AshPoust

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Paleontology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Medicine, Travel. Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln Grazing with the dinosaurs and dear old horses. -What I'm about to show you may shock and educate you

Several llamas in in a green field in front if a distant building with trees.
The huge dark fang of a sabertooth "cat" along with partial views of the skull above and lower jaw below.
Screen capture of a flight booking site with text that reads in part: fly america act, the fly america act is a federal... air carriers with cod-sharing agreements with U.S. ....
An open-mouthed dinosaur with wing-like arms spread wide attacks a panicked burd in the lower right.
Large impact crater in dey environment with trees in center
Families stand before a hunched over dinosaur
Character says "the beeper is going to make a comeback - technology is cyclical"
Fictional Senator Kelly from the xmen, who looks like the subject of the original post.
A slightly zoomed in version of the message being replied to.
Old photo of a man with a large mustache in a suit with a bowler hat sitting in an office with glass-fronted bookshelves. He is holding a carved whale vertebra. A dolphin skull sits on a ledger on his desk.
Man says "we lost so much"
The monkey king stands before an ancient gate with his hands draped over his staff
Dog-like skeleton facing left on brown background.
A graph showing T. rex popularity far exceeding other dinosaurs. Text describes: "In an online poll T. rex was streets ahead."
A large dinosaur bone, the maxilla of a Tyrannosaurus rex, lies on a blue cloth. The teeth point toward the camera and are quite large to say the least. Other museum collections sit in the background.
Skull of Nanotyrannus, facing left, from original figure.
Purple sign saying "see a dinosaur"
A Least Weasel sitting on a large letter-L in the style of the Cubs logo.
Many large bones in place at a fossil discovery. Three men are scattered across the bonebed, crouching to excavate the fossils.
Front cover of "Science" magazine on a blue background. Image shows a strange toothy whale-ancestor sitting on the beach.
An ad for Wendy's with a purple drink cup under the words "grape nerds frosty"
Large rock face under a blue, cloud-streaked sky. A man in shorts and a white shirt leans over looking at something small on the left side of the photo.
A leather bag spills sheep anklebones onto a beautiful red rug or Shyrdak
Frowning geologist in a blue hat stands inside the skeleton of a yurt.
Paleontologist in sunglasses points to a fossil horse phalanx. Badlands in background.
Petroglyph of vertical line and concentric circles in the foreground with a mountain scene and distant vehicle behind.
A one-armed lion tamer in tall boots holds a full lion on his shoulders.
Jake the Dog and Finn the Human give a long run up towards each other culminating in a solid high-five.
Yellow elephant cries for you
Two bones sit on a grey shelf. A brown humerus is much larger than the small bone-colored one next to it.
Nest made of thorns.
An empty field with a single large flightless bird, setting sun behind to the left.
Close-up of armadillo.
Amazing red/orange sunset with dark shadows of trees interrupting the wide open sky
A very squat skeleton with open jaws stands on a sandy platform.
Man in a hat (on right) meets a giraffe (on left)
Several dark turtle shells on a brown background. The complete one in the center preserves the skull and neck and a perfect right hand.
A very large brown skeleton of a sloth stands on its hind legs on a white gravel platform. Beneath it is a broken log.
A stuffed wolf with a slightly blank expression stands on a black table. Next to it is a brown carnivore jaw with a white card reading Last know REAL dire wolf in the world!
A selfie of a man wearing a hat with a T. rex, standing below the T. rex it is based on.
View looking up at a skeleton of a mosasaur hanging above an entrance way. The skull with open jaws is next to a half rose window to the left, with the tail swirling around in a circle. A gift shop and exhibits are visible below.
A rotting dinosaur hangs in an ovean environment, simulating rotting in the ocean, or bloat-and-float. It's head hangs down further to the right and a shark feeds on its hanging leg.
A fragment of a dentary with sharp bladed teeth sits in a yellowish white chalky matrix. A cm scale is in the foreground.
An aged dictator crumbles with terrifying rapidity.
Text reads "Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg."
Skull of a juvenile mammoth with two tusks, mounted on a woodedn platform. A yard stick shows that this skull is >90cm even as a juvenile.
A Man-bat, with a full moon behind him, swoops down on a Bat-man, who holds a lantern and stands ankle deep in an estuarine environment. A vulnerable moment.
Out of context, man says 'i had that dream again'. Could refer to anything, even predicted Chasmosaurine anatomy.
A young woman (Princess Irulan) with dramatically styled hair and a dramatic collar stands in front of a field of stars and stares directly at the reader. She says "A beginning is a very delicate time"
Real Americans gratefully hold up a sign reading Thank You Canada in 1980.
Light brown fossils sit on a white padded shelf. On the left, an upside-down baby mammoth skull, with small tusks pointed down. On the right a tooth of an adult mammoth on its side. Between them a small model of a mammoth and a label reading "Mammoth UNSM 1270"
Pope Ape XII blesses the masses.
Small stone, possibly shaped or knapped, showing tiny spirals with dark hatch marks. The spirals are single-celled animal shells.
Huge black bird skull with very deep beak sits on a white case among books and a map of Nebraska.
A dark skull sits on a grey cart, facing left with the scientific article describing it poised behind the nose. One broken, flat horn is visible.
Brown fossil turkey foot bone with large spine projecting to the right. Scale bar on left, both sittong on patterned cloth background.
T. rex and Triceratops skeletons tussle in a ring.
Cartoon girl (Penny from The Rescuers) makes her way with a lantern left along the edge of a pit. She slips and is washed by a huge wave.
A skeleton of an ancient whale hangs in the Smithsonian. A long tail is visible to the left and a long skull with large teeth ont he right.
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