Danny Anduza

I relate to this so hard.

One time I got sent to the principal's office for saying that bats aren't actually blind (when the biology teacher was telling the class that God, in His wisdom, created all bats without eyes)

Selfie photo of me and the "Wankel Rex" Tyrannosaurus skeleton cast outside UCMP

Catching up with some old friends at Berkeley

Photo shows a stack of six books I ordered to donate to my neighborhood's Little Free Library — Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution, by Richard Fortey; T. rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez; Saving Sea Turtles by James Spotila, and Terra and Dinosaurs of The Flaming Cliffs, both by Michael Novacek.

💥 New delivery 💥

Folks sometimes forget that Velociraptor was one of his, too. Osborn may not have thought that critter was all that special, but just that strong and evocative name was enough to capture Crichton's imagination and lift that genus out of obscurity

The late Dr. Jane Goodall with a wonderful posthumous message. Worth the few minutes! What a treasure.

Bumping this!

That's my (very rough) draft logo for the proposed "DAWN OF THE CRETACEOUS Fossil Beds National Monument" 🌅🦖

We're hoping that someday these wonderful and vitally important fossil sites are protected, so we can continue learning what our planet was like in the earliest Cretaceous

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

Photo of a plastic Gastonia model, held in my hand in front of our shade-tarp-covered quarry at Lorrie's Site in eastern Utah

We're digging up more of this dinosaur (Gastonia, not to scale) out here in Utah with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

and you can tune in and watch the excavation live at ~1pm Pacific @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Paleontologizing - Utah desert winds destroy paleontologists' shade tarp Watch Paleontologizing's clip titled

A wind storm *destroyed* our shade tarp setup and made me end the broadcast early, and now I've got a clip of it

💨 Enjoy 💨

www.twitch.tv/paleontologi...

Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth review — Attenborough peps up a very slow fish In this quiet, deeply immersive documentary, David Attenborough reveals the fascinating story of the coelacanth

I can't watch this because I'm out in the desert, digging dinosaurs again for two weeks

but YOU should watch it and tell me how good it is!

www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Selfie photo of me, in field garb, in front of our newly-erected shade tarps at the "Lorrie's Site" Gastonia quarry out in the eastern Utah desert

MORE CRETACEOUS FIELDWORK! I'm back out in the Cedar Mountain Formation with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social, digging up dozens of ankylosaurs and streaming each day at 1pm Pacific

Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're finding and ask some questions!

Photo of my hand holding up an aluminum tent stake. It's one of those ones that's V-shaped in cross-section for added strength, but the base is severely bent and the end is curled up onto itself to a ridiculous extent, almost like a letter 'P'

I need some new tent stakes for this upcoming round of fieldwork, because the hard Wyoming ground really messed 'em up.

Just LOOK at this one

We've got another paleoartist on here now!

Tyler just joined Bluesky and his work is quite impressive. Give him a follow!

Welcome to Bluesky! Thank you for sharing your work with us — I know I could definitely learn some things from an accomplished artist like yourself. That Tiktaalik is kind of awe-inspiring

These are GORGEOUS 😍

Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - High Country News The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow.

This is bad news overall, and I worry about its impact on paleontological fieldwork in the region.

www.hcn.org/articles/dec...

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

Not too shabby today

🐋 Animal #778 🐻‍❄️
I figured it out in 5 guesses!
🟧🟨🟩🟩🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6

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Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with a big (1/3-size) 3D-printed leatherback turtle on the wall behind me, along with framed figures from scientific papers and suchlike

It's our last #Twitch stream until I'm out in the field again this weekend! We're discussing a new fossil genus of leatherback turtle (Ueloca colemanorum!) plus the results of dinosaur extinction on Paleocene landscapes, and a sneak peek of upcoming fieldwork

Join us @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with a plethora of iguanodont material on the wall behind me -- 3D-printed and cast skulls and hands, framed photos and illustrations from papers, etc.

We've got another BRAND-NEW DINOSAUR to discuss on #Twitch today -- Cariocecus bocagei -- and we'll be interviewing the lead author on the paper (@fbertpaleo.bsky.social) to get the inside scoop on what makes this new iguanodont so special.

Join us at twitch.tv/paleontologizing to watch & chat!

Today new publication has been released in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
We are proud to present you Cariocecus bocagei, a new hadrosauroid from the Papo Seco Formation (Barremian, Early K) of Portugal.
Come with me in this post series to learn more about it! 1/x

*I* weigh more than that! And I'm less than two meters tall and reasonably fit!

And it's not like specs on Harleys are difficult to find online. If you're gonna shove all these "A.I."-derived results in all our faces, at least make sure they actually work. Google results are just trash now

Screenshot from Google search results summary confidently claiming Harley-Davidson motorcycles "weigh between 160 and 180 pounds"

I was trying to come up with a memorable analogy for the size of leatherback turtles, so I decided to google "weights of different Harley Davidson motorcycles"

This the summary Google provided. How do they manage to keep getting things *this* wrong?

Succulents are cool because they're harder to kill than other houseplants (yay for me) but did you know some of them glow in the dark??!!! Friday nights are the best place for fascinating new studies and paper reviews over at twitch.tv/sciants_streams 😁

Photo I took in July 2025 of a big tridactyl dinosaur footprint in a bluish-green-gray mudstone, with wind-blown reddish dust filling the track to make it more visible. There's no scale bar, but the track is about 1/2 meter long

Here's a dinosaur trace for this week's #FossilFriday — a footprint of a large 'carnosaur' (likely a carcharodontosaur) at the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Track Site outside of Moab, Utah.

This is easily one of the most impressive dinosaur track sites in the world, and it honestly needs more protection

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, flanked by a life-sized 3D print of an Archelon hind flipper, plus various framed scientific figures of sea turtles, ornithomimosaur limbs, and birds (Archaeopterx and cassowary)

We've got another newly-published dinosaur genus (Newtonsaurus!) to discuss today -- but how 'new' is it? Plus there's that possible Judith River Formation deinocheirid, and some updates on OPERATION: LEATHERBACK!

There's Thursday BIRDSday later too, so join us at twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

Today's was *not* easy (weird clade!) but I got it

🦊 Animal #772 🦒
I figured it out in 6 guesses!
🟥🟥🟥🟥🟧🟩
🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6

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Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with a papercraft 3D coelacanth behind me on the wall, as well as a 3D-printed fossil sea turtle hind flipper, as well as framed phylogenies of sharks, sea turtles, and framed figures of coelacanths, lepidosaurs, and pterosaurs

There's SO MUCH #paleontology news to cover today -- new coelacanth species, new insights into shark evolution, new ancestral lizards, new Solnhofen pterosaur fossils, and even a new fossil sea turtle!

Join us to discuss @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

"Trust is built through understanding, empathy, and dialogue—by connecting with people where they are and inviting them into the conversation"

As somebody who does science outreach full-time, I agree with this 100%

⬇ This is an important piece, and I hope people read it ⬇

Congratulations, Jim! It's an impressive publication