Grocery stores overseas! If you're lucky, some local will grab ypu by the arm and guide you to yum. At worst you'll Danish pre-drilled hot dog buns.

I should not be left unattended in grocery stores when traveling

My ride to the shuttle was having a pretty great time

Someone is determined to show off that she can still do steps. She also got a bath for the first time in over a month.

Um,no. That isn’t close to the best odometer reading

L7 putting in some fine work as Camel Lips during Serial Mom

It's a #GarWeek #FossilFriday! Here's some of the ganoid scales off of gar that we routinely find when scouting in the Hell Creek. So far only 1 complete gar skeleton has been found in the HCF, and I found it a full 10 years before I found my first Tyrannosaurus.

Now it's time to play the guessing game of "How long will it take for me to get out of customs at Heathrow so I can book a bus ride" 1 hour? 2?

So the oncologist said "Huh. That's WEIRD". Chondrosarcoma, which is rare, but set up in the head of the humerus, which is super weird to be in a long bone. Best case is 2 to 5 more years with a tripod dog. Also New Idiot Dog still loves treats.

My second #2025SVP poster is off to the printers! Poster #2 all about some really old #2's! come see me at the Friday session, I'll even have props!

GE CF6-80 engine failure again? wouldn't be surprised if a disk came apart like on the AA 767 that went up in flames in Chicago in 2016, or the one in 2006 (luckily those were on the ground)

ID help needed from dinosaur nerds! I found this theropod manus claw in the Judith River Formation and few weeks back. What does it belong to? A bit narrow for tyrannosaur, a bit large for Dromaeosaur. I'm thinking some sort of oviraptorid maybe. What do you all think?

Also an update on New Idiot Dog: starting to make it up some stairs now, even without harness help. When we rescued her 6 years ago she had never seen stairs and didn't understand them. Still not an expert but getting by now

A throwback #MosasaurMonday from working at ho me during the early days of the pandemic. This Mosasaurus skull was in hundreds of fragments, except for the parts that were in a solid concretion. Once it was all prepped and put back together, it went into a proper cradle before heading to Prague.

Sometimes I j7st feel like the world is pulling a very elaborate prank on me

Look at the size of this beetle the wife found while doing some yardwork

Nobody makes good fossil fish masks so this year I knocked out a Protosphyraena for myself! A little cardboard and superglue goes a long way when paired with obsession

I think I'm gonna whip up a different spooky dead fish head today...

Hrrm. So could these tracks we recovered from the upper Hell Creek decades ago possibly be from a Nanotyrannus instead of the hypothetical giant Ovi/Struthio? rmdrc.blogspot.com/2013/12/gian...

Devil's Night just keeps on giving today! Happy that a rational and reasonable look at Hell Creek tyrannosaur taxonomy has finally come out

In 2018 I got to visit the Tufts Love T.rex while it was still on its dinosaur-sized rotisserie in the old Burke Museum building. What a beast.

Getting called out on this today on Devil's Night, the holiest day of my people...

Thinking back to the spring with the cutest little Tylosaurus skull I've seen in the past few years. Just look at that stubby little rostrum (no shade, he's trying his best) Based on strat location in the Niobrara, it's probably a juvenile T. kansasensis. Can't wait to see this one get prepped 🧪

She's spending a lot of time outdoors just running herself

Not much dino content for various reasons from me lately, so here's a quick vid of how I find Tyrannosaurus rex teeth while wandering in the badlands for #ToothyTuesday SO SHINY! 🦖

I can't believe that it's 30 years to the DAY since I met this one. Best dog mom and travel buddy I could have ever asked for.

Tuckered out again, she tried coming upstairs though, so her pics and vinegar reserves are rebuilding

QRP with your skull art! 💀

New Idiot Dog is walking around more today and has taken advantage of us doing yardwork for more flopping and sunning.

Happy #FossilFriday from "Texas Nessie", the polycotylid plesiosaur skull that we finished scanning, digitally restoring, printing and assembling about 1 year ago The original is still at the Heard Museum in McKinney, TX, but the last parts of this reconstruction are being molded for production 🧪

She's conked out on 2 of her favorite toys. Chemo tomorrow

She is home and demanding snacks.

She's out of surgery. Supposedly we can pick her up tomorrow. Had to cut her pills manually into smaller bits since there's a lot less of her now.

So, it's cancer. This sweet little dingus is in to get her right arm amputated due to osteosarcoma this afternoon. Hopefully she pulls through.

The wife put some work in cutting my remaining hairs before I went to Idaho to tackle the big dead cow. Here's exactly how big (and dead) Junior the Bison latifrons is!

As opposed to what I saw in a truck stop stall on the Idaho Wyoming border Friday

Disappearing into the badlands with a shovel as part of my South Dakota Soil Enrichment Project seems like a better and better idea all the time.

Thanks for the invite to come get plastered on Idaho! Junior's horns put most ceratopsians to shame.

Hey Bluesky I'm Anthony. I'm a paleontologist in Colorado that spends most of the warmer months finding and digging late Cretaceous fossils in Kansas, Montana and South Dakota. Though I sometimes am forced to work on lame animals like T. rex, my heart is with the weirdos of the Niobrara chalk

Everyone posts pics of the toothy end of a Deinosuchus but nobody ever appreciates all the hard work we put into it's booty, including all those fiddly osteiderms

Happy ##MosasaurMonday from our reconstruction of MOR 1062, the holotype of Plioplatecarpus peckensis! This copy was supplied to the Dimosaurs and Mor! Event this past March. This bug-eyed little mosasaur comes from the Bearpaw shale of Montana, 75ish million years old . 🧪

It's Sunday and I'm just having my first cup of coffee so OF COURSE I'm giggling to myself there is a snake named "Bitis"

New Idiot Dog had some minor surgery and has to wear the t-shirt of Shane again. Maybe I'll make her a different mask this time around

Can't wait for my mosasaurs to join the club!

Injuries are actually fairly common to find in fossil specimens, even in the seaway that used to cover Kansas! This #FossilFriday pic is the end of the tail of a Clidastes mosasaur. The gnarly mass in the middle is around 6 vertebrae that fused together due to trauma, likely an infected bite.🧪

For Spooky Season, here's us raising the dead mosasaur Plioplatecarpus peckensis for the Cretaceous Crossroads exhibit at @museumoftherockies.bsky.social over the past 2 years. Lots of work goes into getting these specimens ready for their big public moments rmdrc.blogspot.com/2025/10/plio...

Sometimes the Dutch are just... Right.

I'm busy updating our exhibits with real, pathological specimens that ive found through the years. The Triceratops chin beak to the left has a unique cleft in it, deep enough to make Bruce Campbell blush. The one on the right is normal for comparison

Every time I talk about how scientists make mistakes when talking to journalists that could have been easily avoided if they learned how journalism works, some scientist gets angry with me. Instead of getting angry with me for pointing out an error, you could learn and do better next time. 🤷‍♂️

I'm putting the new weird horned dinosaur that I found in Montana away, but wanted to compare it with the same bones from Princess Lumpybumps. I am surprised at how different they are, especially the fused frill lumps (episquamodals) in overall size and proportions. Can't wait to dig more ! 🧪