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Fishy business.

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Airpenning Wealden fossils today.

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This #FossilFriday, my first attempt at a fossil cast!

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Seeing more and more evolution-deniers on social media spouting rhetorical nonsense, and something has become very clear to me: it’s not that they don’t believe in evolution, but more that they just don’t understand it. Science educators are profoundly important.

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This White Rock Sandstone on the Isle of Wight represents ancient sediment trampled by dinosaurs, 130 million years ago. This “dinoturbated” block in particular shows a three-toed impression.

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Spent time today looking at specimens of the tiny, boot-like trilobite Peronopsis.

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phys.org/news/2025-02...

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Completely in love with the degree of preservation of a little (4 cm) 120-million-year-old dinosaur (Yanornis) foot!

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One of the many species of dinosaur we share our planet with, at my local aviary.

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200 years of Dinosaurs and Avian History. wp.me/p3ihHu-5hD ⚒️🧪

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Had a substantial manuscript in review for 3 and a half months, only for it to come back with a single 3 sentence reviewer comment…

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So glad for people to get to see some of the animals I've spent the past couple of years looking after! I had the wonderful opportunity to design the looks of many of the species, and have worked on each animal in detail across the VFX process. Walking with Dinosaurs premieres later in 2025!

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The last few years have seen an influx of advances in palaeornithology. @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social’s recent review covers the origins of bird brains, palate, wing osteology and air-filled skeleton! This is definitely a seminal read! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

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Here is a starter pack of people studying living birds and writing papers about dead ones! Please tell me who I’ve missed, and they will be added. go.bsky.app/RmXbT3y

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Greetings newcomers from the other site where the skies are much less blue. If you’re interested in palaeontology, evolutionary biology and the like, feel free to check out this starter pack I put together.

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What’s a good downloadable software for landmark-based geometric morphometrics?

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J.K. O’Connor et al. (2025) A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes Geobios (advance online publication) doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...

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Man I love ostracods.

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Found this gem in my university’s library today: 1908 print of Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the H.M.S. “Beagle”, second edition.

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So, you want to be a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life, but don't know where to start? Maybe you worry you're not good enough? That you can't do field work? Or you can't afford it? Let me take you through different options for making it in the field 👇(🧵)

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Baravia is the cradle of the lords of the air. fr.pensoft.net/article/1316...

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Foth C, van de Kamp T, Tischlinger H, Kantelis T, Carney RM, Zuber M, Hamann E, Wallaard JJW, Lenz N, Rauhut OWM, Frey E (2025) A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic). Fossil Record 28(1): 17-43. doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

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Recently found out the dinosaur fandom is crying about "Saurophaganax erasure". Meanwhile I've been writing a new invertebrate zoology lecture about how entire phyla have been erased or resurrected, for organisms with taxonomic affinities which are being debated at a PHYLUM or SUPERPHYLUM level.

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In light of recent events: Palaeontology is not a fandom, nor are extinct forms characters. Furthermore, if you disagree with a scientist because they have (correctly) invalidated one of your ‘favourite characters’, please read the literature - and if you disagree with them, don’t harass them.

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Happy Holidays y’all! Enjoy some REALLY small fossils that I got to look at and photograph. Some photos were from me and some were from @ethanoclinford.bsky.social

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40,000-year-old plankton under a scanning electron microscope 🔬 Micro sample: Eocene, Oamuru, New Zealand (diatoms, radiolarians, sponge spicules).

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Two first author papers on pterosaurs got accepted, proofed and on the way to get published 👏 I'm setting up a timer, preparing for six weird men to manifest in my inbox and DMs explaining to me, how I'm a disgrace to palaeontology and science.

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Happy #FossilFriday! This week, the holotype specimen of Halzkaraptor escuilliei (Cau et al., 2017) - a bizarre semiautomatic dromaeosaurid thought to have lived much like that of modern waterfowl.

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If you study fossil plants, tell me and I'll add you to this list! go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

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My little contributions!

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Happy #FossilFriday! This week, a teeny-tiny ammonite from the Whitby Mudstone Formation, Towcester, Northamptonshire.

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Here’s a starter pack for early career palaeontologists. Let me know if I’ve missed you, and I’ll create a second! go.bsky.app/EGhaGWk

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A late edition to #FossilFriday - Ornithopod footcast from the Wessex Formation of the Wealden Group, Hannover Point, Isle Of Wight.

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Tonight at the ‘Once a Sea’ light installation - a beautifully visual celebration of the work of micropalaeontologists.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published! Pictured below is an early copy, including a letter (left) sent from Darwin to the book’s owner.

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www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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