Danny Anduza

Selfie photo of me, wearing sunglasses, in front of a big ol' hole in the ground in the middle of the eastern Utah desert

Got the quarry all finished out for the season! Three weeks, ~20 livestreams, dozens of iguanodont bones (new species!) and plenty more material surely still in the ground.

Cross your fingers we have the funding to return next year for more!

Well, the flipping iguanodont limb-bone log jam jacket went well, but Ethan's progress in lightening the block has been slowed by a surprise hipbone, ilia well below the leg bones. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

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Here's a clip of the flip happening: www.twitch.tv/paleontologi...

Tune in right now to see us excavate this new iguanodont LIVE @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Exciting discoveries being made in the quarry! We've got just a few more days to dig here

This little lizard climbed right into my hand just now! I think she was a little spooked by the jackhammering in the quarry

Thanks, Rhaco! And we'll see about the preservation part -- I always thought it would be cool for museums to sell the cut-up jackets as a fundraiser thing, but I've not really seen that happen yet

Iguanodont metatarsal embedded in a gray mudstone, with a soft brush alongside for scale

Finished plaster jacket encasing the metatarsal. I've drawn an iguanodont doodle on it with black marker

For this week's #FossilFriday, here's another iguanodont element I just collected. A metatarsal might not seem particularly important, but when it's from a new species, it should be informative!

Theropod tarsal or carpal from Berriasian Doellings Bowl site. Preparation at top of list. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @valdosaurus.bsky.social

Photo of a small rectangular bone, about 1.5 inches long, partially embedded in a mudstone block

Happy #FossilFriday! Today is our ninth day digging at Doelling's Bowl in eastern Utah, and here's a little caudal vert (?) I found a few days ago, likely from our new iguanodont species.

"This is the oldest Cretaceous dinosaur bonebed in North America!" as @paleojim.bsky.social is fond of saying

Progress at Doellings Bowl as we get into the bonebed level. Visited the Prehistoric Museum's microvertebrate site, lots of tiny Lower Cret bones. Houston's Jurassic James is having some dino-fun to use in his dino-outreach. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Selfie photo of me in front of the Allosaurus skeleton, mounted to the wall inside NHMU's vertebrate fossil collections facility

Photo of the skeleton on the wall. The skull is disarticulated from the torso

I'm currently out in the field this #FossilFriday, but here's me and a cast of the Allosaurus jimmadseni holotype at @nhmu.bsky.social earlier this week.

All the fossils we're excavating this year at Doelling's Bowl will be going to NHMU, and we're grateful for the collections space!

Given only a 24 hour delay the UGS's Doellings Bowl Camp is set up. Let the discoveries begin! Tune into Twitch's Paleontologizing every afternoon for live updates. twitch.tv/paleontologizing @paleontologizing.bsky.social

With any luck, we'll be on our way to the field site (near Moab, UT) in just a few hours. Cross your fingers that the trailer situation gets sorted 🤞🏽

I should be out there digging in the Cedar Mountain Formation for the next three weeks, so stay tuned for livestreams at twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Photo of me (Danny Anduza) and Utah's state paleontologist Jim Kirkland. We're standing in front of mounted cast skeletons of Nothronychus and Falcarius -- two North American therizinosaurs, both of which were published by Jim

We did a brief jaunt through the exhibits as well, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity for a photo with Papa Jim and two of the therizinosaurs he named

Here's me with a currently-being-described new species of tyrannosaur from Utah (I've been told it's been photographed and posted online countless times already so I'm free to upload this crummy photo here)

Photo of Jim, Karen, and Carrie perusing a drawer full of iguanodont elements in paleo collections of the Natural History Museum of Utah

We were supposed to leave for the field yesterday afternoon, but right before I landed in Salt Lake, the trailer decided to break. To pass the time while that was resolved, we went to the museum to see some of our specimens from previous years' fieldwork

Selfie photo of me at West Oakland BART station

On my way back to Utah and MORE DINOSAURS

Glad to see you on here!

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with 3D-printed Apatosaurus femur and Allosaurus skull in the background, along with various framed prints from scientific papers

There's at least FIVE (5) new dinosaur genera that were published while I was out doing fieldwork in Wyoming, so we're covering each one on today's #Twitch stream.

Come join us as we meet Jinchuanloong, Taleta, Enigmacursor, Astigmasaura, and Khankhuuluu @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Twitch screenshot of me in my office. Behind me are life-sized 3D prints of a Diplodocus and Pachycephalosaurus skull on the wall, as well as framed prints of Barnum Brown, hadrosaur elements, etc.

I'm BACK in the office for a brief moment of respite in between fieldwork excursions. Join us for some casual #paleontology Q&A on #Twitch @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

I thought I recognized those brow horns! And it's cool to connect with you too -- your art is very impressive 🫡

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They'd be landing a helicopter at my dig site, asking me to visit and endorse the park. We need the funding, so of course I'd go.

Excellent work! I particularly like your Triceratops — if that one's based on the specimen from the "Yoshi's Trike" site, then I like it even more. I helped excavate that site with Museum of the Rockies back in 2011 😍

Selfie photo of me in front of O'Hare Airport's replica Brachiosaurus skeleton

Closeup of the brachiosaur's skull, about thirteen meters up in the air

Ran into an old friend on my way through Chicago

After thirty-one gruelling days of digging dinosaurs out in Wyoming, it's time to do something even more exhausting --

I'm about to subject myself to Jurassic World Afterbirth or whatever it's called

Tune in to twitch.tv/paleontologizing to hear my take afterwards

Selfie photo of me in front of the hadrosaur quarry. Behind stand six members of our crew around two huge plaster field jackets

We're diggin' up a GIGANTIC hadrosaur and you can tune in LIVE via the magic of #Twitch

Join us and ask some questions in the chat @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Photo of my hand giving a 'thumbs-up' in front of a lovely mudstone slab I found containing multiple fossil leaves

We've got fossil plants galore! Join us now for a special #paleobotany stream, live from remote southern Wyoming @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

Infuriating.