Clayton Phipps

@ExpeditionLive @NaturalSciences @NCStateSciences @NCStateBioSci @NCStateNews Awesome. Only 17 years of waiting for me😊⛏️🦖🤠

8 years of waiting ended yesterday as we successfully moved the 14,000kg #DuelingDinosaurs fossils into our new paleontology lab @NaturalSciences! Sweating, pacing, a few gasps, and many celebratory high-fives were had by all. Welcome home dinos, welcome home.

@FossilHistory @DrDinoDNA I wish good old Charlie D. could have had a conversation with St Augustine of Hippo. St Augustine who was influenced by the likes of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Cicero to name a few said “Oh Lord our hearts are restless until they rest in you”.

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." n.pr/3kVZvon

@ExpeditionLive 😎

The hypnotic flow of sand flowing like living shadows across the dunes at Amgtai, Mongolia #MADEx23 #dinodig23

@ExpeditionLive @NatGeo Beautiful claw!

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

@ExpeditionLive @NatGeo Awesome! I’m a bit jealous. Been wanting to go there for many years. Pretty much every since I read “Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs” many years ago.

@CretCreatures @ncculture @naturalsciences @SecReidWilson @ExpeditionLive @BankofAmerica @virginiagparker Looks like the thescelosaur tooth was well used based on the wear on the tip? Nice find!

Thescelosaurus tooth from Hell Creek Formation, MT, found by 8th grader in NC! Belonged to a small, 2-legged, plant-eating dino that emerged at the end of the Mesozoic only to become extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleocene extinction event. #microfossilmonday

@DrDinoDNA @HavivAvrahami @Bwana_Lund Hope you found something cool in the dirt!

Science Education + Dueling Dinosaurs = What a Great Day at School!

@Bwana_Lund @ExpeditionLive @naturalsciences @ncsecu Tell me about it. What an exciting day! Wish I could be there to help.

@ExpeditionLive @HavivAvrahami 😂

Why not? Here's a #FossilFriday #ringsofpoweronprime mashup! Who knew ribs from our new juvenile Menefee ceratopsian could make such good bows?! Now we just need to craft some theropod tooth-tipped arrows before the orcs arrive... thanks to @HavivAvrahami for this photo

It's taken 6 yrs of my life to get this paleo #citsci project going! So incredibly proud of our team esp @DrDinoDNA & @HavivAvrahami & grateful to our partners @BankofAmerica & @dinocowboy. I would've died for this kind of experience in middle school; this is going to be awesome!

@Bwana_Lund @AAlechiarenza Nice work!

Yesterday I finally got to tour the construction for the new lab and exhibit space for #duelingdinosaurs @naturalsciences this is going to be amazing. Highlighting the science of paleontology! Scheduled to open late 2023.

@lisaherzog_me @ExpeditionLive @naturalsciences Super excited to see it all coming together! Thanks for sharing Lisa!

@DavidEvans_ROM @UofT_Palaeo @ROMtoronto @DrMichaelJRyan @MesozoicMuse Awesome!

Another AWESOME find: Wendy Sloboda found an almost complete skull of her namesake #dinosaur Wendiceratops!! It’s the first single skull of this animal ever found. And for the record: it has giant procurving brow horns—just like our original life reconstruction. #SADP2022

@Bwana_Lund @naturalsciences Nice!

@DavidEvans_ROM @ROMtoronto That’s incredible nice work and congratulations!

One more of our Daspletosaurus jaw for #FossilFriday @ROMtoronto

@ExpeditionLive @naturalsciences @NCStateSciences @NCStateBioSci Awesome looking badlands! Good luck!

Evolution of our ceratopsian quarry. Big hill = big hole! Almost to the bone layer. One more day of digging. Some photos of days 1-3 🥵 #dinodig22

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay2022