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Dr Dana Ehret

@drdanaehret.bsky.social
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Paleontologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, curator, adjunct professor. Editor for: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Eastern Paleontologist and The Mosasaur he/him

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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Second to last paleontology talk of the summer in Voorhees last night! This was number 12 of the season!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’ll be giving a virtual talk in addition to my numerous in person talks for the summer library reading program #unearthastory which is #paleontology themed!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy #FossilFriday ! Here’s a beautiful shark coprolite I just collected last week in the NJ Cretaceous!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Gordon Hubbell passed away. Gordon served on my Ph.D. Committee, opened his house to me weekly to learn from him and donated valuable specimens to the Florida Museum that allowed me to describe Carcharodon hubbelli in his honor. Gordon and Kate were kind, generous people that will be missed greatly!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Mike Burns, paleontologist at Jacksonville State University, who worked on ankylosaurs, passed last week. I knew Mike, travelled with him and took him in the field. A nice and funny man who was way too young and will be missed! #paleontology proze.jsu.edu/u/lp/employe...
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Mesozoic Mind @mesozoicmind.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Qt...
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Les dinosaures d'Appalachie - La préhistoire du Québec, saison 2
YouTube video by Savoir média
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Talking #cryptozoology and # fossils today! Two of my favorite things
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Visited the original carved skull for Haddy, #Hadrosaurus foulkii, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly yesterday! #Leidyiswatching #dinosaur
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Here’s a note from the OG Turtle paleontologist Oliver Perry Hay to the NJ State Geologist in 1906. Hay described a fossil turtle from NJ called Amblypeza entellus. The taxon is no longer valid, it is a jr synonym of Taphrosphys sulcatus, but we still retain the holotype and Hay’s note #Fossilfriday
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
How do you move a 200 million year old #dinosaur trackway that weighs a few tons? Very carefully!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We sent out our Nile Crocodile mount for restoration. It’ll be included in a new upcoming exhibit and needed freshening up!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It’s cold enough for walruses in New Jersey this week! But it wouldn't be the first time! During the Late Pleistocene (over 30,000 years ago) the area that is now New Jersey had walruses! We still dredge their fossils along the coast today.
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Talking to the DVPS in a few moments online about the Ellisdale fossil site! Since I’m doing it from my office, I can show off some specimens including this large theropod phalanx!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
RIP Lungy 😞 I don’t know how old he was but I had him for about 20 years and he was already a good size, I would guess he was at least 30…. He moved with me from Florida to Jersey to Alabama and back to Jersey again
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#svp2025 today is my poster on Hybodont shark egg capsules from New Jersey! Poster number 393. Come say hi!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#2025SVP has been great thus far!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Princeton Allosaurus! Giving a departmental lecture today
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Saturday, Sept 20th at the NJ State Museum!! #ecology #conservation #endangered #nj
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Press Coverage for my latest exhibit: Ecosystems at Risk: Threatened and Endangered in New Jersey! whyy.org/articles/new... #endangered #ecosystems #newjersey
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New Jersey State Museum gives flowers to its native flora and fauna
The exhibition highlights the state’s natural habitats and efforts to protect them.
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This past week a program about Natural History in Quebec came to the NJSM to film about the dinosaurs of Appalachia!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I didn’t know I was mentioned in this #shark book about the #Megalodon !
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Before and after shots of drawer installation in our #naturalhistory collections #museumlife
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The New Jersey State Museum is hiring a Curator of Archaeology and Ethnography!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#SharkWeek appearance #2 filming completed! Look for me talking about fossil makos this summer!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
It’s been 5 years since we lost paleobotanist Brian Axsmith to Covid… he was a good friend and I still think of him every time I see a plant fossil
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Palaeoblog @palaeoblog.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Died This Day: Joseph Leidy (Sept 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891). The Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology described the holotype of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the 1st American mostly complete dinosaur. He also mentored a young E.D. Cope and pointed he and Marsh to the rich fossil resources of the West
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great day giving a tour to a Princeton University comparative anatomy class at the NJ State Museum today!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Our newest exhibit, Ecosystems at Risk opens on April 19th at the NJ State Museum! I’ll be there to give tours and talk to visitors!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Happy 95th (!!) birthday to John Astin aka Gomez Addams! @iamseanastin.bsky.social
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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Among the “largely obscure” (to use the NYT’s phrasing) agencies included in this order? The IMLS. [gift link]
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Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent (Gift Article)
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Today we had to move our ‘Ornithomimus’ sculpture at the NJ State Museum. This was done by Louis Paul Jonas for Sinclair’s Dinoland exhibit at the 1964 World’s Fair. Ours is not the original but was made from the same mold in the mid 1960’s #FossilFriday
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Back to teaching at Monmouth University this Spring! It’s been a hot minute!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
14 years since my PhD! It’s my ph-anniversary! #GoGators
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Ho hum… O. Megalodon
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I’m down at the National Museum of Natural History this week working on Late Cretaceous Appalachian faunas and it’s AGU! Who will I see??
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 02/12/2024
Coolest thing I've seen today, from the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme Ethiopian Wolf Is First Known Large Predator-Pollinator to Feed on Nectar www.ecowatch.com/ethiopian-wo...
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This fossil represents an armored tail of a late Triassic (~215 mya) reptile named Aetosaurus arcuatus. Aetosaurs were herbivorous or omnivorous reptiles.This fossil once was the type specimen of 'Stegomus arcuatus jerseyensis'. It was found in Somerset Co., NJ #FossilFriday
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#Heelerholidays #blueheeler #cattledog #Bluey
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Bottosaurus harlani was a late Cretaceous/early Paleocene (~65 million yrs. old) crocodilian related to modern caimans. Some researchers believe their unusual rounded teeth were used for crushing their prey. This mandible (lower jaw) was found in Gloucester Co., NJ #FossilFriday
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What is that in my cover photo? Why that’s a Northern Harrier I captured recently while birding in Mercer County, NJ #birding
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
When my supervisor runs outta steam #rangerdanger
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Sneak peek at #FossilFriday, a Castoroides incisor fragment from New Jersey recently donated by an avocational paleontologist to the NJ State Museum!
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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Starter pack of vertebrate paleontologists! There are a fair few slots left so if you’d like to be added or nominate someone to be added, drop a comment or shoot me a DM! go.bsky.app/VLmSB1B
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Oh my! A freeze dried Sabre toothed kitten!! 😍 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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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Welcome new Blue Sky-ers! About me: I’m a Natural History Curator and paleontologist mainly studying 🐢 and 🦈! You may have seen me on Shark Week or the Smithsonian Channel years ago. I’m here to share science, nature and pics of my dogs!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Future #ichnology in action! White tailed deer tracks on the beach in New Jersey!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
On my way to #2024SVP my favorite conference for all things vertebrate paleontology! I will also be presenting on a new Cretaceous turtle from New Jersey!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Snake filled day in the NJ Pinelands! 3 hognose and one Pine snake!
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Dr Dana Ehret @drdanaehret.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
First Devonian glacial erratic trilobite I’ve found in New Jersey!
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