❗ New Discovery Alert ❗🔬
A newly discovered teen T. Rex is now on display at the Museum in our brand new exhibition, "Discovering Teen Rex."
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- DMNS paleontologists work with many talented paleoartists around the world to bring their discoveries to life. This includes the incredibly talented @AndreyAtuchin who created this vibrant painting of the Fruitland Formation of northwestern New Mexico. #FossilFriday
- Through the end of January, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is offering free general admission to all federal employees impacted by the furlough when they show their government ID in person at the Museum.
- While we have been so fortunate to host Tiny the Torosaurus on the 2nd floor bridge for over a year, it's time for it to move on. Please make sure to stop by before this Thursday, May 5 to say goodbye!
- Discovery alert! Meet Palatobaena knellerorum, a new species of fossil turtle found by DMNS volunteer Sharon Milito at Corral Bluffs in 2019. Palatobaena was recently described in a paper in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. #FossilFriday Illustration by @AndreyAtuchin.
- A bizarre 66-million-old mammal was discovered in Madagascar by a team of researchers led by Dr. David Krause, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at DMNS. The discovery, called Adalatherium, was announced today in the journal Nature. bit.ly/3aUcbHj
- 🚨 Discovery alert! 🚨 The first new skull discovered in nearly a century from a rare species of the iconic, tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus was announced today in the journal PeerJ. Learn more: bit.ly/2Y9qHH0
- Last week, we did something that we haven't done in a long, long time… deinstalled the Alma King from exhibit. This specimen, perhaps the world’s best rhodochrosite crystal, is getting a new portable mount built so that we can display it offsite when needed. #MineralMonday
- Happy #FossilFriday! This Smilodectes gracilis skull, found in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, was the 10,000th specimen added to the vertebrate paleontology collection. Smilodectes gracilis was an early primate from the Eocene Epoch.
- This is the ventral (bottom) surface of the only Gargoyleosaurus skull ever collected from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. It was described by DMNS scientists in 1998. #FossilFriday
- Happy #NewYear and 1st #fossilfriday of #2021! Museum Scientists continue to work on the treasure trove of fossils uncovered from just after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Many of these fossils belong to new species and are in the process of being described and named.
- Joe Sertich, our curator of dinosaurs, on the recent triceratops skull found in neighboring Thornton, CO. More to come tomorrow!
00:00 - New science alert 🚨 Meet Plastomenus joycei, a soft-shelled turtle that swam in the rivers of Colorado 65 million years ago, just after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Scientists at DMNS have just formally named and described this new species of turtle. bit.ly/2SBJOKK
- Museum scientists Tyler Lyson and David Krause have helped describe a new species of turtle from the Late Cretaceous! Meet Sahonachelys mailakavava: bit.ly/2RHRTg3 Illustration by @AndreyAtuchin
