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Late #FossilFriday greeting from the Gobi #Mongolia. The joint expedition of NC Museum of Natural Sciences and IPM Asset Solutions is moving a basecamp from west to east. Today is our 3rd day and a crew is approaching #FlamingCliffs. Lindsay Zanno Ryan Tucker Alessandro Chiarenza Stellenbosch University

#MADEx24 team made the 3rd basecamp yesterday after drove to pass muddy and slippery roads from the Far Western Gobi Bakhar through North of Nomgon town and hit the Eastern Gobi’s 1st planned locality, the Baynshireenian (Cen-Tur.) Baishin Tsav. Lindsay Zanno Ryan Tucker

All good trenches require a blood sacrifice 😆 this is a fact well known amongst paleos. #MADEx24 #dinodig24 photo by Alessandro Chiarenza

Lots of new theropod material turning up this week including two skeletons of a super important new species ❤️#MADEx24 #dinodig24

More breathtaking Gobi sunsets. This one behind camp. Oh! And did you know Mongolian camels wear 👔 neckties? 😆 #MADEx24 #dinodig24

#FossilFriday DAY-13. #MADEx24 team started to close down “Shangri-La” quarry at the Eastern Gobi & be ready to move to the last basecamp of this year in a few days after loading up this big girl, which is weighing ~ more than 2,000 lb and the one of the largest hadrosauroids.

In addition to #FossilFriday (missing several weeks in last a couple of months), a big girl is ready to load onto the truck and say “Good-bye, my homeland & Hi, my new home” #MADEx24

Can’t believe this went off without a hitch. Clean separation, flip, and load of a 2,000 lb block of hadrosaur. A very good day indeed #MADEx24 #dinodig24

Someone pls tell me why we always find our sauropods in sandstone? And doubly why I don’t just walk away? #MADEx24 #dinodig24

Stopped by an ancient temple on our way to base camp#4. Wicked. #MADEx24 #dinodig24

Last two days of our #MADEx24 expedition and I’ve found two partial skeletons of a new trodontid #raptor #dinosaur. Great way to wrap up the #gobi season. Gotta get this beaut out! #dinodig24

A psittacosaur skull hiding under our last troodontid skeleton was a nice surprise on our last day of the #MADEx24 expedition. Jacket pulled and that’s a wrap folks! #dinodig24

For #FossilFriday finally got to see the skull of Deinocheirus! What a truly bizarre #theropod #dinosaur.

That's a wrap on our 6-week #MADEx24 Gobi National Geographic expedition! We collected ~4,000 lbs specimens incl. two new theropod species, lots of hadrosaur, ceratopsian, and ornithomimid bones, eggshell, microverts, and chemostrat for our mid-Cretaceous #dinosaur project! Until next year!

Trilled to announce that today, NC Museum of Natural Sciences’s paleontology #citsci project CretaceousCreatures had its NATIONAL launch 🚀 🤩 inside the community where our microfossils derive—Garfield County High School in Jordan #Montana! This year we’ll be all over the USA!

You know it’s been a long field season when you have to flip your calendar from this to this… 😵‍💫

It's 5 a.m. here at European Synchrotron in France, and I've been up for 22 hours 🤪 coding scans of fossils to test whether extinct #dinosaurs produced medullary bone. I feel incredibly lucky to have been trained for this and to spend 5 days in this insanely cool facility!

Our 5-day scanarama @ESRF has ended! We ran 99 scans on 10 specimens in 5 days. I'm exhausted, but what a crazy good time. The data are incredible & the facilities, so cool. Plus wicked to walk around in the middle of the night & see what others were working on in the wee hrs...

Big thanks to The Leverhulme Trust for funding this work. Coauthor Julia Schwab played a huge role, and did some of this work as part of her PhD. And also thanks to our all-star team of coauthors: WitmerLab David Dufeau Lindsay Zanno & many others not on twitter...

Excited that our newest beastie Fona herzogae made Smithsonian Magazine top 10 #dinosaur discoveries of 2024! From the first bones in 2008 to last year's freshest finds, this little burrower keeps turning up. Shout out to the💯s of people who have helped collect Fona over the yrs!