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🦌🦥🐴🐘🐪 For #FossilFriday — Megaloceros giganteus, the Irish elk, which I was able to visit in June. Specimen USNM 7051 is masterfully mounted at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The mount features a massive steel armature to support its nearly 3.4–3.6 meter antler spread. Studies show Megaloceros dropped and regrew its antlers each year. . . #pleistocene #megalocerosgiganteus #paleontology #iceage #giantdeer #citizenscience Skull mount photos credit: NMNH/Loren Ybarrondo

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... In 2019 I built a life-size Protoichthyosaurus for Lapworth Museum (University of Birmingham). It was partly built in my workshop and partly open to public view in the museum. Here's the build Part 4. #FossilFriday #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Ichthyosaur

#52wochenfotochallenge #perspektivwechsel & #FotoVorschlag #beschirmt & #fossilfriday Bei der #Hitze und diesen Hashtags tauchen wir zur #Abkühlung mit einem #Fossil ins #Urmeer des frühen Devons vor 410 Millionen Jahren: Dies ist der Kopf der #Seelilie Scyphocrinites elegans. Seelilien sind mit #Seestern u.Co. verwandt, sitzen meist mit einem Stiel am Meeresgrund fest und grabschen mit ihren Armen im Wasser nach Nahrung. Die Bojen-Seelilie trieb stattdessen kopfüber im offenen Ozean! 🤸‍♀️

This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin. It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen. #palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday