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Paleontologist at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Fossils are the best, like, really the best.
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!
6 days ago
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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! 🦖🦕
13 days ago
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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
!
19 days ago
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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!
27 days ago
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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?
about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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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
!
about 2 months ago
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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!
2 months ago
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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
!
2 months ago
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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!
3 months ago
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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!
3 months ago
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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...
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Blue Earth Museum has some special guests
The Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth, often called the Dinosaur Museum, had some very special guests come and visit recently. It was a group of professional and amateur paleo...
https://www.faribaultcountyregister.com/news/local-news/2025/10/05/blue-earth-museum-has-some-special-guests/
3 months ago
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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!
3 months ago
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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! 🐊🍻🐊
3 months ago
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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! 🐊🍺🐊
3 months ago
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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)! 🐊🍻🐊
4 months ago
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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! 🐊🍺🐊
4 months ago
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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!
4 months ago
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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
! 🦈🐊
4 months ago
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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! 🦖🦕
4 months ago
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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
5 months ago
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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...
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Minnesota state fossil believed to have roamed Freeborn County during last ice age
The giant beaver is believed to have roam the state during the last ice age, and fossils of it have been found in the metro area and Freeborn county.
https://www.kaaltv.com/news/minnesota-state-fossil-believed-to-have-roamed-freeborn-county-during-last-ice-age/
5 months ago
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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! 🦖🤩🦕
5 months ago
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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...
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Science Museum of Minnesota brings back Dino Fest
Dr. Alex Hastings shares a preview of the forthcoming event, which focuses on all things prehistoric.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/video/science-museum-of-minnesota-brings-back-dino-fest/
5 months ago
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Get pumped for Dino Fest and learn about Minnesota's new State Fossil in this piece by our friends at local
@fox9mn.bsky.social
then join us at the Science Museum of Minnesota this Saturday, Aug. 2nd for the big day, 11am to 3pm. We have got sooo much happening!
www.fox9.com/video/1680644
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All about the MN State Fossil
In July, the giant beaver become the MN state fossil. Alex Hastings, the Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology from the Science Museum of Minnesota, tells us about the significance of the fossil.
https://www.fox9.com/video/1680644
5 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! We had a great time last night at Indeed Brewing in
#Minneapolis
, talking
#dinosaurs
! We brought fun stuff from the Science Museum of Minnesota and got such a great turnout. Some awesome questions and a super engaged audience, totally a 10/10 night! 🦖❤️🦕
5 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! We spent the last 1.5 weeks digging for
#dinosaurs
in
#Montana
! Pretty sure we’ve got Triceratops, duck-billed dinosaur and ornithomimid (ostrich mimics) in the mix of dinosaurs from the site! Part of the science we do at the Science Museum of Minnesota!
6 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! The paleo team at the Science Museum of
#Minnesota
was out recently in New Ulm, MN looking for bones eroding from Ice Age gravel on the river. We found this piece of large mammal skull, a bison tooth and a teeny lil’ baby toad! Nice sunny day to be on the river!
6 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! This Sunday we did a
#dinosaur
event at BlackStack Brewing, a collab w/ the Science Museum of
#Minnesota
. So great to talk about
#Brontosaurus
, the
#ThunderLizard
to celebrate the release of Thunder Lizard IPA. Cheers! 🍻 🦕
7 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Come join us this Sunday, June 8th (1-4pm) at BlackStack Brewing in St Paul! For the re-release of the Thunder Lizard IPA we are bringing sooo many
#dinosaur
#fossils
from the Science Museum of
#Minnesota
+ I’m giving a special presentation at 1:30, come check it out!
7 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Today the paleo team did some fun outreach at an elementary career fair in Brooklyn Center,
#Minnesota
! We brought cool
#fossils
from the Science Museum of Minnesota and talked
#dinosaurs
and Giant Beavers, fun stuff! 🦫🦕
7 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Fun surprise this week at the Science Museum of Minnesota when a gentleman recognized a
#fossil
of a giant squid-relative that he found >20 years ago and donated to the U. of
#Minnesota
. Not sure how its path ended at our touch table, but very cool to get some extra back story!
8 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Glad US Senator
@smith.senate.gov
could stop by the Science Museum of Minnesota today! We got to speak about our terminated federal grant to increase accessibility of our
#fossil
collection. We really appreciate her and her staff taking the time!
8 months ago
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This
#FossilFriday
, I’ll say thanks to Star Tribune for helping bring some attention to our federal grant terminations at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We’d just started a big project to get some great
#fossils
out into the world but now it’s over. Read along:
www.startribune.com/science-muse...
8 months ago
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Less happy
#FossilFriday
. The great folks at MPR News ran a story this week about federal grant terminations at
#Minnesota
museums, including the Science Museum of Minnesota’s
#fossil
project centered on a Paleocene collection from
#NorthDakota
(60 million yrs ago):
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
8 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
!
@jangojips.bsky.social
(amazing volunteer at the Science Museum of Minnesota) posted this 3D coprolite (fossil poop) that almost certainly was made by Borealosuchus, a 15-ish foot
#crocodile
from
#NorthDakota
. See it for yourself in 3D:
sketchfab.com/3d-models/preh…
9 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! This week
#Minnesota
got one step closer to having a state
#fossil
! I gave testimony at a state senate hearing for the Science Museum of
#Minnesota
and very happily was joined by the Bell Museum! Thanks to Sen. Cwodzinski for bringing the Giant Beaver bill forward! 🦫🦫🦫
9 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! This week the paleo team from the Science Museum of
#Minnesota
went and got two awesome
#mammoth
tusks from the Bell Museum that needed a home. Bit of a job, but we got them both safe & sound to their new home. Now for records diving and some prep update! 🦣🦣🦣
9 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! The paleo team at the Science Museum of Minnesota recently got to bring cool
#fossils
to the
#Minnesota
Zoo to spread the word about making the Giant Beaver Minnesota’s state fossil. 2 of the crew even got to meet the zoo’s
#beaver
pair! 🦫😍🦫 Great turnout & so fun!
10 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Yesterday I got to give testimony on behalf of the Science Museum of
#Minnesota
for the Giant Beaver as the state fossil, in the state congress. So happy to have this one step closer to being a reality! Let your rep know you’d like a state fossil too!
10 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Tomorrow the paleo team from the Science Museum of Minnesota will be at the Minnesota Zoo to talk up the State Fossil Initiative, right by the Minnesota Trail, 9:30am-2:30pm, mere steps away from their beaver family. Say hi to us & the beavers + help us get a state fossil!
10 months ago
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Happy
#FossilFriday
! Today we brought a bunch of fossils out to MSP Airport to talk cool ancient life with folks in front of our exhibit from the Science Museum of Minnesota. We also gave it a lil’ clean up. The exhibit is up thru September so check it out!
10 months ago
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