Amber “Dino Lady” Redfield
@palaeoamber
🦕 Palaeontologist & Fossil Preparator 🌋 Geoscience & Edu Collections at ANSP ⚒️ Summer digging in the Morrison Fm 🦜 Living with a modern dinosaur ⛺️ @amberredfield.bsky.social 📰 amberredfield.com & palaeoamber.com
Which will be my demise: A) 100°+ Moab heat w/ wildfire smoke hanging over the quarry. B) Dino fanantics treating specimens like video game updates. C) Palaeo accts that take one sentence from a 40p paper & make it clickbait. D) B & C. It’s made you pull your hair out already. E) All the above.
Never meet your heroes? Well what if it’s a battle scarred, meat eating machine?! Yeah I’m talking about Big Al (MOR 693). As a kid watching The Ballad of Big Al, how could you not look up to this massive theropod?! Infected toe, broken ribs, weird vertebrae, a hole in the shoulder? What a legend!
Last week I visited the rex, the myth, the legend… SUE! I’ve seen @suethetrex.bsky.social many times over the years at The Field Museum, but this was at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social in her new stance! I was so inspired & felt compelled to bow to the tyrant Iizard king 💜🦖🦴 Happy Unearth Day!
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Where are my DK Dinosaur Hunters at?! This game immersed me into a world as a kid (7 yr), and now is my career (36 yr)! I took the audio from the game and meshed it to our Dino Hall at ANSP. I need this game revamped for the new generation. 🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🦴🏛️ #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #fossil
With all the dire wolf stories out there, how about we take a moment to enjoy some quiet time alone in Dinosaur Hall with the ghosts of the Mesozoic Era. Here we have a Chasmosaurus and Corythosaurus at ANSP. 🧪👩🏻🔬🦖🌎 #paleosky #dinosaurs #museum #naturalhistory #paleontology #geoscience #sciencemuseum
I made a meme (?) during these dire times. 🧪🧬👩🏻🔬 #paleosky #paleontology #direwolf #sciencenews
Working on a video about the Dire Wolf frenzy that is taking over social media… especially the misinformation. They’re still extinct. My museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, does have the Joseph Leidy type specimen (not 📷) of Aenocyon dirus & I have a tattoo of one! Stay tuned for its release 🧪🧬👩🏻🔬
Some good rockhounding yesterday. I’ll be back to this location Saturday to film some long-form videos for my YT channel as I start my journey into online science communication (on top of my museum scientific job)! 🧪🌎👩🏻🔬 #minerals #geology #earthscience #rocks #geoscience
If you’re a geologist, palaeontologist, rockhounder… you know this is a core practice. I mean how else am I supposed to get my daily iron intake? Eating spinach?! No way! 🧪 🌎 🪨 👩🏻🔬 #rockhounding #geology #paleosky #paleontology #sciencememe #geosky #ironstone #sedimentary #fieldwork #geoscience #rocks
My Academy of Natural Sciences colleague, Mariangeles, speaking at Stand Up For Science rally in Philly. So proud of my team! 🧪🧬🔬👩🏻🔬📷🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #standupfightback #marchforscience #philadelphia #scientists #research #naturalhistorymuseum #sciencemuseum #researchmuseum
Stand Up For Science. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 🧪👩🏻🔬🏛️🧬🔬📷 #sciencenotsilence #standupfightback
#standupforscience2025 is tomorrow (Philly for me) and I’m up trying to think of good memes to put on posters to show my rage through ✨ art, especially with Tiktaalik being part of ANSP 👩🏻🔬 🧪
They had a blast (as did I), and I’m always so appreciative of these moments where we can really bring the science right to the kids, in hopes to inspire the next generation of scientists. 🏛️ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia. #naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum
Some of the most famous dinosaurs are housed here at ANSP, along with many other important prehistoric specimens collected by famous scientists and citizens! Hadrosaurus, Dryptosaurus, Elasmosaurus, etc… #paleosky #fossilprep #museumcollections #geoscience #paleontology #fossils #sciencemuseum
Last week, Buddy and I took our Friends Select 2nd graders on a tour of Vert Paleo with Ned to see what it’s like in the museum collections, how we categorise and store fossils, and even get to look at some specimens up close! 🧪 🌿 ⚒️ 🍎 🧬 🌎 👩🏻🔬 🪨
They didn’t respond to who did the scans when asked. I also cannot seem to find any research (yet) on these and my alarm bells are going off just from what I’ve seen on social media. Can anyone expand on what these are? Lab grown crystals with preserved specimens? That’s my gut instinct right now..
HELP A SCIENTIST OUT. I’ve started to see these “trona frogs” popping up on social media since the Tucson Show. Some selling for 2K. I asked a page (that was selling them) if there were any research papers; they replied not yet, but said scans were done to show they’re real? Cont. 🧪⛏️⚒️🐸🧬👩🏻🔬🧬🧫🔬
If you see this, post a skeleton: One of our Paleopalooza events at ANSP where I did tours of Dino Hall all about Jurassic Park, Fossil Prep, and how dinosaurs are mounted for exhibits like ours. Of course I had to include Tyrannosaurus rex at the end of the presentation! 🧪 👩🏻🔬 🍎 🌎 🦖 ⛏️
Been a busy few days but here are some nice local minerals I will be displaying soon: iron stained limonite quartz and some sort of goethite/hematite underneath that I haven’t really inspected yet. Anyone else wanna take a guess? Gotta love rock hounding/collecting. 🧪🪨⛏️ #geosky #geology #geoscience
Friday I attended the Super Bowl Eagles parade here in Philly. Go Birds! Go Dinosaurs! My best shot 📸🏈🟢 If there is to be a revolution, I think Philadelphia is the perfect origin. If we can come out like this for football, we can do it to fight against fascism and oligarchies ruining our country.
I’m currently trying to read this paper BUT I have a modern bird stopping me… video to come soon 😂
Oh hey, I heard it’s #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience and I am horrible at making posts consistently on social media cause I’m too busy making funny faces and staring at rocks all day! 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ 🍎 🧬 🌎 #paleosky #geoscience #womeninstem #womeninscience #fossilprep #museumeducation #minerals
How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look:
Omg YES I did this but for my Dino presentation. I think everyone should dress for the event like this 🤪
Snapshots from today. A variety of metamorphic rocks including schist, gneiss, metasandstone, quartz, & a TON of phyllite (a Major in the Fm). My BF didn’t want to spend 8 hours here, so I will do some investigating to see if the “Monkey Rock” outcrop is truly sedimentary! What do you think? 2/2