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Carrie Herbel

@cherbel18.bsky.social
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Paleontologist/scientist. Climate change is real. Liberal & positive person. Stay politically active. Support LGBTQ. Loves dogs & Natural History Museums.

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've worked for a natural history museum for 11 years at this point (man, yikes) and while it is sad, it isn't surprising to see two major institutions facing closure this year.
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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some Monday morning thoughts on museum closures, spurred in part by the recent Academy of Natural Sciences, but not necessarily specific to that. <thread>
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Amazing detail.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
news.unl.edu/article/pous...
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Poust's expertise helps confirm Nanotyrannus was distinct species from T. rex | Nebraska Today
New research from a team including the University of Nebraska State Museum’s Ashley Poust further moves a decades-long scientific debate toward a conclusion — the Nanotyrannus, a teacup variation of t...
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NPR @npr.org · 04/12/2025
A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution. n.pr/4plIDcz
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This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart: www.earth.com/news/new-str...
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New stress map reveals where Earth is on the verge of breaking apart
New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms
Study finds fresh evidence for Nanotyrannus, a dinosaur whose existence has long been debated
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AshPoust @ashpoust.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
One Bone at a Time. Meet our Chief Preparator, Carrie Herbel - who is celebrating 10 years at the Museum. news.unl.edu/article/herb... @cherbel18.bsky.social @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social
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Herbel helps preserve Nebraska’s legacy, one bone at a time | Nebraska Today
A full-circle moment brought Carrie Herbel back to Nebraska to take a position once held by a mentor. The chief preparator at the University of Nebraska State Museum is being honored today for 10 year...
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Anthony of the Badlands @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I missed #MosasaurMonday but holy moly, Winnie is prepped! Here's the main part of the skull, without the palate laid out. She came out great and im so happy she's covered in pathologies. Just like me, we both have interesting skeletal injuries. Lower Niobrara, 86.5 million years old 🧪
A very toothy Plesioplatecarpus skull laid out bone by bone on a red tablecloth.  Curatorial hand for scale
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Bone-crushing dogs! Bone-crushing dogs! Modern canids crush bones, too, but Borophagus and kin were extra adept at busting up skeletons. Fossil feces packed with bone back up what the jaws imply. 🧪
The lower jaw of the bone-crushing canid Borophagus, about 3.5mya, in a display at Hagerman Fossil Beds
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh so true...
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Me too!!!
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Common Descent @commondescentpod.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This episode, @oddpride.com joins us to investigate just what was the deal with one of the most infamous figures in early American paleontology.
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Episode 211 – Edward Drinker Cope
Listen to Episode 211 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! He’s one of the most famous names in early American paleontology, and often not for good …
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dire...
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Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal
The extinct giant canids were a remarkable example of convergent evolution
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Lemur-like primates would cling and leap through the forests of North America about 50 mya. This particular cousin of ours is Smilodectes, not an ancestor but a member of an early primate group called adapiforms. The forward-facing eyes and grasping hands are key adaptations to life in the trees 🧪
Close-up of a reconstruction of the lemur-like fossil primate Smilodectes in a museum
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My little Dyson passed away tonight after suffering from a severe stroke. 09/2001-01/2025 (picture from 11 years ago).
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
One of my favorite sci-fi book series AND one of the best tv shows ever ❤️
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Scott Williams @museumguyscott.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
BABY #Mammoth alert!!! Not 100% complete, but another awesome specimen!
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Mayr, G. et al. 2024. Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma geiselensis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(3):a57. doi.org/10.26879/1438 palaeo-electronica.org/content/2024...
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Review of Gastornithiformes
Resurrecting the taxon Diatryma: A review of the giant flightless Eocene Gastornithiformes (Aves), with a report of the first skull of Diatryma geiselensis
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Blue Jays having an intense discussion
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 05/12/2024
Hi, BlueSky! We're here for the party, and we brought a NEW dinosaur with us. Meet Apex. Discovered in 2022 near Dinosaur, Colorado, this Stegosaurus is the largest ever found, measuring 11 ft (3.4 m) tall & 27 feet (8.2 m) long. You can see it at the Museum starting on Sunday, December 8! 🦴
Apex Stegosaurus fossil mount on display in the Museum's Gilder Center beside a neon yellow sign with information about the specimen.
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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I decided to redo the 1st ever piece in my cave painting series, Megaloceros. Although the cave artwork I used in the original is glorious and often labeled as depicting Megaloceros, the antler configuration does indeed look more like the non-palmated ones from red deer. #paleoart #artbyjulio
A rendition of Megaloceros in a realistic but also rough, painterly style against a textured beige background. Next to it is a replica of a minimalistic cave painting showing the same animal, along with a hand print motif and text saying: "Megaloceros giganteus, Grotte de Cougnac, France, around 24 thousand years before present"Same thing as previous, but the cave painting in question may actually represent another species of deer. The text instead refers to "Grotte de Lascaux, France, around 13 thousand years before present"Photo of a red deer in side view
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The end of Fall
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Seems more like a tour bus full of clowns
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Scientist Mel @scientistmel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Googly eyes make everything better
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AshPoust @ashpoust.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Greetings and Happy #FossilFriday A quiet end of the week here at UNSM, but I'm kept company by some of the largest beasts to ever walk the Earth. Here's one of our better Bison latifrons specimens, with horns spanning over 2 meters - if I lay down next to it they'd be longer than me! ⚒️🧪🦕
A very large Bison latifrons skull sits atop white museum cases, cushioned by cardboard and foam blocks. The horns span the entire photo.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Check out this baby sabertooth cat!
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Cutest fossil ever!
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Ashley Reynolds, Cat Lady PhD @handle.invalid · 14/11/2024
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Move over, blue whale. This 300+ year old 34m coral is now the largest animal* known. Hopefully its depth, as described, can keep it going 🦑🧪 *colony of animals
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Scientists discover world’s largest coral—so big it can be seen from space
Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic Society’s Pristine Seas expedition team.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Coelacanths are pregnant for five years, the longest gestation of any known animal, and do not reach maturity until they are around 55 years old.
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Thomas Williamson @abqtom.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Blue skies above San Diego Canyon near Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Paleocastors (fossil beavers) post vandals - now under repair. Anyone handy in repairing miniatures?
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This is amazing, and only recently archived: hand-drawn concept art and miniature dioramas (!) from the planning of the Los Angles Natural History Museum's 80s and 90s dinosaur galleries. Sketchup is great and all, but man I wish I was around for this era of exhibit design.
Scans of illustrations that might be a mix of collage, colored pencil and watercolor. White dinosaur bones in forest diorama scenes within a museum hall with various visitors.Another collage-y/colored pencil drawing. This one is a marine diorama with plesiosaur and sea turtle skeletons and a hanging pterosaur model being viewed from a mezzanine overhead.Adorable shoebox-style diorama of a woodland diorama area in the corner of a museum hall. White wire/pipe cleaner dinosaur skeletons are placed within among tall trees and dirt. There's a little model of a touchable dinosaur bone on the rail.Camera placed inside the diorama's doorway to show visitor eye view past standing turtle skeleton and toward dinosaur tableau.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I should add that this exhibit is no more. Vandals broke both skeletons. I am attempting repairs but feel that someone with skills in miniatures would be better suited. At least I have the before pictures!
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Burrower. They made these elaborate corkscrew burrows called daemonelix or Devil's Corkscrew. Paleocastors are one of my favorite fossils to be found in Nebraska.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My Pomeranians, Coco and Nugget, have to included in my early posts to Bluesky.
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Carrie Herbel @cherbel18.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! Here are two Paleocastors (fossil beavers) from UNSM vertebrate paleontology department. Aren't they amazing!
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