Danny Anduza

@paleontologizing

Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at

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Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 11d

It's 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 C) in the shade out here in the Utah desert, but we've got iguanodont bones to excavate Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're up to and watch us all go insane in the heat

Photo of a digital thermometer (reading 110 degrees Fahrenheit) next to a plastic Iguanodon model under a shade tarp, with our quarry in the background

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 12d

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's just a handful of the jackets we've pulled out of our bonebed over the past couple weeks. Unnamed (new!) iguanodont dinosaur Earliest Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, ~142 mya BLM federal public land Grand County, Utah, USA

Selfie photo of me with about a dozen small plaster field jackets containing the bones of a new iguanodont dinosaur

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 13d

Don DeBlieux's talk in Moab was a big success yesterday -- and Paleontologizing got a shoutout!

Cool-looking printed poster advertising Don's talk

Photo of Don gesticulating toward the title of his talk on the screen: "More! Moenkopi Madness!"

Photo of screen admonishing talk attendees to watch us on Paleontologizing

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 17d

TOO HOT

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 19d

THAT'S BETTER. Tune in now @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing as I uncover more of this bone

Photo of a newly-uncovered bone (identity unclear, but could be skull or limb or pelvis) in the ground, with scratch awl tool and plastic Iguanodon for scale

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 19d

It's still early in the excavation of our iguanodont quarry and I don't have any impressive bones to show you yet for #FossilFriday -- -- so here's a plastic model of Iguanodon instead. Fingers crossed we get into the Bone Zone soon 🤞🏽

Photo of the (admittedly really lovely) Iguanodon model from PNSO, held in my hand in front of our quarry in the earliest Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, about 142 million years old. White shade tarps cover the quarry, and rocky bluffs just toward the blue sky in the background.

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 21d

Positively CHILLY in the quarry this morning

Photo of my hand holding a digital thermometer reading ninety-three degrees Fahrenheit in the shade

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 21d

When you're the junior member of an esteemed group

Photo of a box of "DINO AGE" assorted plastic dinosaurs -- stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, spinosaurs, sauropods, and more -- at the supermarket in Green River, Utah

Close-up of the same box, focusing in on a little plastic goose among the big dinosaurs

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 24d

Sunday mornings are for digging dinosaurs

Selfie photo of me in our earliest Cretaceous iguanodont & ankylosaur quarry, with the crew digging behind me under our shade tarps

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· 26d

I'm back to digging in the earliest Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation near Moab with the Utah Geological Survey -- and you're welcome to tune in, watch, and chat @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me, in sunglasses and sun helmet, in front of our shade-tarped dinosaur quarry out in the Utah desert

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 12

This might seem hot, but rest assured it'll cool down by the time I arrive there on Tuesday (the forecast says it'll only be 103)

Screenshot from weather website with the current temperature in Moab, Utah. Current temperature, at 12:20pm, is 104 degrees Fahrenheit, with a forecasted high of 107. That's over 41 degrees Celsius

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 11

Birds become even more delightful when you think about how they're *literally* dinosaurs

"Your Turkey is a Dinosaur" infographic, showing a Velociraptor and turkey skeleton side-by-side, with text describing the myriad osteological characters which birds inherited from their dinosaur ancestors. I'm not about to type out all the text on it since it would make the Dr. Bronner's graphic designer go "That's a little wordy, man"

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 10

We'll be discussing FOUR newly-published dinosaurs that we didn't have time for yesterday (Kank, Phosphatotitan, Kryptohadros, and Gongshuilong) PLUS interviewing @denverfowler.bsky.social about the much-overhyped tyrannosaur auction happening in NYC next week. Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office. Behind me are several 3D-printed tyrannosaur skulls, a Trierarchuncus alvarezsaur model, a baby Triceratops skeleton (3D-printed too, of course) and other paleontological miscellanea

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 10

It can't just be dinosaurs *all* the time. For this week's #FossilFriday, here are some lovely fossil leaves from the Late Cretaceous of Wyoming. Plant fossils like this are crucial for understanding these ancient ecosystems, giving us information about everything from rainfall to C02 levels

Photo of a freshly-pried-up slab of sandstone, with the impressions of several leaves (they look almost like laurels to me), being held in the hand of a paleobotanist on my crew

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 9

*Several* new dinosaur genera and species were published while I was out traveling and doing fieldwork, so we'll be covering those today! Join us to discuss Changzhousaurus, Cryptarcus, Eopinacosaurus, Gongshuilong, Jian, Kank, Kryptohadros, Phosphatotitan & Uragasaurus twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office. The wall behind me features 3D-printed skulls of Tethyshadros, Tsaagan, and Euoplocephalus, a model of Edmontosaurus, plus framed figures from various paleontological papers

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 8

Somebody missed me while I was away 😍 But I'm back in the office, doing some casual #paleontology Q&A, discussing the newest dinosaur auction swindle, and looking at that new leatherback turtle video on YouTube. Join us and chitchat about natural history @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of my landlord Sweetie Pie (a longhair domestic cat) giving me an affectionate face nuzzle while I'm streaming from my office on the CAT CAM

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 6

NO no no NO

Lazy "A.I."-generated T-shirt for sale with a badly-rendered theropod head and "Iguanodon" in shiny chrome letters above

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 4

And how much has Burian's Tarbosaurus been supplanted by the ubiquitous Papo T. rex nowadays?

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jul 1

"D'you hear something?"

Photo of me at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, looking off to the right, as a Tyrannosaurus skeleton with toothy jaws agape looms right up behind as if to eat me

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 30

Always nice to see the paleontology motifs on the floor at @denverairport.bsky.social

Photo of a ?brass basal sauropodomorph dinosaur design embedded in the floor, with my boot for scale

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 29

I'm briefly BACK HOME from Wyoming & Montana fieldwork, and doing a quick office-based stream and some #paleontology Q&A. Join us and hang out @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, flanked by a "Nanotyrannus" skull (there's more controversy brewing over whether that taxon is actually valid), plus various bits of Montana, Wyoming, and Laramidian miscellanea in the background

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 26

Nice to see a familiar face while passing through town Riverton, Wyoming

Photo of me and Sinclair gas station sauropod

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 24

It's my last day streaming from Montana this year, and I'm back at the dinosaur bonebed site Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 24

Screenshot of my cancellation, with a comment explaining why

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 21

I had to take the day off from streaming fieldwork to patch a flat tire, but at least I still got to hang out with some *living* dinosaurs. The way that cliff swallows bank and turn in the wind with their wings swept back reminds me of a harrier jump jet, but like 100x more impressive

Photos of American cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) in flight

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 20

There's bones *and* eggs of a duckbill dinosaur coming out of the quarry today, and they're not slowing down Tune in and chat with us as we work @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me in front of our dinosaur egg quarry as crew members dig in the background

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 19

We've got some heavy equipment help with overburden at Jack's Bonebed site today, but the fossil excavation work is still meticulous as ever. Tune in and watch us LIVE @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me, in sunglasses and field hat, in front of the quarry back wall and a big Volvo excavator moving overburden rock

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 18

I'm digging at an *impressive* bonebed (hadrosaurs, troodontids, dromaeosaurs, ceratopsians, PTEROSAURS) in northern Montana today with @denverfowler.bsky.social ...and you can tune in LIVE and ask us questions @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Selfie photo of me, in field garb, in front of the "Jack's Bonebed" quarry with crew mates working in the background

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 15

Ran into an old friend in Thermopolis yesterday

Selfie photo of me and a Stegosaurus sculpture

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing· Jun 15

I'm back in the Treasure State! For the next couple weeks I'll be dishing out paleontology fieldwork livestreams from Montana's Judith River Formation, so stay tuned