Dave attended the Dinos and MOR Festival at Museum of the Rockies 🦖 where he met Jase: a 10 year old with a ✨️passion✨️ for paleontology. On behalf of Paleo Nerds, we bid and won a beautiful 3D print of a mosasaur skull made by Triebold Paleontology for Jase. Never have we ever seen a kid so happy!
Follow @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social for more paleo fun from James and the crew!
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📸: James admires the dire wolf wall at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, California.
Current groups of focus for Dr. Napoli include birds 🐦⬛ and their nearest dinosaur ancestors, like Velociraptor, T. rex 🦖 and their kin, and living and extinct crocodylians.
His research makes extensive use of cutting-edge approaches including micro-computed and synchrotron tomography, 3D surface scanning, multivariate Bayesian statistics, and traditional approaches in comparative anatomy.
✨️EPISODE #96 GUEST FEATURE✨️
James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social is a vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies vertebrate evolution through the lens of intraspecific trait variation.
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✨️ HEY IT'S NEW EPISODE DAY ✨️!
In our latest episode, Ray and Dave review the evidence with Dr. James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social, co-author of the new research paper 📝 that resolves the validity of #Nanotyrannus 🦖.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/jame...
Follow James for more paleo news and info here: @jgn-paleo.bsky.social and @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social
Few discoveries have been quite as ✨️exciting✨️ or contentious for dinosaur paleontology as the #Nanotyrannus debate. Luckily, we got James Napoli, co-author of the Nanotyrannus debate to give his insights and evidence!
🔊 Learn all about Nanotyrannus in episode #96:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/jame...
The first #Nanotyrannus skull was discovered in 1942 by a Cleveland Museum of Natural History team led by David Dunkle in Montana. Legend has it that Dunkle simply walked over to a hoodoo and popped it off the top.
🎨 Art by Ray Troll.
🔊 Learn more in episode #96:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/jame...
What's THE deal with Nanotyrannus 🎤?
In episode #96, James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social discusses the new science behind the differences (and similarities!) between #Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus rex.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/jame...
✨️ HEY IT'S NEW EPISODE DAY ✨️!
In our latest episode, Ray and Dave review the evidence with Dr. James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social, co-author of the new research paper 📝 that resolves the validity of #Nanotyrannus 🦖.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/jame...
How do animators ✍️ make animals (real AND fantasy) look so real? SCIENTISTS are essential!
Paleontologist Stuart Sumida has consulted on Hollywood's 📽 biggest blockbusters: Beauty and the Beast, Harry Potter, How to Train Your Dragon, and more!
🔊 Learn more: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now!
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave.
🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
THANK YOU!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now!
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave.
🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
We are devastated to learn about the passing of the great palaeontologist Hans Sues.
May his legacy live on through all that knew him and the students he mentored. Our thoughts are with his family at this incredibly difficult time 💔.
🔊 www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...
We had so much fun on our newest episode #94 with Dr. Arjan Mann!
For all of you 🪼 Mazon Creek 🌿 fossil enthusiasts, we recommend picking up The Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek (1997) edited by Charles W. Shabica and Andrew A. Hay.
🔊 To learn more, listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
This week's guest, Dr. Arjan Mann, is THE MAN ⛏️.
Not only is he a brilliant paleontologist, but he competes in Military Saber and Longsword HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) tournaments in Canada and the US.
🔊 Learn more about Arjan in episode #94:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
We had so much fun on our newest episode #94 with Dr. Arjan Mann!
For all of you 🪼 Mazon Creek 🌿 fossil enthusiasts, we recommend picking up The Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek (1997) edited by Charles W. Shabica and Andrew A. Hay.
🔊 To learn more, listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
This week's guest, Dr. Arjan Mann, is THE MAN ⛏️.
Not only is he a brilliant paleontologist, but he competes in Military Saber and Longsword HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) tournaments in Canada and the US.
🔊 Learn more about Arjan in episode #94:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
Happy #FossilFriday!
Meet #Onychodus, one of the Devonian’s strangest swimmers 🦈✨.
This weird prehistoric fish was a lobe-finned predator armed with a dramatic tusk-whorl—a pair of long, curved teeth that jutted from the front of its lower jaw like built-in spears. Effective? Almost certainly.
📷 Publication:
Andrews, Mahala, et al. "The structure of the sarcopterygian Onychodus jandemarrai n. sp. from Gogo, Western Australia: with a functional interpretation of the skeleton." Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 96.3 (2005): 197-307.
🔊 To learn more, listen to episode #94 with Arjan Mann:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
📷 Ray's awesome drawing of Onychodus the whorl toothed lobe finned fish.
Since then, fossils of different Onychodus species have been discovered in Australia, England, Norway, and Germany, revealing that this tusked fish wasn’t a local oddball—it was a world traveler, cruising ancient seas across much of the planet.
Onychodus lived during the Devonian Period, roughly 374–397 million years ago. Its fossil story began in 1857, when paleontologist John Strong Newberry described scattered teeth found in Ohio. Those teeth turned out to belong to a much bigger global mystery.
Happy #FossilFriday!
Meet #Onychodus, one of the Devonian’s strangest swimmers 🦈✨.
This weird prehistoric fish was a lobe-finned predator armed with a dramatic tusk-whorl—a pair of long, curved teeth that jutted from the front of its lower jaw like built-in spears. Effective? Almost certainly.
Meet the MAZON CREEK MASTER! ⛏️
Paleontologist Arjan Mann’s research 📝 and passion 💕 for early vertebrates is perfect for his role at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, where he works with some of the most important fossil collections in the world. ⬇️ [THREAD]
🎉 Hey, paleo nerds!!! Episode #94 is OUT! 🎉
In this week's episode, Ray and Dave discuss the amazing biota of the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte with Arjan Mann, Assistant Curator of Fossil Fishes 🐟 & Early Tetrapods 🦎 at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
A well preserved limbless tetrapodomorph belonging to the group Aistopoda. This particular species is known as Phlegethontia, and this fossil shows well preserved soft tissue impressions.