Talking to the DVPS in a few moments online about the Ellisdale fossil site! Since I’m doing it from my office, I can show off some specimens including this large theropod phalanx!
And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Qt...
Dr Dana Ehret
We sent out our Nile Crocodile mount for restoration. It’ll be included in a new upcoming exhibit and needed freshening up!
Talking #cryptozoology and # fossils today! Two of my favorite things
It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.
Here’s a note from the OG Turtle paleontologist Oliver Perry Hay to the NJ State Geologist in 1906. Hay described a fossil turtle from NJ called Amblypeza entellus. The taxon is no longer valid, it is a jr synonym of Taphrosphys sulcatus, but we still retain the holotype and Hay’s note #Fossilfriday
Visited the original carved skull for Haddy, #Hadrosaurus foulkii, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly yesterday! #Leidyiswatching #dinosaur
How do you move a 200 million year old #dinosaur trackway that weighs a few tons? Very carefully!
RIP Lungy 😞 I don’t know how old he was but I had him for about 20 years and he was already a good size, I would guess he was at least 30…. He moved with me from Florida to Jersey to Alabama and back to Jersey again
Mike Burns, paleontologist at Jacksonville State University, who worked on ankylosaurs, passed last week. I knew Mike, travelled with him and took him in the field. A nice and funny man who was way too young and will be missed! #paleontology
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This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!
