Pepper LOVES this whole shutdown=daddy’s home thing

a pretty skull of the phytosaur Redondasaurus collected from the Navajo Nation and housed at @museumofnaz, on loan to PEFO #FossilFriday 🦖🧪

shut down

raise your hand if you’ve been raptured today

Y’all remember when “binders full of women” was a scandal? How quaint.

the great Ned Colbert’s bicycle parked in the prep lab at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff #fossilfriday 🧪🦖

When you come across an old friend… #fossilfriday #dilophosaurus 🦖🧪

Tootsie-wootsies of Coelophysis from Ghost Ranch housed at the Museum of Northern Arizona. #FossilFriday #feetpics 🦖🧪

Proximal end of a shuvosaurid I found at Petrified Forest NP yesterday #FossilFriday 🦖🧪

sorry we only have right-legged chicken

how funny would it be if #Ozzy rises from the dead in three days because he’s actually been Jesus this whole time

This week I found a Chindesaurus femur head that attaches to a specimen collected 21 years ago… #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

Repping George Clinton digging up some funky fossils 🛸 #pfunk

#fossilfriday brings you an associated rauisuchid skull from Petrified Forest National Park. #triassicpark 🧪🦖

One fish Two fish Lungfish Blue fish #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

Celebrating the grand opening of the newest Arby’s in Winslow, AZ. Dressed for the occasion.

I’ve solved the problem of never having a scale bar on hand #FossilFriday #tattoo 🧪🦖

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A nice little Zamites leaf from a sandstone capping the Chinle Fm near St Johns, AZ. Is it Triassic or Cretaceous like it’s mapped? 🤔 #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

damn… losing Sly and Wilson in the same week? CIRCLE THE WAGONS AROUND WILLIE!!

Now that seasonal help has arrived, field season has begun in earnest at Petrified Forest. Today we trenched a phytosaur skull and mandibles that have that spent the winter under a tarp. #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

if you’re surprised by Springsteen’s politics then you’ve never actually listened to the lyrics

Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Reyes who helped excavate this specimen as an intern and wrote it up for a dissertation chapter and now open access pub in the Journal of Paleontology. #fossilfriday 🧪🦖

Briefly played an archeologist today at Petrified Forest.

Never underestimate the power of fossils to inspire scientific curiosity in children. #FossilFriday 🦖🧪

Pro tip: try to reassemble the fossil before you paint and write numbers on it. An aetosaur osteoderm from @petrifiedNPS. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🦖🧪

One of my fav hobbies is going to the local Wednesday pool tournaments and co-opting the jukebox from buttrock/metal to Funkadelic and seeing the confused faces look accusingly around the venue.

Out with researchers from Rutgers and Columbia collecting samples at inactive uranium mines in @PetrifiedNPS to look at U and Se concentrations in soils, vegetation, and petrified wood. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🦖🧪

@chasmosaurs.bsky.social just read your post on the Carnegie Collection. I’ve been collecting since I was a kid and you could get T. rex, Triceratops, or Parasaurolophus by opening an account at Key Bank (IN). Finally found a reasonably priced triplet of Australopithecus that arrived today.

Anyone else been spinning this record nonstop orrrrrr?

Reassembled a phytosaur humerus this week that I collected at @PetrifiedNPS in November in no fewer than a billion pieces of float. #FossilFriday #phytosaurfriday 🧪🦖

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Yesterday @koskinonodon.bsky.social publicly besmirched me in a talk saying that I don’t collect isolated metoposaurid intercentra. How dare you, Bryan, this was from last week.

I’ve reassembled a MASSIVE Typothorax-like aetosaur femur we collected from @PetrifiedNPS last summer. Here it is (left) compared to that of Typothorax @ucmpberkeley UCMP 122674 (right) as figured by Long and Murry 1995. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖

wait, what have you heard, LinkedIn?

@SVP_vertpaleo and the greater community lost a good one today, Dr. Dave Gillette, most recently having retired as the Colbert Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at @museumofnaz. Dave and his wife Janet were unexpected mentors and then good friends and my heart goes out to her.

This week I stumbled across some great plant impressions in a ripple laminated sandstone unit in the lower Chinle at @PetrifiedNPS #FossilFriday

@stevebrusatte.bsky.social you got some ‘splainin to do #JurassicWorldRebirth

We're just a biological speculation Sittin' here, vibratin' And we don't know what we're vibratin' about And the animal instinct in me Makes me wanna defend me It makes me want to live when it's time to die #funkadelic

Today I helped the archaeologist dry screen some backhoe piles in a Pueboan site for faunal remains and I found a salamander atlas! ID’d by bicondylar anterior articulations, notochordal centrum, and presence of the interglenoid tubercle (dashed line). #FossilFriday 🧪🦖

This question means something else to a stratigrapher

you know things are bad when you watch the new Nosferatu to calm yourself down

Pepper has some questions for you @zzsylvester.bsky.social

happy 2nd birthday to Funcusvermis, the funkiest “worm” in the world and the oldest known fossil caecilian! Free download here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🦖

If you don’t think I’m not watching Rudy tonight you’re kidding yourself. ☘️ #goirish

More from my reprint library: O. C. Marsh had nearly a year to come up with a better title and this is what he went with??

Did you really go to Lowe’s if you didn’t drive one of these baddies around while carrying your own tape measure?

A peek into my reprint library: @paleojim.bsky.social’a first vertebrate pub signed to Will Downs. Both overlapped at @museumofnaz prior to this. #FossilFriday