"It was a fossilized bone." - NATE DIMEO, Tracks, the memory palace #memorypalace #NationalFossilDay #NateDimeo
The Turtle Cove assemblage from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is the theme for this year's #NationalFossilDay poster art! Check out the writeup on the NPS website!
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/fossils-of-the-2025-national-fossil-day-artwork.htm
Today is #NationalFossilDay! Over my career, I’ve been an author or coauthor in naming five new fossil species: the #Miocene baleen #whale Eobalaenoptera harrisoni (2004), the Miocene toothed whale Squalodon whitmorei (2005), the Triassic gliding reptile Mecistotrachelos apeoros (2007), the #Cretaceous #tyrannosaur Dynamoterror dynastes (2018), and the #Pleistocene Pacific #mastodon Mammut pacificus (2019).
#paleontology #fossil #taxonomy #scicomm @westernsciencecenter