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Dino Chu

@dinomaster.bsky.social

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MSci palaeontology and geology 🎓 Functional morphologist 🐦🦿 Archosaur researcher 🦕🦖🦤🦅🦃🐊 Researched on jaw/beak mechanical advantage, Morrison Formation theropod dental microwear, and currently South Asian crocodilians from the Cenozoic

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Dino Chu @dinomaster.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Happy 200th birthday #Iguanodon! Despite being the first dinosaurs to ever be discovered, it was the second dinosaur to be described and named. This iconic ornithopod was quite wide spread across Europe. It boasts a large thumb spike likely for grasping plant and could be used to defend itself.

Me next to an old “kangaroo” stance Bernissart Iguanodon cast mount at the Sedgwick Museum at Cambridge.

A modern Iguanodon on all fours (likely still a facultative quadruped) from better myology and anatomical studies and mass analysis at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt.

Life sized Iguanodon thumb spike cast at the Natural History Museum of London.

On the meme, “talk dumb, get the thumb”

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Dino Chu @dinomaster.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The newly described carcharodontosaur - #Tameryraptor markgrafi, looks a bit as if an Allosaurus wants to cosplay Ceratosaurus.

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Dino Chu @dinomaster.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just found these incredible dinosaur stickers at Waterstone’s in Leicester 😁 It’s got an #Allosaurus!!

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Dino Chu @dinomaster.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I haven’t been up on Blue Sky much recently but I’m very grateful for the sudden surge of followings recently. Here’s some pictures I’ve taken from my visit to the NHM London last week to see Fern the bronze Diplodocus cast of the famous Dippy that toured around the UK a few years ago.

Bronze cast of Dippy the Diplodocus outside the London Natural History Museum.

Hypsilophodon dashing under the gigantic Diplodocus despite from different eras.

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Dino Chu @dinomaster.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

I haven’t been active here for awhile, so I’ll share my first visit to the Etches Collection last week (should have visited there far earlier than that) to see the “sea rex” #pliosaur featured on the Attenborough documentary earlier this year. #FossilFriday #MarineReptile #Kimmeridge #Jurassic

A Kimmeridgian food web (Fish gets eaten by ichthyosaur and ichthyosaur eats devoured by pliosaur)

My next to the Etches pliosaur for scale: I am 185 cm

As it was featured in the Attenborough documentary: Attenborough and the Sea Monster

Anterior view of the Etches pliosaur found by Phil Jacobs

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Dino Chu @dinomaster.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

It’s #FossilFriday! Here’s the new #Archaeopteryx exhibition at the #YorkshireNaturalHistoryMuseum that other interns and I have co-designed. This exhibit primarily wants to showcase the different Archaeopteryx specimens together and the environment it lived. Can you spot my toy Archaeopteryx? 🪶

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