #FossilFriday! This is the skull of #Nakonanectes (#MOR3072), a #plesiosaur that swam through the Western Interior Seaway that covered much of North America in the Late #Cretaceous. This animal's #jaws are filled with needle-like #teeth that helped it snare prey!