sun dogs from this morning to help remind me the cold weather isn't all bad.

It may not look like much, but this chunk is from the stomach of a mosasaur that died ~80 million years ago, and is chock-full of fossil teeth and bones. Really excited to see what our undergrad volunteers will find in those gut contents this semester! 🧪 #FossilFriday

Cutest fossil turtle in all of Manitoba 🐢 Toxochelys snout for #fossilfriday

👋 I'm the lab technician for PaleoSed+, a research group at the University of Manitoba that studies palaeontology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Here's a pic from Dinosaur Provincial Park, where I'll be doing some field work in the not-too-distant future.

Don't have any fossil pics right now, here's some modern carnivore action instead.

we drove half an hour to a place called aFishianados and got the last betta!

We're setting up the aquarium and picked up a couple of hitchhikers 🐌

This pretty peregrine visited my museum yesterday!

I'm ready

observing the ladybug.

in love with this carving on display at wag-qaumajuk in Winnipeg... looks just like a little fossil carnivore!

late night nautiloid-posting