May 2012
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"T-rex" skeleton sold for one million dollars →
Heritage Auctions had their big center piece auction anyway, basically ignoring the courts. Its a conditional sale, so at least the buyer, whoever it is, can’t disappear with the specimen right away.
Press release from the link above:
Tyrannosaurus Brings $1,052,500 At Heritage Auctions New York
Conditional Sale of Tyrannosaurus bataar, 8-feet high and 24-feet long, will be contingent...
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Why private collecting is bad.
A statement about fossil material in private hands
Today’s fossil (March 20th) was chosen to be the one highlighted due to the auction going on in NYC that I posted about yesterday. The Tarbosaurus skeleton is the most impressive of the pillaged paleontological prizes, but there is more Mongolian material slated to go up for auction than just this skeleton. In happy news the Tarbosaurus...
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Information about the "T-rex" skeleton being...
Statement from the President of Mongolia
As some of you might have seen in the media, there is going to be an auction in New York City tomorrow, May 20th 2012. Heritage Auctions is the auction house running the event. The biggest ticket item, and the one that is getting this auction a lot of coverage in the press, is an almost complete skeleton of Tarbosaurus bataar, which is being referred to...
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Almost back but not just yet!!
However I think a number of you would be interested in this
Live Chat with Museum Paleontologists Tomorrow ( 5-10-12) at 1 pm Eastern
Were dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline before an asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous? Join Museum scientists Steve Brusatte and Mark Norell for a discussion and Q&A session moderated by Wired Science...
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And the answer is...
This is an endocast of a mammoth!
An endocast is what you get when material infills the skull, filling up the space where the brain was housed in life. Natural endocasts are often formed when a skull is filled in by sediment and then over time the skull is damaged or even destroyed as it chips away bit by bit, but the endocast remains. There are some great specimens out there where just the...
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April 2012
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A milestone I actually was able to catch!!!
octoprole started following you
Grats to follower #3500!!!!
I missed all X500s past 1000 due to the rush of followers due to the tumblr radar.
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Hiatus
Oof. Well I was hoping to at least be able to get updates up until I started traveling, but life is really full of hectic things right now. I’m going to be traveling for a couple of weeks soon, and I have applications and submissions and so much to finish. I am really sorry but dailyfossil has to go on pause until I get my head above water again. I know it probably doesn’t seem like...
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DEADLINES AAAAAAAA
multiple organizations have decided that this week is a great time to make things due. Hopefully I can get ahead enough today to cut off any further fossil interruptions for the week.
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I feel deader than my fossils are today.
might rise from my grave and answer some questions that are piling up in my inbox later, but no main fossil post.
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Anonymous asked: Were theropods the only dinosaurs with feathers?
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Anonymous asked: What is your favourite Pokémon?
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Anonymous asked: What is YOUR personal favourite dinosaur? I like Troodon.
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Anonymous asked: Any of these still alive?
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Anonymous asked: Are there a lot of fossils found in Canada or Thailand?
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Well hello there!
Hello to all my new followers! Thank you tumblr for putting me on the tumblr radar. That was quite the nice surprise for today! I will do my best to get though all the questions I have been sent as soon as I can. I have been working on a ‘how to become a paleontologist’ post for a while, and several of you have asked about that specifically, I will try to finish that up and post it...
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March 2012
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Hey guys, this is not a fossil nor anything to do with fossils, but a friend of mine is in a really shitty situation that was just sprung on her TONIGHT via text msg. Her GF is raising money for her via commissions, so if you are interested in getting something, please please check out the post below. Even reblogs help! Corny has drawn a lot of homestuck related things, which I know a good deal...
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