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Ashley W Poust
@AshPoust
Paleontology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Medicine, Travel. Grazing with the dinosaurs and dear old horses. -What I'm about to show you may shock and educate you
Apr 16, 2021 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
How to count T. Rex -
A 🧵Thread in Cartoons

Happy #FossilFriday ! You may have seen our recent paper where we calculate that 2.5 billion T. Rex ever lived.

But how do we know? 1/11 First:
The art in this thread is by Sara Volz, a biophysicist at UC Berkeley!

The lead art of T. rex heads is by @franzanth - follow for great #paleoart, especially of inverts.

In case you missed the paper here it is: science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65…
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