A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution. n.pr/4plIDcz

New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart: www.earth.com/news/new-str...

Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

One Bone at a Time. Meet our Chief Preparator, Carrie Herbel - who is celebrating 10 years at the Museum. news.unl.edu/article/herb... @cherbel18.bsky.social @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social

I missed #MosasaurMonday but holy moly, Winnie is prepped! Here's the main part of the skull, without the palate laid out. She came out great and im so happy she's covered in pathologies. Just like me, we both have interesting skeletal injuries. Lower Niobrara, 86.5 million years old 🧪

Carrie Adeline Barbour (1861 – 1942) was a paleontologist and educator. As an assistant curator of paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum and an Assistant Professor of Paleontology, she was among the earliest women paleontologists in the United States. #WomenInSTEM

Bone-crushing dogs! Bone-crushing dogs! Modern canids crush bones, too, but Borophagus and kin were extra adept at busting up skeletons. Fossil feces packed with bone back up what the jaws imply. 🧪

Oh so true...

This episode, @oddpride.com joins us to investigate just what was the deal with one of the most infamous figures in early American paleontology.

Lemur-like primates would cling and leap through the forests of North America about 50 mya. This particular cousin of ours is Smilodectes, not an ancestor but a member of an early primate group called adapiforms. The forward-facing eyes and grasping hands are key adaptations to life in the trees 🧪

My little Dyson passed away tonight after suffering from a severe stroke. 09/2001-01/2025 (picture from 11 years ago).

BABY #Mammoth alert!!! Not 100% complete, but another awesome specimen!

Mayr, G. et al. 2024. Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma geiselensis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a57. doi.org/10.26879/1438 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...

Blue Jays having an intense discussion

Hi, BlueSky! We're here for the party, and we brought a NEW dinosaur with us. Meet Apex. Discovered in 2022 near Dinosaur, Colorado, this Stegosaurus is the largest ever found, measuring 11 ft (3.4 m) tall & 27 feet (8.2 m) long. You can see it at the Museum starting on Sunday, December 8! 🦴

I decided to redo the 1st ever piece in my cave painting series, Megaloceros. Although the cave artwork I used in the original is glorious and often labeled as depicting Megaloceros, the antler configuration does indeed look more like the non-palmated ones from red deer. #paleoart #artbyjulio

The end of Fall

Googly eyes make everything better

Greetings and Happy #FossilFriday A quiet end of the week here at UNSM, but I'm kept company by some of the largest beasts to ever walk the Earth. Here's one of our better Bison latifrons specimens, with horns spanning over 2 meters - if I lay down next to it they'd be longer than me! ⚒️🧪🦕

Check out this baby sabertooth cat!

Cutest fossil ever!

Move over, blue whale. This 300+ year old 34m coral is now the largest animal* known. Hopefully its depth, as described, can keep it going 🦑🧪 *colony of animals

Coelacanths are pregnant for five years, the longest gestation of any known animal, and do not reach maturity until they are around 55 years old.

Blue skies above San Diego Canyon near Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

Paleocastors (fossil beavers) post vandals - now under repair. Anyone handy in repairing miniatures?

This is amazing, and only recently archived: hand-drawn concept art and miniature dioramas (!) from the planning of the Los Angles Natural History Museum's 80s and 90s dinosaur galleries. Sketchup is great and all, but man I wish I was around for this era of exhibit design.

My Pomeranians, Coco and Nugget, have to included in my early posts to Bluesky.

Hello Bluesky! Here are two Paleocastors (fossil beavers) from UNSM vertebrate paleontology department. Aren't they amazing!