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Jim Kirkland
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State Paleontologist for Utah; exploring and promoting the history of life in our southwestern deserts for the public good and the wonder of it all.
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jun 30, 2021
    A Threasher Shark breaching off Costa Rica. Knocking off cookiecutter sharks cutting chunks off it. Zoom in and look at base of right pectoral fin and base of caudal fin.🦈 Thanks Casey Klein for posting on Facebook.
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jul 1, 2024
    Ai has no place in science or in scientific illustration!!!
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jan 8, 2023
    I tell you, Protoceratops used burrows as well to defend against Velocirapter.
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    Nature Is Lit
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    Jan 7, 2023
    🔥 A boar slipping smoothly into its burrow to escape a pack of wild dogs
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Nov 11, 2021
    Acrocanthosaurus serrations are so fine you can barely see them.
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    Jim Kirkland
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    May 21, 2023
    Amazing microCT skeletal image. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Mar 21, 2019
    Replying to @TIME
    Those of us how have paid attention to AOC's questioning during hearings are impressed by her preparedness and skill in her questioning, while others grandstand, she brings forth new and pertinent info. Glad she could not afford law school. We need her in congress!
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jun 24, 2023
    d to share on #FossilFriday Torosaurus latus that Amanda Cantrell-Suazo & Tom Suazo's Badlands Sci. Exp. LLC, collected in Naashoibito Mbr., Ojo Alamo Fm. San Juan Basin, New Mexico, has been unveiled at the Knuthenborg Mus of Evolution, Denmark! Mark Loewen of @NHMU describing
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jul 18, 2025
    Still cannot get over how bad this ai generated postcard is!
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Feb 26, 2024
    Been thinking polacanthines when I should be working on the Mancos nomenclature report. Basically, I'm thinking that the standard Gastonia like models at 5 meters of so have a basic, leave me alone vibe. The giant taxa; I'm still working on that. Remember this is a hypothesis!
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Mar 10, 2019
    Meet Sachicasaurus “The newest giant pliosaur, an almost 10 m (35 ft) goliath from E. Cret. 130 Ma from what is now Colombia. Sachicasaurus was a serious beast, but ITTY BITTY flippers compared to other pliosaurs (normaly size of head). See Pliosaurus pic. SLOW...ambush predator?
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jan 18, 2024
    Late for Museum selfie day... Dag nab-it!
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Jul 22, 2023
    Warm water carries less oxygen. Hot water even less. Global Cretaceous anoxic events were in large part driven by warm ocean temperatures, as was the loss of coral reefs in favor of rudistid clam reefs. @utahgeological
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    Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸
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    Jul 22, 2023
    Tens of thousands of fish washing up on the Texas shoreline. Totally normal. There’s no climate emergency or anything. Move along.
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Oct 29, 2021
    Going through the thousands of pictures I shot on my 2017 trip to China, so... here is a spectacular skeletal specimen of Microraptor at Beijing Mus of Nat Hist PH1084 (note, not one in Li manuscript). #FossilFriday
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    Jim Kirkland
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    Dec 16, 2019
    Assuming this is the first rapid prototyped Utahraptor skull by Galentia Studios.
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