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Oh Lord...son, get *several* stiff drinks and Google this topic and history. Add in brucellosis for the extra rage inducing history. It's totally bizarre and makes *ZERO* sense. And basically all* of the crap currently going down in MT stem from this.

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Tangentially related, I think I was talking to Amy Atwater about it the other day...anyway, if you're ever down for collaborating, I would *love* to do some sort of paper/paleo-synth thing on it with you!

Shit Eric, I *STILL* tell everyone I know at the AP about it! It *WILL* happen!

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You still *HAVE* to give the bison talk you did at the Shin Dig to the AP!!!!!!

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🦬❤️🦬❤️🦬❤️🦬❤️

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I've been in MT since April! I actually started my field season up in Havre, but I'm down in CO and WY for a few weeks. You back too?

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A true pilgrimage to paleo Mecca. This is *THE* type locality of the Morrison Formation. I laughed. I cried. I prayed to the Old Gods (Marsh, Cope, Hatcher, Gilmore, Lull, & Mook) for Morrison success, & I may have left an offering. Thanks to Amy Atwater for this opportunity!!!!

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks! Figured it was worth the ask. There's a lot of discussion on neck harm, but I had no idea (but was curious) about kinematics of either 🤷‍♂️

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Weird tangent question: There's a lot of vet and training discussion on collars vs. harnesses. Does either + leash lengths affect kinematics?

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I *hate* living there. *SO MUCH*

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

If I understood it correctly, I think it was more along the lines of really advancing and 'perfecting' the tech. And that "de-extinction" is just the shiney object for investors to fund CB's real projects.

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Admittedly, it sounds conspiracy theory-esque, but I was told by a colleague who used to collaborate with CB (and then had a falling out), is that one of their main patent goals behind all of this bs is artificial womb tech.

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ditto. I pronounce it dip-plod-oh-cuss, but dip-low-dough-cuss is just fine by me, too. It's the same critter, so why should some slight variations in pronunciation really matter? It's not an incantation we're trying to get right! 🤣

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In all fairness, nothing formally put forth in the peer-reviewed literature, but there are definitely works in progress. And the 2015 paper is damn good for a ton of reasons....but, there are quite a few 'pod folks who remain healthily unconvinced.

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This made me laugh for a good 5 minutes 🤣 Although asking if someone thinks Brontosaurus was a real dinosaur is really a better first date question.

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Last of the Mohicans is my *FAVORITE*!!!!!!

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I need *your* help with a project I'm working on! There are many dog-related sayings in English (ex "every dog has its day") If you know of other dog-isms, please let me know, and 2) What I'm really looking for: dog-related sayings in other languages & their meanings! Thanks in advance!

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

You missed a great pun title: "Gull-den Eye"

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And the paper: André O Fonseca, Fabiula P de Bem, Vitória Z Dalle-Laste, Maurício S Garcia & Rodrigo T Müller (2026) Osteology of the axial skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for early sauropodomorph cervicalization doi: doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Giraffe-like regional cervical elongation AND *multiple sets of gastral baskets* - from an early sauropodomorph?!?! (plus tons of other cool stuff) The axial osteology of Macrocollum by Fonseca et al. is a great read, and an awesome study!

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

You're in for an olfactory assault then....😅

Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A day with Camarasaurus is always time well spent

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I JUST GOT AN ORIGINAL COPY OF J.B. HATCHER'S 1901 MONOGRAPH ON DIPLODOCUS CARNEGII!!!!! *AND* IT WAS SIGNED BY HATCHER!!!!!!!!!

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Cary Woodruff @doublebeam.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It's about the mass arrest of the Knights Templar? Wow. First you abandon crocs, then dinos and taphonomy....

AND *if* Drinker is really a pachycephalosaur, and Yinlong was bouncing around in coeval China, why not a little Morrison ceratopsian? -fin

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Since troodontids were around, phylogenetically maybe dromaeosaurids too. And with Paraves, how farfetched is it to think oviraptorosaurs were around? (yes, IYKYK) And *IF* an alvarezsauroid + definitive Paraves, then a Morrison therizinosaur isn't impossible.

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We have at least 1 (maybe 2) Morrison troodontids, and yes - *potentially* - a Morrison alvarezsauroid and pachycephalosaur (& each paper says that much more work is needed), but look at those respective lineages and think what else could have been, and IMO, was likely there.

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