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Tyler Keillor

@tylerkeillor.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, paleoartist. Lab manager for Paul Sereno at University of Chicago Fossil Lab

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FossilFriday Just delivered my latest paleoart sculpture & I can’t wait to share this beauty’s face once the paper describing the fossil is published! #SciArt
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Two Tylers, twice the trouble but @ejrpaleo.bsky.social kept things under control at the Fossil Lab on #FossilFriday ! Great to see @tylerstoneart.bsky.social and talk #paleoart a bit 🐊
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“I have such sights to show you”, said Pinhead in Hellraiser…we watched it recently and so now my WIP reminds me of a Cenobite’s puppy. I like to use T-pins during molding to help establish dividing lines where I’ll cut the rubber off the sculpture later #FossilFriday
Head and jaw of a prehistoric creature covered in silicone rubber with chrome pins sticking out to indicate where the mold will be split off the sculpture later
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hangnail #FossilFriday WIP
Red silicone molding rubber covers a theropod finger sculpture and looks a little raw
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
❤️Baby cardinal (?) visited the tin Triceratops on our back porch this evening- same expression!🤩
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What's inside this?? Come find out @ our August 13 Open House (Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm) @ the Fossil Lab, 5437 S. Wabash in Chicago, just West of UChicago campus. See the specimens we've been working on, meet staff & students and hear about new research 🦕🦖⚒️ All are welcome, no RSVP, free parking!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m excited to be working on a new sculpture of an ancient toothy critter- pose is very relaxed, jaw barely opened. To be able to sculpt inside the mouth and make the mold, I have to make the clay jaw detachable…now it looks like a graboid tentacle from Tremors!😆🐍 #paleoart #SciArt WIP
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Any paleoartists out there have experience using UChicago's Glaze or Nightshade to poison AI? I'm fascinated to know, and also wonder if there's pressure to stop the program now that UChicago has gone all-in with Anthropic glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html #paleoart #scicomm #PaleoAgainstAI
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WebGlaze - What is WebGlaze
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#FossilFriday & claws out for the weekend!🦖
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Last night @ our monthly Fossil Lab Open House, I had the great pleasure to meet Michelle Minott, sister of the late Garfield Minott. Garfield’s #paleoart created for @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social of Carcharodontosaurus inspired me to enter the field. Here we pose w/ his Afrovenator #fossilfriday
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thanks skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social for inviting me to speak to your wonderful community about my work in #paleoart #sciconm ! It was a fun evening with lots of great questions and discussion. An awesome selection of curated books too!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My dad (age 78) made this great cut-out construction paper art project this evening: 7-4-250 Lady Liberty”s torch is snuffed- A shadow of woe has fallen upon D.C.
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Just switched to DuckDuckGo with AI turned off, cutting Google out if possible
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Nerding out on Father’s Day with this fantastic book my wife and son picked out : “Godzilla - The First 70 Years”…I love King Ghidora’s original unused blue-green coloration with rainbow wings! Happy day to all the dads out there🦖
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Morla the Swiss chard calzone accepts its fate…
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Improving the world in a small way, removed about 100sq/ft of worthless lawn today and installed a native plant garden of 25 perennials (8 species, 4 are keystone) for birds/butterflies/pollinators, from the Ecoplantia roll out garden line. This connects to more native plants in my rain garden 😊
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
On Earth Day, check out this hellish opening movie sequence: pre-cgi, no miniatures or visual effects used here. Not “Blade Runner”, any guesses? Chicago area, late 1970’s
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What a great surprise to receive my copy of @lewislarosa.bsky.social Kickstarter book “Carbon Based” in the mail today! I love it all!! Exhilarating hand-drawn illustrations from cover to cover🤩
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Windy City
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Also for #PaleoFest2026, look for my wall-hanging mini-bust of a famous Chicago zoo gorilla, now taxidermied @ FMNH www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/bushman... Please bid this up at the weekend auction to benefit the Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois #SciArt 🦍 Painted plaster cast
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#FossilFriday make plans if you’re able to attend #PaleoFest2026, @ Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois Looks like it’ll be another outstanding event! Please bid up this Alioramus altai mini-bust wall-hanging I made for auction during the weekend to benefit this small but mighty regional museum ❤️🦖
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I can’t make it to #PaleoFest2026 this year, but the wonderful @paleobyliam.bsky.social is transporting two small sculptures of mine I’m donating to the Burpee Museum for the auction at this weekends event. Faux metallic painted wall-hanging casts, here‘s a peek #sciart
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#FossilFriday & happy to see coworker & coauthor Erin Fitzgerald’s culmination of fierce fieldwork, ace preparation of difficult material & great paint job on the display-skull, out now w/ Spinosaurus mirabilis, debuting @ Chicago Children’s Museum on March 1 #SciArt
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#FossilFriday recently finished a special shell to hold a big heavy specimen vertically (yes for reasons),chain hoist doing the work here slowly lifting ~500lbs. I’m hyperfocused on stuff like this much of the time but important to step back, note my privileges & grapple w/ injustices in our field 💔
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Immense brontothere skull in Field Museums “After the Age of Dinosaurs” temp show. I applaud that Jay Ryan @thebirdmachine.bsky.social was recognized for art throughout. But why not credit Erwin Christman’s art (instead of “public domain”) on the text panel? Beautiful, influential, worth crediting
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
“We’re gonna need a bigger gravy-boat!” Turkey skull peeks out from behind a T. rex wishbone on Thanksgiving! 🦃🍗🦖
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Great to see a display of @restingdinoface.bsky.social new book in the gift shop at the Field Museum for the new temp exhibit there, After the Age of Dinosaurs!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Prepping out a super-hard concretion from between the jugal, quadrate & pterygoid of a huge fossil croc (this is 1 hour sped up), slowly making a dent… speaking of time, later this afternoon on a campus zoom ceremony for staff, I’ll be recognized for my 25 years working @ UChicago 🐊😁
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Any paleo folks in the Chicagoland area- this afternoon is our final Open House of 2025 - come see what we’ve been working on at the Fossil Lab, 5437 S. Wabash (just West of UChicago main campus). We’ll continue hosting our monthly Open Houses in the spring of 2026! 🦕🦖
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Last night we saw some of the northern lights despite light pollution over Chicagoland!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
my Birthday plans for this evening include getting sushi with my wife and son & watching Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster because it’s #GodzillaDay !
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
A lovely day @ Chicago’s National Museum of Mexican Art, in solidarity w/ our fellow human beings’ beautiful & diverse cultural traditions for Dia de los Muertos…and saw some great graffiti in the neighborhood too!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Check out this timelapse I made while giving an Edmontosaurus a pedicure! One small part of the story out today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Something we’ve been very carefully “chipping away at” for a while in the Fossil Lab #UChicago will hit the news tomorrow! A very interesting collaborative effort, watch for it afternoon on Oct 23! @paulserenoofficial.bsky.social
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
On #fossilfriday cleaning very hard matrix off a tiny portion of a five-foot-long skull of Sarcosuchus…patience, this takes a while! 🐊💀
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Any Chicago area paleo folks out there- please feel welcome to come to the University of Chicago Fossil Lab monthly Open House this afternoon from 3:30-5:00 pm and see what we’re working on! 5437 S. Wabash Ave., just West of main campus 🦕🦖
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Met this little guy casting a big Mothra shadow on our dog walk after work! #kaiju
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Driving home in Chicago today, a group of black SUVs w/ tinted windows swerved to block traffic & U-turn near a bus stop at an intersection (55th & Kildare), masked tactical wearing terrorists jumped out and ran down a residential street. I called: www.icirr.org/fsn www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#SciArtSeptember -prompt today is Fellowship- I’m so grateful to the researchers out there who value the power of art to communicate to the public & collaborate with artists like me to realize these projects! My #paleoart Cyonosaurus yawned all the way to the Field Museum to join Arjan Mann’s team!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
3rd thread in my Cyonosaurus behind-the-scenes process: First cast out of the mold here turned out great! Sometimes the first time I fill a new mold, I’m learning how to work with it & it isn't always a useable cast, but no major defects this time. My son gave a hand demolding🙏
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Beautiful little green-legged spider (could fit on my fingertip) spun a giant gleaming web across garden stairs. Go get ’em little guy!
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I’m so grateful for this commission: sculpted a life-reconstruction of the gorgonopsid Cyonosaurus for researchers Arjan Mann & Naiomi Cookson this summer. Previous thread on the sculpture, here I’m starting the silicone mold. First few layers are thin so bubbles aren’t trapped at the surface detail
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This summer I had the pleasure of collaborating w/ researchers Naiomi Cookson & Arjan Mann (Field Museum) to reconstruct a flesh-model bust of Cyonosaurus. After getting to meet the holotype, I started roughing out the skull armature. More of the process to follow! #paleoart
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Anyone attending RiotFest in Chicago this weekend? Keep an eye out for my newest #paleoart sculpture debuting at the Field Museum’s outreach table! I made a really good beast- if you see it there please send photos!🙏
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Any paleo folks in the Chicago-area tomorrow, come see what we’re working on at the Fossil Lab! Our monthly Open House: Sept.18, 3:30-5:00pm. Just West of the UChicago main campus: 5437 S. Wabash Ave. Preview new discoveries under prep, meet staff & students, here about Paul’s newest expedition !
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Boxing up Tiktaalik for shipment- leaving air voids around the thin fins. Foam board is lightweight but very strong, in layers essentially crush-proof. I clad this box in cardboard sheets & taped up the whole thing tight, then in this instance the box was placed on a pallet to ship air-cargo ✈️🐟
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Tyler Keillor @tylerkeillor.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Before recently shipping this model out to its new home at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore, I brought it over to @neilshubin.bsky.social lab to see the latest updates to the sculptures anatomy. Tiktaalik’s discovery site on the wall map makes the scene!
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