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Danny Anduza

@paleontologizing.bsky.social

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Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at twitch.tv/paleontologizing

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hiya, #Bluesky! For my 600+ new followers, let me introduce myself...

I'm Danny Anduza — dinosaur worker, field paleontologist, and full-time science communicator. I'll be posting all kinds of fossil-related content, from field photos to livestream clips to 3D prints. It's so great to be here!

Me riding in a helicopter, doing some high-altitude prospecting in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, July 2015

Explaining the forelimb morphology of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton to visitors at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, 2019

Plaster jacketing a hadrosaur skull with Ethan Cowgill and Quin Hawkins in the Late Cretaceous Almond Formation of Wyoming, June 2023. Livestream camera in foreground (I was livestreaming the whole month!)

Me in front of the North Dakota Paleocene badlands on the way to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, October 2024

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 8h

Love that Allosaurus!

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 14h

CONGRATS, CARY! Exciting stuff

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 14h

For #FossilFriday, it's a *NEW PACHYCEPHALOSAURID*(!), and a project that is very near and dear to my heart. Let's welcome #Brontotholus_harmoni!

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

Not too shabby if I do say so myself 😏

🐧 Animal #801 🦓
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
🟧🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.5

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#metazooa

Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

We've got TWO new dinosaur genera to introduce on today's #Twitch stream: ZAVACEPHALE and UTETITAN!

Join us for discussion of those two new papers, #paleontology Q&A, and a long-awaited Thursday BIRDSday 🐦📅

twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with the wall behind me featuring life-sized 3D-printed skulls of Pachycephalosaurus and Stegoceras, plus various framed prints of pachycephalosaur and titanosaur figures and a mini Mongolian flag

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 2d

I relate to this so hard.

One time I got sent to the principal's office for saying that bats aren't actually blind (when the biology teacher was telling the class that God, in His wisdom, created all bats without eyes)

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 3d

Catching up with some old friends at Berkeley

Selfie photo of me and the "Wankel Rex" Tyrannosaurus skeleton cast outside UCMP

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 3d

💥 New delivery 💥

Photo shows a stack of six books I ordered to donate to my neighborhood's Little Free Library — Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey; T. rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez; Saving Sea Turtles by James Spotila, and Terra and Dinosaurs of The Flaming Cliffs, both by Michael Novacek.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 5d

Folks sometimes forget that Velociraptor was one of his, too. Osborn may not have thought that critter was all that special, but just that strong and evocative name was enough to capture Crichton's imagination and lift that genus out of obscurity

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

The late Dr. Jane Goodall with a wonderful posthumous message. Worth the few minutes! What a treasure.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 7d

Bumping this!

That's my (very rough) draft logo for the proposed "DAWN OF THE CRETACEOUS Fossil Beds National Monument" 🌅🦖

We're hoping that someday these wonderful and vitally important fossil sites are protected, so we can continue learning what our planet was like in the earliest Cretaceous

PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 7d

It is about time, #FossilFriday that I promoted Christa Sadler's wonderful book on the globally unique Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah again. Someday, I hope it leads to a Dawn of the Cretaceous Fossil Beds Nat. Monu. managed like John Day Fossil Beds NM in Oregon. this-earth.com/dinosaur-fro...

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 8d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 9d

Mob boss Fat Tony, having been caught selling rat milk to the elementary school, tells reporter "I don't get it. Everyone loves rats, but they don't want to drink the rats' milk?"

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 16d

We're digging up more of this dinosaur (Gastonia, not to scale) out here in Utah with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

and you can tune in and watch the excavation live at ~1pm Pacific @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Photo of a plastic Gastonia model, held in my hand in front of our shade-tarp-covered quarry at Lorrie's Site in eastern Utah

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 17d

A wind storm *destroyed* our shade tarp setup and made me end the broadcast early, and now I've got a clip of it

💨 Enjoy 💨

www.twitch.tv/paleontologi...

Paleontologizing - Utah desert winds destroy paleontologists' shade tarp

Watch Paleontologizing's clip titled

www.twitch.tv

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 18d

I can't watch this because I'm out in the desert, digging dinosaurs again for two weeks

but YOU should watch it and tell me how good it is!

www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish

In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth

www.thetimes.com

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 18d

MORE CRETACEOUS FIELDWORK! I'm back out in the Cedar Mountain Formation with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social, digging up dozens of ankylosaurs and streaming each day at 1pm Pacific

Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're finding and ask some questions!

Selfie photo of me, in field garb, in front of our newly-erected shade tarps at the "Lorrie's Site" Gastonia quarry out in the eastern Utah desert

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23d

I need some new tent stakes for this upcoming round of fieldwork, because the hard Wyoming ground really messed 'em up.

Just LOOK at this one

Photo of my hand holding up an aluminum tent stake. It's one of those ones that's V-shaped in cross-section for added strength, but the base is severely bent and the end is curled up onto itself to a ridiculous extent, almost like a letter 'P'

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23d

We've got another paleoartist on here now!

Tyler just joined Bluesky and his work is quite impressive. Give him a follow!

Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 25d

In support of Science, Art, Kindness to counter my sense of malaise over the state of the world these past years, Bluesky seemed a good change: here’s a timelapse of me basecoat painting my Tiktaalik sculpture recently for a new display in Singapore!

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome to Bluesky! Thank you for sharing your work with us — I know I could definitely learn some things from an accomplished artist like yourself. That Tiktaalik is kind of awe-inspiring

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23d

These are GORGEOUS 😍

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 23d

This is bad news overall, and I worry about its impact on paleontological fieldwork in the region.

www.hcn.org/articles/dec...

Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - High Country News

The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow.

www.hcn.org

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 24d

Not too shabby today

🐋 Animal #778 🐻‍❄️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟧🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6

metazooa.com
#metazooa

Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

metazooa.com

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 24d

It's our last #Twitch stream until I'm out in the field again this weekend! We're discussing a new fossil genus of leatherback turtle (Ueloca colemanorum!) plus the results of dinosaur extinction on Paleocene landscapes, and a sneak peek of upcoming fieldwork

Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with a big (1/3-size) 3D-printed leatherback turtle on the wall behind me, along with framed figures from scientific papers and suchlike

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 25d

We've got another BRAND-NEW DINOSAUR to discuss on #Twitch today -- Cariocecus bocagei -- and we'll be interviewing the lead author on the paper (@fbertpaleo.bsky.social) to get the inside scoop on what makes this new iguanodont so special.

Join us at twitch.tv/paleontologizing to watch & chat!

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with a plethora of iguanodont material on the wall behind me -- 3D-printed and cast skulls and hands, framed photos and illustrations from papers, etc.

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 25d

Today new publication has been released in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
We are proud to present you Cariocecus bocagei, a new hadrosauroid from the Papo Seco Formation (Barremian, Early K) of Portugal.
Come with me in this post series to learn more about it! 1/x

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