To celebrate our upcoming Palaeo-Palooza event, Down to Earth, this #FossilFriday is all about fossil preparation. Fossil preparation is the process of slowing brushing away …
This week’s #FossilFriday features teeth and jaws from tyrannosaurs housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Alberta. Tyrannosaurs are some of the most well known dinosaurs …
In preparation for this weekend’s High-in-the-Sky Palaeo-Palooza, this week’s #fossilfriday will spotlight an early bird! Mesozoic birds had developed rudimentary flight by the late Jurassic, and in the Cretaceous period, the ornithuromorphs, the group that would give rise …
This week’s #fossilfriday is the wonderful triangular shaped predentary. This bone makes up the front part of Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai’s lower jaw and connects the 2 lower jaw …
This weeks #FossilFriday features “ROM 696”, a piece of the upper jaw (the maxilla) of a hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Alberta, housed in the fossil collections at the Royal …
The teeth you see here belong to hardosaurs, or “duck-billed” dinosaurs. Hadrosaur teeth were small and diamond-shaped, as seen in the two examples on the left hand side …
The gnarly, pitted bone texture of this hadrosaur vertebra indicates that the animal it belonged to may have had some kind of bone condition or disease shortly before it died! #FossilFriday …
For today’s #FossilFriday feast your eyes on these beautiful lower jaws from the ceratopsian dinosaur, 𝑃𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑦𝑟ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑘𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖, recovered from the local Pipestone Creek Bonebed. The size and shape of these jaws are different because they are from different growth stages in the horned dinosaur’s life. …
A complex #FossilFriday specimen made up of broken shells, fish bones, and partially buried prehistoric shark teeth (outlined in yellow). Found near the Bad Heart River and generously donated …
#FossilFriday a fragmented parietal (back part of the skull or frill) belonging to a baby ceratopsid, 𝑃𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑦𝑟ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑘𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖, cradled in a sturdy support jacket after being cleaned, alongside a 10 cm scale bar showing its tiny nature …
As summer is fast approaching, we are excited fieldwork will be resuming soon enough. Being #FossilFriday, we thought it fitting to showcase some of the earlier work done at Pipestone Creek bonebed by the @RoyalTyrrell field crews circa 1986 …
This week’s #FossilFriday is a parietal bone piece from a Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai! The parietal is one of the bones that makes up the frill in horned dinosaurs. …
Here is the right maxilla or upper jaw bone of “Jane” (BMRP 2002.4.1), a ~13-year-old 𝑇𝑦𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑢𝑠. Jane was found in the Hell Creek Formation of southern Montana back in 2001 …
In celebration of Easter, today’s #FossilFriday is not just an Easter egg, but a dinosaur egg! From the museum’s education department comes a replica egg from a Late Cretaceous Asian dinosaur …
#FossilFriday inspired by tomorrow’s Virtual Speaker Series guest Dr. Greg Funston, here is a beautiful virtual model of a jawbone from a tyrannosaur embryo. Remarkably, this jaw belonged to a tyrannosaur just over halfway through its development in the egg and it along with a claw …
As we are in the thick of March Mammal Madness, we thought it fitting to feature this cynodont skeleton for our #FossilFriday this week. This cynodont skeleton shows how small some of these mammalian-like animals could be …