#fossilfriday & #FotoVorschlag "löchrig"

Frohe #Ostern! 🤗 Zum Einstieg ins #Wochenende habe ich ein besonderes #Osterei als #Fossil für euch: Das #Ei von einem #Dino - einem Hadrosaurier wie Ducky aus "In einem Land vor unserer Zeit" 🦆

Die #Eier von #Dinos sind überraschend klein - selbst riesige Sauropoden 🦕 schlüpften aus Eiern, die nicht größer waren als ein #Fußball ⚽, weil Luft durch Pooren in der Schale kommen musste, ohne, dass die Eier durch die Größe zerbrechlich werden 🥚

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Kaatedocus

In 1934, a team headed by Barnum Brown, from the American Museum of Natural History, uncovered about 3000 sauropod bones.

In the 1940s, a fire at the AMNH destroyed most of the collected specimens.

In the 1960s, more of those bones were thrown away after falling apart in storage. Leaving about 10% of the original collected bones

In 2015, after reexamining the surviving bones, some where isolated and renamed Kaatedocus.

Art update from Hubby! He's working on prettifying the trilobite was figure. Here he explains it.

#FossilFriday #art

This week’s Fossil Friday is a scute from a nodosaur (the spiky ankylosaurs without tail clubs). Nodosaurs carried rows of bony armour and spikes; scutes like this one formed part of that protective covering.

This specimen was collected in 1987 from the region around Dinosaur Provincial Park by Donald Sabo. It is catalogued as APS 1987.12.

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossilfriday #fossils #nodosaur #dinosaurs #alberta