Tyler Keillor
@tylerkeillor
Dad, husband, paleoartist. Lab manager for Paul Sereno at University of Chicago Fossil Lab
❤️Baby cardinal (?) visited the tin Triceratops on our back porch this evening- same expression!🤩
What's inside this?? Come find out @ our August 13 Open House (Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm) @ the Fossil Lab, 5437 S. Wabash in Chicago, just West of UChicago campus. See the specimens we've been working on, meet staff & students and hear about new research 🦕🦖⚒️ All are welcome, no RSVP, free parking!
Last night @ our monthly Fossil Lab Open House, I had the great pleasure to meet Michelle Minott, sister of the late Garfield Minott. Garfield’s #paleoart created for @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social of Carcharodontosaurus inspired me to enter the field. Here we pose w/ his Afrovenator #fossilfriday
My dad (age 78) made this great cut-out construction paper art project this evening: 7-4-250 Lady Liberty”s torch is snuffed- A shadow of woe has fallen upon D.C.
Just switched to DuckDuckGo with AI turned off, cutting Google out if possible
Nerding out on Father’s Day with this fantastic book my wife and son picked out : “Godzilla - The First 70 Years”…I love King Ghidora’s original unused blue-green coloration with rainbow wings! Happy day to all the dads out there🦖
Happy Birthday Ben! Enjoy this cool old photo of students taking notes in the FMNH “Hall of the Stone Age of the Old World” at the Neanderthal family at Gibraltar rock shelter diorama, with the post-‘72 figure upgrades (less-stooped postures vs ‘30s originals)
Improving the world in a small way, removed about 100sq/ft of worthless lawn today and installed a native plant garden of 25 perennials (8 species, 4 are keystone) for birds/butterflies/pollinators, from the Ecoplantia roll out garden line. This connects to more native plants in my rain garden 😊
On Earth Day, check out this hellish opening movie sequence: pre-cgi, no miniatures or visual effects used here. Not “Blade Runner”, any guesses? Chicago area, late 1970’s
What a great surprise to receive my copy of @lewislarosa.bsky.social Kickstarter book “Carbon Based” in the mail today! I love it all!! Exhilarating hand-drawn illustrations from cover to cover🤩
Also for #PaleoFest2026, look for my wall-hanging mini-bust of a famous Chicago zoo gorilla, now taxidermied @ FMNH www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/bushman... Please bid this up at the weekend auction to benefit the Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois #SciArt 🦍 Painted plaster cast
#FossilFriday make plans if you’re able to attend #PaleoFest2026, @ Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois Looks like it’ll be another outstanding event! Please bid up this Alioramus altai mini-bust wall-hanging I made for auction during the weekend to benefit this small but mighty regional museum ❤️🦖
#FossilFriday & happy to see coworker & coauthor Erin Fitzgerald’s culmination of fierce fieldwork, ace preparation of difficult material & great paint job on the display-skull, out now w/ Spinosaurus mirabilis, debuting @ Chicago Children’s Museum on March 1 #SciArt
#FossilFriday recently finished a special shell to hold a big heavy specimen vertically (yes for reasons),chain hoist doing the work here slowly lifting ~500lbs. I’m hyperfocused on stuff like this much of the time but important to step back, note my privileges & grapple w/ injustices in our field 💔
Immense brontothere skull in Field Museums “After the Age of Dinosaurs” temp show. I applaud that Jay Ryan @thebirdmachine.bsky.social was recognized for art throughout. But why not credit Erwin Christman’s art (instead of “public domain”) on the text panel? Beautiful, influential, worth crediting
Hi! Here are photos from a traveling exhibit “Dinosaurs of the Sahara”, when it was in Cleveland, Ohio, USA a few years ago. Jobaria and Nigersaurus!
“We’re gonna need a bigger gravy-boat!” Turkey skull peeks out from behind a T. rex wishbone on Thanksgiving! 🦃🍗🦖
Great to see a display of @restingdinoface.bsky.social new book in the gift shop at the Field Museum for the new temp exhibit there, After the Age of Dinosaurs!
Prepping out a super-hard concretion from between the jugal, quadrate & pterygoid of a huge fossil croc (this is 1 hour sped up), slowly making a dent… speaking of time, later this afternoon on a campus zoom ceremony for staff, I’ll be recognized for my 25 years working @ UChicago 🐊😁
Any paleo folks in the Chicagoland area- this afternoon is our final Open House of 2025 - come see what we’ve been working on at the Fossil Lab, 5437 S. Wabash (just West of UChicago main campus). We’ll continue hosting our monthly Open Houses in the spring of 2026! 🦕🦖
Last night we saw some of the northern lights despite light pollution over Chicagoland!
Outstanding rediscovery! Until I enlarged the image, all I could see was a happy little skull!
Looking forward to reading this new pterosaur study, and fitting that while driving home this afternoon I caught this pterosaur-shaped cloud over Chicago!😎