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Taylor McCoy 🦖
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Taylor McCoy 🦖
@TM9380
Paleo volunteer at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Field/lab experience, research, and scicomm. Fahlo Affiliate, NAGT Digman Award Recipient
Pennsylvania Katılım Ocak 2021
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@CAS966 Casting it all off as “virtue signaling” just tries to avoid having the conversation
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@CAS966 I got news for you, science is political. Like it or not, in the big year of 2026 it is
And no, where fossils are found doesn’t change much about they themselves but how we conduct ourselves as people is certainly open to betterment. It’s time to grow up and not be so scared
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While paleontology incorporates history millions of years before humanity, it’s important to recognize many discoveries are made on what is historically native land. Like all sciences, it’s important to reckon with colonial roots and always try to do better rather than hide it…
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@CAS966 I mean, my day job is helping house the homeless and in my spare time provide scientific outreach for schools and libraries. But sure, I’m the one virtue signaling and not the random on the internet who weirdly follows me but says this shit
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@TenontosaurusT Got my first one last week and I know what my official lineup will be for my following 3(I want 4 total)
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@Mahajangasuchus @JoshuaGoji There’s a toy company that named their figure Osborne 🙃 I advised them not to when they asked my thoughts but 🤷🏻♂️
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@JoshuaGoji @TM9380 Why? Who tf named the poor creature after this scum? 💀
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@JoshuaGoji @Mahajangasuchus Most people know it as MOR 008. I’m curious if it’s named for Custer himself or because it was found near Custer, MT(which is secondarily unfortunate but I digress)
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@Mahajangasuchus @TM9380 There’s a T. rex specimen named after one of a particularly infamous murderer and rapist of indigenous peoples.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ar…
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One feature that sets tyrannosaurs apart from other large theropods is the arctometatarsus, a term coined and described by @TomHoltzPaleo. It’s the pinched toe bone in the middle of the foot…
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@flexwoodmac Aww, too bad! Yale is excellent too! Loved going through there
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@CoolJPOpinions Yes the term “reptile” is kinda messy these days due to better understandings of evolutionary relationships but regardless “reptile” is basically interchangeable with sauropsid, which Dimetrodon fully isn’t
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To me, it really isn't any different than a hummingbird being a reptile - which I accept. Frankly, I think it's far more odd to consider animals like Hylonomus as technically not being reptiles than it would be to consider rats and primates as technically being reptiles.
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Paleo enthusiasts when you call a cold blooded amniote with scales that are homologous with modern reptile scales a "reptile" (It isn't a sauropsid).
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“How did you turn out the way you are?”
Oh I don’t know, I was raised to just be a decent person and these were the kind of male influences I took to heart I guess 🤷🏻♂️
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@Kitenshi278 Critical thinking and media literacy aren’t their strong suits 😉
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@TM9380 for all the weird bigots who claim to be fans of it lord of the rings is a really great example of positive masculinity
the men arent afraid to show their emotions and speak from the heart and they r all the better for it
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Lego‘s primary audience is just millennials and older Gen Z at this point lol
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First look at the LEGO X-Files set. Will cost $199.99.
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@Juanyudocus Honestly I still haven’t! I need to set aside some time on a weekend and just devote myself to the commitment, lol
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@TM9380 Curious, have you seen the extended versions of the LOTR Trilogy?
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