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Danny Anduza

@paleontologizing.bsky.social

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Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at twitch.tv/paleontologizing

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hiya, #Bluesky! For my 600+ new followers, let me introduce myself...

I'm Danny Anduza — dinosaur worker, field paleontologist, and full-time science communicator. I'll be posting all kinds of fossil-related content, from field photos to livestream clips to 3D prints. It's so great to be here!

Me riding in a helicopter, doing some high-altitude prospecting in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, July 2015

Explaining the forelimb morphology of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton to visitors at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, 2019

Plaster jacketing a hadrosaur skull with Ethan Cowgill and Quin Hawkins in the Late Cretaceous Almond Formation of Wyoming, June 2023. Livestream camera in foreground (I was livestreaming the whole month!)

Me in front of the North Dakota Paleocene badlands on the way to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, October 2024

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 8h

There's a number of dinosaurs (and other fossil critters) who were lost in both world wars. Those aboard the Mount Temple provide an interesting example:
www.earthmagazine.org/article/benc...

Benchmarks: December 6, 1916: Dinosaur fossils lost at sea in World War I

www.earthmagazine.org

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

"Bad flip, crania lost"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

...and here's a slightly larger project I also have to finish tonight

Photo of a 3D-printed, full-size adult Tyrannosaurus skull on a custom metal mount. It's almost five feet long, and the vaquita is dwarfed by comparison

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is with the seams filled — ready for smoothing epoxy!

Photo of the vaquita on the garage floor, with water putty filling in the seams

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

I'm realizing that the photo at the top resembles a "guy holding fish" bad dating site profile pic 🤦🏽

I promise it's not a [ray-finned] fish — it's a mammal! And I didn't kill it — I made this model because we're trying to save the actual porpoises from extinction due to illegal fishing!

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

I'm keeping the tail detachable so that the critter will fit diagonally in my suitcase, and then I can glue it on permanently once I arrive in San Diego — so there *will* be a seam there (which you can touch up if you'd like to!) but apart from that, it should be pretty smooth & seamless

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Kasey! I've already started filling in the seams with water putty, and we'll see what I can do with the spray paint I have on hand. Gotta at least *try* to achieve that classic 'panda' coloration so people know they're looking at a vaquita.

I'll keep you posted 👍🏽

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

For those who are unaware, the vaquita is the most endangered of cetaceans, with (probably) fewer than 11 still alive in the world. The time to save these special — and incredibly cute! — creatures from extinction is NOW

youtu.be/2Cf8cuATdrI?...

Why Is the Vaquita the Rarest Whale on Earth?

YouTube video by Animalogic

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 1d

In the middle of a dozen other projects, I've been working on a life-sized, 3D-printed vaquita porpoise for @kaseysnow.bsky.social to show off at #TwitchCon 🐬

🤞🏽 Cross your fingers I have enough time to paint it properly before I fly out on Wednesday 🤞🏽

Photo of me holding a life-sized vaquita porpoise 3D print in my arms. It's still unpainted, so the bright white-colored plastic filament makes it look almost like a tiny, 1-meter-long beluga

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 3d

Love that Allosaurus!

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 3d

CONGRATS, CARY! Exciting stuff

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 3d

For #FossilFriday, it's a *NEW PACHYCEPHALOSAURID*(!), and a project that is very near and dear to my heart. Let's welcome #Brontotholus_harmoni!

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 4d

Not too shabby if I do say so myself 😏

🐧 Animal #801 🦓
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.5

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#metazooa

Metazooa

Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 4d

We've got TWO new dinosaur genera to introduce on today's #Twitch stream: ZAVACEPHALE and UTETITAN!

Join us for discussion of those two new papers, #paleontology Q&A, and a long-awaited Thursday BIRDSday 🐦📅

twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with the wall behind me featuring life-sized 3D-printed skulls of Pachycephalosaurus and Stegoceras, plus various framed prints of pachycephalosaur and titanosaur figures and a mini Mongolian flag

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 5d

I relate to this so hard.

One time I got sent to the principal's office for saying that bats aren't actually blind (when the biology teacher was telling the class that God, in His wisdom, created all bats without eyes)

Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 6d

Catching up with some old friends at Berkeley

Selfie photo of me and the "Wankel Rex" Tyrannosaurus skeleton cast outside UCMP

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 6d

💥 New delivery 💥

Photo shows a stack of six books I ordered to donate to my neighborhood's Little Free Library — Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey; T. rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez; Saving Sea Turtles by James Spotila, and Terra and Dinosaurs of The Flaming Cliffs, both by Michael Novacek.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 8d

Folks sometimes forget that Velociraptor was one of his, too. Osborn may not have thought that critter was all that special, but just that strong and evocative name was enough to capture Crichton's imagination and lift that genus out of obscurity

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 8d

The late Dr. Jane Goodall with a wonderful posthumous message. Worth the few minutes! What a treasure.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 10d

Bumping this!

That's my (very rough) draft logo for the proposed "DAWN OF THE CRETACEOUS Fossil Beds National Monument" 🌅🦖

We're hoping that someday these wonderful and vitally important fossil sites are protected, so we can continue learning what our planet was like in the earliest Cretaceous

PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 10d

It is about time, #FossilFriday that I promoted Christa Sadler's wonderful book on the globally unique Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah again. Someday, I hope it leads to a Dawn of the Cretaceous Fossil Beds Nat. Monu. managed like John Day Fossil Beds NM in Oregon. this-earth.com/dinosaur-fro...

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 11d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 12d

Mob boss Fat Tony, having been caught selling rat milk to the elementary school, tells reporter "I don't get it. Everyone loves rats, but they don't want to drink the rats' milk?"

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 19d

We're digging up more of this dinosaur (Gastonia, not to scale) out here in Utah with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

and you can tune in and watch the excavation live at ~1pm Pacific @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Photo of a plastic Gastonia model, held in my hand in front of our shade-tarp-covered quarry at Lorrie's Site in eastern Utah

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 20d

A wind storm *destroyed* our shade tarp setup and made me end the broadcast early, and now I've got a clip of it

💨 Enjoy 💨

www.twitch.tv/paleontologi...

Paleontologizing - Utah desert winds destroy paleontologists' shade tarp

Watch Paleontologizing's clip titled

www.twitch.tv

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 21d

I can't watch this because I'm out in the desert, digging dinosaurs again for two weeks

but YOU should watch it and tell me how good it is!

www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish

In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth

www.thetimes.com

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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · 21d

MORE CRETACEOUS FIELDWORK! I'm back out in the Cedar Mountain Formation with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social, digging up dozens of ankylosaurs and streaming each day at 1pm Pacific

Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're finding and ask some questions!

Selfie photo of me, in field garb, in front of our newly-erected shade tarps at the "Lorrie's Site" Gastonia quarry out in the eastern Utah desert

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