Dr. Amelia R. Zietlow 🦎
@tyrantlzrdqueen.bsky.social
Metal & Mosasaurs 🤘🦎 : RGGS at AMNH : Skeleton Crew Paleo Co-Founder : NSF GRFP Fellow : Carthage College Alumna : she/her 🖤🤍💜 : views my own. https://linktr.ee/tyrantlizardqueen
Task completed (easy): freeing Stan from his old Podium
Next Objective (difficult): getting him Off the Surprise Table that we found under the Podium
#MuseumMonday
Next Objective (difficult): getting him Off the Surprise Table that we found under the Podium
#MuseumMonday
August 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Task completed (easy): freeing Stan from his old Podium
Next Objective (difficult): getting him Off the Surprise Table that we found under the Podium
#MuseumMonday
Next Objective (difficult): getting him Off the Surprise Table that we found under the Podium
#MuseumMonday
Happy #FossilFriday! While you may have seen this cast of Tylosaurus elsewhere, this specific one is special: it is the *first* cast of the fossil that was made. Currently on display in the lobby of the History Museum at the Castle.
Exciting things coming to the Castle soon - stay tuned!
Exciting things coming to the Castle soon - stay tuned!
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Happy #FossilFriday! While you may have seen this cast of Tylosaurus elsewhere, this specific one is special: it is the *first* cast of the fossil that was made. Currently on display in the lobby of the History Museum at the Castle.
Exciting things coming to the Castle soon - stay tuned!
Exciting things coming to the Castle soon - stay tuned!
Thrilled to share that starting in late August, I'll be Natural History Museum Specialist for the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, WI! I'll be overseeing the exhibition and programming of the nat. his. collection, which is being moved from the old Weis Earth Science Museum.
July 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thrilled to share that starting in late August, I'll be Natural History Museum Specialist for the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, WI! I'll be overseeing the exhibition and programming of the nat. his. collection, which is being moved from the old Weis Earth Science Museum.
July 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Happy #FossilFriday from an undisclosed Kwik Trip as I embark on my trek to Kansas for my first @sternbergcamps.bsky.social !
June 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy #FossilFriday from an undisclosed Kwik Trip as I embark on my trek to Kansas for my first @sternbergcamps.bsky.social !
Happy #TylosurusTuesday!
Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).
Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).
April 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy #TylosurusTuesday!
Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).
Did you know? There are seven species of Tylosurus alive today!!! They are readily distinguishable from other marine life by their toothy elongate snouts. They are of course very dangerous, & have severely injured multiple people (& killed at least one).
Happy #FossilFriday - here's the very first mosasaur skull that I ever studied, Tylosaurus FMNH P15144, almost exactly six years ago. I've since seen over 300 of these things, & written tens of thousands of words about them in a dissertation submitted yesterday 🦎🎉
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Happy #FossilFriday - here's the very first mosasaur skull that I ever studied, Tylosaurus FMNH P15144, almost exactly six years ago. I've since seen over 300 of these things, & written tens of thousands of words about them in a dissertation submitted yesterday 🦎🎉
dissertation due tomorrow
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
dissertation due tomorrow
For #FossilFriday today, Homer the Triceratops, at the Burpee Museum's Paleofest last weekend
March 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For #FossilFriday today, Homer the Triceratops, at the Burpee Museum's Paleofest last weekend
dissertation due in three weeks
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
dissertation due in three weeks
Happy #FossilFriday & #PaleoFest eve!
Attending tomorrow's PaleoFestivities? Prepare to meet TEX; genuinely one of the coolest critters I've had the pleasure of working with! Here's a pterygoid from "the Black Knight," a specimen that exemplifies our beast's capacity for violence
Attending tomorrow's PaleoFestivities? Prepare to meet TEX; genuinely one of the coolest critters I've had the pleasure of working with! Here's a pterygoid from "the Black Knight," a specimen that exemplifies our beast's capacity for violence
February 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Happy #FossilFriday & #PaleoFest eve!
Attending tomorrow's PaleoFestivities? Prepare to meet TEX; genuinely one of the coolest critters I've had the pleasure of working with! Here's a pterygoid from "the Black Knight," a specimen that exemplifies our beast's capacity for violence
Attending tomorrow's PaleoFestivities? Prepare to meet TEX; genuinely one of the coolest critters I've had the pleasure of working with! Here's a pterygoid from "the Black Knight," a specimen that exemplifies our beast's capacity for violence
Paper submitted - my second dissertation chapter & the first of several major Tylosaurus projects I've got on deck. Just a little something that, in my opinion, was long overdue...
February 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Paper submitted - my second dissertation chapter & the first of several major Tylosaurus projects I've got on deck. Just a little something that, in my opinion, was long overdue...
Happy #MosasaurMonday & hope to see you at Paleofest 2025!
February 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy #MosasaurMonday & hope to see you at Paleofest 2025!
When folks say that everything is bigger in Texas, does that include the mosasaurs?
(spoiler: oh yeah)
Thrilled to be presenting our *new beast* for the first time at PaleoFest!!!
(spoiler: oh yeah)
Thrilled to be presenting our *new beast* for the first time at PaleoFest!!!
February 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
When folks say that everything is bigger in Texas, does that include the mosasaurs?
(spoiler: oh yeah)
Thrilled to be presenting our *new beast* for the first time at PaleoFest!!!
(spoiler: oh yeah)
Thrilled to be presenting our *new beast* for the first time at PaleoFest!!!
Happy #MosasaurMonday from the Pit of Despair (end stage PhD work), here's an appropriate lizard: Tylosaurus "Heath" on display at the Perot Museum in Dallas.
Does "everything's bigger in Texas" apply to its mosasaurs? I've got a few upcoming public talks addressing just that...& more. Stay tuned!
Does "everything's bigger in Texas" apply to its mosasaurs? I've got a few upcoming public talks addressing just that...& more. Stay tuned!
February 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Happy #MosasaurMonday from the Pit of Despair (end stage PhD work), here's an appropriate lizard: Tylosaurus "Heath" on display at the Perot Museum in Dallas.
Does "everything's bigger in Texas" apply to its mosasaurs? I've got a few upcoming public talks addressing just that...& more. Stay tuned!
Does "everything's bigger in Texas" apply to its mosasaurs? I've got a few upcoming public talks addressing just that...& more. Stay tuned!
Today's #FossilFriday falls on the 179th 'birthday' of the city of Milwaukee! 🍻🎉 so, here's our Torosaurus, on display in the MPM
January 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Today's #FossilFriday falls on the 179th 'birthday' of the city of Milwaukee! 🍻🎉 so, here's our Torosaurus, on display in the MPM
#FossilFriday
As is often the case I'm thinking a lot about mosasaur quadrates today. I can't yet share the specimens that I'm actively working on so instead, here's one from Mosasaurus on display in Maastricht. The holes in the bottom are not post-death damage, but an abscess that held ~0.5L of pus
As is often the case I'm thinking a lot about mosasaur quadrates today. I can't yet share the specimens that I'm actively working on so instead, here's one from Mosasaurus on display in Maastricht. The holes in the bottom are not post-death damage, but an abscess that held ~0.5L of pus
January 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#FossilFriday
As is often the case I'm thinking a lot about mosasaur quadrates today. I can't yet share the specimens that I'm actively working on so instead, here's one from Mosasaurus on display in Maastricht. The holes in the bottom are not post-death damage, but an abscess that held ~0.5L of pus
As is often the case I'm thinking a lot about mosasaur quadrates today. I can't yet share the specimens that I'm actively working on so instead, here's one from Mosasaurus on display in Maastricht. The holes in the bottom are not post-death damage, but an abscess that held ~0.5L of pus
#MosAdvent #31: Tylosaurus "Bunker" is the largest mosasaur known (from *reliable* estimates), ~14m long with a skull as long as I am tall. Very excited to share new work involving this guy in 2025 - long live the Lizard King! 🌊🦎👑
December 31, 2024 at 6:26 PM
#MosAdvent #31: Tylosaurus "Bunker" is the largest mosasaur known (from *reliable* estimates), ~14m long with a skull as long as I am tall. Very excited to share new work involving this guy in 2025 - long live the Lizard King! 🌊🦎👑
what the hell. sure.
December 31, 2024 at 4:27 AM
what the hell. sure.
#MosAdvent #30: a complete mosasaur skeleton, osseous and cartilaginous - Tylosaurus AMNH 221, arguably the best preserved tylosaur (& one of the best mosasaurs) known to science. This photo was taken in 2022, when we removed the glass to scan, photograph, & study it up close.
December 30, 2024 at 6:11 PM
#MosAdvent #30: a complete mosasaur skeleton, osseous and cartilaginous - Tylosaurus AMNH 221, arguably the best preserved tylosaur (& one of the best mosasaurs) known to science. This photo was taken in 2022, when we removed the glass to scan, photograph, & study it up close.
#MosAdvent #29: Grand Animal of Maastricht, the holotype of Mosasaurus hoffmannii, housed in Paris. It's nearly impossible to photograph, as it's in a glass box under a glass ceiling, so check out the rotisserie 3D model on my other socials to see it without obstruction
December 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM
#MosAdvent #29: Grand Animal of Maastricht, the holotype of Mosasaurus hoffmannii, housed in Paris. It's nearly impossible to photograph, as it's in a glass box under a glass ceiling, so check out the rotisserie 3D model on my other socials to see it without obstruction
#MosAdvent #28: Mosasaurus on display in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. I've been in the Palate Zone lately, as it's criminally under-figured in existing mosasaur literature, & R303 has the best intact palate of any mosasaur I know (that's visible from the outside, anyway).
December 28, 2024 at 8:55 PM
#MosAdvent #28: Mosasaurus on display in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. I've been in the Palate Zone lately, as it's criminally under-figured in existing mosasaur literature, & R303 has the best intact palate of any mosasaur I know (that's visible from the outside, anyway).
#MosAdvent #27: Clidastes on display in the Kansas University Museum of Natural History. As with any good extinct animal the taxonomic history of this clade is a total dumpsterfire: the genus type is one (1) incomplete vertebra & an important species type was destroyed in WW2
December 27, 2024 at 4:55 PM
#MosAdvent #27: Clidastes on display in the Kansas University Museum of Natural History. As with any good extinct animal the taxonomic history of this clade is a total dumpsterfire: the genus type is one (1) incomplete vertebra & an important species type was destroyed in WW2
#MosAdvent #26: Tylosaurus in the collections of the AMNH. While normal advent calendars are only 24 days long, but we're doing a full month for mosasaurs because even so, we'll only get through ~10% of the specimens I've documented during my PhD (which is < 1% of mosasaurs in N. American museums!)
December 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM
#MosAdvent #26: Tylosaurus in the collections of the AMNH. While normal advent calendars are only 24 days long, but we're doing a full month for mosasaurs because even so, we'll only get through ~10% of the specimens I've documented during my PhD (which is < 1% of mosasaurs in N. American museums!)