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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Centrosaurus apertus (CMN 348). Look at the size of that postorbital horncore!

Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We published a new hadrosaur this week, Pleisolophus warnerensis. Lead by Brad McFeeters based on a specimen found by Wendy Sloboda, of course.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Great to spend time with the basal neoceratopsian, Beg Tse, while visiting IP in Ulaanbaatar last week.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

BORN THIS DAY: ELKANAH BILLINGS (May 5,1820-June 14,1896): Canada’s first paleontologist. His boss Sir William Logan wrote him (1869): "Your constant absence from the office is a worrying annoyance, particularly as I have reason to suspect that it does not arrive from rheumatism."

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

More for May the 4th: colleague Dr David West Reynolds standing at the bluff where Luke looked down on Mos Eisley. In the distance you can just see the palm trees that mark the location of the Well of Souls dig site from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Was this Tunisian adventure really 30 years ago?!

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

For May the 4th: Me discovering the origin Krayt Dragon prop skeleton in Tunisia back in the early 90’s. The film quarry abandoned this & all the Star Wars props when they left. After I found them (and left them in place!), collectors followed in my footsteps and scoped them up. Hello Ebay!

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Another old photo from the Canadian Museum of Nature's back rooms.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I miss the Styracosaurus that used to stand guard outside of the Field Station in Dinosaur Provincial Park, AB. Sculpted by Brian Cooley.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

BORN THIS DAY: ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS (Jan 26, 1884 – Mar 11, 1960) - leader of the AMNH’s Central Asiatic Expeditions between 1922 to 1930 that collected many of our most famous dinosaurs – Protoceratops, Oviraptor, Velociraptor.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One more photo from an old trip to Ulaanbaatar. Protoceratops in the Palaeo Lab Collections.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Does anyone have a Google Earth/KMZ location for the Tendaguru Palaeontological Site or the major quarries in the area of Tendaguru Hill? Thanks! [photo from Wikipedia]

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Metatarsals of Avimimus from the Mongolian bonebed we described in this paper: doi.org/10.1038/srep35782

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Another old photo from Ulaanbaatar. Saurolophus with Phil Bell for scale. This is a BIG skull!

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Tarbosaurus skull on display in the palaeo lab in Ulaanbaatar from a few years ago.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Counter slab of the Sinosauropteryx holotype

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

#Monoclonius lowei (CMN 8790) in the field at Manyberries, Alberta. David Evans and I relocated the quarry in 2017.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Look’s like the Sinclair dinosaur is getting a Macy’s Parade balloon this year. Does the green dino have a media presence (TV show, video game) that I’ve missed? #SinclairDinosaur #MacysParade

Sinclair Dinosaur, Macy's parade balloon

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The famous ‘Fighting Dinosaurs’. I never get tired of looking at them. #Velociraptor #Protoceratops #Gobi #Mongolia

Fighting dinosaurs Velociraptor Protoceratops

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#Centrosaurus apertus skull TMP 98.70.1 from the upper unit of the Oldman Fm, Alberta, that is time equivalent to the lower Dinosaur Park Fm at DPP. Collected with @don_brinkman back in 1998 @RoyalTyrrell

Centrosaurus apertus from the Oldman Formation of southern Alberta

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

My friend and mentor, @don_brinkman, collects a fossil trionychid turtle in Dinosaur Provincial Park, July 27, 2006. @RoyalTyrrell

Dr. Don Brinkman collecting a turtle in DPP

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Here's a photo of the holotype of Gremlin slobodorum, the new leptoceratopsid named after Wendy Sloboda, who found it, and her father, Ed. @DavidEvans_ROM @RoyalTyrrell @tattpaleobabe #leptoceratopsidae #SADP

Gremlin, a new leptoceratopsid from southen Alberta.

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Dr Michael J Ryan @drmichaeljryan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Our new-ish basal ceratopsian.Thanks to my co-authors Tomonori Tanaka, Kentaro Chiba and Tadahiro Ikeda for inviting me to work with them. #Sasayamagnomus #ceratopsian @tomotanaka22 @kchibs

Sasayamgnomus, a small ceratopsians from the Early Cretaceous of Japan

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