caring for temnospondyls: big and small, old and new 🧪🦖

the Eye of Sauron watching us survey for endangered cacti. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖

Excited to celebrate Salinas Pueblo Missions NM and their remarkable synapsid fossil tomorrow! Meet me at 11 at the Manzano Mountain Art Council for a talk on your cousins, the synapsids! #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

the densest object in the Known Universe is the head of a dog begging to share her dad’s dinner #peppertime

The Chinle Formation - come for the climbing ripples, stay for the reptile footprints. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖

Pepper is rightfully wondering why Marasuchus and Tanystropheus are in a scene together #theDinosaurs

Can I offer you a nice Desmatosuchus fragment in these trying times? #fossilfriday #triassicpark #alwayssunny 🦖🧪

Gutted to lose a friend and colleague, Dr. Hans Sues. I spent the afternoon in one of his happy places- The Triassic. 🍻 Trias über alles.

I wish I could repost from that other site.

who ordered the rocks on rye? #FossilFriday 🦖🧪

brandi carlile is a NATIONAL TREASURE

@timdemko.xyz did you see your shadow this morning?

throwback #fossilfriday to the “Gumby” phytosaur site: 2013 v 2026. 🧪🦖

poor Placerias can’t get no respect

Met with a local landowner this week to organize & outline a manuscript describing the INCREDIBLE variation of Triassic reptile teeth she has been collecting and curating from her property, will be accessioned at @NMMNHS. Check out those compound denticles! #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

I think I have a parasite #peppertime

imagine my HORROR that we’ve been misrepresenting the Norian/Rhaetian boundary in our home.

Fun day in the Lower Triassic with @timdemko.xyz and others!

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