CretaceousCreatures

TINY FOSSILS & BIG NEWS! We're officially launching Fall 2022! This public science project invites North Carolina students to make their own microfossil discoveries! @naturalsciences paleontologists are proud to bring prehistory to your classroom, courtesy of @BankofAmerica.

Welcome Fona herzogae! A new species of subfossorial #dinosaur from our mid-K @NSF funded research that fills a gap in our record of North American thescelosaurs. Art by Jorge Gonzalez. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/D7DFSHTP…

For #FossilFriday, @AckermansNicole & I have a new paper out on the definition, usage, & protocol regarding the term "headbutting/head-butting/head butting" in dome-headed fossil taxa! What exactly is "headbutting"? Why a domed-head? Are domes rare? Read the paper to find out!

8th grade science teachers from these states are invited! Email cretaceouscreatures@gmail.com now! 🔸California🔸Florida🔸Idaho🔸Illinois🔸Maine 🔸Maryland🔸Michigan🔸Mississippi🔸Montana 🔸New Mexico🔸Oklahoma🔸Rhode Island 🔸South Dakota🔸Utah🔸West Virginia

Cretaceous Creatures is going NATIONAL! Thru @bankofamerica funding + @dinocowboy microfossils, @naturalsciences @ncstatesciences paleontologists (@ExpeditionLive) are partnering w/ 8th graders across North Carolina (+ now USA!) to do real science w/ real fossils from Montana.

Very excited to share that we’ve found a skeleton (w/skull) of a new genus of Coniacian-Santonian ankylosaur! 🤩 filling a big glaring hole in North American dinosaur evolution #dinodig24

Cretaceous Creatures is wrapping up Year 2 & getting ready for Year 3! Registration is OPEN for #northcarolina teachers in the below counties! Partner w/ our #paleontologists: cretaceouscreatures.org/get-involved-n… #publicscience #microfossils #learninghappenshere

Including a public science project allowing students to discover real microfossils from sediment buried near the #Duelingdinosaurs fossil and send them to @NaturalSciences for research called @CretCreatures

Cretaceous Creatures has reached ~14k NC students who have ID'ed ~4k microfossils from near where the Dueling Dinosaurs were found in Montana! Our buddy @SecReidWilson stopped to check out these big fuss over these tiny fossils. (L) Richardoestisia tooth (R) Lizard jaw.

It’s been a bit - been busy microfossiling. And so has Elise Flynn’s 8th graders at Polk County Middle! Making discoveries + making the news. We’re lucky to work w/ y’all. tryondailybulletin.com/2024/01/25/pcm…

#LunchTimeDiscovery streams 2/7/2024 with Kamal Bell of @sankofafarms kicking off our Black History Month Series. Join us live at noon Eastern for "Cultivating Legacy: A Farmer's Journey to Climate Smart Agriculture" youtube.com/watch?v=68-rd5… @NCDEQ @NaturalSciences @ncculture

Thanks to ⁦@NASA⁩ astronaut Dr Kjell Lindgren for fascinating & inspiring presentation at ⁦@NaturalSciences⁩ #astronomydays ! He’s been to International Space Station twice for total of 311 days. ⁦@astro_kjell⁩

A perfectly round fish vertebra from the Late Cretaceous, Hell Creek Formation, Montana #fossilfriday

Calling 8th Grade Science Teachers from these North Carolina counties! Alleghany Anson Ashe Beaufort Bertie Bladen You are invited to participate in Cretaceous Creatures - a new, free project where students do real science w/ real fossils. DM to grab your spot now!

Bayshin Tsav has an insane amount of bone. First day prospecting I found 5 theropod claws, a therizinosaur humerus… oh yeah & a couple of hadrosaur skeletons too 🙄🤣 #MADEx23 #dinodig23 @natgeo

Weee’rrreee baaack! Happy 1st day of school for many #NorthCarolina students! And happy #MicrofossilMonday! Check out this gorgeous Pachycephalosaurus tooth we found in Montana this summer on @ExpeditionLive #dinodig23. Ready to see what our students find this year.

I'm a guest editor for a special issue in the Journal of Science Education and Technology that's all about using ENA in STEM education research. Here's the full call for proposals: bit.ly/JOSTENA Please share with colleagues, really looking forward to this!!

Teachers, check this out! @NaturalSciences is working on a project meant to introduce middle school students to paleontology, which will also benefit researchers around the globe. publicradioeast.org/2023-06-19/mid…

Join us this Thursday for a Juneteenth Edition of Science Conversations. We'll celebrate the work of two African-American researchers — Dr. Patricia Bath (surgical procedure for cataracts) & Dr. Mandë Holford (researches snail venoms and pain medications) bit.ly/3oYcb6a

Such a joy to see this animal reconstructed and published. An honor to be part of the crew and to have worked on this remarkable specimen! I💚Iani