I managed to find a complete pectoral fin from a stupid Xiphactinus yesterday. Sadly nothing else was at that site, but we still collected it

Here's a fossil shark tooth that I found this morning to brighten your day

And even then I covered up most of it with lip; here is a skull I cobbled together while drawing this thing. What the hell do you need allat for??

Can anyone identify this weird random plant in my yard? I think I know what it is but would like confirmation

Happy #FossilFriday again! Here's Sophie from Waco (L) and Bunker from Kansas (R) having a little mosasaur snuggle party (they both have healed bite wounds on their faces from other individuals of their species snout wrestling. Currently assigned to Tylosaurus, but will this change?

I got to work on the Protosphyraena fin that I dug up 2 weeks ago! Looks like a weird P. nitida to me, might flip it out and prepare the other side since I dont trust this quickie gypsona jacket for long term stability

After her amputation she couldn't make it very far and killed off a portion of the yard. A few weeks ago I busted out my Pulaski and tilled it under and resolved the place just so she could roll again She is just so happy now, and thank goodness it finally started raining

My dudes they had both Falafel as well as Kebab flavored chips at Safeway so of course I had to grab one of each. Cookies only if absolutely nothing else and even then they better have oats and raisins

Happy #FossilFriday from Nolan the Tylosaurus kansasaensis that im slapping together in my garage. A year ago this was still in the ground. We prepped it out, scanned all the original skull elements and did this first draft resto since then.

We had another hard freeze last night, didn't to 24 degrees. The bees have swarmed one of the hummingbird feeders and are draining it

For Pterosaur Pthursday check out this GIGANTIC hand claw off the huge Pteranodon thar we dug up last week. Ive never seen one this big.

Early draft of our new Tylosaurus miniskull. Lots of little changes to make but this is easier for me to make edits on rather than pointing to a computer screen

Its tilemaking time for the Navajo Soring renovation. Manitou is gonna be blessed with its first anatomically correct mosasaur thened public art

Doing my part on trash duty down on Fountain Creek for the Great American Cleanup! Found lots of weird things but also some of Manni the Beaver's handiwork as well as a garter snake friend.

Happy #FossilFriday from this teeny tiny little giant clam that I found this week while scouting in the Niobrara. Volviceramus involutus, around marker unit 4, 86.5-87 million years old 🧪

The bride really lucked out at the last minute on this one.

Me and my emotional support shovel

My masterpiece of scrap wood scaffolding really looks great around Junior! The temporary structure just held up the FGR95 and fiberglass jacket till it cured and it was gone in a day.

I read this as "Skankin Croc" and got pretty excited for a second

Back from fieldwork but I still get to use a shovel

Me sliding up next to a clam: Undulatiplicatus? What a unique name. I like your pearls. Do you come here often? *conversation more likely to happen when it's 110 degrees or over out on the outcrop

Fossils are pretty good at hiding from me this morning but at least I get the dopamine reward of finding a few shark teeth. Cretoxyrhina mantelli, 86 million years old

Oooooh! Baby Crusher Shark! This is the first tooth battery from Ptychodus that I've ever found. And it's a lil guy! I'm pretty excited

Stupid Xiphactinus number 1 for the day Plants got most of it, but this pectoral fin rays was diagnostic to which fish used to ne here. Moving on

It got cold overnight.

The Bonnerichthys site is pooping out no matter how many sour patch kids I ate at it. A few cool parts though including 2 I can't identify yet

I was trying to find a fish and accidentally found a different fish on the way to the site. Gonna collect this beautiful Protosphyraena pectoral fin tomorrow

Its field season for Niobrara work. So now is the time where you find out what the gas station limits are oer transaction! This new Bonnerichthys site better be worth it.

The amount of times I see these dudebro trucks in their submissive pose (wheels up) here in Colorado... id say they're a danger to those inside as well

I don't believe it. I haven't seen ANY mosasaur vertebrae laid out on the ancient seafloor in a self portrait yet.

Sometimes you get a song stuck in your head and it's good. For the past few days I've had one stuck in my head and it's Tad.... Greasebox IS a catchy lil ditty

For Earth Day, here are some of the places on this planet I go scouting for fossils in

We can still /dcc send to our hearts content though right? Gimmie ops

I guess one positive about driving to a conference in North Dakota is that i was able to bring a 12 pack of good Minnesota beer home that I can't otherwise get.

Um.. North Dakota what the heck?

Small comfort in the possibility of a temporarily suborbital stupid Xiphactinus during the end-Cretaceous impact

*Debbie Gibson voice*

Presenting on new mosasaur heads for this #FossilFriday at NDGS, including the debut to an audience of this huge mosasaur noggin that we built last year.

Ding dong dog had a rolling session on the lawn of the North Dakota State Capitol building today

Yeah people like T. rex. People like Coldplay or U2 or Smash Mouth too. We gotta be out there cultivating the next generation of dinosaur hipsters before this all dissolves into a boring basic hellscape of overly toothy murderbirds!

Everywhere I go this fish seems to stalk me. Thankfully the wife made a custom shirt for me full of snark.

Its above 50 degrees Fahrenheit so tripawd Goldens require liquid cooling on walks

This is one of the few times where comparing your pubis at work won't get you called into a meeting with HR. T. rex ar the top, the BCT specimen below

Happy #FossilFriday from some of my favorite dinosaur tracks from the Hell Creek Fm. These ironstone oviraptor or tyrannosaur tracks were found by Mike Triebold in the early 1990s and named Wakinyantanka by Lockley and Hunt. 🧪🦖

I can see the problem here. I only bury the bones that I REALLY don’t like

If more museums had more signage like this., more people would go to them

It was pretty amazing hearing all the meaningless platitudes from the SVP president of only holding meetings where their membership can feel safe, then turn around and host it in fucking Ohio.

Omg look what Chris our Marketing Director just made for me! These bumper stickers are PERFECT!

Happy #MosasaurMonday from this articulated Tylosaurus nepaeolicus that we dug up way back in 2008 2 cool things about it: it has preserved scales in the matrix around the head and When we flipped it, we discovered the only heteromorph ammonite fossil in the whole Niobrara, 86 million years old 🧪