Fer Castano

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#FossilFriday The Megalosaurus jawbone, sacrum and femur (Image credit: OUMNH) 🧪⚒️🦖 #histsci

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/200-years-of-the-great-fossil-lizard-of-stonesfield/

Shri rapax, a new velociraptorine dromaeosaurid from Mongolia
🧪⚒️🦖
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/shri-rapax-a-new-velociraptorine-dromaeosaurid-from-mongolia/
#FossilFriday ‘I’m interested in pushing the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat on calm seas. If you’re worried about storms, you shouldn’t be on the ship. Frankly, I find storms exciting.’
Elizabeth Vrba (1942–2025). Image: University of Michigan #womeninSTEM #evolution
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/the-legacy-of-elizabeth-vrba/
#FossilFriday E. Stromer von Reichenbach, German palaeontologist who discovered #Spinosaurus, was born on June 12, 1870 #histsci ⚒️🧪
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/ernst-stromer-and-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/
#FossilFriday In 1828, Mary Anning found the first pterosaur skeleton outside Germany. W. Buckland made the announcement of Mary’s discovery & named Pterodactylus macronyx in allusion to its large claws #WomenInSTEM #MaryAnning
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/mary-anning-and-the-flying-dragon/
Mary Anning, ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’, was born on Lyme Regis #OTD in 1799 #womeninSTEM #histSTM #palaeontology
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/mary-anning-and-the-hunt-of-primeval-monsters/
Mary Anning and the Hunt of Primeval Monsters.

Since the End of the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th, several discoveries of dinosaur remains and other large extinct ‘saurians’, were reported for first time. It was an exciting time ful…

Letters from Gondwana.
Historical perspective on the origin of Dinosauria

In the nineteen century, the famous Victorian anatomist Richard Owen diagnosed Dinosauria using three taxa: Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus, on the basis of three main features: large size…

Letters from Gondwana.
#FossilFriday During #WWII, paleontologist Julia Anna Gardner became the leader of a group known as “The Dungeon Gang” that provided strategic information through analyses of maps, & aerial photographs to the Armed Forces. #WomenInSTEM
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/forgotten-women-of-paleontology-julia-anna-gardner-and-the-dungeon-gang/
Forgotten women of Paleontology: Julia Anna Gardner and the Dungeon Gang

During the World War II, the newly created Military Geology Unit of the Geological Survey recruited 114 professionals, including 88 geologists; 14 were women. Among them was Julia Anna Gardner. The…

Letters from Gondwana.

#FossilFriday Skorpiovenator bustingorryi from the late Cretaceous of Argentina. Museo Municipal Ernesto Bachmann ⚒️🧪

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/the-skull-of-skorpiovenator-bustingorryi/

The skull of Skorpiovenator bustingorryi

The Abelisauridae represents the best-known carnivorous dinosaur group from Gondwana. Their fossil remains have been recovered in Argentina, Brazil, Morocco, Niger, Libya, Madagascar, India, and Fr…

Letters from Gondwana.