Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs ⚒️🧪

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.242238

#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/

#FossilFriday Reconstructed mount of Irritator challengeri. #IrritatorbelongstoBrazil.
🧪⚒️

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/neuroanatomy-of-irritator-challengeri/

#Lovecraft and the Mountains of Madness. #WorldBookDay
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/halloween-special-lovecraft-and-the-mountains-of-madness/

The evolution of avian cranial kinesis https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/the-evolution-of-avian-cranial-kinesis/ #DinosaurEvolution, #EarthScience, #Ichthyornis, #OriginOfBirds, #Paleoneurology

⚒️🧪 Egg assigned to the basal sauropodomorph Mussaurus. Image credit: Diego Pol #HappyEaster

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/the-nature-of-the-first-dinosaur-eggs/

#FossilFriday Mary Ann Woodhouse and the discovery of Iguanodon https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/mary-ann-woodhouse-and-the-discovery-of-iguanodon/ #EarthScience, #HistoryOfScience, #Iguanodon, #MaryMantell, #WomenInScience

Introducing Duonychus tsogtbaatari https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/introducing-duonychus-tsogtbaatari/ #Cretaceous, #DinosaurEvolution, #EarthScience, #Mongolia, #Palaeobiology, #Therizinosauria

A Song of Ice and Fire: History of Earth’s surface temperature https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-485-million-year-history-of-earths-surface-temperature/ by @Ferwen

A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature: Emily Judd et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705

"A new study offers the most detailed overview of the planet climate history... The integrated data indicates that Earth’s temperature has varied between a minimum of 11°C [Late #Pleistocene; 129 to 11.7 ka] and a maximum of 36°C (#Turonian; 93.9 to 89.39 Ma) over the past 485 million years."

#FossilFriday A Song of Ice and Fire: 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature
🧪⚒️ https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-485-million-year-history-of-earths-surface-temperature/

The Surprising Challenges of Using Prehistoric Diversity to Understand Life Today 🧪⚒️ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-many-dinosaur-species-roamed-earth-its-surprisingly-hard-to-know/

September 23, 1832, Darwin recovered his first fossil at Punta Alta (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He collected a considerable number of fossil mammals from South America. Those discoveries sparked the theory of #evolution
#histsci 🧪⚒️

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/darwin-and-the-strangest-animal-ever-discovered/

Forgotten women of #Paleontology: Julia Anna Gardner and the Dungeon Gang https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/forgotten-women-of-paleontology-julia-anna-gardner-and-the-dungeon-gang/ by @Ferwen

"Throughout the World War II, she worked at the Military Geology Unit and became the leader of a group known as The Dungeon Gang. She provided strategic information through analyses of maps, geological information and aerial photographs... Her skills were crucial to detemine the beaches in Japan where the balloon-borne incendiary bombs were launched against US & Canada"

Brain shapes of large-bodied, flightless ratites (Aves: Palaeognathae) emerge through distinct developmental allometries 🧪⚒️ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240765

Forgotten women of Paleontology: Julia Anna Gardner and the Dungeon Gang #WomenInSTEM #histsci

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/forgotten-women-of-paleontology-julia-anna-gardner-and-the-dungeon-gang/

Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70218?fbclid=IwY2xjawFDMNtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfE9xuAQyMdmFaPc9BcHkbBmZw91nfiV2eSPHHFkxb68WOgp87mT7CsfBA_aem_IGjDY9xrgRu1r1B3t-_6-Q

Trophic evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs revealed by dental wear

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51697-9

#FossilFriday Mignon Talbot, American paleontologist & geologist, was born #OTD, 1869. She was the first woman to find & describe a dinosaur: Podokesaurus holyokensis. She was also the first woman to become a member of the Paleontological Society. #WomenInSTEM #histsci 🧪⚒️
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/mignon-talbot-and-the-forgotten-women-of-paleontology/

More precisely:

Using archival data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers mapped the 3D structure of a lava tube beneath the Sea of Tranquility.

Exploring that tube will offer a glimpse into the Moon's ancient, volcanically active past. Just imagine a drone flying around *inside* the Moon!

https://pressroom.unitn.it/comunicato-stampa/existence-lunar-lava-tube-cave-demonstrated #space #science #tech

William Buckland, English geologist & palaeontologist, died #OTD 1856.
On 20 February 1824, he published the first report of a large carnivore animal: the Megalosaurus ⚒️🧪🦖
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/200-years-of-the-great-fossil-lizard-of-stonesfield/