I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. A cable news host.

Yes, the pteroid is in the wrong place, this photo was staged at about 3am

Taking another stab at the ol’ Bluesky on #nationalfossilday and reposting this in-progress reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni (which hadn’t been named yet last time I posted it.) Half the size of the famous Q. northopi, this is the only place you’ll see these National Park Service fossils.

My shiny new pallet jack arrived today, on a pallet. Which the delivery guys picked up off the lift gate and set inside the door. Wish we’d had an easier way to move it. Maybe I should order another pallet jack.

It’s endlessly funny to me that invariably the IT department sends out phishing warnings and then right after HR sends an email soliciting personal account info that breaks all the rules from our IT training.

“On a Sunday morning sidewalk, I’m wishing Lord that I was stone”

A couple old fossils, 25 years apart.

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Here’s a post from my PBL (Pretty Big Library) for #MarbledMonday, an 1897 copy of T.H. Huxley’s “Methods and Results” which was previously housed at the State Lunatic Asylum, so in a way it never really changed hands.

#libraries

Two years ago I returned the loan of this amazing Vancleavea skull to Ghost Ranch. It had been in Austin for CT scanning, and needed a courier to bring it home.

#paleontology

But only ghost dogs

Quetzalcoatlus is also my safe word

Barnes and Noble has no chill

C’mon, I’m right here.

About 15 years ago Tyrrell staff built a replica of Brown’s scow and took it on a river trip to prospect. I’m not sure if I’ve seen that replica on exhibit or another one, but I think it’s at Dinosaur Provincial Park. Maybe that could be digitized?

If there’s still room, I’d throw my Marsh pick into the ring.

Weird, prior to this week my last tweet here was exactly one year ago today. So here’s another look at this gigantic Alamosaurus pelvis that weighs roughly 2200 pounds.

It’s very, very rare when I can successfully paint a cast to look anywhere close to the plan I have for it in my head. Molding, casting, preparation, field work- these haven’t been my job for about ten years, so it’s a nice treat when they still turn out in the neighborhood I aimed for.

I am pretty pleased with myself over this paint job on #MammothMonday #TexasFossils

I feel like a decanter would leak all over the inside of my office desk drawer

Great idea 👍

I’ve been meaning to reread it and a few others for some time, but instead I just rewatch the movies.

I suppose I haven’t read LA Confidential in almost 30 years, but my recollection is that it was an excellent story undercut by Elroy’s overindulgent Tarantinoesque need to prove how cool he was. I suspect the racism and homophobia were very accurate to cops of the era, judging by cops today.

Sunset algorithm found me, I took almost the same picture Saturday night.

Interesting, I read James Elroy first so when I got to Chandler and Hammett they seemed starkly less offensive.

That’s beautifully done. The Mayborn Museum in Waco on the Baylor campus has a similar intro.

Since Homotherium kittens are in the news, here’s a side by side size comparison of an adult jaw next to a juvenile jaw from Friesenhahn Cave

#texasfossils #fossilfriday #kitten

Well he’s posting feet pics for free, so it’s gonna be hard to keep up

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Just add salt

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Sucking up to the new managements shows a real lack of backbone

They salvaged all the pieces though!!

Sadly, when this was molded 30 or so years ago, the separator glued itself to the latex and the surface of the bone tore away. The stuff mold-makers nightmares are made of.