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Dr Dana Ehret

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Paleontologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, curator, adjunct professor. Editor for: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Eastern Paleontologist and The Mosasaur he/him

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We sent out our Nile Crocodile mount for restoration. It’ll be included in a new upcoming exhibit and needed freshening up!

11.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.

30.01.2026 02:16 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Marshalltown

11.01.2026 21:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Talking to the DVPS in a few moments online about the Ellisdale fossil site! Since I’m doing it from my office, I can show off some specimens including this large theropod phalanx!

11.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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RIP Lungy 😞 I don’t know how old he was but I had him for about 20 years and he was already a good size, I would guess he was at least 30…. He moved with me from Florida to Jersey to Alabama and back to Jersey again

26.12.2025 23:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funny enough, when they were first discovered they were thought to be some industrial product!

14.11.2025 15:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

North-central

14.11.2025 13:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#svp2025 today is my poster on Hybodont shark egg capsules from New Jersey! Poster number 393. Come say hi!

14.11.2025 10:40 — 👍 110    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1
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#2025SVP has been great thus far!

13.11.2025 09:30 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Princeton Allosaurus! Giving a departmental lecture today

25.09.2025 00:19 — 👍 49    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Saturday, Sept 20th at the NJ State Museum!! #ecology #conservation #endangered #nj

09.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

08.09.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New season currently being filmed

05.08.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

la préhistoire du Québec

01.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!

01.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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I didn’t know I was mentioned in this #shark book about the #Megalodon !

17.07.2025 22:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!

03.06.2025 22:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Before and after shots of drawer installation in our #naturalhistory collections #museumlife

03.06.2025 21:54 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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The New Jersey State Museum is hiring a Curator of Archaeology and Ethnography!

31.05.2025 11:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

12.05.2025 23:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Best Strawberry Malted Ever.
YouTube video by Dan Moritz The Best Strawberry Malted Ever.

youtu.be/laxKBKqmjn0?...

07.05.2025 02:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a black and white photo of a dog standing in front of a machine in a kitchen . ALT: a black and white photo of a dog standing in front of a machine in a kitchen .
06.05.2025 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

04.05.2025 11:05 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

30.04.2025 13:53 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

I have a copy of this!

29.04.2025 23:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great day giving a tour to a Princeton University comparative anatomy class at the NJ State Museum today!

29.04.2025 22:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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!

11.04.2025 00:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy 95th (!!) birthday to John Astin aka Gomez Addams! @iamseanastin.bsky.social

30.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

[gift link]

15.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 63    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 15

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

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