Visited the original carved skull for Haddy, #Hadrosaurus foulkii, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly yesterday! #Leidyiswatching #dinosaur

Here’s a note from the OG Turtle paleontologist Oliver Perry Hay to the NJ State Geologist in 1906. Hay described a fossil turtle from NJ called Amblypeza entellus. The taxon is no longer valid, it is a jr synonym of Taphrosphys sulcatus, but we still retain the holotype and Hay’s note #Fossilfriday

We moved it over about 15 ft to be covered and keep it safe!

How do you move a 200 million year old #dinosaur trackway that weighs a few tons? Very carefully!

We sent out our Nile Crocodile mount for restoration. It’ll be included in a new upcoming exhibit and needed freshening up!

It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.

Marshalltown

Talking to the DVPS in a few moments online about the Ellisdale fossil site! Since I’m doing it from my office, I can show off some specimens including this large theropod phalanx!

RIP Lungy 😞 I don’t know how old he was but I had him for about 20 years and he was already a good size, I would guess he was at least 30…. He moved with me from Florida to Jersey to Alabama and back to Jersey again

Funny enough, when they were first discovered they were thought to be some industrial product!

North-central

#svp2025 today is my poster on Hybodont shark egg capsules from New Jersey! Poster number 393. Come say hi!

#2025SVP has been great thus far!

Princeton Allosaurus! Giving a departmental lecture today

Saturday, Sept 20th at the NJ State Museum!! #ecology #conservation #endangered #nj

New Jersey State Museum gives flowers to its native flora and fauna The exhibition highlights the state’s natural habitats and efforts to protect them.

Press Coverage for my latest exhibit: Ecosystems at Risk: Threatened and Endangered in New Jersey! whyy.org/articles/new... #endangered #ecosystems #newjersey

New season currently being filmed

la préhistoire du Québec

This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!

I didn’t know I was mentioned in this #shark book about the #Megalodon !

We have a Space Saver system and use DSS Solutions (in PA). We’ve had the system for a while with static shelves. But our #paleontology collection has outgrown our Lane cabinets and we are reorganizing in a big way!

Before and after shots of drawer installation in our #naturalhistory collections #museumlife

The New Jersey State Museum is hiring a Curator of Archaeology and Ethnography!

#SharkWeek appearance #2 filming completed! Look for me talking about fossil makos this summer!

The Best Strawberry Malted Ever. YouTube video by Dan Moritz

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It’s been 5 years since we lost paleobotanist Brian Axsmith to Covid… he was a good friend and I still think of him every time I see a plant fossil

Died This Day: Joseph Leidy (Sept 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891). The Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology described the holotype of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the 1st American mostly complete dinosaur. He also mentored a young E.D. Cope and pointed he and Marsh to the rich fossil resources of the West

I have a copy of this!

Great day giving a tour to a Princeton University comparative anatomy class at the NJ State Museum today!