Free Range Hadrosaur
@freerangehadrosaur.bsky.social
Paleo enthusiast studying to be a paleo professional at U Cincy. Stable isotope enjoyer. Writer and former journalist. Into dinosaurs (both avian and non), music, politics (leftist), hockey, history, gaming, cats, and books.
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Happy #fossilfriday
This is the next chapter in the biggest dinosaur debate of our time.
youtu.be/Y5EB6zcrCOU?...
This is the next chapter in the biggest dinosaur debate of our time.
youtu.be/Y5EB6zcrCOU?...
We Ended the Greatest Debate in Paleontology...
YouTube video by Skeleton Crew
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October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy #fossilfriday
This is the next chapter in the biggest dinosaur debate of our time.
youtu.be/Y5EB6zcrCOU?...
This is the next chapter in the biggest dinosaur debate of our time.
youtu.be/Y5EB6zcrCOU?...
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Whoa!!!
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Whoa!!!
the world may be spiraling out of control but at least a bunch of good new music is coming out. new lord huron, new viagra boys, new beirut, new twin shadow. many others
March 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
the world may be spiraling out of control but at least a bunch of good new music is coming out. new lord huron, new viagra boys, new beirut, new twin shadow. many others
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The Metals Company is trying to circumvent the International Seabed Authority and get the Trump administration to approve mining of the deep sea.
We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.
We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.
Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals (Gift Article)
Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Metals Company is trying to circumvent the International Seabed Authority and get the Trump administration to approve mining of the deep sea.
We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.
We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.
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🚨UNRELEASED BABY SNOWY PLOVER VIDEO!! I didn't even know I had this! Don't scroll away, Plover A runs into Plover B. DOUBLE THE PLOVER!!! 🪶
February 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🚨UNRELEASED BABY SNOWY PLOVER VIDEO!! I didn't even know I had this! Don't scroll away, Plover A runs into Plover B. DOUBLE THE PLOVER!!! 🪶
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I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts…
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January 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I ran $100 billion in Infrastructure and IRA programs at EPA. We obligated over $70 billion onto signed awards and contracts to protect public health and the environment. All that funding is currently frozen. Here are the facts…
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The shuttle really gives me a sense of size
How big were these megafauna mega-tunnels in South America? Here's an illustration I drew for my book 'The Evolution Underground' (2017) of a mapped burrow system in Brazil, using the #StarTrek Galileo shuttlecraft (~7 m long) for scale. #ichnology. 🧪🖖
January 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The shuttle really gives me a sense of size
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Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
January 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era
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Donald Trump’s planned freeze on federal grants and loans was put on ice by a federal judge just minutes before it was set to begin.
Federal Judge Throws Wrench Into Trump’s Big Spending Freeze
The freeze was blocked mere minutes before it was set to begin.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Donald Trump’s planned freeze on federal grants and loans was put on ice by a federal judge just minutes before it was set to begin.
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Oh sure, when I eat a crinoid and vomit, nobody cares . But when a fish did it 66 million years ago & we just now find its puke, that's somehow big news.
(P.S. This find is also a great example of ichthyological ichnology, or ichnological ichthyology. 🧪🐟)
(P.S. This find is also a great example of ichthyological ichnology, or ichnological ichthyology. 🧪🐟)
66 million years ago, a fish ate a sea lily... and then threw up
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#TheMoreYouKnow
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#TheMoreYouKnow
66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark
Experts say the discovery will help them understand what animals were eating during the Cretaceous period.
www.bbc.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Oh sure, when I eat a crinoid and vomit, nobody cares . But when a fish did it 66 million years ago & we just now find its puke, that's somehow big news.
(P.S. This find is also a great example of ichthyological ichnology, or ichnological ichthyology. 🧪🐟)
(P.S. This find is also a great example of ichthyological ichnology, or ichnological ichthyology. 🧪🐟)
well that can't be good
All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice.
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
well that can't be good
finally deactivated my dusty old Twitter account. and so should you
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
finally deactivated my dusty old Twitter account. and so should you
the hero we need right now
WHAT? Oh man, this is going to be rad.
Five ordinary people. Five elemental rings. One immortal champion.
With their powers combined, they're our world's only hope... if they can survive long enough to find each other.
CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS. Coming April from me, Eman Casallos and Dynamite Entertainment.
With their powers combined, they're our world's only hope... if they can survive long enough to find each other.
CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS. Coming April from me, Eman Casallos and Dynamite Entertainment.
January 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
the hero we need right now
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Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚
January 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚
musk sans mask
January 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
musk sans mask
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Opposing Patel actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Bondi actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Kennedy actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Gabbard: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Hegseth: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Oz: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
December 14, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Opposing Patel actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Bondi actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Kennedy actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Gabbard: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Hegseth: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Opposing Oz: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We're barely halfway through the first month of 2025 and already we've lost Jimmy Carter, David Lynch, and the facade that was Neil Gaiman. It's going to be one of those years.
January 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We're barely halfway through the first month of 2025 and already we've lost Jimmy Carter, David Lynch, and the facade that was Neil Gaiman. It's going to be one of those years.
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Don’t let anyone lie about January 6th. It was an armed attack. They had pipe bombs, guns, Molotov cocktails, stun guns, a crossbow, hockey sticks, bats, flagpoles, pepper/bear spray, brass knuckles, scissors, screwdrivers, and an axe. More than 1,200 arrested. 117 for weapons/assaulting police.
January 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Don’t let anyone lie about January 6th. It was an armed attack. They had pipe bombs, guns, Molotov cocktails, stun guns, a crossbow, hockey sticks, bats, flagpoles, pepper/bear spray, brass knuckles, scissors, screwdrivers, and an axe. More than 1,200 arrested. 117 for weapons/assaulting police.
what a time to be alive, right?
It's crazy how often the 90s & early 2000s are cast as a "holiday from history", rather than as a period of spectacular, staggering and dislocating historical change.
Such periods in the past have usually been followed by massive political disruption. We shouldn't be surprised that's happening now.
Such periods in the past have usually been followed by massive political disruption. We shouldn't be surprised that's happening now.
Just doing some final writing for the year and think we still underestimate the change that took place between 1990 and 2010 - arguably the fastest political, social, and economic transformation in history. And the resulting dislocation is still with us.
December 29, 2024 at 12:08 PM
what a time to be alive, right?
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there needs to be a specific term for this, for when successful countermeasures are later taken as evidence that the issue was overblown. See: Y2K, the Ozone Hole, Vaccines. Hindblight or something.
DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
December 29, 2024 at 7:59 AM
there needs to be a specific term for this, for when successful countermeasures are later taken as evidence that the issue was overblown. See: Y2K, the Ozone Hole, Vaccines. Hindblight or something.
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Geologist: Uplift and erosion.
Geologist: Uplift and erosion.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Paleontologist: From the perspective of geologic time, there is no gap.
Paleontologist: From the perspective of geologic time, there is no gap.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
December 21, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Geologist: Uplift and erosion.
Geologist: Uplift and erosion.
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The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day as early as 2027, with a likely window within 9-20 years after 2023. This won’t bring dramatic change overnight, but it marks a fundamental shift in the Arctic’s natural environment—a stark warning about climate change. #ActOnClimate
December 6, 2024 at 4:02 PM
The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day as early as 2027, with a likely window within 9-20 years after 2023. This won’t bring dramatic change overnight, but it marks a fundamental shift in the Arctic’s natural environment—a stark warning about climate change. #ActOnClimate