I especially enjoy exhibits that I can, as the observer, tell a story, and this one at the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point permits just that. Standing over the shoulder of #Dimetrodon, one gets a feel for what it would be like weighing the options of charging into a trio of #Eryops. These aren’t the Three Stooges, not even Manny, Moe, and Jack, but rather three in-their-prime #temnospondyls. How lucky are you feeling? :-)Eryops “Drawn-out face” megacephalus “mega head” Cope, 1877 re

Heavenly winds indeed! #Caelestiventus hanseni, “heavenly wind,” is a #pterosaur that soared Late #Triassic Utah desert skies 200 million years ago. From the neat Saints and Sinners Quarry (#drepanosaurs!!!), which is in a desert today and was a desert captured in the Nugget Sandstone, Caelestiventus is one of the earliest and most well-preserved North America #pterosaurs. Unlike all pterosaurs known from this time, it lived in a desert environment, showcasing #pterosaurs early on occupied a var