Not me crying over some cute bats just flappin’ around 😭

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Coon creek dig this past weekend was quite nice! These shells are approximately 76 million years old, but retain their original shell material!

Summer 2025 edition

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

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A mischievous archaeopteryx has appeared!

Megacerops was a large ungulate from the White River Formation (38-33 million years ago) of the Midwest in the US. They resembled Rhinoceros, but had bony nasal horns that were covered by skin, not a keratin horn! #paleoart #fossilart

Mega Dragonite Done in procreate as an unintentional 1hr speed paint #pokemon #dragonite #megaevolution #pokemonAZ

Here are some of the fossil finds from this year’s dig season: the crown jewel being a Tyrannosaurid tooth. Also shown are a Metasequoia cone, a fossil tendon, a crocodilian tooth, and some freshwater ray crushing teeth, plus some amber!

My first big bird project is done! I’m excited to show you all this bird that took me so long - at least a few months! This guy comes from the green river formation and is the most common bird found there: Primobucco mcgrewi.

Here are the answers to today’s #findthefossil! Some of the suspicious looking bits are actually dead sagebrush leaves. Included in the mix here are turtle bits, various dinosaur chunks, and maybe some crocodilian bone pieces. I’ll try to post some more of these challenges in the future!

Here’s a game for y’all! I have a picture with fossils in a “float” deposit, where they’ve been washed out of the rock and precipitated out in the ground in the hell creek formation! Let’s see how many you can spot! I’ll post the answer in a little bit! Instead of #findthatlizard , #findthatfossil !

It’s time for: a creature spotlight! On the ranch where the crew and I dig every year, there are harvester ants that gather and sort small sediment for their hills! They are known to grab small microfossils (like teeth) and small bits for their hills, including bones!

I’m alive!! I had the wildest field session this year, including a brush with a wildfire and some cool wildlife! Stay tuned for photos of the stuff I found on my dinosaur dig this year!

This makes me sick... and angry. 😡

Gonna be cleaning some scraggly T. rex bits to sell in my shop at some point. Keep an eye out! Hopefully I can get them listed before I head out on this year’s trip! Unfortunately, these bits aren’t worth salvaging as an entire specimen due to how much weathering had been done to it. #hellcreek

Bothriolepis on the brain

A micro texture on a placoderm fish from presumably the red hill deposits in PA. So cool to see these up close!

A second bird! Likely a larger waterfowl like presbyornis. Sources from the green river formation.

Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6

I wrote this nine years ago 😭

I’m moving! I’ve put up a limited time 20% off sale to help get some stock moving in my €tsy shop! Here’s a brief look at my items:

Things have been rough these past few weeks, my apologies for the lack of posts! I’ll be updating y’all on some cool personal projects here in the next few days!

Not every day you see an allosaurus skull rubber banded up for repairs 😂

There’s a mean skunk outside our bedroom that has sprayed twice this past year… it’s surprisingly difficult to fall asleep to skunk smell.

A pachyceohalosaurus I drew while at #paleofest! It was a blast meeting and seeing so many people I look up to! This guy is based off the skull model in the Burpee Museum in Jane the Juvenile Rex room!

Spherotholus and Kulindadromeus, Done in inks and marker. I’m available to do others for commissions! #paleoart #ink

Steamed owlette anyone? (In all seriousness, I didn’t get the steam up under this gorgeous eastern screech owl. I’ve been correcting the pinnate feathers on this guy) #museum #taxidermy

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For an early #fossilfriday, here’s a timelapse of me working on a piece of triceratops frill!

It’s time to groom and tidy up a hawk! This guy had paint on his tail feathers! Hopefully a good swabbing and a small amount of steam will help him look like new.

Little late for #fossilfriday, but here’s a finished Messelornis leg from the green river formation! The guy who worked on this previously did me no favors by breaking the femur and tendon remains, hence the bedraggled appearance.

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For #trilobitetuesday, here’s a fancy lil Morocops from the Devonian of Morocco that is in my collection!

Grad school application rejections are brutal, as per usual. 🙃

*drumroll* it’s a leg, finally! I’ve finished this little green river bird leg, now onto the counter slab, which looks to have some scant feather preservation 👀 #museum #fossil

My first bird piece isn’t exciting to look at, but it’s probably an arm bone overlying where the flight muscles attached, known as the keel, on the chest. Approx. 50 million years old from the green river formation! #fossilfriday #museum

Woooo microscope assembly time!!

The merrychippus is a very festive animal that would wish you a merry Christmas

Along with the fossil birds, I’ll also be working on the newly donated collection of taxidermied birds! (Hopefully sans arsenic) it’ll be a very birdy way to start the new year #museumlife 🪶

The museum I work at was able to acquire some #greenriver bird slabs! Here are the first looks: a solo wing and a leg with a counter slab! There’s also a full body bird in the lot as well. I’ll keep y’all posted on what those look like!

For #fossilfriday, I have a triceratops pelvis piece, likely part of the illium that I drilled and split myself.

For this #fossilfriday, I have a piece of what is assumed to be a Triceratops pelvis bone - we aren’t too sure what part since it’s so broken and incomplete, but it has gorgeous texture! I still have some fragments to match onto this specimen, but it’s nearly done!

I’ve listed more petrified wood on my shop! I’ve collected all these pieces straight from the Hell Creek.

It’s a #goober Tuesday! Here’s mine: #doberman #seniordog #dobie