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Is it real, or is it Memorex? Below is the 17th century Delftware salt cellar from 44IW0013. Above, courtesy of @VCLatVCU, is a 3D-printed and painted version of this artifact. Print your own version via @Sketchfab: tinyurl.com/3j3xkk94 #salt #3DPrinting

Oh I’d love to go back!

Becky Humphrey and I in the Valley of Fire #WAVP

Archaeology field school students from @VCLatVCU visited Friday. They 3D-scanned a few artifacts in our collection, and we put them to work assisting us with a cleaning of our ham case. #fieldtripfriday #futuremuseumprofessionals

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper

"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitt…

Despite being a year without landmark paleo docus, 2024 is a great year in terms of paleoart. Of all non-avian dinosaur-related finds in 2024 (newly-exhibited specimens + new papers), AT LEAST 98 feature accompanying paleoart (in-paper or in local/international news release)!

#paleoart Pterosaurs

おはようございます！ Good morning！ Buenos días！ Bonjour！ Egun on！ Bom dia！ 早安！

That should say osteoderm…….. I lost my battle with autocorrect

Uploaded some giant ground sloth fossils to @sketchfab for #FossilFriday including the fragment of a Megalonyx skull, a megalonyx claw, a paramylodon osteogenesis, and a paramylodon claw, courtesy of collector Kevin Jones. Free to download

I roughly scaled Anna’s giant ground sloth sculptures to the same scale with respect to each other. From left to right: Eremotherium, Megalonyx, Paramylodon, and Nothrotheriops #FossilFriday

Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Here’s how we found our evidence. wapo.st/3DnIr9q

Wow!! This is incredible!! 🐒

December 13, 1640, birthday of British physician and naturalist Robert Plot. His "Natural History of Oxfordshire" (1677) features what is believed to be the first depiction of a #dinosaur bone... 🦴

Just in time for #FossilFriday a wonderful print from the incomparable @MarkWitton

本日はディノサン更新日で、デイノニクス回は37話、「バックヤードのトロム②」が公開されました！また先読み38話も更新されてますので、合わせてどうぞよろしくお願いします✨ kuragebunch.com/episode/255091…

No suspects have been caught for stealing over $20,000 worth of electronics and priceless artifacts from the VCU curation lab. This is an ongoing case.  Read more here: commonwealthtimes.org/2024/11/13/pri…

Everybody in the US (probably elsewhere as well) is doom scrolling the election. Engagement for non-election tweets is non-existent. Seems a good time to post this rare platinum print, hand-colored, of the Caracol at #ChichenItza taken in the early 1900s by Edward H. Thompson.

The peace of nature does not reflect the turmoil of my mind