1st episode of the new BBC Walking With Dinosaurs drops in the US on June 16, 2025.

#fossilfriday #doyouevenliftbro Sometimes fossil blocks are too big and heavy, luckily the NCMNS DinoLab has a 10ton crane. The big block weighs around 11K and took careful rigging and planning to safely move into our custom fossil rotator.

Listen in as I talk about a few of the weirder things about paleontology in an interview I did with Public Radio East: www.publicradioeast.org/2024-12-19/w...

#fossilfriday #3Dprints BIG Pile-O-Bones (Tyrannosaur parts). 3D printing has become a great tool for ‘casting’ fossils. Depending on the printer and resin utilized you can get research quality reproductions.

#fossilfriday Baking soda not just for baking and deodorizing your fridge. It can also be used to clean fossils! Air abrasion is a way to remove matrix from a fossil gently revealing a fossils hidden beauty. Here I am removing matrix from a small fragment of Triceratops skull with baking soda.

Happy Thanksgiving to those who partake, but regardless of how you spend your day may it be a great one!

#fossilfriday Paleontology is interdisciplinary coupling many sciences (biology, chemistry, geology, engineering) to analyze fossils. X-ray fluorescence is used to get a chemical signature of an object. Here I am zapping a bit of rock from a Triceratops foot

Pulled the ripcord on that other toxic platform. I’m a vertebrate paleontologist with NCMNS. Love taphonomy, late Cretaceous paleobiology of the western interior, and functional morphology and evolution of ceratopsians.