Getting ready for the "dig" part of the #DinoShindig at the Carter County Museum

Wyrex welcomes you to #DinoShindig 2026!

#FossilFriday Triceratops dentary with tyrannosaur toothmarks at the Carter County Museum #DinoShindig

Fun! :-(

#FossilFriday #SurvivingEarth The Ordovician armored fish Sacabambaspis (in the collections of the Department of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology)

#FossilFriday #SurvivingEarth The boomerang-head lepospondyl Diplocaulus @denvermuseumns.bsky.social

#FossilFriday Rudist reef in Oman (from Schumann & Steuber 1997) (reused from a few years ago, in honor of #SurvivingEarth)

#FossilFriday In honor of #SurvivingEarth, the stem-primate Plesiadapis @amnh.org

#FossilFriday The Triassic predator Prestosuchus @amnh.org

#FossilFriday In honor of #SurvivingEarth, the giant gorgonopsian Inostrancevia

#FossilFriday The Cretaceous coelacanth Mawsonia @ummnh.bsky.social

#FossilFriday Saurolophus (with assorted other iguanodontians around it) at the Fukui Dinosaur Museum

To be fair, cladistics owes a lot to historical linguistics/philology, which was part of JRRT's professional expertise. Although, TBF, there are a lot of "not-A" type groups ("paraphyletic", in a sense) among the Elvish kindreds:

It's #worldturtleday! Shellebrate our chelonian friends!

#FossilFriday A whole mess of mammoths at The Mammoth Site, South Dakota

#FossilFriday The sail-backed herbivorous synapsid Edaphosaurus @ummnh.bsky.social

#FossilFriday The Miocene mysticete Eobalaenoptera

That talking point, though is NOT supported. Indeed, as their own chart shows, Early Permian pO2 levels are at their maximum, and mid-Permian is comparably high to the Pennsylvanian.

#FossilFriday For May Day, it's Maiasaura! New mount at the @museumoftherockies.bsky.social

Nope. They are found articulated like this!

#FossilFriday The long-snouted stem-whale Kutchicetus, at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Japan

New giant fossil cephalopod from Japan, you say?

#FossilFriday The leptoceratopsid Prenoceratops at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis

#ArtemisII May the return to Earth today be safe.

#FossilFriday Hadrosaurus foulkii skeleton at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia

#ArtemisII is on their way home

#ArtemisII is on its way back home.

#ArtemisII Lunar flyby today. If you get a chance, take a look up at the Moon today. Somewhere in your field of vision are four fellow human beings.

#ArtemisII is getting close!

May the Easter Eurypterid bring you good things!