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Fossil Friday

If you've heard of #FollowFriday on Twitter, then this is the palaeontological equivalent, #FossilFriday. Tweet a photo of your own fossils using the #FossilFriday tag and we'll add our favourites to the board to join those tweeted by our own Curators from their collections.
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Natural History Museum on Twitter
NaturalHistoryMuseum on Twitter: See a rare, complete Anomalocaris fossil from @ROMtoronto in #ColourAndVision, open 15 Jul #FossilFriday
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Natural History Museum (@NHM_London) on X
NaturalHistoryMuseum on Twitter: Anomolacaris is another early arthropod w/impressive optics: giant compound eyes with 1000s of lenses #FossilFriday #ColourAndVision
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Extinct Plants
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Natural History Museum on Twitter
NaturalHistoryMuseum on Twitter: Uniquely well-preserved F. protensa provided Museum scientists with a #FossilFriday breakthrough #ColourAndVision
an animal fossil is shown on the side of a rock
Eyes on the prize: the evolution of vision
Fuxianhuia protensa: Museum palaeontologists Dr Greg Edgecombe and Dr Xiaoya Ma are using extraordinary fossils such as this to reveal exquisite details about the earliest eyes on Earth. #ColourAndVision #Evolution #Science #Fossil
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Ntl Museums Scotland on Twitter: "Meet Atopodentatus, the ancient marine reptile who'll blow your mind! https://t.co/7eX36TNl6y #fossilfriday"
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Natural History Museum on Twitter
@NHM_London - Our #FossilFriday was once owned by William Smith - the tooth of a 'monstrous' mastodon: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/monstrous-mastodon-molar.html
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@TimCosmos - On a lighter note, here's a fossil horse from the Green River Formation http://goo.gl/KWDb82 #FossilFriday #wow
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John Pickrell 🌈 on X
@john_pickrell - Weird little one-clawed dinosaur Mononychus at Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar. #FossilFriday #dinosaurs
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Detrich Fossil Company on Twitter
@kingfossil - More news on this impressive beast! #FossilFriday #NewCeratopsian http://cjonline.com/news/2015-09-07/rare-dinosaur-skull-being-prepared-exhibition# …
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TwilightBeasts on X
@TwilightBeasts - Welcome to the Family! Beautiful fossils #HomoNaledi #fossilfriday (image Burger et al 2015)
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NHMdinolab on X
@NHMdinolab - Fabulous Erythrosaurus skull from the Triassic of South Africa @WitsUniversity #fossilfriday
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Feathered Dinosaurs
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Jan Freedman (@JanFreedman) on X
@JanFreedman - Lovely Microraptor fossil (arrows showing feathers). This little dino had four wings!!!#FossilFriday (Image D. Hone)
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NHM Fossil Fish on X
@NHM_FossilFish - "#FossilFriday specimen part of our #eMesozoic #Digi project. A Cestracion shark from the Chalk of Sussex"
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Prehistoric Creatures
John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢 on Twitter
John Moffitt on Twitter: "#FossilFriday This Halisaurus arambourgi is a 75% complete fossil. An important predator from the Late Cretaceous. http://t.co/vjqxuOPMdK"
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Smithsonian NMNH (@NMNH) on X
Smithsonian's NMNH on Twitter: "Happy #FossilFriday! 12 new species of ants are described from the Kishenehn Formation http://t.co/Db0RPwvwwy #AntMan http://t.co/b2r1nV432y"