My neighbors did the sweetest thing. They saw me doing dishes in the front window, and they knocked on it and scared the SHIT out of me. But they thought I didn't have food so they brought a plate over. That's very sweet!

But I did cook a full Dinosaur Day menu, it's just that it was for one. Remember my roommate left?

So I assured them that I had plenty of food and thanked them gratefully.

And of course I HAD dirty dishes because of all the food I made.

#Thanksgiving #TurkeyDay #DinoSaurday

🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay

Now, thanks to troves of new fossil discoveries, paleontologists and dinosaur-obsessed kids don’t just think but know: “Dinosaurs had feathers!”

They Had Feathers:
Is the World Ready to See Dinosaurs as They Really Were?
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/they-had-feathers-is-the-world-ready-to-see-dinosaurs-as-they-really-were-2/

🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay

This study suggests Horned dinosaurs may have seen a decline in their intelligence as they grew larger.

Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/abs/endocranial-morphology-of-three-earlydiverging-ceratopsians-and-implications-for-the-behavior-and-the-evolution-of-the-endocast-in-ceratopsians/70089050F60D7D474913AC51128D3E24

🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay!

Tyrannosaurus rex:
This massive cretaceous-era theropod dinosaur has dominated the public consciousness’ image of “dinosaurs” for over a century since its discovery, and for good reason.

The Ultimate Guide To Tyrannosaurs
https://www.fossilera.com/pages/the-ultimate-guide-to-tyrannosaurs

Tenderness is mandatory.
Careless lurches may draw blood,
enthusiasms leave abrasions,
excessive ardour has been known
to snap off spinal plates…

—“The Mating of Dinosaurs”, by William Oliphant (1920–2004)
published in The Mating of Dinosaurs (Taranis Books, 1992)

Today, 1 June, is Dinosaur Day 🦖

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #dinosaurs #DinosaurDay

Happy #DinosaurDay! Time to dig back into our past videos, for the early history of fossil hunting and paleontology’s roots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Dinosaur #Fossil #Paleontology

Happy #DinosaurDay! Our video about the history of paleontology has all sorts of fun dinosaur trivia for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Dinosaur #Fossil #Paleontology

🦖 Happy #DinosaurDay! 🦕

Are Birds Dinosaurs?

It’s official:
Birds are literally dinosaurs.
Here’s how we know
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/