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Dinosaur behavior, stratigraphy, fieldwork, raptor feet & claws, tyrannosaur toothmarks, ceratopsids, public interaction, open-science. Opinions my own

 North Dakota
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News article about the Badlands Dinosaur Museum expansion (see comments for link). Exciting times! I have lots of ideas for unique takes on a dinosaur museum that I really want to implement. Just need to find funding. Do you want your name on an exhibit hall?
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Here's an annotated blueprint to give you an idea of the new areas. We don't have renders of the collections space that show much, but you can see the size in the blueprint.
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I've posted this image before I think. This is the new area of the prep lab. This is the architects' CAD image, colored by me.
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We're planning an experience with unique new immersive exhibits, interactive & original storytelling. These generalized images show walling off the balcony & taking away the sandpit, breaking up the exhibit better into sections, give us much more space for wall-cabinetry ...
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(currently under-utilized) and allowing visitors to walk in and around the mounted skeletons: much more dynamic.
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The building is progressing nicely. When completed (summer 2027) we will be one of the biggest fossil repositories in the region; one of the best equipped labs (with large public viewing windows); & expanded unique exhibits. These images show some of the new & renovated exhibits
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Here's the article link: thedickinsonpress.com/news/l…

Dickinson Museum Center undergoes $6 million expansion to support research, tourism

The 12,000-square-foot expansion will provide a new paleontology laboratory, fossil storage and exhibition space while improving the visitor experience at the Badlands Dinosaur Museum.

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This is a sacrum (vertebrae that fuse over the hips), from a parrot-mimic raptor dinosaur (caenagnathid, oviraptorosaur). These feathered raptors have quite fragile bones and are consequently quite rare. #dinosaur #dinosaurs #FossilFriday #fossils #SciComm
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REVISION: This is actually the notarium from our pterosaur. We had seen the fused verts in the field, so it got labeled as sacrum. A notarium is the area of fused vertebrae in the shoulder region. Hadn't considered that in the 1st ID
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2019 I found this lower jaw on the NDGS-led fieldtrip for our "Cretaceous and Beyond" symposium, held at Badlands Dinosaur Museum. It's now the paratype of the new caenagnathid oviraptorosaur (parrot-mimic raptors), called Infernogallus jamesi. /1 #dinosaur #fossilfriday
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Here's the link to the free access paper. The specimen I found is figured in the supp. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Fruit-eating adaptations in a Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Theropoda)

Nature Communications - Dinosaurs coexisted with flowering plants, but it’s unclear whether they ate them. The study presents a new small theropod dinosaur with remarkable jaw adaptations for...

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It was NDGS' BLM permit, so Clint took it back to Bismarck. When found, I thought it might be from a caenagnathid called Anzu... on the drive back I looked up Anzu & that had a less deep jaw- this was something new. Clint had done the same. We messaged back & forth. Exciting! /3
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Hell Creek Formation, near Bowman ND, where NDGS worked - I was walking between sites & saw it lying on the ground. We had collected a turtle jaw from the Judith earlier in the year, so I'd been looking at turtles & oviraptorid jaws: THIS TIME it wasn't a turtle!
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This bone was only dug up a few weeks ago from our site: "Jack's Bonebed", which has many different species of dinosaurs preserved in an ancient riverbank deposit. We will have much more to tell you about our fieldwork at our 10th Annual Field Report in a few months' time.
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In N. America, there were three contemporaneous caenagnathids in a given ecosystem, a small, med., & large species. This is probably from the small kind (elmisaurines) and is probably either the 1st or 2nd sacrum known of its species, of only ~7-10 caenagathid sacra ever found.
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Water spout (tornado) hit camp while we were away. Some parts of camp untouched are the parts absolutely battered. It came off the lake, knocked over a tree, mauled the north side of camp, smashed its way through a hedge, then blew the metal dumpster across the parking lot!
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Video of our Acheroraptor feathered up model made by Boban Filipovic. On display at Badlands Dinosaur Museum, Dickinson, North Dakota!
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I feel a tad bad I quipped the #Acheroraptor holotype and referred material were scrappy. The bones themselves are awesome (thus why named), tis the fact it is another one-bone holotype with a one-bone referral, thus scrappy in that it isn’t replete with many-bone goodness. :-)
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Steve and I did a hot wings interview challenge run by the guys from our IT department. We answer various questions about dinosaurs, mainly off-the-beaten track stuff I think. If you're interested: youtube.com/watch?v=tz_3COWd…

This Is What Happens in Museums After Dark

What does a paleontologist really do—and how does a dinosaur fossil...

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Another dinosaur auction, another slew of shallow articles looking just to drum up conflict, interviewing the same tired people with the same tired comments. Investigative journalism might ask:
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A new economic model: what if private landowners allow museums to collect on their land . Specimens collected by the museum are donated by the landowner to the museum. The entire tax benefit of donating the specimen is given to the landowner. Cut out the commercial middleman.
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So I've ranted enough. I'm a person who goes out and collects dinosaur fossils for 3 months every year. We spend about $24k doing so. We find lots of specimens much more important than these that go to auction. Journalists need to write better articles.
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