YA Author 🦖 Fossil preparator 🦕 Professional college student wrangler 🎓 I'd rather be hiking 🥾 she/her 💖💜💙 IG: @kbrookemt
Montana, USA
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My first T.rex tooth!!! Not a huge one, but I love the little guy so much!!! 🦖🦷💕
@NDGSPaleo
It’s been a while since I watched a movie from my Katy-catches-up-on-the-classics list, so up next…
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Just me savoring the moment before I first get to read the book that teenage-Katy so desperately needed.
Thank you, thank you, @erinhahn_author for writing this. 💙
I FINALLY figured one out!
You might say it made me happy as a clam.
#Paleomoji
New #Paleomoji clues dropping!
Can you guess this supersized fossil animal?
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Two clues, either should lead you to the answer! (Hard so clues to come)
Please share! Drop hints and victory claims below 👇
Follow for more #scicomm : answers on #FossilFriday
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But… then I wouldn’t be a Gemini??? 🤷♀️
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I inadvertently won a large quantity of tri-tip at a charity auction (don’t ask— I could NOT let that smug white-cowboy-hat-guy outbid me).
Anyway, now I get to figure out what to do with it. I think my first experiment was a success.
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The Tate Geologic museum has a monster of a specimen that’s almost 6 feet long. This was a hefty turtle!
Can confirm: @AmyLynnAtwater is amazing at finding mammal fossils.
#mammalsrule
First two finds of today's field work! @AmyLynnAtwater found the peccary, and I found the bunny! #NPSPaleo
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Wow. This is a gorgeous specimen and just stunning prep work. 10/10
Axestemys splendida is an extinct soft-shelled turtle found in freshwater and brackish water deposits. Fossils of this species exhibit variation in jaw robustness, suggesting diverse dietary preferences among individuals (e.g., hard snails and clams versus soft fish).
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My nieces absolutely devoured this engaging #NatTalk about counting T.rex.
The 11yo now wants to be a “bone paleontologist” like @AshPoust. 😂
The 7yo wants to know more about what a “fido jello” (phylogenetic) tree is. 🤣
SciComm working it’s magic.
Virtual #NatTalk TOMORROW: How Rare is Rare? Tallying T. rex. 🦖 The fossil record is famously incomplete, so how do we reconcile this with incredible fossil finds? And what's the latest with T. rex? Find out 8/31 at 6 PM with #TheNat's very own @AshPoust. sdnhm.org/calendar/nattalks-…
This makes me really really really want an ankylosaur terrarium.
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One with the deep woods.
The #Borealopelta.
A hidden dragon.
Two shoulder lances.
A fortress and sturdy as steel.
A steadfast jouster.
A narrow muzzle
Eating ferns in the ashes.
A veggie-saurus.
#Ankylosaur #AnkylosaurWeek #AnkylosaurAugust #PaleoThemeWeek #Zuul #DinoZuul
It's time for our PalaeoPoemsPrompt! It's also #AnkylosaurWeek, so we're making it about these awesome armoured animals!
Reply with a short poem about ankylosaurs. One of our favourites is the nodosaur Borealopelta @RoyalTyrrell! #FossilFriday
ALT A photo of the fossil skeleton of Borealopelta, an armoured nodosaurid ankylosaur dinosaur. The skeleton is grey-brown in colour, sitting atop a cream coloured platform with its head directed towards the right. It's bones are not visible as this is a mummified dinosaur. Instead it is covered in skin and the large spikes and boney knobs that make up its armored body. The spikes are especially long on the shoulders. It almost appears to be sleeping.
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Before saying yes to something, ask yourself: will I hate this with my whole soul when the deadline/event arrives
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It’s #AnkylosaurWeek, so I would be remiss not to post about @ROMtoronto superstar Zuul crurivastator for #FossilFriday. Here’s a never-before-seen pic of me looking waaaay too happy as the incredible back of the beast is being revealed mid-prep. Amazing work by @ResearchCasting.
Heard it was #InternationalDogDay this week so here’s one of the bone-crushing variety for #FossilFriday!
The cast is of a borophagine who lived in Montana ~15mya. I painted it up for @AmyLynnAtwater who is writing the paper on this bad boy!
ALT Girl holding up the skull of a fossil bone-crushing dog.
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Seeing the incredible preservation of #DinoZuul never gets old!
Just look at this smashy smashy tail club and tell me ankylosaurs are not the raddest dinos ever.
The wonderfully wonky, lopsided tail club knob of the ankylosaur Zuul crurivastator, from the upper Judith River Formation, #Montana, 76 million years old. #DinoZuul @ROMtoronto @VictoriaArbour
