You can just see Maggie, Goose, and Maddie beyond the #PrideTheMastodon skeleton on #MastodonMonday
Posts by FoundingMonsters
A reunion of the folks (all @vcuchs @vcualumni) who worked on the #FoundingFossilsExhibit @thepealebaltimore
Maggie and I co-created the #FoundingMonstersComic that will also be the source for an upcoming exhibit in Pennsylvania with @widga.bsky.social All on #MastodonMonday
Random lab photo with mastodon leg from @nysmuseum and mastodon tusk from @valivingmuseum #FossilFriday
Lexie and Merin from @maggiewalkernps visited the lab this week and are shown here with a mastodon tusk from @valivingmuseum #FossilFriday
Printing a new version of Charles Knight’s early 20th century mastodon sculpture #FossilFriday
At least you know the components!
Meteorites and meteor-wrongs at the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at Penn State
I love how geology and Pride are tied together in this exhibit at the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at Penn State
It’ll happen! Going to start printing a full-sized Charles Knight mastodon model when I get back (full size to his sculpture, not to an actual mastodon)
Had a short but productive meeting with Dr. Chris Widga, Director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery at Penn State, about an exhibit for the fall based on the #FoundingMonsters comic….. great museum btw!
Finally reprinted all 18 pieces of the mastodon tusk from @valivingmuseum on #MastodonMonday
Ella working on a 3D printed replica of Ben Franklin’s mastodon molar on #MastodonMonday
Shadow of the Mastodon on #TuskTuesday while walking around @vcu campus
@vcuchs first year student Lily and @vcuarts @vcupathwaysprogram student Cami both painted 3D printed replicas of Ben Franklin’s mastodon molar today
I gave @vcuchs first year student Lily a tour of the lab, a bag of goodies, including #FoundingMonstersComic and she kindly posed next to the left front leg of the Cohoes mastodon from @nysmuseum
While carrying the mastodon tusk around campus this morning I ran in to an @marywash Cultural Anthropology professor and gave him and his dog Bella a tour of the lab. Here is Bella next to the front left leg of the Cohoes mastodon from @nysmuseum
@vcuchs first year student Lily with the mastodon tusk from @valivingmuseum in front of the lab this morning
On #TuskTuesday here is Ciara with the 3D printed replica of a mastodon tusk from @valivingmuseum on the @vcu campus this morning
On #TuskTuesday took the 3D printed replica of a mastodon tusk from @valivingmuseum for a walk around the @vcu campus this morning
A man with a mastodon tusk (3D printed) from @valivingmuseum on #MastodonMonday
Evan as a replica this tusk 3D scanned @valivingmuseum is fairly heavy. From a mastodon recovered near Yorktown, Virginia. Printed just in time for #MastodonMonday
Informational manga on dinosaurs…… probably save for #FossilFriday
A bipedal American mastodon boxes the Comte Buffon over the latter’s Theory of American Degeneracy on #MastodonMonday
Grave of Charles Willson Peale,who excavated a mastodon in New York State in 1801. His mount of the mastodon skeleton was the first scientific mount of a fossil animal in the Americas and one of the first in the world. #FossilFriday #PealeGrimage
If the cops pull me over in the carpool lane, I am ready with my Sabertooth buddy TM
We did an 8 panel, 2 page comic about 4 fossils we 3-D scanned in January @valivingmuseum.bsky.social
Ice age walrus skull 3D print in progress. These are the tusks…. From a 3D scan @valivingmuseum #WalrusWednesday
A rarely preserved Mastodon thyrohal from a specimen recovered near Yorktown, Virginia, and 3D scanned @valivingmuseum #FossilFriday
Mastodon molar 3-D scanned a few days ago @valivingmuseum
Baby mammoth mandible from @valivingmuseum