Assuming a 30-min commute to/from train station, 45-min to/from airport, 30-min early arrival for train and 90-min for plane, 500 mph plane (LAX-JFK is ~450), a 280 mph train is faster than flying any distance less than 950 miles.
Here is a 950-mile radius circle centered on Kansas City.
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
03.03.2026 12:04 — 👍 9177 🔁 3882 💬 831 📌 517It’s morning of day 1 of my shark field research skills class! Wish us luck, and let me know if you want to sign up for the fall! 🦑🧪🌎🦈
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Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.
Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv
WELL, DORKS! @timothysnyder.bsky.social says there is nothing more important than science and no one more important than scientists to establish a decent society and politics...which is why we are STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE on MARCH 7TH across the nation!
JOIN US! www.standupforscience.net/march7
Total lunar eclipse from 4-5 AM this morning. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/u...
03.03.2026 02:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0When I taught at the University of Nebraska, I fought with the National Arbor Day Foundation about planting all are good roadcuts!
02.03.2026 20:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Evolution of behaviors documented by trace fossils. @ichnologist.bsky.social
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"Due North: Exploring Alberta's Northern Dinosaur Ecosystem, University of Alberta Palaeontological Society, Wednesday, March 4 5 - 7pm, ESB 1-39, University of Alberta." The background is a hadrosaur footprint from around Grande Prairie.
"Do Pre-Existing Conditions Prime the Earth for Mass Extinctions? Wednesday, March 5, Royal Tyrrell Museum Speaker Series 2026, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, RTMP auditorium (and zoom)" The background is an image of the badlands in southern Alberta along with a cut into the sides, revealing the K-Pg extinction layer.
"Presentation Dino Dentist, Wednesday, March 5, 3 - 3:30pm, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton" The background is a closeup of the skeletal skull of a gorgosaurus
March 4, 5 - 7 pm: Exploring Alberta's Northern Dinosaur Ecosystem @ U of A
March 5, 11 am - 1 pm: Mass Extinctions? @ RTMP (and Zoom)
March 5, 3 - 3:30 pm: Dino Dentist (RAM)
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#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #events
A good man to be piloting the ship in these stormy waters...
01.03.2026 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to Utah Paleontological License Plates supporting paleo research in Utah. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...
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🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
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In honor of Hans Dieter Sues a #FossilFriday, the big Kayentatherium that Hans built much of his dissertation around. Got to help excavate in July 1981 working for Farrish Jenkins and first met Hans, while he was working on the specimen at Harvard a few years later. @paleontologizing.bsky.social
28.02.2026 02:28 — 👍 46 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Cropping teeth of Utah's new Kayenta ornithischian, so for #FossilFriday Scutellosaurus lawleri. My pics of the original exhibit & gastondesign.com mount. Not the transition at base of tail from 2 rows of osteoderms across midline to 1 medial row running down the tail. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
28.02.2026 01:38 — 👍 29 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0That is the Southern Parkway connecting I-15 south of St George, Utah via a loop east of the city to the main road to Zion National Park. That entire region is being developed on top of a vast paleontology site dominated by tracksites & extensive archaeological sites by Virgin & Santa Clara Rivers.
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#FossilFriday A beautiful Cretaceous seastar. This fully articulated specimen of Calliderma was collected in the Chalk of England.
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I’m excited to share a new project that I hope will be a valuable resource for the paleo community!
I'm working on a textbook about plesiosaurs and compiled a comprehensive overview of all currently valid plesiosaur taxa and some nomina dubia. 1/3
www.sachspal.de/plesiosauria/
#FossilFriday
Paleo mitigation is important! The yellow star marks the most import Kayenta fossil site in Utah, plants, tracks, fish (whole and partial) abundant and diverse teeth (diverse dinos & crocs, pterosaurs). Sadly, the site is under a new highway & hill is gone forever. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
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Well for anyone that thinks mitigation is not important in paleontology. The yellow star marks the most import Kayenta fossil site in Utah, plants, tracks, fish (whole and partial) abundant and diverse teeth (diverse dinos & crocs, pterosaurs) We are documenting the 4th ornithischian in the E. Jur.
27.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Reporting 2 verts from Quarry 9 as alverezsaurid is a big deal, but I would strongly suggest that Quarry 9 is Kimmeringian in age and not latest Tithonian. Bet older than 150... Still very cool Pete, very cool! Cope's Nipple on west side of Denver Basin is Tithonian, I bet, but anything in Wyoming??
27.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One of our younger members of Utah Friends of Paleontology kicking some butt with his artistic skills. cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/dE3... Nice to see! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @thestemvillage.bsky.social
27.02.2026 00:43 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Still looking for a preCloverly (Aptian or older, <118 Ma) ceratopsian. I'm thinking that the terminal Jurassic Morrison megafaunal extinction opened up some ecological niches.
26.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We plan to attend SVP'S town meeting today! Mentor, not molester! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social
26.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now!
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave.
🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
Fossilized bones and skeletal diagram of a small dinosaur.
New specimen of Alnashetri shows it to be a late-surviving non-alvarezsaurid alvarezsaur retaining unreduced forelimbs and representing an independent evolution of miniaturization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 (📷Makovicky et al.)
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Woah. Calamosaurus from the Wessex Formation reidentified as an alvarezsauroid... I'm reeling and certainly didn't see that one coming :) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dinosaurs
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Only $2400. #TrilobiteTuesday
Only $2400.
#TrilobiteTuesday
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Great Basin Chapter in Salt Lake City will be hosting this year’s UFOP Annual Meeting. It will be held the weekend of August 28th – 30th. This will be a fun and rewarding weekend full of paleontology socializing, science talks, a banquet and field trips. Stay tuned...If only for the T-shirt!
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Great Basin March meeting Thurs. March 12th at 7:00 pm MT with Dr. David Smith, Northland Pioneer College. Dr. Smith’s talk is titled: "Uncovering the biology of therizinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Utah" online meeting can be accessed through this link: meet.google.com/hzr-pkdu-wtp
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