We are getting ready for our #DinosandMOR Festival in April! Here are two of our All Access Lecture Series speakers: MOR's Lee Hall and Dr. Rhi LaVine! Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to this dino-mite weekend, April 13-14. For more info: ow.ly/NoVh50QXQfn

🦖🌟 Join us at #DinosaursAndMOR, April 12-14! Meet two of our lecture speakers: 👩‍🔬 Ashley Hall: Discussion on the legacy of Mary Anning! 🦣Dr. Chris Widga: Discover the modern reinvention of an 18th century monster! Secure your Lecture passes: ow.ly/itbc50R9Lrs

Get ready, #DinosaursAndMOR is this weekend! Meet two of our lecture speakers: 🦖 Dr. Pat Druckenmiller- Discover baby dinosaurs in Alaska! 🌊 Kiersten Formoso- functional controls of land-to-sea transformations. Secure your Lecture passes today: ow.ly/itbc50R9Lrs

Hello Bozeman! Great to be in the heart of dinosaur country. There's no place quite like Museum of the Rockies and Anne Brusatte & I are excited to meet lots of fossil enthusiasts this weekend. And look at all those books!

Behold, Troodon formosus #DinosaursandMOR Museum of the Rockies

Congratulations Ashley!

Happy #FossilFriday! This is #Magnuviator (#MOR6627), an ancient relative of modern iguanas. Discovered at the #dinosaur nesting ground #EggMountain in #Montana, its many small peg-like teeth suggest it may have fed on #Cretaceous wasps and other insects.

Message from Jack today! Part I: "My 45th summer at the Willow Creek Anticline, this year with my former doctoral student, and namesake Museum of the Rockies, Curator of Paleontology John Scannella and his crew."

Happy #FossilFriday! This field season began with an expedition to the #Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation where the state #fossil, #Maiasaura, was found. Exciting new discoveries are still being made in this area, including #dinosaur eggs, nests, skeletons, & more!

🦖 Big news from Museum of the Rockies! Our John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology, Dr. John Scannella, and a global team of #paleontologists presented Glendive Mayor, Deb Dion, with a fossilized triceratops frill cast. Read here: ow.ly/MHc550SYNLV #Triceratops #MOR

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

Happy #FossilFriday! Nearly a dozen #teeth of #Deinonychus, a relative of #Velociraptor, were found near the skeleton of this plant-eating #Tenontosaurus (#MOR682). This #fossil evidence suggests Deinonychus and other #raptors hunted & fed in packs.

Happy #FossilFriday! #Hadrosaurs (duck-billed dinosaurs) like #Edmontosaurus (#MOR003) had jaws filled with hundreds of #teeth stacked in columns. This “dental battery” helped hadrosaurs grind vegetation and become one of the dominant groups of #dinosaurs in the #Cretaceous.

Happy #FossilFriday! #Ammonites were shelled #cephalopods🐙 that existed for ~430 million years. The shells of these octopus relatives came in a variety of shapes. #MORIV3299 is a specimen of #Didymoceras, an ammonite with a shell that coiled to a “paperclip📎” shape at the end.

Happy #FossilFriday! MOR/MSU recently returned from the annual meeting of SVP in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Over a dozen students/staff presented their work on #dinosaurs, #crocodiles, #turtles, #fossilpreparation, #collectionsmanagement, #education, #outreach and more!

☕ Help MOR name its new café! Opening in the Bair Lobby by Memorial Day 2025, the café will feature espresso, specialty drinks, snacks & more. 🏆 Win: 12-month MOR membership + $100 café gift card ⏰ Form goes live TONIGHT at midnight! 📋 Details: bit.ly/4eLOZfi

Happy #FossilFriday! The first known bones of #Maiasaura peeblesorum, state fossil of #Montana, were found in outcrops of the #WillowCreekAnticline. Recognized as an International Geoheritage Site, this area revealed the first #dinosaur eggs & babies in the western hemisphere.

👋 #DinosaursandMOR: Meet the Speakers Series! Dr. Kat Jordan-Burmeister explores The Long Death, revealing how trilobites help us understand extinction survival. Dr. Christian Sidor takes us to Antarctica before Dinosaurs, where fossils rewrite prehistoric history. #Paleontology

Happy #FossilFriday! The bone crushing bite of #T.rex is forever preserved in the sacrum of this #Triceratops (#MOR799). This specimen, recently restored by MOR Fossil Preparator Cassi is on display at MOR through September 7th, preserves over 80 bite marks.

👋 Meet the Speakers: #DinosaursAndMOR! 🏞️ Greg Liggett explores how federal lands shape paleontology and protect prehistoric life. 🧬 Dr. Paige Madison uncovers The Real Middle Earth—how fossil “hobbits” rewrote the story of human evolution. #Paleontology #Hobbits #Prehistory