#state dinosaur

[massachusetts-official]

Thoughts on the Massachusetts Official State Dinosaur?

Lookit this guy, they're perfect.

#massachusetts #ask #state dinosaur #swift footed lizard of holyoke #Podokesaurus holyokensis

[apieters]

Augustynolophus Morrisi

Finally drew a picture of California’s official State Dinosaur, Agustynolophus morrisi, a crested hadrosaur closely related to Saurolophus (it was originally classified as a subspecies) found only in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Apparently, Mesozoic California was a coastal environment, so I drew an Augustynolophus buck taking a stroll on a beach.

#dinosaur #paleoart #state dinosaur #Augustynolophus #Augustynolophus morrisi

[alphynix]

Last week I mentioned the one oddball dinosauriform that had crocodilian-like osteoderm armor, so let's take a look at that one too.

Lewisuchus admixtus lived in what is now northwest Argentina during the late Triassic, around 236-234 million years ago. About 1m long (3'3"), it was an early member of the silesaurids – a group of dinosauriforms that weren't quite dinosaurs themselves, but were very closely related to the earliest true dinosaurs.

(They've also been proposed as instead being early ornithisichians, but we're not getting into that today.)

Much like its later silesaurid relatives Lewisuchus had a long neck and slender limbs, and was probably mainly quadrupedal, possibly with the ability to briefly run bipedally to escape from threats. Its serrated teeth suggest it was carnivorous, likely feeding on both smaller vertebrates and the abundant insects found in the same fossil beds.

Uniquely for an early dinosauriform it also had a single row of bony osteoderms running along its spine. Although it lived at close to the same time as the similarly-armored Mambachiton their last common ancestor was at least 10 million years earlier, and no other early dinosaur precursors with osteoderms are currently known – so this was probably a case of Lewisuchus independently re-evolving the same sort of feature.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #lewisuchus #silesauridae #dinosauriformes #avemetatarsalia #archosaur #reptile #art #the early ornithischian idea is intriguing BUT it's also being pushed by the ornithoscelida gang #so that's a thing #(...i should probably also talk about the state of ornithoscelida at some point; it's been what almost seven years?) #(short version: we still dunno and early dinosaur relationships resolve in multiple equally-likely ways; More Data Is Needed)

[texasthrillbilly]

Ready for the e-clipse.

#dinosaur valley state park #🦖 #glen rose #texas #solar eclipse #tyrannosaurus rex

[hometoursandotherstuff]

 Rex the Dino at Dinosaur Valley State Park (@DinoValleySP) in Glen Rose, Texas wearing his special eclipse glasses.

#funny dinosaurs #dinosaur valley state park #other stuff

[dinodorks]

[ Some of the approximately 75 dinosaur tracks discovered at the site. Photo courtesy of Paul Baker / Friends of Dinosaur Valley State Park. ]

"Drought has dried up part of a river in central Texas, revealing 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks. The prehistoric footprints emerged at Dinosaur Valley State Park, which is located in the town of Glen Rose, southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. As the name suggests, the park already protects other dinosaur footprints. But the tracks that recently emerged are usually hidden under the mud, silt and waters of the Paluxy River. This summer, however, water levels have dipped so low that the prehistoric indentations are now visible. So far, volunteers have counted 75 newly exposed footprints in the parched riverbed. “It has been another very hot, very dry year, so our researchers are trying to take advantage of the drought,” says park superintendent Jeff Davis to the Dallas Morning News’ Sarah Bahari. Two different types of dinosaurs likely made the footprints, according to park officials. One was Acrocanthosaurus, a 15-foot-tall carnivore that weighed approximately 14,000 pounds. As the gargantuan reptile walked around the area on two legs, it left behind the outline of its three-toed feet. The other was Sauroposeidon proteles, which has been the official state dinosaur of Texas since 2009. This long-necked behemoth may have measured up to 100 feet long and weighed closer to 88,000 pounds. It left behind larger, bulbous-shaped tracks that are similar to elephant footprints."

Read more: "Drought Reveals 113-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tracks in Texas" by Sarah Kuta.

#palaeoblr #Dinosaur Valley State Park #Texas #Acrocanthosaurus #Sauroposeidon #Dinosaurs #Cretaceous #Mesozoic #Prehistoric #Extinct #Theropod #Sauropod #Sauroposeidon proteles #Trace fossil #Article #Photo

[candela888]

Countries Tyrannosaur fossils have been found in 🦖

#map #maps #cartography #usa #mexico #latin america #europe #data #americas #latino #america #lgbt #united states #dinosaurs #dinosaur #dinosaurio #China #kazakhstan #Mongolia #Canada #geography #paleontology #t.Rex #t-rex #trex #tyrannosaurid #tyrannosaurus rex #tyrannosaurus #Jurassic world

[ebongawk]

"Baby, baby, baby," Eddie practically shouted as he kicked his way into the apartment. Chrissy jumped from her curled up position on the couch, the book in her hands nearly launched across the room.

"Oh, my God," she laughed breathlessly, laying a hand over her heart. "Eddie, Jesus."

"Sorry," he said, not sounding particularly apologetic at all. "But you will never guess what I found at the store!"

He was holding up a paper grocery sack like it was a trophy, having dropped three other sacks when he barged in, and Chrissy's eyes darted between it and him incredulously.

"Groceries."

"Har, har." The grin still stretched over his cheeks made his sarcastic laughter almost genuine. "No. Well. Yes, but." With a flourish, he tore the paper bag away, revealing another plastic bag beneath. Chrissy blinked at it.

"Chicken nuggets?"

"Dinosaur chicken nuggets!" he shouted, evidently very pleased with his discovery. "The most epically childish thing in existence! One hit of these is guaranteed nostalgia!"

Pursing her lips around a grin, Chrissy shrugged. "I've never had them before."

Eddie looked at her for a long moment. The expression he wore when he wanted to wrap her up in a blanket and coddle her, which slipped into his eyes every time she admitted something sordid about her own childhood.

Instead, he just grinned, his eyes twinkling.

"Oh, sweetheart. You're in for a treat."

...

Two hours later, the oven was just finished baking their costumed chicken.

Eddie and Chrissy were also just finished baking.

She was sitting on the couch again, relaxed and riding the buzz of their shared joint as Eddie set a plate piled high with nuggets on the coffee table. Adorned on either side by ranch dressing, buffalo sauce, and barbecue sauce, he traipsed across the living room to load Predator into the VCR and plop down beside her.

"Dig in, sweetness," Eddie said, easy smile and red-rimmed eyes half-focused as he fast-forwarded through the movie previews. Chrissy leaned forward, plucking the nugget off the top as Eddie grabbed a couple and dipped them into various sauces.

Chrissy stared at the little nugget in her hand.

It was clearly a stegosaurus. The ridges on its back like fish scales and the curve of its spine made it easy to identify. It was ridiculous, how some tiny fried piece of chicken could take on the form of another animal, wasn't it? Even if that animal had been extinct for millions and millions of years. And the stegosaurus would never know that humans created a little snack to emulate its visage. They would never know that humans existed at all.

"Chrissy?" Eddie asked, his mouth half-full of her little stegosaurus's friends. "Baby, what's wrong?"

Her eyes suddenly blurred, and Chrissy let out a hitched breath.

"Oh. Shit. Sweetness." She could feel Eddie's hands on her shoulders, trying to turn her body toward him as she held that tiny little chicken nugget in her palm. Staring at his grainy little body even if she couldn't see him. "Baby, are you okay? Are you having trouble with this kind of food right now? I could make–– Well. Uh. I don't know if I can make anything, but––"

"He's just––" She broke off with another sob, thrusting her hands toward where she assumed Eddie's face was to show him the stegosaurus. "He's just so cute, Eddie! Look at him!"

She couldn't see Eddie through her tears, but she felt his hands squeeze her shoulders once, then twice, as she ran her fingertip over the tiny breadcrumb ridges of the stegosaurus's spine.

"Chrissy––"

"He doesn't even know that he's edible!" she cried. "He's just trying to live his little dinosaur life and be adorable!"

Eddie laughed, bodily pulling her into his arms until she was tucked up against his chest.

"Oh, baby girl," he cooed, rocking her back and forth. "He is pretty cute, isn't he?"

"Yes," she pouted. "He's just–– He's just a baby, Eddie! I can't eat him!"

"He's an herbivore, y'know? He was gonna get eaten in the Jurassic period too. You're just playing your part in the circle of life."

"I'm not a t-rex!" Chrissy retorted, unable to keep from crying harder. "And h-he doesn't deserve that! He's too cute!"

Eddie's laughter rumbled against her, bubbling up from his chest and tucked into her hair. Affronted, Chrissy looked up at him.

"Are you laughing at me?"

"No, princess, no," he said quickly, his nose scrunched up in humor. "No, it's just–– Baby, he's just a nugget. He's not even a real stegosaurus."

"I don't care," she huffed around her own laugh, looking down at the little nugget in her hand. The tears had begun to dry on her cheeks, and she nuzzled into Eddie's chest as she continued holding the stegosaurus close.

"You're literally too adorable for words, Cunningham." She felt the tell-tale sign of lips pressed against her crown as Eddie slowly stroked his fingers up and down her spine. After a moment, he let out a long sigh. "Should I put our reptilian friends away and order a pizza instead?"

"Yes," Chrissy replied, still pouting a little. "We can't eat them, Eddie, they're just babies."

A finger came up beneath her chin, gently tilting her head back until she had to look up at him. Those chocolate eyes she loved so much danced with mirth, lips twisted like he wanted desperately to conceal his smile. Which he was doing a poor job of.

"We'll see how you feel about it when you're sober," he acquiesced. "For now, how does pepperoni and hamburger sound?"

Chrissy grinned, leaning up to kiss him in lieu of an answer.

#hellcheer #eddissy #eddie x chrissy #eddie munson #hellcheer drabble #chrissy x eddie #chrissy cunningham #cw weed #cw marijuana #tw weed #tw marijuana #stranger things #chrissy is just a high crier ok #also the dinosaur chicken nugget wasn't actually invented until 1993 #by the museum of natural history to celebrate the release of jurassic park #but since i didn't explicitly state the time period i guess it doesn't matter #tw eating issues #tw disordered eating #but just a little bit

[saritawolff]

A Patreon request for rome.and.stuff (Instagram) - Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum… that I went a bit overboard with lol. I’ve been waiting for an excuse to draw my favorite ceratopsian, and to digitally adapt my old Pachy marker drawing design.

So! Pachyrhinosaurus! As seen above, there were three known species of Pachyrhinosaurus, living in different locations and eras in Late Cretaceous North America.

The oldest, P. lakustai, was native to the Wapiti Formation of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It’s known for the extra spikes it has at the center of its frill.

The slightly younger P. canadensis was native to the lower Horseshoe Canyon Formation and the St. Mary River Formation of Alberta and northwestern Montana. It was the largest of the three.

The youngest, P. perotorum, was native to the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska. As this ceratopsid seemingly stayed put during the long, dark, cold Alaskan Winters, it likely had adaptations for keeping warm.

The depiction of a “woolly” Pachyrhinosaurus was first popularized by Mark Witton as a speculative work, but the trope has prevailed. While many paleontologists find a heavy feather covering on a centrosaurine to be highly unlikely, and maintain that the animal’s size and homeothermy would have kept it warm enough, we still have no skin impressions to suggest that P. perotorum was fully scaly. So a feather coating is not completely out of the question (though it is unlikely). Still, I love the look of a woolly Pachyrhinosaurus and how it challenges our previous conceptions of non-avian dinosaurs. Stranger things exist in nature. I had to include a “woolly” option, especially since I already use the guy as my avatar on my paleo Instagram account, SaritaPaleo.

Pachyrhinosaurus was particularly unique in that it seemingly traded off something that had previously worked for other ceratopsians, horns, for a large nasal boss instead. For Pachyrhinosaurus, a battering ram worked better than a sword.

It was herbivorous, using its strong cheek teeth to chew tough, fibrous plants. Perhaps during the dark and cold Winters, P. perotorum would have also dug for roots or even scavenged carcasses. At any rate, from observations of their unusually conspicuous growth banding, it appears growth for P. perotorum would have been stunted during the harsh Winter, but was extremely rapid in the warmer months, an adaptation for the Alaskan climate.

The tundra of the Prince Creek Formation housed a surprising amount of diversity. Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum would have lived alongside smaller ceratopsians like Leptoceratopsids, as well as other ornithischians like the pachycephalosaurine Alaskacephale and the hadrosaurid Edmontosaurus. Theropods such as Dromaeosaurus and Saurornitholestes, as well as a yet unidentified giant Troodontid, lived here as well. P. perotorum’s main predator would have been the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus. Small mammals were also somewhat common here, such as Cimolodon, Gypsonictops, Sikuomys, Unnuakomys, and an indeterminate marsupial.

(Btw, the request tier for Patreon starts at only $5 a month. 😉 Link is pinned at the top of my blog.)

#my art #SaritaDrawsPalaeo #Pachyrhinosaurus #Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum #Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai #Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis #Centrosaurines #ceratopsians #ceratopsids #ornithischians #dinosaurs #archosaurs #archosauromorphs #reptiles #Prince Creek Formation #Wapiti Formation #Horseshoe Canyon Formation #St. Mary River Formation #Late Cretaceous #Canada #United States of America

[tree-whispering]

dinosaur valley state park

#mine #100 #nature #nature blogger #nature blog #nature aesthetic #dinosaurs #dinosaur #dinosaurcore #fossil #geology #aesthetic #naturecore #rocks #animals #science #scienceblr #photography #dinosaur valley #dinosaur valley state park #texas #adventure #adventurecore #kidcore

[dinosaursforfossilfuels]

Historically Terrible Air Quality in NYC today, all attributable to climate crisis wildfires in Canada! Fossil Fuel Chaos and Destruction marches on!!!

The glee with which we will greenwash and gaslight about this will also be UNPRECEDENTED. If people and politicians stop ignoring the climate crisis and start making moves toward a phased transition to renewables, it will be majorly bad times for the profit-o-meter at Fossil Fuels HQ.

If the NY State Assembly keeps doing nothing, it will mean majorly bad times for the entire planet, with chaotic weather, mass migrations,ill health and death that will affect people, plants, and Animals World-Wide. The choice on NY HEAT is clear.

#climate emergency #Albany #ny state #smoke #smoke cloud #blowing smoke #extinction #skeleton war #dinosaurs #NYC #Air Quality

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Fossil Friday: Utahraptor!

Remember this chimera? So, it may not be a real Velociraptor but there was a real dromaeosaur this size. It's called Utahraptor and it lived in, well, Utah during the early Cretaceous Period 135-130 million years ago.

It was found in the Cedar Mountain Formation near Moab in 1975 but it didn't get much recognition until 1991. There is currently a "Utahraptor block" that is in the process of being prepped out and has yielded remains of baby to adult Utahraptors (along with two iguanodontids).

Utahraptor is the state dinosaur of Utah and Utahraptor State Park was officially created in 2021 where the block was discovered.

#fossils #paleontology #dinosaur #fun facts #utahraptor #utah #cedar mountain formation #state park

[himejoshiangels]

GYAH!! baby robin duke thoughts ailing me once again..while Bruce does most of the heavy work during missions he'd mainly get down to unpacking the mystery, solving puzzles and finding weakpoints

when he's not robining he's at his local library reading fantasy books and doodling dragons and dinosaurs (the closest thing to irl dragons he could find)

#do u think he still wants to be an archeologist? < which is canon as stated in we are robin #fo u think he misses his dinosaur poster in him and his parents old apartment.. #the signal #duke thomas #thought bubbles #baby bats

[taffywabbit]

i've been playing through the leaked N64 prototype build of Dinosaur Planet (that rareware game that got turned into Starfox Adventures on the gamecube later) over the past couple nights and i gotta say... i think people gave the gibberish alien voice acting in Adventure a bit more hate than it deserved? like don't get me wrong, it WAS hilariously awkward and impossible to take seriously, but i'd take that shit ANY day over having to listen to... a handful of british people doing the most inscrutable attempts at racist accents i've maybe EVER heard in a video game??? like holy FUCK it's bad y'all. in fact the entire chunk of the game in Swapstone Circle is pretty much fully unsalvageable. the music, the iconography, the way the NPCs talk and are dressed, the literal most basic tropes of the storyline itself in that area... good grief, it's no wonder that entire chunk of the game was cut from the final product. absolutely wild that anyone at Rare thought that shit was okay to include, even 20+ years ago

#buny text #dinosaur planet #the game itself IS like. incredibly impressive for an N64 title #even in its incomplete and janky state #and i AM having fun for the most part (when it's not crashing/softlocking/etc) #but i am also very glad to be done with that area #i was like 'oh boy i get to play as krystal again yay' #and then i saw the totem poles and went 'uh oh' #and then i got close to one and the dynamic music changed to a shitty sampled chant and i was like 'OH NO' #and THEN i came back from cape claw and met the lightfoots and it was like i was being hit with a sledgehammer repeatedly for 20 minutes #turns out some things left on the cutting room floor are there for a reason #rare made some of the best games of that entire decade but it sadly still couldn't save them from being painfully british game devs #with everything that entailed in the late 90s (random bursts of casual bigotry inserted for humor) #sorry these tags got away from me. hello. i hope your day is going well

[simonh]

Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Thomas Hawk

#America #South Dakota #USA #United States #United States of America #Wall Drug #billboard #dinosaur #flickr

[oifaaa]

Damian Wayne being possessed by the evil spirit of Joe Chill you know the man who killed Bruce Wayne's parents isn't something I ever thought would happen in dc comics but you know what it has and now we all gotta live with it

#Dc #Dc comics #Spoilers #That's right this is an actual spoiler #It happens #future state gotham #Future state Gotham spoilers #Damian Wayne #Joe Chill #wednesday spoilers #You really think the vampire book or the dinosaur justice league book #Would be the goofist shit from dc this year #But they actually make sense for what they are #Future state Gotham just got board at some point #And is now doing what ever the hell it wants