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Maxwell Miles Candlen

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Paleontology student researcher at the New York State Museum, lead author of The Podokesaurus Project (@podokesauruspro.bsky.social)

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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A rare brontozoid footprint from Nyack, New York. There’s only a sliver of Mesozoic rock left in New York State, and in that only two brontozoid (theropod) footprints have ever been found. #PaleoSky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is the first reconstruction of Coelophysis, made by Huene 40 years before the Ghost Ranch bonebed was found. It’s based on Cope’s original fossils and filled in with Anchisaurus. #PaleoSky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We spent a week at the Field Museum earlier this month, re-identifying a bunch of mislabeled material from China (soon to be returned) and a boatload of unpublished Cryolophosaurus material. These here are the jaws of a small crocodylomorph and sauropodomorph. #PaleoSky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Check out this cool new video showing the early days of the Peabody Museum. The Podokesaurus display remains just off-screen, but we do get to see Podoke-observer Richard Lull in (a form of) motion. #PaleoSky
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Peabody in Pictures
YouTube video by Yale Peabody Museum
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Maxwell Miles Candlen @candlenmm.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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a man in a captain america costume is holding his hand to his mouth and saying i do !
ALT: a man in a captain america costume is holding his hand to his mouth and saying i do !
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Huene’s rarely-seen reconstruction of Podokesaurus, from his 1932 “Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia.” Look at that tail! #PaleoSky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Neat little unprepared Coelophysis snout we came across on our latest collections visit
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I swear I had to get under this thing to get good pictures of real fossils that somebody built into the floor…
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Fun fact: the fire that destroyed Podokesaurus also took with it one of the few casts of Rhomaleosaurus. Mount Holyoke *allegedly* had a complete collection of Ward’s fossil casts, all of which was destroyed except for the Megatherium.
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We’re in Japan for the month, so we’re in Fukui checking out the current goings-on, including their fantastic special exhibition on theropods!
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hey, guys, so it turns out the Spinosaurus holotype wasn’t blown into oblivion, the Germans just sent it to Japan under the shroud of night! #paleosky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Did some quarrying today for the Museum and found a few Devonian fish elements #paleosky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Freya has been busy prepping a Jurassic plant from Massachusetts that we collected a few weeks ago; most of this was covered when we found it. She’ll need the practice for when we find CT Valley bones🤞 #PaleoSky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Spent the day at Yale checking out Connecticut Valley fossils, Coelophysis, and the oldest surviving dinosaur fossil found in the western hemisphere (2nd pic.) We also got Raising Cane’s for the first time. #paleosky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We got to walk on dinosaur tracks today (and also got a lot of real work done.) #paleosky
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Maxwell Miles Candlen @candlenmm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
BEHOLD… Rupert Wild’s temnospondyl, from which tapioca boba are harvested. #PaleoSky
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Getting help with the analysis
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy #DinosaurDay to you and yours! If Mignon Talbot were here to celebrate, she’d probably say: “Where am I? How did I get here?”
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Making some interesting breakthroughs in interpreting Podok’s dorsal verts. Thinking we’re seeing them from a different perspective than previously thought, + some internal features not before appreciated
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thanks again to Mount Holyoke for allowing us to present some of our in-progress Podokesaurus revision. The first new science on the species in almost 60 years!
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We’ll be giving a short talk at Mount Holyoke this Thursday, in celebration of their new Podokesaurus exhibit. We will be sharing our latest anatomical observations and phylogenetic results that you won’t be able to hear anywhere else!
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Preliminary phylogenetic analysis recovers Podokesaurus as a… podokesaurid (and I’m not telling what that means)
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We’re at the AMNH this week visiting Podok’s cousin, Coelophysis. Featuring Freya with a large slab and me with my favorite bone: the pubis from the original type series of C. longicollis.
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Help us look for Podokesaurus-bearing rocks! Volunteer sign-up for our first exploratory field trip is live, just fill out the form below (or contact us directly if you don’t have a Google account): docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
First Podokesaurus Project Exploratory Field Trip to be announced soon, going to be looking for volunteers. Keep your eyes on this space if you’re interested…
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
2/22 and 2/23 ONLY you can come and see our Podokesaurus model (and us) at the New York State Museum’s Rock and Fossil Fun Fair!
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Approved to visit Dinosaur State Park and the American Museum of Natural History next month, to see their Podokesaurus casts, but also all the incredible Coelophysis material at the AMNH! Pic of the original Mount Holyoke cast for S&G:
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Fans of Connecticut Valley dinosaurs are going to be very happy in a few days… watch this space
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Distracting myself from everything with deez diapophyses
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
He’s a 10, but his proximal femur is fragmentary and difficult to interpret (but at least the cats are helping)
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Maxwell Miles Candlen @candlenmm.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Time to be real: the only reason dino-fans love the name Saurophaganax so much is because it has an “x” in it
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Maxwell Miles Candlen @candlenmm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The original publications are free online, read them here royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... And here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Maxwell Miles Candlen @candlenmm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#FossilFriday NHMUK PV R 1088 (Macrospondylus bollensis,) the first articulated archosaur fossil to be published (1758.) Exposed on a seaside cliff in Whitby, Eng., most of the skeleton was washed away by the tide before it was collected.
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is either a family photo, a superfamily photo, or a mother and son, depending on your systematic preferences.
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The Podokesaurus Project @podokesauruspro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
For those who missed us at SVP, here’s the latest Podoke-discovery: the only known surviving photo of the counter-part of Podokesaurus!
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Maxwell Miles Candlen @candlenmm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Podokesaurus guy here, under my Government name
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