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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) Profile picture
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him)
@TomHoltzPaleo
Tyrannocentric Dinosaur Paleobiologist; Univ. Maryland Principal Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology; Dir. Science & Global Change Program; Random House author
Jan 3 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
Since apparently I will get no rest from colleagues and other online friends until I comment, a 🧵 about the newly published (but available as a preprint for months) paper on Nanotyrannus 1/
mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/1/1 Background: there are series of (relatively) small specimens of tyrannosaurid from the Hell Creek Formation (photos below) which have been proposed by some as being juveniles of Tyrannosaurus rex, and by others as a distinct taxon Nanotyrannus lancensis 2/

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Jan 7, 2023 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Since people have asked for it, a thread 🧵 on the new paper about Tyrannosaurus (and other) dinosaur intelligence. The source paper is onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

1/ Let's start off by acknowledging that no one--NO ONE--is an expert in every field, and so mistakes and misunderstandings happen, especially when working on material outside your normal professional experience. This thread is about looking at the paper, no more.

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