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Today’s skele is: Sue the T-Rex Fossil!
“At more than 40 feet long and 13 feet tall at the hip, SUE is physically the largest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen discovered, out of more than 30 T. rex skeletons that have been found. SUE is also the most complete—around 90 percent.”-The Field Museum
Christmas present for my cousin, Sue rises from the grave!
Not art, but just a fossil I really want people to see because I like it. This right here is the holotype of Dawndraco. To my understanding, it’s either its own thing, pteranodon, or geosternbergia. So yeah, it’s a massive can of worms. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful fossil in my opinion, and I love visiting it as often as possible.
Another fossil, because drawing is hard when university is existing. So, with that, have this little Precambrian lad. I was rather excited to see this thing, since up until that point, I’d never seen any Precambrian fossils whatsoever. I just think the Precambrian fauna is so beautiful, so I’m posting it here!
Alright, terribly sorry drawings aren’t being done too quickly, uni do be pressuring me a lot. In the meantime, have this graptolite. I personally find these animals quite beautiful, which is primarily why I post these fossils lol. Also, ignore the light, it unfortunately exists
Calcite pseudomorph after fossilized Coral (Pleistocene) - Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida
This Trilobite walked 6 inches 600 million years ago to send us all a dick pic
We’re going BIG this Fossil Friday. Like, really big. 🦕At 122 ft (37.2 m) long, Patagotitan mayorum is the Museum’s largest dinosaur on display and one of the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth! This gigantic herbivore, which lived some 95 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous, was heavier than 10 African elephants—tipping the scales at roughly 70 tons. In fact, The Titanosaur is so big that it barely fits in the Museum’s halls: It’s longer than the gallery it sits in—and its head, which would graze the ceiling, extends outwards toward the elevator banks! We're open daily from 10 am-5:30 pm! Plan your visit.
Photo: © AMNH
Research alert! A new study finds that an extremely well-preserved fossil of Triarthrus eatoni from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. By making comparisons with another well-preserved trilobite species, Olenoides serratus from British Columbia, researchers from the Museum and Nanjing University in China have proposed a model for how appendages were attached to the head in relation to the grooves in the exoskeleton.
“The number of these segments and how they are associated with other important traits, like eyes and legs, is important for understanding how arthropods are related to one another, and therefore, how they evolved,” said Melanie Hopkins, curator and chair of the Museum’s Division of Paleontology.
Research alert! A new study finds that an extremely well-preserved fossil of Triarthrus eatoni, a trilobite found in upstate New York, has an additional set of legs underneath its head! What did researchers learn from this discovery? Find out with Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins, who coauthored the research. Read more.
This Fossil Friday is a blast from the past! Snapped circa 1959, this photo depicts Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops on display in the Museum’s Hall of Late Dinosaurs. These iconic dinosaurs are still on display at the Museum, but they now sit in separate halls. You can find T. rex in the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs—saurischians are characterized by grasping hands, in which the thumb is offset from the other fingers. Triceratops is in the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs, which displays dinosaurs that are characterized by a backward-pointing extension of the pubis bone. This bone was thought to have helped support the enormous stomachs that these animals needed to digest masses of tough vegetation!
Photo: Image no. ptc-884 / © AMNH Library
