WitmerLab at Ohio University
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21st-century approaches to fleshing out the past! Mission: to use the structure of past & present animals to interpret evolutionary history...and to share it!
Happy Birthday, T. rex! 🎉🎂 120 years ago today (1905), fossils collected in Montana were given the name Tyrannosaurus rex. Here’s the "sitting" mount of the T. rex known as Bucky (TCM 2001.90.1) at the National Museum of Nature & Science, which I visited last week in Tokyo. 🦖
October 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Happy Birthday, T. rex! 🎉🎂 120 years ago today (1905), fossils collected in Montana were given the name Tyrannosaurus rex. Here’s the "sitting" mount of the T. rex known as Bucky (TCM 2001.90.1) at the National Museum of Nature & Science, which I visited last week in Tokyo. 🦖
Having a great time in the dinosaur collections of the National Museum of Nature & Science in Tsukuba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. Many wonderful fossils like this beautiful skull of Thescelosaurus NSM PV 24661.
September 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Having a great time in the dinosaur collections of the National Museum of Nature & Science in Tsukuba, Japan, just outside Tokyo. Many wonderful fossils like this beautiful skull of Thescelosaurus NSM PV 24661.
#FossilFriday Getting the floors cleaned & waxed in all the lab spaces is no small task, which is why it hardly ever happens. I had to move out everything I possibly could. Also forced some decisions on what got moved to the dumpster. Kinda fun to see freshly waxed floors again!
June 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#FossilFriday Getting the floors cleaned & waxed in all the lab spaces is no small task, which is why it hardly ever happens. I had to move out everything I possibly could. Also forced some decisions on what got moved to the dumpster. Kinda fun to see freshly waxed floors again!
Loved the #WalkingWithDinosaurs ep on Pachyrhinosaurus. Didn't do anything for the show but provided brain endocast viz for the #WWD book from our 2008 pub—https://bit.ly/4jTiNJf. Here's also our Hieronymus et al. article on centrosaurine facial skin—https://bit.ly/447xCC1. More images in the reply⬇️
June 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Loved the #WalkingWithDinosaurs ep on Pachyrhinosaurus. Didn't do anything for the show but provided brain endocast viz for the #WWD book from our 2008 pub—https://bit.ly/4jTiNJf. Here's also our Hieronymus et al. article on centrosaurine facial skin—https://bit.ly/447xCC1. More images in the reply⬇️