Happy #FossilFriday! The paleo crew from the Science Museum of Minnesota has been attending the annual meeting of the Association for Materials & Methods in Paleontology here in Bismarck, #NorthDakota! Great time presenting and learning about fossil methods & winning trivia!
Horse lower molar lateral view. Follow along as we work through all twelve specimens and uncover what the dates reveal: Were Ice Age horses roaming Minnesota earlier than currently documented?
Horse lower molar occlusal view. If you want the deeper story—the hunt for lost bones, and the unfolding discoveries—I’ve added a new update to #LostBones 4 on Substack.
🦥🐴🐘🐪#FossilFriday #LostBones, Lower horse molar (SMM P2025.8.7) from Olmsted County is specimen 9 of 12 headed for radiocarbon dating.
The County has produced Ice Age finds over the years—several mammoth tusks and both mammoth and mastodon teeth from county gravel deposits—posted about previously.
A friend found the infamous “black tooth” back in 2018 — and now we’re waiting for the radiocarbon dates.
A depiction indicating twelve teeth will be radiocarbon dated.
The timeline in question is Pleistocene to Holocene.
A post glacial landscape with a horse and a mammoth.
#LostBones #FossilFriday
Horses vanished from North America ~10K years ago — yet their fossilized teeth keep turning up in the Midwest.
No radiocarbon dates have ever been documented in Minnesota.
Dating begins this summer. What will the results reveal.
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Whole and partial femur at the Melrose Area Museum. Each bone preserves data from ancient animals that once roamed the area’s post glacial landscapes.
Distal end of a bison femur at the Rice Country Historical Society. #Pleistocene #Holocene #Bison #Palaeontology #Mnmuseums #CitizenScience
Bison femur at the Pope County Historical Society
Bones discovered near Hansen Park in New Brighton Minnestoa
#FossilFriday The largest bone in the skeleton—the femur—often survives the test of time. It is the eighth most common vertebrate mammal post cranial element I’ve documented in county museum collections across the Midwest so far.
#Palaeontology #CitizenScience
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A pillar-like brown fossilized left hindlimb of the sauropod Apatosaurus. Families mill about and the head is in the far mid ground.
Hard to beat a Chicago #FossilFriday in Evolving Planet. 🦕
Apatosaurus at the Field Museum. 🦴🦴🦴
A well worn skull fragment with horn core. The river it was found in runs fast, distorts its channel, and loves to grind up its ancient bones as it tumbles them through glacial gravels and Cretaceous seaway landforms. It often crests multiple times a season—a pattern known as pulse flooding.
A well worn skull fragment with horn core. In the spring of 2019, the river where it was found reached a maximum height of 17.92 feet, with two major crests: 17.92 ft on March 24 and 15.02 ft on April 19—high enough to coax the river's banks into revealing a few buried secrets.
#FossilFriday! 🐂 A revelation for me and my friend: bison material could be found along our small town’s river gravel bars.
This right frontal bone is from a juvenile bison. Other skull and horn‑core material have turned up, but this was the first—and remains the only—juvenile skull we’ve found.
Happy #FossilFriday! It’s almost #StPatricksDay, so check out this impressive skull of Megaloceros, the extinct #Irish Elk! They lived during the Ice Ages and males had antlers up to 11 feet across! Their antlers alone could weigh over 70 pounds!
On display at the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday! Very happy to have a grant-funded summer position open at the Science Museum of Minnesota! Apply here for a great chance to work in our Paleontology Dept + good volunteer opportunities to join us in the field in North Dakota & Montana!
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Chaska Herald clipping.
Pottery sherds.
Stone and indigenous people's tools.
Mammoth molar.
The Carver County Historical Society: The past is on display with a mammoth molar and exhibits on Indigenous history, agriculture, and military service.
Found in 2000 when a Chaska gravel pit’s clamshell dredge—dropping through 100 feet of water—hauled up a proboscidean tooth.
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Indigenous people's pottery.
Indigenous people's tools.
Mammoth molar.
Chaska Herald clipping.
The Carver County Historical Society: The past is on display with a mammoth molar and exhibits on Indigenous history, agriculture, and military service.
Found in 2000 when a Chaska gravel pit’s clamshell dredge—dropping through 100 feet of water—hauled up a proboscidean tooth.
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Https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/your-german-shepard-the-geoarchaeologist An image including a link to the story in a photo of a German Shepherd.
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#archaeology
#geoarchaeology
#workingdogs
#caninescience
#dogs
#detectiondogs
#humanremainsdetectiondogs
#AHRDD
Bipedal crocs!! 💚🐊
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Mounted skeleton of a mastodon in a stone arch with a person in front of it
Made sure to say hello to Al Koch's Missourium today when visiting @nhm-london.bsky.social. Bones are probably from 'Koch Spring ' on the Pomme de terre river, Missouri. Perhaps with a few bits from Kimmswick, MO thrown in for good measure. Tour de force of Ozark elephant.
Random twiggy hummingbirds... a pair of Anna's in the backyard twiggery and an unknown hummer along the Rogue River near Grants's Pass.
#BirdoftheDay #TwigsAreUs #Birds #Oregon
A watercolor painting of a toothed baleen whale skull in side view. The jaws are closed, and the skull has a rather large eye socket; the nose is still quite far out on the snout. There are a series of mostly conical teeth that interlock like a crocodile.
New #watercolor - the skull that launched a thousand papers - Aetiocetus weltoni, the ~25 myo toothed baleen whale that likely had teeth and baleen - from the Oligocene of Oregon. I started this last winter and only finally finished it yesterday. 🐡 🦖🐬 #sciart #whaleontology #whalewednesday #art
Ilustração de Glyptotherium. Animal em vista lateral, com fundo branco. O animal possui uma carapaça arredondada, amarelada, com pelos. Autoria própria.
Pensa num bicho massa.
Yes! The question for us is how long do they survive in the Midwest (in this case Minnesota) after the Ice Age. There are no scientifically documented Ice Age horse specimens in the state.
Horse molar in vault at the science museum of Minnesota.
🐴 #CitizenScience #FossilFriday — Molar (SMM P77.20.1), specimen 8 of 12, was recovered in 1976. This story emerged from the landscape around St. Cloud, Minnesota, when P. Lansing collected this horse molar near Hgwy 23.
Before modern roads and cities, horses may have roamed Ice Age Minnesota.
Fantastic!
Wonderful!
Early Polish women in Sciences, slide presentation
Palaeontology of Poland presentation slide
I'm having a really rough personal time.
But, on positive personal note, I've started talks with both Polish Consulate in Hong Kong and Beijing Women's Federation, to start series of activities related to promoting historical women in geosciences and palaeontology across China.
This ones' from Olson's Point in Buffalo Lake! Wright County, Minnesota!
#Equus
A hand holding a small fossil skull (facing left) still in the rock: grey, brown, with reddish purple hematite. Grassland in the background.
A Diictodon in the hand is worth two in the bush. But we’ll look anyway. #FossilFriday
Possible Ice Age horse molar next to bison molar. Science Museum of Minnesota. Another incredible Ice Age find from my good friend Bill in 2018 — New Ulm, Minnesota. Every one of these teeth and bones helps us answer a bigger question: Were Ice Age horses still roaming Minnesota later than we thought? Follow along as we work through all twelve specimens and uncover what the dates reveal. #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #IceAgeMinnesota #RadiocarbonDating
Possible Ice Age horse molar. Science Museum of Minnesota.
Possible Ice Age horse molar. Science Museum of Minnesota.
🐴 #FossilFriday — Lower horse molar (SMM P2020.7.34) from my hometown ❤️🔥. Specimen 7 of 12 headed for radiocarbon dating. #LostBones updates on Substack: substack.com/@marcusbrand...
👇 What do you think this molar’s age will come back as — Ice Age or more recent?
#Pleistocene #Equus #CitizenScience
Super excited to publish my Dinosaurs Coloring book and Dinosaurs Stickerology book today!❤️🎨🦕
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The series continues: twelve horse teeth from across Minnesota, each one headed for radiocarbon dating to finally pin down when these animals moved across the state’s post glacial landscape. Pictured is a potential upper Ice Age molar. Occlusal view.
Potential upper Ice Age molar. Side
Potential Ice Age horse incisor. Side view
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Equus #RadioCarbonDating 🐴 In June 1921, crews at the Sagamore Mine near Riverton, Minnesota uncovered a peat layer eight feet down containing a Pleistocene bone bed with a horse molar (#6), a horse incisor, and other late‑Quaternary fossils.
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Sunset over the mountains; with a sprinter van (mobile museum) in the foreground. Black, orange and white with a small herbivorous dinosaur skeleton under the museum logo.
On this #FossilFriday I challenge any other museum on here to go harder for thescelosaurs than the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Proud.
New van wrap 🌟 🚐
