300 million years ago, this part of Texas was an ancient sea — and today, I got to hold a piece of it in my hands. 🌊🦑

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Everything else from my lunch break hunt in North Texas.

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Found a killer shark tooth on my lunch break just north of Denison, TX off Hwy 75!

Still blows my mind how sharp these things stay after 90+ million years in the ground.

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Fossil-Quest! Texas Best Fossil Finds: Ammonite Engonoceras stollyi, Echinoid Coenholectypus planatus, Sawfish Tooth Ptychotrygon and Mosasaur vertebra www.fossil-quest.com #fossils #texasfossils #fossil-quest #fossilhunting #nature

Got to do some fossil hunting over the thanksgiving holiday. Collected some really good specimens and have been cleaning them off. Now I just need to identify them. #fossils #texasfossils #sealife

I am pretty pleased with myself over this paint job on #MammothMonday #TexasFossils

Since Homotherium kittens are in the news, here’s a side by side size comparison of an adult jaw next to a juvenile jaw from Friesenhahn Cave

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When Man-Eating Miocene Beavers Ruled the Earth

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Thinking back to simpler times just a few weeks ago, when I was bringing a giant fossil beaver replica named after a gas station on an airplane to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Minneapolis.

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