Happy #FossilFriday! Check out these cast lower and upper jaws of Procoptodon, the giant, short-faced kangaroo of #Australia, at the Science Museum of Minnesota! One species (P. goliah) could get over 8 feet tall! These herbivores went extinct about 45,000 yrs ago, possibly due to human hunting.

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this holotype (first of its kind) of Borealosuchipus, an extinct #crocodile track from #NorthDakota, about 60 million years ago, in the vault at the Science Museum of Minnesota. It shows 2 hind and 2 fore feet prints plus a belly slide! Happy #WorldCrocDay on June 17!

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this lovely extinct rhino skeleton, Menoceras, on exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota! It lived about 20 million years ago, and is likely female since it’s lacking the pair of nose horns found in males. We also have a preserved Menoceras bone bed on display!

Happy #FossilFriday! Today a team from the Science Museum of Minnesota went to Garden City Elementary school in Brooklyn Center, #Minnesota to talk about the fun & interesting science careers at the museum. I, of course, brought some fun #fossils to share. Great to talk to so many kids!

Happy #FossilFriday! This week, the paleo team from the Science Museum of Minnesota was at Beaver Fest, at lovely Carleton College in Northfield, #Minnesota. It was our 3rd year there but the first with the Giant Beaver as Minnesota’s official state fossil. Such a good time!

Happy #FossilFriday! Our Giant Beaver skeleton just moved to its new spot in the fossil gallery (now on level 3) at the Science Museum of Minnesota. This skeleton of a juvenile Castoroides was found right here in St Paul & lived at the end of the last Ice Age. New signage will be next!

Happy #FossilFriday! Mother’s Day is coming up so check out this gorgeous fossil mother croc we published from Geiseltal, Germany! It’s a 45 million year old Diplocynodon amazingly preserved with 5 of her eggs. Now also published in Dean Lomax’s book Secret Lives of Dinosaurs!

Happy #FossilFriday! Last night the Science Museum of Minnesota had its big Science Celebration night. We of course brought out lots of cool #fossils, including from our recent fieldwork and the new state fossil. Thanks to all who came and helped out to make the evening a success!

Happy #FossilFriday! We have a new publication out this week on extinct #crocodiles! We revise a bunch of higher level group names and propose an all new one to help streamline discussion of evolution in this awesome group of crocs! 🐊🐊🐊 Message if you want a copy! academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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!

Happy #FossilFriday! Meet Ptilodus, an extinct mammal from ~60 million yrs ago. They’ve been found across western North America, including the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Wannagan Creek site in #NorthDakota. They had blade teeth in their lower jaw and were roughly the size of a squirrel. 🐿️

Happy #FossilFriday! International Beaver Day is April 7, so check out this lovely incisor of the giant #beaver from Freeborn County, #Minnesota! It’s the southernmost record from the state, found on a farm when digging a sump pit in 1958. From the vault at the Science Museum of Minnesota!

Happy #FossilFriday! Today I had the priveledge of talking #dinosaurs on the @jasonshowtv.bsky.social with great #fossils from the Science Museum of Minnesota. We talked tiny heads on sauropods, dome-headed pachycephalosaurs and, of course, T. rex, fun times!

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! recruiting.ultipro.com/SCI1003/JobB...

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! This lovely horse tooth from the Wright County Historical Society is the final part of our dozen horse teeth being analyzed for potential Ice Age horses in #Minnesota! Part of research at the Science Museum of Minnesota funded by the MN Legacy Amendment.

Happy #FossilFriday! We picked up another #fossil #horse tooth from the Goodhue County Historical Society, part of research at the Science Museum of Minnesota to see if horses lived in #Minnesota during the Ice Age. Thanks in part to funds from the MN Legacy Amendment.

Happy #FossilFriday! Yesterday we went from the Science Museum of Minnesota to the Crow Wing Historical Society to pick up this beautiful #fossil #horse tooth. This is part of a project to determine if horses lived with the first people in #Minnesota! Funded in part by the MN Legacy Amendment.

Happy #FossilFriday! The Science Museum of Minnesota’s T. rex is in the #Olympic spirit and testing its skills at curling! #Minnesota’s own are representing team USA in Italy right now, but you can see this majesty for yourself at the museum!

Happy #FossilFriday! Many thanks to @iknowdino.bsky.social for the spotlight on the Science Museum of Minnesota with everything that's been happening in #Minnesota. We appreciate the support and acknowledgement that everything here is affected by this, even #dinosaur #paleontology. iknowdino.com

Happy #FossilFriday! Last night the Science Museum of Minnesota held a fashion-themed science night. Paleo connected w/ the shark tooth necklace, worn by many across the world, for many years people have expressed themselves w/ sharks. Pics 2 & 3 show off my part at the herps & fishes table!

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this lovely megalodon tooth from South Carolina! 🦈 It shows off the shark’s size & has great serration preservation (an adaptation for whale-eating! 🐋). This is just one of many #fossils recently donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota. Stay tuned for more!

Happy #FossilFriday! Fossil fans may know about #stromatolites, remains of bacteria that go back billions of years. But they are still alive, even in #Minnesota! This specimen is less than 10,000 yrs old (at the Science Museum of Minnesota) and will be the subject of an upcoming study. Stay tuned!

Happy #FossilFriday! Ice Age horses in #Minnesota? Maybe! They’ve never been verified but these lovely horse teeth from the Science Museum of Minnesota and more will be headed for carbon dating to find out if they are, thanks to funding from the MN Historical Society (and MN Legacy Amendment).

Happy #FossilFriday! In honor of the World Juniors Hockey Championship happening across the street now, the Science Museum of Minnesota’s #Trex got a new hockey stick. Not sure how it’ll get the skates on, but it’s ready for some action!

Happy #FossilFriday! Part 3 from the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social in #Indiana! Seriously so much there even beyond the Dinosphere, from giant ammonites to marine reptiles (this one is Plioplatecarpus) to Dracorex to a local Mastodon. Floor after floor, there is more to find!

Happy #FossilFriday! Part 2 from the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social: the DinoSphere! Such an amazing packed exhibit with lots of mounted skeletons (including real fossils) and loads of extra displays jammed into every space. Sooo many #dinosaurs! Highly recommend a visit! 🦖🦕

Happy #FossilFriday! Not long ago I got to visit the @childrensmuseum.bsky.social and see all their #dinosaurs! Right off the bat you get this family of 3 Alamosaurus sculptures. So much great detail on these 70-ish million years old sauropods. Stay tuned for some more from this awesome #museum!

Happy #FossilFriday! A little while back some of us from the Science Museum of Minnesota visited the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History (@smmnh.sky.social) in Blue Earth, #Minnesota. Nice place with a great cast of Lythronax (type of tyrannosaur), touchable footprints and so much more!

Happy #FossilFriday! Turkeys, like other birds, have fused toe bones (metatarsals). In their ancient cousin, T. rex, the bones are separate but still bare a lot of similarity to parts of the turkey, because they share a common ancestor. Can you see the family resemblance?

Happy #FossilFriday! We are back from another great meeting of the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social , this year in Birmingham, #England. We presented a poster each on collections problem-solving and 3D prints for outreach + loved getting to see the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social

Happy #FossilFriday! We’re in #England for a conference and went to the #Jurassic Coast, in Lyme Regis. The shore here has loads of #fossil marine creatures from about 150 million years ago, like ammonites and belemnites, home of famed paleontologist Mary Anning in the early 1800s.

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #GarWeek so check out these 50 million year old #gar fish from #Utah at the Science Museum of Minnesota! This genus, Lepisosteus, goes back to the Cretaceous and is still swimming today! Thanks to @bellmuseum.bsky.social & @garlab.bsky.social for hyping these cool #fish!

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s the last day of #Croctober so check out this amazing cast Macrospondylus 🐊, from the #Jurassic of #Germany at the Science Museum of Minnesota! It lived about 180 million years ago and would have spent nearly its whole life at sea, & even had super reduced front legs!

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #Croctober, so check out these #fossil teeth of Thoracosaurus at the Science Museum of Minnesota, an extinct #croc from the end of the age of the #dinosaurs and a bit after, that’s right, it survived the mass extinction! All from #SouthCarolina!

Happy #FossilFriday! This week the paleo team from the Science Museum of Minnesota was out picking up ancient #Bison bones here in #Minnesota! 🦬🦬🦬 The bones are in the river itself, which has zero visibility, so they have to be found by feel. A little chilly & mucky but some cool fieldwork!

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #Croctober so check out these #fossils of the ‘Terror Croc’ Deinosuchus! These’re from South Carolina, about 80 million years ago, now at the Science Museum of Minnesota, incl. osteoderms (armor plates), & parts of 2 vertebrae from this croc that reached up to 35 feet long!

Recently the #paleontology team from the Science Museum of Minnesota + Hill Annex Paleontology Project visited the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth, #Minnesota and made the local news! Check it out! www.faribaultcountyregister.com/news/local-n...

Happy #FossilFriday! This past weekend the paleo team from the Science Museum of Minnesota brought a bunch of fun #fossils to the annual show of the #Minnesota Mineral Club. We had fun talking #dinosaurs 🦕, #crocodiles 🐊, Giant #Beavers 🦫 (the new state fossil!) and sooo much more!

Happy #FossilFriday! We had an amazing #CroctoberFest this past Saturday at @badweatherbrew.bsky.social ! We brought a LOT of #crocodile #fossils from the Science Museum of Minnesota, I gave 2 talks + there were live crocodilians. Absolutely 10/10! 🐊🍻🐊

Happy #FossilFriday! Meet Paludirex, a BIG #crocodile from #Australia, one of many crocs coming from the Science Museum of Minnesota to @badweatherbrew.bsky.social for #CroctoberFest tomorrow (Sat, Sept 20)! We’ll be there 12-5pm with sooo much + I’m giving two talks, come raise a glass with us! 🐊🍺🐊

Happy #FossilFriday! CroctoberFest is just 8 days away at @badweatherbrew.bsky.social Come see this awesome jaw of Gryposuchus, an extinct croc from South America about 15 million years ago, and SO much from the Science Museum of #Minnesota on Saturday, Sept 20 (12-5pm)! 🐊🍻🐊

Happy #FossilFriday! We are just 15 days away from #Croctoberfest, a collab with the Science Museum of Minnesota and @badweatherbrew.bsky.social Diplocynodon darwini here is just one of many crocs that’ll be out Sept 20 for the big day! You gotta see this 48-ish million-yr-old croc from Germany! 🐊🍺🐊

Happy #FossilFriday! Yesterday we were at the Minnesota State Fair from the Science Museum of Minnesota with a bunch of fun stuff including an actual Triceratops humerus. Thanks to @twincitiespbs.bsky.social for hosting us for the day!

Bonus #FossilFriday! We went out today looking for #fossils from the Time of the Dinosaurs. We found some #shark vertebrae & a #crocodile tooth! Part of the science we do at the Science Museum of #Minnesota! 🦈🐊

Happy #FossilFriday! This week the paleo team from the Science Museum of #Minnesota was at Dino Days at Union Depot (down the road in St Paul) Such a great turnout, we were slammed the whole time. Happy to talk #dinosaurs with the next generation! 🦖🦕

Happy #FossilFriday! Curious about these #fossils and what’s in the boxes? Come find out this Wednesday when the paleo team from the Science Museum of Minnesota will be at Dino Days at Union Depot, St Paul (Aug 20, 10am-12pm). It’ll be a roaring good time! #paleontology #fossil #dinosaur

Bonus #FossilFriday! I recently did a piece with a news group in Rochester, #Minnesota, about our State Fossil work at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Get a glimpse of the southernmost record of Giant Beaver in our state! www.kaaltv.com/news/minneso...

Happy #FossilFriday! We had our big annual Dino Fest at the Science Museum of Minnesota this week and boy was it packed with awesome things! From science talks to tables from our vault to guest tables from other scientists + a special T. rex show and live animals. So much to see! 🦖🤩🦕

Happy #FossilFriday! Dino Fest is almost here at the Science Museum of #Minnesota and we are so excited! Check out this piece from local @wcconews.bsky.social The big day is Saturday (Aug 2) from 11am to 3pm. It's jam-packed with dinosaurs and other ancient life! 🦖❤️🦕 www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...