Jack Milligan
@Pieceofasaurus
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@USaskGeoSci🇨🇦 BSc, MSc. Cretaceous/Paleogene paleoecology 🦖, stratigraphy, ichnology, 🐢 and ceratopsians. Laughing aficionado. Opinions are my own.
Saskatchewan, Canada
Joined March 2016
Just in time for #TraceFossilTuesday! My @usaskArtSci @royalsaskmuseum research on ancient plant and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils on a Triceratops skeleton from southern Saskatchewan has been published in @ichno_assoc Ichnos! Check it out below. https://t.co/G8H2B4kvWp
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Found another lost dinosaur quarry late yesterday: the holotype of Edmontosaurus regalis. #CMNPalaeo
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Walking with Dinosaurs is out in North America tomorrow! I hope you all enjoy the series across the pond! 🥰
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#FossilFriday! This nearly perfect 8 mm tooth, found just last week, is from a Boreonykus certekorum—a small dromaeosaur from the Pipestone Creek Bonebed. To identify a species from a tooth, we study the unique serrations along the tooth's surface.
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https://t.co/uD1yyHI9u1 The final chapter of my dissertation is now out! Will have more to say on this later!
nature.com
Nature - A new tyrannosauroid, Khankhuuluu mongoliensis gen. et sp. nov., from lower Upper Cretaceous deposits of Mongolia provides a new perspective on eutyrannosaurian origins and evolution.
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Something similar happened to me at a museum (out of all institutions) at some point. Paleoart not being granted the same respect as all other arts is a major pet peeve of mine. I think in large parts because paleoartists are largely invisible to people, images...
It has been brought to my attention that the updated Welcome sign to Dinosaur, Colorado uses a render of my Stegosaurus model from 2022. I don't really plan to do anything about this, but like, it's pretty weird to see.
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Young people wanting to break into palaeontology, but not wanting to diversify their skillset to encompass soft and interdisciplinary skills. There's not many jobs in palaeo. Don't treat it as a personal failure when you've to alter your career trajectory mid-way.
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Hell yeah! @MarkPowersJ and @EL_Bamforth representing some awesome Alberta Paleo featured in the show 🦖
Last night the @NMNH hosted an early screening of the new Walking with Dinosaurs along with a panel featuring some paleontologists and producers on the project, it was so much fun and really enjoyed seeing the first episode on the big screen! Looking forward to the full premiere
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Paleontologists have discovered a spiny, three-eyed predator that once lived in Western Canada. Joe Moysiuk, lead of the study, is an adjunct prof in the @USask geological sciences dept. https://t.co/qzrWSQz5bQ
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A screening for "Walking with Dinosaurs" was held Tuesday night at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. https://t.co/kZJuUgZ894
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A screening for "Walking with Dinosaurs" was held Tuesday night at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
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Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai (References below) #drawing #paleoart #dinosaur #ceratopsidae #Pachyrhinosaurus
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#FossilFriday! Here are toe bones from two Pachyrhinosaurus: one from a dog-sized juvenile, the other from a bison-sized adult. At Pipestone Creek, about 1/3 of the fossils we find are from juveniles, which gives us rare insight into how these dinosaurs changed as they grew up.
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So they DID have scales?!?!?
Incase anyone missed it, very scaly trace fossils from a resting Sphenacodontid synapsid described a couple days back
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Reminder to please be considerate to folks who aren't able to watch the series yet!
I am outside the U.K and cannot watch WWD yet, so please do not spoil anything for people like me. BBC streaming is not available here and I have to wait a week before it drops on PBS.
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Only a short time until #walkingwithdinosaurs releases in the UK! Here’s a video from BBC news about our world famous #Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed at Pipestone Creek! It’s hard to keep my excitement contained to have been a part of this project!
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Walking with Dinosaurs premieres tomorrow at 6.25pm on BBC One and iPlayer, followed by international releases in the weeks after. With that, I thought it was a good time to write this little (but I think important) thread. (1/16)
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https://t.co/7fEeGKoRp1 The life of a palaeontologist in Alberta A cool little article by @EL_Bamforth on what Walking With Dinosaurs can do to inspire future palaeontologists. I can’t wait for you guys to see the series, it’s gonna be spectacular!
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by Emily Bamforth, curator at the Philip J. Curry, dinosaur Museum, Alberta, Canada
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Every #WWD2025 protagonist is based on an actual specimen excavated by paleontologists. The footage of their digsite work may not be as glamorous as VFX sequences, but they are an important part of the storytelling and the scicomm. SALUTE the great paleontologists of our time!
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