3111 best r/paleontology images on Pholder | Triceratops. By V.Vatagin, 1914

Triceratops. By V.Vatagin, 1914

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How do mosasaurs and other marine reptiles survive in polar waters?

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💫“MOAMANIA: A look at all 9 known Moa species!

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My first tattoo, Cambrian style

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Is this true for you also?

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A quick summary of evolution

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I found that pic on the internet, I knew the Paraceratherium, but not the giant antelope... what it's that?

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Got to see Sue at the Denver museum

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Do you think therapsids were more mammalian or reptilian?

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Yet another reason why Ice Age 1 slaps

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Sadly can't take credit for it, but here it is anyway.

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Just got his book. I am very excited to read it!

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Sauroctonus, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2023, reference image: 1966 Zdenek Burian painting

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We wished strange creatures like anomalocaris or even sauropods were alive. Let's take a moment to appreciate this bizarre creature and that werid mouth!

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Do you guys think that dinosaurs could actually have display features like this?

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Which Permian or Carboniferous animal would survive in the Paleocene and Eocene in Antarctica?

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A new 300 million year old chondrichthyan has been discovered, and has been given the nickname Godzilla Shark. Dracopristis hoffmanorum is almost 2 meters long with 12 rows of teeth and 2 large spines coming out of it dorsal side.

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How closely related are the terror birds and the theropods? They seem to get more similar all the time.

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Picture I took of Sue the tyrannosaurus’s skull at the field museum in Chicago Illinois

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But guys, it was just climate change

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Soft tissue preservation of the conodont animal, which for many years was known only from its tooth-like elements

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How do we know which animals that had “saber-teeth” actually had lips covering them?

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Meet Yohoia, a megacheiran arthropod from the Burgess Shale, and the mantis shrimp analogue of the Cambrian

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Did advanced non-mammalian synapsids like the gorgonopsians lay eggs or give birth to live young?

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A Tylosaurus breaches the surface after a long dive

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The Walcott Quarry in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, where paleontologists discovered the Burgess Shale fauna

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Which one is more accurate

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Cretaceous molluscs from Colorado

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Found this funny

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Looks like this paleontologist mystery isn’t even close to being solved

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Classic Tyrannosaurus recontruction by Charles R. Knight (1919), with a little anatomical update by me.

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Mammoth tusks at the Natural History Museum, NYC

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Families of Dinosaurs | Art by Mark Hallet

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Predators of the Morrison: Late Jurassic NA was a scary time for herbivorous dinosaurs - by Jed Taylor

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A few of the trilobites I’ve dug

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Ethical Fossils To Own?

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Stained Glass Triceratops Head

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My coworker snapped a really awesome photo of our Allosaurus after dark. Gives me ballad of big Al vibes big time.

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Quetzalcoatlus is probably my favorite pterosaur

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The evolution of our understanding of Spinosaurus throughout history

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What was the skin like around Diplocaulus' skull? Or if it's not certain, which one is the best option for you?

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I mean, they’re probably not wrong, but that’s always the first guess

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One of the greatest marine predators ever! 😨

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i've recently gotten into paleontology and my sister got me this shirt as a gift ! can anyone please tell me what all of these are because i only know a handful

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I refuse to get over it

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Just a friendly reminder that the largest and smallest Proboscidea species ever were in the same genus Palaeoloxodon.

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I heard we can post our amateur paleoart on Saturdays so here’s my tyrannosaurus

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43 Ft Tylosaurus (mosasaur) The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum (Philadelphia, PA) taken with my IPhone XR Sep. 12th 2019

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Arambourgiania philadelphiae (left) and Cryodrakon boreas (right)

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Uwu eurypterid-san 😩💗

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Could Triceratops diet been hearts of palms? (More in comments)

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Is there scientific evidence of prehistoric man (Neanderthal or Homo sapeins) ever encountering saber-toothed cats and their kin or is this a trope of popular culture?

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dimetrodon and other Synapsids have ears?

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79 years ago, Mr. Robert Thomas Bakker was born

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Weird new dinosaur just dropped: Jakapil kaniukura, a basal thyreophoran from the Cenomanian of Argentina

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Why do ancient ammonites have such weird and random shells? probably some of the strangest yet coolest things I've seen that used to exist.

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Supertree of all the dinosaurs (incomplete)

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Why was the upper jaw of Eurhinosaurus longer than the lower jaw

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Tanystropheus made in blender

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Where might I find this at in the world, is there a place on earth where it’s layered like this???

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It’s a worm! It’s a fish! No, it’s tullimonstrum! (Plays Superman theme)

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Now I know I’m going to get a lot of backlash for this but after the recent paper on spinosaurus’s bone density and a few other factors I personally believe spinosaurus could’ve reached 10-12 tons. Let the war begin...

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Bad paleo joke: how did early man discover Aurochs were milkable?

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How likely is it that Saber Toothed Tigers (S. populator) could hunt and kill the various species of mammoths? Could they do it single handily, or would they need a pride?

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Any idea what the black thing is next to the white crinoid disc? Great Lakes - USA

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Saw this and thought this sub could use some extra reading material. (Don’t ban me please!)

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Frick you, E.L Wallace!! STAN'S BACK!!

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Yutyrannus courtship. Art by Mark Witton

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Urban legend, sure - but I'm not interested in if true or not. Does it have the correct anatomy and appearance?

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The famous fighting dinosaurs, a preserved battle between a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor

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Which group was better at flying? Pterosaurs or birds?

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Google bruh moment

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The Cambrian was a weird time for our ancestors

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Theropod in the morning light, watercolour and pen by me

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Interesting picture showing an early stage of possible fossilization

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While the first dinosaur (Megalosaurus) was recognized by science in 1824, when was the first dinosaur fossil discovered?

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What habitat did this beautiful horned boi come from?

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Something doesn't seem right here...

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Sharovipteryx sure was something else

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