
Matt Celeskey
What I do, where I work
Exhibit, Graphic, & Web Design, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
Instigator, Hairy Museum of Natural History
Current position
Graphic Designer at New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
Earlier positions
Sr. Graphic Designer at Albuquerque BioPark
Exhibit Assistant at Pittsburgh Zoo
Website(s)
Latest Posts from Hairy Museum of Natural History
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A new look for Typothorax
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Published on May 23, 2010
Over the past year or so, I’ve been involved with reconstructing the aetosaur Typothorax coccinarum, based on two articulated skeletons found in eastern New Mexico. A paper describing these specimens and presenting the reconstruction has just been...
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Asilisaurus kongwe
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Published on March 04, 2010
Asilisaurus kongwe (foreground). Image by M.H. Donnelly, Field MuseumFrom the Ruhuhu Basin Research Asilisaurus Page No time to treat this with more than a passing mention, but a letter in today’s Nature presents a new, Middle Triassic silesaurid ...
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Fossilized Function and Behavior
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Published on March 03, 2010
The big paleo news this week is the description of an 11 foot (3.5 meter) Cretaceous snake, Sanajeh indicus, found coiled around a dinosaur nest—apparently lying in wait for when the hard-to-swallow eggs revealed their bite-sized contents. The pap...
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Reconstructing Ptychodus
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Published on February 24, 2010
Today at Laelaps, Brian Switek posted a summary of new research (Shimada et al. 2010) on the Cretaceous shell-crushing shark Ptychodus (tie-KOE-duss). Like many fossil sharks, Ptychodus is primarily known from teeth—usually isolated but occasional...
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The Paleobiology of Coelophysis Part III: Truly, Coelophysis?
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Published on February 13, 2010
or, An International Corpse of Mystery Quick note: New readers might want to look at previous installments of the Paleobiology of Coelophysis (Parts 1 & 2) series before diving into this post. In order to collect data from other specimens of Coeloph...
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More Bistahieversor
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Published on February 12, 2010
Tom Williamson, one of the scientists who described the new tyrannosaur Bistahieversor sealeyi, has written an excellent article for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science website on the discovery and interpretation of “The Bisti Bea...
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Hairball 02.07.10
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Published on February 08, 2010
Several new (and newish) blogs in this weeks tangle of links: Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: a daily dose of Mesozoic megafauna. Highly recommended. This week’s pick: An interview with pterosaur researcher/artist Mark Witton. Pterosaur.net Blog...
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Hairball 01.31.10
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Published on January 31, 2010
This week’s tangle of links, coughed up for your examination: New basal alvarezsaur: Haplocheirus sollers. What’s an alvarezsaur? Dave Hone’s got it covered. Why is a basal one noteworthy? Jonah Choiniere, of Haplocheirus-description ...
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Bistahieversor sealeyi
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Published on January 31, 2010
Congratulations to Drs. Carr & Williamson on the publication of “The Bisti Beast,” whose description is the cover story in this month’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Bistahieversor sealeyi Image by Mary Sundstrom and myself...
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The Paleobiology of Coelophysis Part II: Other Critters in the Quarry
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Published on January 28, 2010
or, Token Diversity in a Dinosaur Graveyard Although fossils of the Triassic theropod Coelophysis bauri are by far the most numerous vertebrate remains preserved in blocks from the Whitaker quarry, several other animals are known from the site as well. ...



















