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HA! I beat @TomHoltzPaleo *AND* Ben Creisler in posting a new paleo paper!  Just published in @thePeerJ, a paper with @histo_holly, Laura Rooney, & Joe Frederickson on what we believe is the *first* ceratobranchial (aka hyoid) ever found/reported from a pachycephalosaur! 🧵

If I had a nickel for every paleontologist with a pachycephalosaur tattoo posing with a pachycephalosaur fossil, I’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Here's Sally Hurst & I with a HUGE specimen of Prenocephale we're working on.

🎉🎉 *IT'S HUNTER'S BIRTHDAY*!!!! 🎉🎉 My baby boy turns *7* today! 7?! How can it be 7 years already?! Here's a big birthday steak for the big birthday man, and here's to the bestest boy! (and per tradition, the annual birthday growth curve)

"These findings suggest that sauropod gigantism was sustained by lineage-specific combinations of femoral geometry, internal architecture and articular soft tissues." (fig 6 from Silva Junior et al)

"Locally, the results suggest that, in most species, the bones of the braincase and the maxilla were especially susceptible to sustaining and enforcing major spatial constraints, which probably channeled their morphological evolution." (📷figs 4 & 5 from Schuurman et al)

I swear I was gonna do a tyrannosaur #FossilFriday even before Tromerosaurus dropped! 😅 Each time I'm at the MIP, even I have to admire and drool over the 'baby' Tarbosaurus MPC-D 107/7. Check out the 'chicken wing'-sized articulated arm from this specimen!!!!🤩

I repeat: 🤮🤮🤮🤮

This is one of my favorite ankylosaur specimens! 😍 A *gorgeous* skull of Saichania on display at the museum in the Hunnu Mall in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Did you know that we had nicknamed a special 🦕in honor of Dolly Parton? "Dolly" is the first dino with a respiratory infection. And "Dolly" is also a new genus. I often use pieces of art as human scale bars, but I could think of nothing more fitting than Dolly with "Dolly."