The United States has been a center for #dinosaur discoveries since the bad old days of Cope and Marsh. But few finds rival the scale of Howe's Quarry in Wyoming.

In a 1934 expedition lead by Barnum Brown, a team from the AMNH dug up over 4,000 specimens in six months. The dig was also one of the earliest to create a bone map, showing the placement of each #fossil. None of the specimens were removed until the map was complete and it has become a standard practice in #paleontology

#geology

Chuir mé ríomhphost chuig duine inniu agus mé ag obair (as Béarla). Fuair mé freagra as Gaeilge as bhí comhfhreagras againn. Ní raibh aon choinne leis ach ba mhaith ann é!

Got a nice surprise today in work when an email was replied to in Irish!

#100daysofGaeilge ❤️ #Gaeilge 30/100

So there was draw a dinosaur day and Tarbosaurus is one of my fav dinos. I illustrated this guy a few times already and each time he gets more familiar to draw.

I did this art with a genuine spark of energy. I miss my energy so much :')

#dinosaurs #tarbosaurus #cartoon #animation #MastoArt #digitalart #paleoart #tyrannosaurus #portrait #CharacterDesign

Me on Facebook: See a friends work of art like it.

Facebook: Here is a flood of similar art day after day until your vomit and you'll never see your friend again.

Me on Mastodon: See a friends work of art and I like it.

Mastodon: Business as usual until friend posts another work of art and I see that and like that.

Insect fossils blow me away because squishy things typically don't preserve well, except under specific conditions. This one, from the Messel Pit in Germany, is exceptional: It's a fly with a belly full of pollen.

Yellow blobs in the image on the far left are the last meal this fly ate 48 MILLION YEARS AGO. Its body is so well-preserved that scientists could even tell what type of pollen it was 😱 https://cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00232-3 #FossilFriday #fossil #insects #paleontology