Cary Woodruff
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Cary Woodruff
@doublebeam.bsky.social
A dino paleontologist who loves to research & share all things sauropod (🦕) related. Curator of Vert. Paleo. at Frost Science in Miami, FL USA.
I have laughed at this WAY more than I should! The satire in this is 🤌🏆
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I knew going into A House of Dynamite that I was gonna cry. But never *THAT* that much. And I think about this subject. *A LOT*.

Kathryn Bigelow, @netflix.com, @nti.org, bravo!

This is an *exceptional* 'wake up' film. Please watch it. And please get everyone you know to watch it.
October 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We have a GREAT sauropod-themed #FossilFriday with two awesome studies that came out this week!
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October 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUNTER!!!!!! The big man turns **6** today! **SIX** Seems like just yesterday he was small enough to be my carry-on....😅 Here's to my love and the bestest boy on his bestest day, and may it be filled with tennis balls and cheeseburgers!
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For #FossilFriday, it's a *NEW PACHYCEPHALOSAURID*(!), and a project that is very near and dear to my heart. Let's welcome #Brontotholus_harmoni!
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Cary Woodruff
After we published the new specimen of #Spicomellus a few weeks ago, we were contacted by George Blasing, who said he'd bought some on the commercial market, and wanted to return it to Morocco. It arrived last week. Thanks George for doing the right thing in the name of science!
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️
September 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Phil and co. have found *EVEN MORE* of the #Prenocephale holotype?!?!?!
@MongoliaQuest
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a window with blinds and says `` everybody stay calm ! ''
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a window with blinds and says `` everybody stay calm ! ''
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September 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Cary Woodruff
For #FossilFriday some more images from the discovery & study of the new Spicomellus skeleton. An amazingly fun project with great people.
August 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Reposting this because with all of the wonderful #Spicomellus news, riding Frank the donkey around the Moroccan badlands (ok, right around the house...) was unequivocally the highlight of the entire dig for me 😅

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August 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Cary Woodruff
Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's already blowing up on the paleo sphere, but let's welcome another #Spicomellus post!
(reconstruction by the insanely talented @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
August 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Listen to the seagull!!
August 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
*THIS* is a story I want to know more about! 😨
August 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
For #FossilFriday we recently imaged a bunch of microfossils with a Keyence microscope at @univmiami.bsky.social, & this #Troodon tooth was one of my favorites! Their teeth are something...but under such high mag, they really are wicked, and "wounding tooth" is certainly an appropriate name!
August 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Hunter *LOVES* pools. Hunter *HATES* sharing pools. 🤣
August 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NEW PAPER DAY! 🥳I'll start by sharing the OPEN ACCESS paper:
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www.app.pan.pl/article/item...
Teeth from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco reveal the oldest turiasaurian sauropods from Africa - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
www.app.pan.pl
August 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New paper day! Phil Bell led a great study on some *INSANELY COOL* titanosaur tracks our expedition found in Mongolia. The scales in particular are extra awesome - they're like little pyramids, and they *may* have helped with scratch digging and/or walking on sandy surfaces!
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Well, if you ever wondered what it's like to vomit/shit with disgust/rage, here's some light reading that will elicit that response:

www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/p...
Netanyahu plays into Trump’s hopes for Middle East peace — and nominates him for a Nobel Prize | CNN Politics
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump Monday marks his third time at the White House since January. Unlike the previous two episodes, there’s no public events on the ...
www.cnn.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Cary Woodruff
In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I'm a few days late, but NEW PAPER day! 🥳

This paper is a synthesis on our current knowledge about Diplodocoidea (Diplodocus and kin) - ranging from their paleo history, life history, appearance, behavior, so much more.
July 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It's a Saurischian-airport kind of day....
June 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM