Students with fossils on table for National Fossil Day presentation
Members of the LEAFF Climate lab shared some of their exciting research and fossils at the Mayborn Museum’s Sic ‘Em Science Day celebrating #nationalfossilday! 🧪🪨
My National Fossil Day sale currently gets you 20% off any prints or stickers in my online Gift Shop with fossils in them with code PREHISTORIC20 at checkout!
www.beastieandbone.com/gift-shop
#sciart #fossil #megafauna #paleoart #nationalfossilday
A day late for #NationalFossilDay - here's me in 2019 with the iconic rearing Barosaurus skeletal mount at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. How is this my only pic with a sauropod skeleton? Shameful
Happy [belated] National Fossil Day! Before CT scanning and photogrammetry, fossil were hand drawn like this series of traditional carbon dust illustrations. I miss those days. Photos of my illustrations alongside the actual fossils #NationalFossilDay, #SciArt, #PaleoArt, #paleontology, #CarbonDust
"It was a fossilized bone." - NATE DIMEO, Tracks, the memory palace #memorypalace #NationalFossilDay #NateDimeo
Today was #NationalFossilDay & coincidentally the start of a new unit, so I wowed some students with the slamming-est ancient fish of them all, Dunkleosteus.
class when they see @suethetrex.bsky.social on a slide: "oh wow T. rex"
class when they see the giant staple remover fish: "WHAT IS THAT???"
"What sort of fossils were you getting?" - BRIDGER WINEGAR, Aimee Mann Disobeys Bridger, I Said No Gifts! #ISaidNoGifts #NationalFossilDay #BridgerWinegar
"We have discovered really really old fossils!" - JOSH CLARK, The Silurian Hypothesis, Stuff You Should Know #StuffYouShouldKnow #SYSK #NationalFossilDay #JoshClark
See the diversity of flora and fauna in the UCMP collections from the John Day Basin for #nationalfossilday
Unidentified leaf in Clarno Fm, Coleoptera (beetle) fossil, lower jaw bone of alligator.
Happy #NationalFossilDay!
Celebrate with us by visiting one of our partner prep labs to see fossils being uncovered in real time!
📍 Cincinnati Museum Center — open daily, 10 AM–5 PM
📍 Montana Natural History Center — Tue–Sat, 10 AM–4 PM
No better way to celebrate than watching science in action!
Daspletosaurus torosus, skeleton and skull on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Curving away down the hall, we see the backsides of Torvosaurus Allosaurus, and retreating into the distance, Galeamopus. The neck and head of Apatosaurus are visible on the wall to the right.
It's #NationalFossilDay! 🧪⚒️🦖
No, the familiar looking mug you see here isn't who you think. Cincinnati has substituted Daspletosaurus torosus for the large tyrannosaur representative. After all, this is America ... we don't need no stinking kings.
Sorry, Chuck. No offense.
Taking another stab at the ol’ Bluesky on #nationalfossilday and reposting this in-progress reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni (which hadn’t been named yet last time I posted it.) Half the size of the famous Q. northopi, this is the only place you’ll see these National Park Service fossils.
Image of three brown and black fossil jaw fragments of extinct weasel relatives, Leptarctus, with short but sharp cusps. Open access paper at https://doi.org/10.5070/P9.48360
Celebrating #NationalFossilDay with a new paper describing specimens of the most whimsical of weasel relatives, leptarctine ("slender bear") mustelids, from the collections of @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social.
Their teeth are so much fun to look at! 🦷
doi.org/10.5070/P9.4...
(Cover image by P. Holroyd)
Check out more UCMP fossils on Calphotos tinyurl.com/UCMPJODA and read more about UCMP history in the John Day Basin at ucmp.berkeley.edu/science/park... and National Fossil Day at www.nps.gov/articles/000... #nationalfossilday (3/3)
A bunch of different pencil drawings of Cambrian creature Opabinia.
Happy #NationalFossilDay! Slow a bit at work today so I doodled some opabinia.
Witmer with a 3D print of the brain endocast of Tyrannosaurus rex on exhibit at the Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum in Fukui, Japan, based on CT scanning of AMNH 5117.
3D print of the brain endocast of Tyrannosaurus rex on exhibit at the Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum in Fukui, Japan, based on CT scanning of AMNH 5117.
We published on the braincase and endocast of tyrannosaurs way back in 2009: https://bit.ly/47fChUf
More on National Fossil Day here: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossilday/index.htm
It's #NationalFossilDay here in the USA, so here's a photo of our T. rex brain endocast based on a US national fossil—AMNH 5117. The surprise was to see it on exhibit in Japan at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. Feel free to print one of your own: skfb.ly/Mqsq ! 🦖
Skellie posing with a piece of fossiliferous shale containing bivalve fossils.
#SkellieOnTheTelly day 15: Happy #NationalFossilDay!
Scientists just found several fossil bumblebees covered in pollen that directly matches fossil flowers nearby.
The 24-million-year-old discovery reveals the oldest known evidence connecting pollinators to the pollinated.
#Paleontology #NationalFossilDay
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New at @sciencenews.bsky.social
We're excited to announce two new bi-weekly livestream programs coming soon from SVP! Fossil Trails USA will debut on October 21 on our Instagram channel. The Fossil Finders will debut on October 29 as a collaborative program with Paleontologizing on Twitch!
#NationalFossilDay
🦴 Celebrate #NationalFossilDay by discovering the beauty of beach fossils! Learn about fossil hunting for Petoskey stones in Little Traverse Bay, Michigan, in the latest issue of Beachcombing. 🌊 Read more about beach fossils 👉 bit.ly/bcfossils #beachcombing #fossils #petoskeystone #beachfinds
#NationalFossilDay now with hashtag
#globalhandwashingday #worldstudentsday #nationalcheesecurdday #nationalgrouchday #nationalilovelucyday #nationallatinoaidsawarenessday #nationalwhitecanesafetyday #nationalaestheticianday #bradayusa #hagfishday #nationalfossilday #nationaltakeyourparentstolunchday #supportyourlocalchamberofcommerce
A whale skull in four different views (top, right, bottom, left). The skull is white and orange with reddish iron oxide staining, and the mandibles are preserved in situ; the rostrum is flat and narrow, and overall the skull is shaped like a surfboard.
Happy #nationalfossilday and #whalewednesday! This is Waharoa ruwhenua, a critical fossil for understanding the early evolution of baleen whales. Waharoa was discovered in 26 million year old limestone in New Zealand, and likely had both baleen AND vestigial teeth. 🧵1/
Happy #NationalFossilDay! Let's use this National Fossil Day to celebrate our national parks and monuments and the work they do to promote and protect fossils and paleontological education. The focus of this year's NFD artwork is the John Day Fossil Beds Natl Monument.
