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Danny Anduza
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Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at twitch.tv/paleontologizing
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Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hiya, #Bluesky! For my 600+ new followers, let me introduce myself...

I'm Danny Anduza — dinosaur worker, field paleontologist, and full-time science communicator. I'll be posting all kinds of fossil-related content, from field photos to livestream clips to 3D prints. It's so great to be here!
Me riding in a helicopter, doing some high-altitude prospecting in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, July 2015 Explaining the forelimb morphology of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton to visitors at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, 2019 Plaster jacketing a hadrosaur skull with Ethan Cowgill and Quin Hawkins in the Late Cretaceous Almond Formation of Wyoming, June 2023. Livestream camera in foreground (I was livestreaming the whole month!) Me in front of the North Dakota Paleocene badlands on the way to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, October 2024
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BIG props to the Science Museum of Minnesota for participating in the strike, protesting against the ICE offensive.

Taking a stand and closing their doors today also means losing out on revenue — so if you'd like to help them out, they've got some cool paleo merch...

store.smm.org/collections/...
All Things Dino
Can You Dig It? All Things Dino! Give gifts that rawr! With hands-on experiments and games, comfy apparel, rawr-dorable toys, and more, our dinosaur gift collection will immerse you in a land before t...
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January 23, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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I encountered these ammonites on display outside a hotel in Monterey, CA

For #FossilFriday, anybody with some ammonite savvy have a clue what they might be?
Photo of a slab of rock, with visible tool prep marks, and several large ammonite fossils. The ammonites are gray, with an overall oxycone shape, and relatively simple sutures. My hand is next to the largest one, which is roughly the same size
January 23, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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That was WAY tougher than it should have been 😑

🐛 Animal #906 🦎
I figured it out in 7 guesses!
🟥🟧🟧🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2

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Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 22, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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We're discussing more #paleontology news on today's #Twitch stream — from giant, flippered sea crocs to the patterns of extinction vs. survival in coastal marine organisms (and whatever else chat is curious about in Q&A). Plus #ThursdayBIRDSday, too!

Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with 3D-printed croc skull, leatherback turtle, and Archaeopteryx fossil on the wall behind me, alongside other paleo miscellanea
January 22, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Sorry not sorry.

Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍

*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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If, you me, you have NO WISH WHATSOEVER to have some annoying and un-asked-for bit of AI constantly begging for attention... you can UNINSTALL the thing.
Darren has uninstalled copilot
January 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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#ThursdayBIRDSday
comraderobot.bsky.social Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 2d
you don’t gotta use ai man this stuff is just out here for free
Featherless emu with a skin condition and no feathers. it’s skin is gray blue with pink splotches and it’s wearing a sweater. dead ass it looks exactly like a dinosaur in a sweater. credit Knuckle Bump Farms on Instagram
January 22, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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TWO GUESSES 💪🏽

🪲 Animal #905 🦬
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
🟩🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2

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#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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It's a #PALEONTOLOGY NEWS stream today on #Twitch, and we're covering tyrannosaur growth, southern ceratosaur jaw mechanics, thick-headed troodontid(s?), and whatever other recent publications chat is curious about.

Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Twitch screenshot of me in my office. Behind me are various framed prints of figures from the paleontological literature, plus a 3D-printed Nanotyrannus skull (never thought I'd have to type that out) and various other fossil miscellanea
January 21, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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I was strugglin' there for a while, but GOT it

🦥 Animal #904 🐡
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
🟥🟨🟨🟩
🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 20, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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It's #PenguinAwarenessDay, so we're doing a special #Twitch stream talking all about penguins, both fossil & living.

I'm sure we'll be discussing flightlessness, paleobiogeography, climate change, and more — and you're invited to hang out with us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, flanked by various framed prints of penguins and other flightless birds, as well as maps of Antarctica and the Southern Hemisphere
January 20, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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LUCKY today!

🦒 Animal #903 🐙
I figured it out in 3 guesses!
🟥🟥🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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I'll be assembling the distal tail of our baby Triceratops skeleton on today's #Twitch stream, and we'll also be chatting about some fossil news (and whatever else chat is curious about)

Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Twitch screenshot of me in my office. Behind me on the wall are a big 3D-printed Apatosaurus femur, a baby Triceratops skeleton (also 3D-printed, of course) as well as various framed prints of paleontological miscellanea. Oh, and there's a leatherback turtle model back there, too
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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But yes, keep pushing AI into our classrooms, dear university leadership.
larrynittler.bsky.social Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄️ @larrynittler.bsky.social · 5d
just asked the ASU Gemini app that I am "encouraged to incorporate into my curriculum" for an illustration to explain why a third-quarter moon rises at midnight. It gave me this. How many things do you see wrong with this image?
January 18, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Cheers to me for remembering to do this on a weekend

🐗 Animal #902 🦈
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
🟥🟥🟧🟨🟨🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.3

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#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 18, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Some *good* news for once in 2026!

As you might imagine, this bodes well for the survival of leatherback turtles
savingoceans.bsky.social Marine Conservation Institute @savingoceans.bsky.social · 6d
The High Seas Treaty has entered into force!

A milestone—yes. But more importantly, a beginning.

Now what?

#BBNJ #HighSeas #OceanProtection
January 18, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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Not my best, but not my worst either

🐮 Animal #900 🐶
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.3

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Proud of this one

🦁 Animal #898 🐕‍🦺
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
🟧🟨🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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We're discussing DINOSAUR DIET on today's stream — and raising funds for one of Minnesota's largest food banks to help folks resist the ongoing fascist occupation. Join us, and let's raise some money for VEAP!

twitch.tv/paleontologizing

veap.org/ways-to-give...
Twitch screenshot of me in my office. I'm wearing a Minneapolis T-shirt (from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting 2024) in front of an office wall convered in 3D-printed dinosaur skulls and framed scientific figures, ferns, magnolias, etc. all illuminated in the colors of the Minnesota flag
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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We're starting the week off with some chill #paleontology Q&A -- and you can come chat with us at twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with some cycads and a big ol' amniote phylogeny framed on the wall behind me
January 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Danny Anduza
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So how does Xenovenator compare with Yaverlandia @tetzoo.bsky.social ? No mention of it? @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
albertonykus.bsky.social Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 14d
New dinosaur Xenovenator espinosai, apparently a dome-headed troodontid: www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18... 🪶🧪 (📷Rivera-Sylva et al.)
Fossilized partial braincase of a dinosaur, shown from multiple angles.
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Having to watch out for the telltale shadow of a radiodont in the water column above you and then quickly burrowing into the silt to avoid their grasping appendages
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 15d
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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every town should have a single giant irradiated bug to use for festivals or during harvest or to punish criminals
February 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This reminded me, I have to save all my old Mothra tweets before the account is deactivated
April 14, 2020 Twitter post (from me): "When my wife and I were dating, we were flipping channels and one of the early Mothra films was on. She started singing the lyrics and that’s how I knew she was the one."
February 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

🐝 Animal #892 🐗
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
🟥🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 5.2

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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January 8, 2026 at 11:18 PM