Robert Gay
@paleorob.bsky.social
Educator and paleontologist. Here for science communication. Personal account, all postings are my own and do not reflect the views of any employer.
Most recent pub:
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/82
Most recent pub:
https://giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.php/GIW/article/view/82
If you see this QRP with your animal painting.
Not really a painting, but here's my most recent #dinosaur, something very much like Prenoceratops and based on photos of the mount of that animal. #IdahoPaleo
Not really a painting, but here's my most recent #dinosaur, something very much like Prenoceratops and based on photos of the mount of that animal. #IdahoPaleo
March 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you see this QRP with your animal painting.
Not really a painting, but here's my most recent #dinosaur, something very much like Prenoceratops and based on photos of the mount of that animal. #IdahoPaleo
Not really a painting, but here's my most recent #dinosaur, something very much like Prenoceratops and based on photos of the mount of that animal. #IdahoPaleo
Made a pulp-art #Oryctodromeus last weekend but decided to share it here now. A #dinosaur that lived up in the foothills 100 million years ago of what is now #Idaho and #Montana. Based on the new scan data from the #IMNH.
March 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Made a pulp-art #Oryctodromeus last weekend but decided to share it here now. A #dinosaur that lived up in the foothills 100 million years ago of what is now #Idaho and #Montana. Based on the new scan data from the #IMNH.
Today's #FossilFriday is a #tyrannosaur femur from #Idaho! I'm holding a #3Dprint of the original in the case. I'm comparing the paint job one of my interns did to the actual fossil; getting pretty close!. This print, and others like it, will be used in education kits for kids across the state!
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Today's #FossilFriday is a #tyrannosaur femur from #Idaho! I'm holding a #3Dprint of the original in the case. I'm comparing the paint job one of my interns did to the actual fossil; getting pretty close!. This print, and others like it, will be used in education kits for kids across the state!
If you see this, post a skeleton.
February 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
If you see this, post a skeleton.
#Oryctodromeus, the official state #dinosaur of #Idaho hanging out outside of its burrow in the #Cretaceous forest. A belated #FossilFriday bit of art I've worked on over the last week. Done in @procreate.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#Oryctodromeus, the official state #dinosaur of #Idaho hanging out outside of its burrow in the #Cretaceous forest. A belated #FossilFriday bit of art I've worked on over the last week. Done in @procreate.com
As an update! We finished installing this display this week.
February 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
As an update! We finished installing this display this week.
For this #FossilFriday I spent most of the afternoon with the museum team updating our exhibit at the airport. Our #Bison latifrons is getting a facelift!
February 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For this #FossilFriday I spent most of the afternoon with the museum team updating our exhibit at the airport. Our #Bison latifrons is getting a facelift!
$238.11 for 17 pounds of beef at Costco today.
February 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
$238.11 for 17 pounds of beef at Costco today.
Here is a large #dinosaur limb bone for #FossilFriday! This #Idaho #fossil is from a big meat-eating dinosaur that lived in the #Cretaceous Period. There are tantalizing pieces that are helping some of us (@ljkrum.bsky.social @slvrhwk.bsky.social & other) piece this #IdahoPaleo story together.
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Here is a large #dinosaur limb bone for #FossilFriday! This #Idaho #fossil is from a big meat-eating dinosaur that lived in the #Cretaceous Period. There are tantalizing pieces that are helping some of us (@ljkrum.bsky.social @slvrhwk.bsky.social & other) piece this #IdahoPaleo story together.
For a belated #FossilFriday, here's a cast of #Tinker the #Tyrannosaurus on display at the Discovery Center of #Idaho in #Boise. I was out there for a meeting on Friday so I couldn't resist taking a pic. This is the only mounted #Trex skeleton in the state. #IdahoPaleo #dinosaur #fossil
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For a belated #FossilFriday, here's a cast of #Tinker the #Tyrannosaurus on display at the Discovery Center of #Idaho in #Boise. I was out there for a meeting on Friday so I couldn't resist taking a pic. This is the only mounted #Trex skeleton in the state. #IdahoPaleo #dinosaur #fossil
Happy #FossilFriday everyone! This is a #3Dprint of a bone from the #Triassic Thaynes Formation of #Idaho. Originally described as a skull bone from an #ichthyosaur, it turns out not to be. Come talk to @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social and me at @nhmu.bsky.social #DinoFest this weekend! #IdahoPaleo
January 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy #FossilFriday everyone! This is a #3Dprint of a bone from the #Triassic Thaynes Formation of #Idaho. Originally described as a skull bone from an #ichthyosaur, it turns out not to be. Come talk to @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social and me at @nhmu.bsky.social #DinoFest this weekend! #IdahoPaleo
Happy #FossilFriday! This unassuming blob is actually the upper part of a leg bone called the femur of a #dinosaur from #Idaho! Ongoing fieldwork by @ljkrum.bsky.social and the IMNH reveals more fossils every year. This is one that LJ found in 2024 and probably belongs to #Oryctodromeus. #IdahoPaleo
January 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Happy #FossilFriday! This unassuming blob is actually the upper part of a leg bone called the femur of a #dinosaur from #Idaho! Ongoing fieldwork by @ljkrum.bsky.social and the IMNH reveals more fossils every year. This is one that LJ found in 2024 and probably belongs to #Oryctodromeus. #IdahoPaleo
Somehow even my damn call filter is trying to show me a Wrapped-style retrospective. Unreal.
January 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Somehow even my damn call filter is trying to show me a Wrapped-style retrospective. Unreal.
For #FossilFriday, here's a 3d scan of the radius and ulna of the crocodile-mimic Pravusuchus from #Utah. Pravusuchus was a #phytosaur and not a #dinosaur, but it likely ate some of them! Phytosaurs like Pravusuchus were ubiquitous worldwide at the end of the #Triassic Period. Rendered in #Blender
January 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
For #FossilFriday, here's a 3d scan of the radius and ulna of the crocodile-mimic Pravusuchus from #Utah. Pravusuchus was a #phytosaur and not a #dinosaur, but it likely ate some of them! Phytosaurs like Pravusuchus were ubiquitous worldwide at the end of the #Triassic Period. Rendered in #Blender
For the last #FossilFriday of 2024, I'm highlighting something not from Idaho. This is a line drawing of (part of) the legs of the Early Jurassic #theropod #dinosaur #Segisaurus from the #Navajo Sandstone of the #NavajoNation. This fossil, found in the 1930s is the only example of this animal.
December 28, 2024 at 2:19 AM
For the last #FossilFriday of 2024, I'm highlighting something not from Idaho. This is a line drawing of (part of) the legs of the Early Jurassic #theropod #dinosaur #Segisaurus from the #Navajo Sandstone of the #NavajoNation. This fossil, found in the 1930s is the only example of this animal.
A belated #FossilFriday post featuring a #Cretaceous #turtle limb bone and a large gar scale here at the @imnh208.bsky.social. These critters inhabited streams in what is now #Idaho over 100 million years ago. While #dinosaurs "ruled" the Earth, parts of recognizably modern ecosystems were emerging.
December 21, 2024 at 3:56 PM
A belated #FossilFriday post featuring a #Cretaceous #turtle limb bone and a large gar scale here at the @imnh208.bsky.social. These critters inhabited streams in what is now #Idaho over 100 million years ago. While #dinosaurs "ruled" the Earth, parts of recognizably modern ecosystems were emerging.
Up to more #3dprinting shenanigans at the @imnh208.bsky.social using our #Soval dual material printer. What are we up to? Well, you'll just have to wait and see once it comes off the plate tomorrow...
December 17, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Up to more #3dprinting shenanigans at the @imnh208.bsky.social using our #Soval dual material printer. What are we up to? Well, you'll just have to wait and see once it comes off the plate tomorrow...
Today's #FossilFriday is about the Phosphoria Formation, which provides millions of tons of phosphate ore and, as a consequence, provides an amazing snapshot into the #Permian ocean of #Idaho! Giant #Helicoprion "sharks" swam the seas. Here at @imnh208.bsky.social we have a new exhibit on this!
December 14, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Today's #FossilFriday is about the Phosphoria Formation, which provides millions of tons of phosphate ore and, as a consequence, provides an amazing snapshot into the #Permian ocean of #Idaho! Giant #Helicoprion "sharks" swam the seas. Here at @imnh208.bsky.social we have a new exhibit on this!
Happy #FossilFriday! Today it is something common from the #Cretaceous of #Idaho; a tail bone (caudal vertebra) from our state #dinosaur, #Oryctodromeus! It was collected under permit from the #CaribouTarghee #NationalForest, and comes from a site that has produced lots of different animals!
December 7, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Happy #FossilFriday! Today it is something common from the #Cretaceous of #Idaho; a tail bone (caudal vertebra) from our state #dinosaur, #Oryctodromeus! It was collected under permit from the #CaribouTarghee #NationalForest, and comes from a site that has produced lots of different animals!
My town's FB page is wild, y'all.
November 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
My town's FB page is wild, y'all.
This mudflat was visited by many other #dinosaurs including sauropods, ankylosaurs, dromeosaurs, other small theropods, and even birds. Crocodile traces are also known from the site, which is open for public visitation! 2/30
November 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
This mudflat was visited by many other #dinosaurs including sauropods, ankylosaurs, dromeosaurs, other small theropods, and even birds. Crocodile traces are also known from the site, which is open for public visitation! 2/30
For #FossilFriday, here's a photo of an Irenisauripus track prior to the detailed excavation of the #MillCanyon Track Site in the #CedarMountain Formation of #Utah. This track is one in a long trackway showing the path of a large carnivore across a mudflat. 1/3
November 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
For #FossilFriday, here's a photo of an Irenisauripus track prior to the detailed excavation of the #MillCanyon Track Site in the #CedarMountain Formation of #Utah. This track is one in a long trackway showing the path of a large carnivore across a mudflat. 1/3
Lastly, we made a #3dprint of the restored bone. Now we have a physical object that visitors can interact with in the gallery and students can examine when we're visiting their classrooms. #3dscanning and #OpenData have made this project possible. So, there's my tale #FossilFriday! 7/7
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Lastly, we made a #3dprint of the restored bone. Now we have a physical object that visitors can interact with in the gallery and students can examine when we're visiting their classrooms. #3dscanning and #OpenData have made this project possible. So, there's my tale #FossilFriday! 7/7
In this case we used 3d scans of the slightly older #Mantellisaurus as a base, then sculpted those pieces to more closely resemble the dorsals of #Eolambia from the same equivalent-age Cedar Mountain of #Utah. 6/7
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
In this case we used 3d scans of the slightly older #Mantellisaurus as a base, then sculpted those pieces to more closely resemble the dorsals of #Eolambia from the same equivalent-age Cedar Mountain of #Utah. 6/7
Not only does this #3d visualization help communicate parts of the bones better, it allows us to reconstruct what the bones looked like prior to erosion and discovery. By retrodeforming the centrum and then restoring the missing pieces, we have a decent model of what it used to look like. 5/7
November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Not only does this #3d visualization help communicate parts of the bones better, it allows us to reconstruct what the bones looked like prior to erosion and discovery. By retrodeforming the centrum and then restoring the missing pieces, we have a decent model of what it used to look like. 5/7