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Taylor McCoy 🦖

@tm9380

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

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Today is Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) birthday! So gotta shout out his, arguably, single biggest contribution to paleontology. The identification/description of the arctometatarsal bone seen in tyrannosaurs and some other groups(left)…

Today is <a href="/TomHoltzPaleo/">Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him)</a> birthday! So gotta shout out his, arguably, single biggest contribution to paleontology. The identification/description of the arctometatarsal bone seen in tyrannosaurs and some other groups(left)…
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I always like when you can tell a dinosaur reconstruction pulled from a specific specimen. Sometimes that creates issues but I appreciate the choice. Jurassic Fight Club for example clearly pulled their T.rex from Stan…

I always like when you can tell a dinosaur reconstruction pulled from a specific specimen. Sometimes that creates issues but I appreciate the choice. Jurassic Fight Club for example clearly pulled their T.rex from Stan…
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What’s a dinosaur depiction you like from an otherwise mid(like, genuinely bad) piece of media? The WWD 3D movie Gorgosaurus, JFC T.rex and Ceratosaurus, and Monsters Resurrected Carcharodontosaurus come to mind for me…

What’s a dinosaur depiction you like from an otherwise mid(like, genuinely bad) piece of media? The WWD 3D movie Gorgosaurus, JFC T.rex and Ceratosaurus, and Monsters Resurrected Carcharodontosaurus come to mind for me…
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Big Al, probably the most famous Allosaurus to date. With 19 pathologies spread across its body, Big Al highlights how even apex predators have to fight to survive…

Big Al, probably the most famous Allosaurus to date. With 19 pathologies spread across its body, Big Al highlights how even apex predators have to fight to survive…