Anne Kort | The Virtual Paleontologist

@virtpaleo.bsky.social

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Vertebrate paleontologist researching mammal locomotion. I work with digital fossils that can be fixed with a Ctrl+Z. https://annekortpaleo.com https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJaiHFrVy0wdObYoV-rwXPw

Anne standing in front of a Tyrantrum skeleton
Art of two short-legged dogs joyfully running next to each other
Wall shelves with paleontology books and stuffed animals.
First edition copy of the Theory of Biogeography by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson.
A top down view of a sunny atrium. This space is a museum lobby with 2 mastodon skeletons standing side by side at the front and stairs winding up behind them. Two whale skeletons hang above, one large and one small.
Hanging folder stand with transparent images hanging down. The images stack together to make the 3D shape of a vertebra.
Table with CT scan image, 3D prints of vertebrae, and poster. Woman standing behind the table holding a vertebra 3D print.
From left to right: fossil humerus, pelvis, and femur. They are a mottled brown
Plastic container holding a foam block with a fossil in the center. There is tissue paper sticking out along the edges
Top view of small foam cylinder. There is a cut to the midpoint. A fossil vertebra sits in the center.
Small vertebra fossil (left) next to foam cylinder with a cut in it to the mid point (middle) next to small plastic container in which the foam can fit snuggly.
Selfie in the desolate landscape of the Bighorn Basin on a trip to collect some fossils.