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Wow its already the 17 of January where has the year gone? Well always time for some cool photos of some great fossils to keep us going Its not unheard of to find dinosaur bite marks on a fossil. This Triceratops pelvis on display at Museum of the Rockies has Tyrannosaurus bite marks on it (red arrows) One way to identify a theropod bone is to see if they are hollow, another way is to look at their vertebra most are pneumatized, have a honeycomb structure. Here is an example of a T rex vertebra You hear alot about the Nanotyrannus associated with the Dueling Dinosaurs but here is a photo of the foot of other partner in this dynamic due a Triceratops. Complete ceratopsian feet are rare and this is the ventral view of one. in the less prepped version Mike Tribold posted this photo of Axestemys infernalis, a new soft shelled turtle from the Hell Creek Formation. I am sure Mike will have it on display at his booth at the Tucson 22nd Street Show More info on this turtle can be found here https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2019/2827-a-new-species-of-trionychid The lower jaw of the pterosaur Liaodactylus, with its numerous and extremely slender teeth. At 160 million years old, this is the earliest evidence of adaptations for filter-feeding in pterosaurs. Info by Jordan Bestwick Check out these loooong flight feathers on the wings of Confuciusornis sanctus. Courtesy of Talia Lowi-Marri Palaeontological Institute in Moscow gives us the rather mean-looking Archosaurus rossicus, from the very end of the Permian (~255 Mya) in Russia. Skull is a bit under half a meter long. Not something you want to meet hiking in Siberia. The Supraorbital horn of Baby and Juvenile Triceratops (or Torosaurus), courtesy of the BHI Carnotaurus sastrei, original holotype skull. photo by Damian Perez Tom Holtz shared a different view of the Tyrant King skull From the Smithsonian's NMNH Deep Time exhibit, a beautiful Gorgosaurus libratus skull Here is a photo that compares different Tyrannosaurid finger bones digit I-1. From left to right : Gorgosaurus TVM 2001.89.1, Nanotyrannus BHI-6437, adult T.rex MOR-980, and sub adult T.rex TCM 2001.90.1. Your can see on similarities with the two on the right both of Trex of different ages. Interesting thought the paleontologists said the younger one should be longer photo P. Larsen