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Official Monster Hunter Stories concept art: Phantom Beast encounter.

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On this day in 1947, Museum paleontologists working at New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch site turned up an amazing find—a bone bed containing numerous stunningly preserved specimens of the dinosaur Coelophysis bauri. Bones found in the belly of one individual led scientists to think this dinosaur ate its own kind, and this theory persisted for many years.

Since 2000, a bronze cast of Coelophysis’ fossilized remains has been among the fossils visitors can see and touch in the 81st Street subway station when visiting the Museum.

While waiting for a train one night, paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt—then a doctoral student at the Museum—was looking at this cast when he noticed that something was... off. Back at the Museum, Nesbitt and his advisor, Curator Mark Norell, decided to take a closer look at the Coelophysis fossils in the Museum’s collections. They ultimately concluded that the bones in the dinosaur’s stomach belonged to one of the many animals in the same area, not another Coelophysis.

“Coelophysis was just hungry,” Nesbitt says. “It was eating another animal that lived at the same time, and it wasn’t a cannibal.”

You can also spot the remains of this dinosaur in the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs! Plan your visit.

Image: Image no. 2A7972 / © AMNH Library (Snapped circa 1963)

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Feels cringe af to repost this 😭 but im proud of it💔💔lgy’s little grasshopper

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Noo dont feel cringe this is hilariousssss 😂😂 even funnier bc its basically canon 😭

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Triceratops from the AMNH

PS: I'm going on my usual field dig and am reducing my queue to once per day until I return. Sorry!

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Monster Hunter: World has reached a combined 30 million units sold.

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Sam Neill has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

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It’s Fossil Friday, so soar into the weekend with Archaeopteryx! When this dinosaur was first described in 1861, it caused a sensation. Discovered shortly after Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, Archaeopteryx provided an example of evolution in action—a fossil that showed the transition between reptiles and birds. The first Archaeopteryx fossils ever found included exquisitely preserved skeletons with clear imprints of wings and feathers, but also teeth and a bony tail. Today, scientists think Archaeopteryx wasn’t able to fly very well, but the species still represents a turning point in paleontologists’ understanding of the relationship between ancient dinosaurs and modern birds in the design of both its body and brain. You can spot Archaeopteryx, and so much more, at the Museum! Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH

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Today’s Exhibit of the Day? It’s one of the largest amethyst geodes in the world! At about 13 ft (4 m) tall and 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), this giant weighs about as much as three compact cars. It was "born" when molten magma poured from the Earth’s crust some 135 million years ago. While its dazzling purple crystals might catch your eye, this geode would have originally been composed of colorless quartz—its distinctive amethyst color deriving from millenia of natural radiation, heat, and trace contaminants.

You can spot this geode, and other sparkly specimens, in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals! Plan your visit.

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A volcanic eruption as seen from space, image shows the Sarychev Peak volcano on Matua Island in the Kuril Islands chain, taken from the International Space Station. It captures an early stage of an eruption on June 12, 2009 - Author: Front-Coconut-8196