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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · 5d

In lieu of the recent #Nanotyrannus paper, here’s a couple of photos of me at the Burpee Museum of Natural History with Jane (Nanotyrannus lethaeus) and CMNH 7541 (Nanotyrannus lancensis), along with a flesh model of Jane by @tylerkeillor.bsky.social. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · 12d

Just in time for Halloween. Paul Sereno and colleagues have shown off two exceptionally well-preserved #Edmontosaurus mummies from the “Mummy Zone”. #dinosaurs #paleontology

Photos by Paul Sereno & Tyler Keillor.
Photogrammetry and 3D reconstruction by Dan Vidal and Maria Ciudad Real. Artwork by Dani Navarro

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · 13d

Tune in tomorrow (1pm CT, 13:00 CDT), for an important paleo announcement from Dr. Paul Sereno (@paulserenoofficial) on Instagram. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 21d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Sep 12

Three #Tyrannosaurus skulls of @SUEtheTrex of @FieldMuseum, USNM 555000 of @NMNH, and Tufts Love rex of @burkemuseum. The skull differences in these three T.rex specimens is amazing! #dinosaurs #paleontology #FossilFriday

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Decided to do a test run on @FEBioSoftware with the adult #Tyrannosaurus of @NMNH and #Raptorex (a juvenile tyrannosaur). Baby tyrannosaurs show high skull stress and low jaw muscle forces, compared to the adult condition. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 8

I decided to get my own copy of National Geographic’s Dinosaurs with spectacular #Spinosaurus artwork by Dani Navarro. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Aug 4

Andre J. Rowe & Emily J. Rayfield (2025)
Carnivorous dinosaur lineages adopt different skull performances at gigantic size
Current Biology 35(15): p3664-3673.e3

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Jul 26

Got a chance to see “Teen rex”, a new #Tyrannosaurus specimen, at the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social. It is a breathtaking specimen, I might add. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Special thanks to Drs. Pat O’Connor & Dave Krause for hosting me at the
@denvermuseumns.bsky.social collections. I had the pleasure of measuring various #Majungasaurus specimens and it is such an amazing theropod! Skeletal mount from Stony Brook University #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Apr 12

Since this year has proven to be the year of #Spinosaurus. Here’s a fantastic reconstruction by EdenBuster. I greatly adore the colors. #theropods #paleontology #dinosaurs

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Feb 22

For #SpinosaurSaturday here’s #Spinosaurus and #Tyrannosaurus with neck muscle reconstructions. For my research, I’m looking at how much force the two theropods generated with moving their heads and necks. Big thanks to Eden Buster for helping with the reconstructions. #dinosaurs #paleontology

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Jan 31

Art by Dani Navarro. Figure from a 2024 paper I was on with Domenic D’Amore of @daemenuniv, @Dave_Hone, and Eric Snively of @OSUVertPaleo/@OSUMedicine. (2/2)

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Jan 31

For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting on #spinosaur feeding at @AnatomyOrg in Portland, OR on March 29. Come learn about spinosaur head and neck movements and feeding behavior. #AnatomyConnected #Anatomy25 #dinosaurs #paleontology (1/2)

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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · Dec 23

I’m 30 years old now

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · Nov 28

Cats: Predators to Pets opens at the Field Museum tomorrow. I hope the story of how this exhibit came to be can one day be told because it is wild. For now, I think my colleagues' work speaks for itself!

Also, this exhibit may just include a human-sized cat tree & a chance to pose with salad cat.

An array of 20+ taxidermy big cats on staggered black shelves in a dark exhibit space.

Taxidermy caracal posed in a twisting leap as it grabs a pheasant.

Several taxidermy cats in resting poses.

Test print of the screaming woman and salad cat meme on a table.

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Anthony vs dead turtles @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · Nov 26

QRP with your skull art 💀

I do mine in 3d

Mahajungasuchus skull eating a curatorial finger

Teratophoneus skull with golden retriever for scale

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · Nov 20

Watercolor of Sinraptor stealing a kill from a family of Guanlong. I worked with @ejrpaleo.bsky.social to put this together for his SVP research on early tyrannosaurs in 2021. 🦖 #paleoart #sciart

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