Dr Dana Ehret

Princeton Allosaurus! Giving a departmental lecture today

Saturday, Sept 20th at the NJ State Museum!! #ecology #conservation #endangered #nj

New Jersey State Museum gives flowers to its native flora and fauna The exhibition highlights the state’s natural habitats and efforts to protect them.

Press Coverage for my latest exhibit: Ecosystems at Risk: Threatened and Endangered in New Jersey! whyy.org/articles/new... #endangered #ecosystems #newjersey

New season currently being filmed

la préhistoire du Québec

This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!

I didn’t know I was mentioned in this #shark book about the #Megalodon !

We have a Space Saver system and use DSS Solutions (in PA). We’ve had the system for a while with static shelves. But our #paleontology collection has outgrown our Lane cabinets and we are reorganizing in a big way!

Before and after shots of drawer installation in our #naturalhistory collections #museumlife

The New Jersey State Museum is hiring a Curator of Archaeology and Ethnography!

#SharkWeek appearance #2 filming completed! Look for me talking about fossil makos this summer!

YouTube video by Dan Moritz The Best Strawberry Malted Ever.

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It’s been 5 years since we lost paleobotanist Brian Axsmith to Covid… he was a good friend and I still think of him every time I see a plant fossil

Died This Day: Joseph Leidy (Sept 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891). The Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology described the holotype of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the 1st American mostly complete dinosaur. He also mentored a young E.D. Cope and pointed he and Marsh to the rich fossil resources of the West

I have a copy of this!

Great day giving a tour to a Princeton University comparative anatomy class at the NJ State Museum today!

Our newest exhibit, Ecosystems at Risk opens on April 19th at the NJ State Museum! I’ll be there to give tours and talk to visitors!

Happy 95th (!!) birthday to John Astin aka Gomez Addams! @iamseanastin.bsky.social

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent (Gift Article) The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

Among the “largely obscure” (to use the NYT’s phrasing) agencies included in this order?

The IMLS.

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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Today we had to move our ‘Ornithomimus’ sculpture at the NJ State Museum. This was done by Louis Paul Jonas for Sinclair’s Dinoland exhibit at the 1964 World’s Fair. Ours is not the original but was made from the same mold in the mid 1960’s #FossilFriday

Back to teaching at Monmouth University this Spring! It’s been a hot minute!

14 years since my PhD! It’s my ph-anniversary! #GoGators

Ho hum… O. Megalodon

I’m down at the National Museum of Natural History this week working on Late Cretaceous Appalachian faunas and it’s AGU! Who will I see??

Coolest thing I've seen today, from the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme

Ethiopian Wolf Is First Known Large Predator-Pollinator to Feed on Nectar www.ecowatch.com/ethiopian-wo...

This fossil represents an armored tail of a late Triassic (~215 mya) reptile named Aetosaurus arcuatus. Aetosaurs were herbivorous or omnivorous reptiles.This fossil once was the type specimen of 'Stegomus arcuatus jerseyensis'. It was found in Somerset Co., NJ #FossilFriday

#Heelerholidays #blueheeler #cattledog #Bluey

Bottosaurus harlani was a late Cretaceous/early Paleocene (~65 million yrs. old) crocodilian related to modern caimans. Some researchers believe their unusual rounded teeth were used for crushing their prey. This mandible (lower jaw) was found in Gloucester Co., NJ #FossilFriday