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Here's the giant lemur Megaladapis at the AMNH #FossilFriday
Found another angle of the ANSP's then-new marine reptile exhibit from a 1998 History Channel documentary, showing the big map of the inland seas of the Cretaceous. You can see the Tylosaurus cast (now, of course, known as Tylosaurus rex!) dangling in from the top left
Nothing else I can say about the big man that others haven't already. Thanks for the movies and so much more besides
Thomas Jefferson's Megalodon tooth for #FossilFriday. Interestingly, not the only Meg tooth in the ANSP collections formerly owned by a notable historic figure...
We still have his fossil collection in Philadelphia. He was fascinated by mastodons and believed they were still alive in the American West — even told Lewis & Clark to keep an eye out for them
Big day today. This post will make sense in a few years
Sandy the Pachycephalosaurus* in the spotlight for #FossilFriday. The original skeleton is on display in Japan *terms and conditions (Stygimoloch) apply
For #FossilFriday: the Charlotte Whale, a fossil beluga found in the Champlain Valley in Vermont and now in the Perkins Geology Museum at UVM
The local library is getting rid of a portion of their old state geological survey collection, so I managed to snag some of it. This 40-page bulletin from 1990 appears to be an early version of what would become the classic book When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey...
Two icons for #FossilFriday: Hadrosaurus and Corythosaurus, side by side at the Academy of Natural Sciences
Shameless theropodposting for engagement this #FossilFriday: the first Giganotosaurus (cast) mounted in America, on display at the ANSP during the late 90s-2000s. Fond memories of this one...
As of today the Academy has unexpectedly acquired a second T. rex
Is the latest Cretaceous greensand of southern New Jersey the Navesink Formation or the New Egypt Formation? Nobody seems to agree. But this is #FossilFriday not #SedimentologySaturday so here's Taprosphys sulcatus from the Edelman Fossil Park (which, embarrassingly, I still haven't visited yet)
150 years ago today: the Academy of Natural Sciences moves into its current building on Logan Square. (The original Victorian exterior was given a Federal-style makeover in the 1910s.)
Well, I can humbly offer one more Corythosaurus (Levi) to the mix, in case you were running low on those....
Seems like as good a time as any to bring back this decade-old OC
I will not be posting any of those cowardly birds for World Penguin Day (GO FLYERS) but here's their namesake: "penguin" was originally another name for the now-extinct great auk of the North Atlantic
For #FossilFriday, the last of Cope's Jurassic fossils to remain in Philadelphia: a bunch of crumbly apatosaurine bones, now at the Wagner Free Institute of Science. I'm starting to suspect why he donated these ones and didn't keep them in his own collection
I mean, putting Haddy in with the marine reptiles WOULD be a good way to demonstrate bloat-and-float but something tells me the museum wouldn't want their star dinosaur to be reduced to shark bait :P (That spot has also since been filled in with a couple sea turtles)
The JPI Dinopedia is actually the reason I have this username. Seeing Tim Bradley's Diplotomodon on the website was the first time I learned that New Jersey had more dinosaurs than just Hadrosaurus & Dryptosaurus