PalaeoAmber

I have the best job in the entire world and no one can tell me otherwise! 👩🏻‍🔬 museum scientist wearing many hats - including professional Dino duster! I teach palaeontology, geology, and biology classes to schools. I also take care of Dinosaur Hall, manage our geo/palaeo education collection, do social media vids for ANSP, fossil prep/care, outreach programming and TV spots, etc. oh and develop stage presentations and other programming for the public side as well!! I love every second of it! Some awesome facts about @acadnatsci: 📍 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 🦖 Our T. rex is a cast of AMNH 5027. 🥇 First ever Tyrannosaurus mount to be in the horizontal position! 🏛️ First museum to ever have a dinosaur mounted on display for the public to see: Hadrosaurus foulkii in 1868. 📰 Oldest natural history museum in the western hemisphere: founded in 1812. #womeninstem #womeninscience #naturalhistorymuseum #sciencemuseum #scicomm

Assistant Director, Holly found a huge Dimetrodon femur the other day!

Six Bighorn Basin Rock Art Sites Burned, Shot In ‘Irreparable’ Vandalism The BLM is investigating multiple incidents of “irreparable” vandalism at rock art sites in the Bighorn Basin. They were burned, shot and had names…

Located in Kentucky, Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system on Earth, with over 420 miles (676 km) of mapped caverns. It is a testament to the power of water to both shape spectacular chambers and structures. The slight acidity of rainwater and groundwater dissolves tunnels in Kentucky’s limestone. At the same time, mineral-filled water forms stalagmites, stalactites, straws, flowstones, and evaporites as it drips and pools inside the caverns. Several pools and streams flowing through the caves support fish, crayfish, shrimp, snails, and thirsty bats.

This gypsum stalactite was acquired from Mammoth Cave in 1892.

We are thrilled to announce a new dinosaur species today!

The newly named microraptor Jian changmaensis was discovered in northwestern China and is the first non-avian dinosaur to be found at one of the most important fossil bird sites in the world. “For decades, the Changma site has been renowned among paleontologists for its extraordinary fossil birds. Now, with the discovery of Jian, we finally know what was eating them,” says Dr. Matt Lamanna, Mary R. Dawson Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and corresponding author on the paper out today in Annals of Carnegie Museum.

Learn more about the newly discovered dinosaur via coverage by CNN and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette linked below.

"Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago" by Ashley Strickland for CNN: https://cnn.it/4g0CPmM

"Carnegie museum paleontologist co-leads discovery of a new dinosaur species in China" by Mary Ann Thomas for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://bit.ly/4ugQzxc

The full paper is available on our website. https://bit.ly/4oa1LKO

Illustration: The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago. Credits: illustration by Lewis LaRosa, colorized by Jão Canola.