Why do you have to be this way, Camptosaurus?

Most dinosaurs are elegant animals. Tyrannosaurs are elegant biting machines. Chasmosaurs are elegent. Brachiosaurs are hella elegant. Even ankylosaurs have their own robust elegance. And then there's Camptosaurus. Why do you have to be so lumpen? What's your head doing down there? What the heck are your ilia doing up there? What are they even supposed to be, TV aerials?

http://svpow.com/2023/08/19/why-do-you-have-to-be-this-way-camptosaurus/

Yesterday we stopped at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument to make a special delivery. @westernsciencecenter has produced 9 #3dprints of the #Eocene rhino relative Zaisanamynodon for the monument. The original specimens are currently on display at the Thomas Condon Visitor Center, but they are on loan from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology and are being returned to their home museum. Our 3D prints will take their place in the exhibit.

#paleontology #museum #exhibit #fossil #3dprinting

It’s #FossilFriday! This is a #3dprint of the cranium of Zaisanamynodon, from the #Eocene of Oregon. Amynodontids like this are an extinct family related to the rhinoceroses.

This print was made @westernsciencecenter based on a specimen from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. The original was found in what is now John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Next week we’re delivering this and other prints to them for their exhibits and programming. #paleontology #scicomm #npspaleo #3dprinting