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Holly Woodward

@histo-holly.bsky.social
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Professor of #Anatomy and #Paleontology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. I study the #histology of #dinosaurs like #Tyrannosaurus and #Maiasaura! #womeninSTEM #scicomm

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte
Remarkably modern marine fish assemblages were established in the tropics within 4 Myr of the K-Pg extinction.
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An Early Miocene ape from the biogeographic crossroads of African and Eurasian Hominoidea
The Early Miocene fossil record documenting hominoid evolution has long been restricted primarily to sites in East Africa, whereas contemporaneous North African sites have only yielded remains of cerc...
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Evan Johnson-Ransom @ejrpaleo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I would like to thank my coauthors @eric-snively.bsky.social, Danny Barta, Paul Gignac, Ryan Felice for their collective effort in this research project, the advice and feedback of @histo-holly.bsky.social and paleo students/staff of OSUMedicine, the reviewers and @anatrecord.bsky.social.
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Holly Woodward @histo-holly.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Great work by my graduate student Abdullah Gohar on bear femur and rib histology published today in the Journal of Anatomy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Holly Woodward @histo-holly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Correcting the Scientific American headline: T.rex did stop growing, and our research in PeerJ suggests that happened around 40 years of age: www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-re...
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T. rex Never Stopped Growing, Dinosaur Bone Study Suggests
New clues hidden inside T. rex bones suggest that the carnivore lived longer lives than we thought
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Holly Woodward @histo-holly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So very happy that after 11 years of research and data collection, this paper is finally out! Couldn't have done it without my coauthors, Nathan Myhrvold and Jack Horner! peerj.com/articles/204...
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Prolonged growth and extended subadult development in the Tyrannosaurus rex species complex revealed by expanded histological sampling and statistical modeling
Background Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most iconic non-avialan dinosaurs, remains a central focus of paleobiological research. Growth modeling suggests T. rex exceeded 8,000 kg within two decades an...
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
#FossilFriday To round out #FossilFridayAtoZ, the Eocene whale Zygorhiza, at the old Hall of the Ancient Seas at the National Museum of Natural History
Mounted skeleton of the Eocene fossil whale Zygorhiza, as mounted at the old Hall of the Ancient Seas at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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Holly Woodward @histo-holly.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future. svpow.com/2024/12/22/a...
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About that Saurophaganax paper
Newly out in VAMP: Danison, Andy D., Wedel, Mathew J., Barta, Daniel E., Woodward, Holly N., Flora, Holley M., Lee, Andrew H., and Snively, Eric. 2024. Chimerism of specimens referred to Saurophaga…
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Holly Woodward @histo-holly.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Huge congrats to Andy and team!
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Holly Woodward @histo-holly.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
‘Tis the season!!! Yippee ki yay!
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