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Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My first newsletter for premium subscribers is out, all about the adorable, plant-munching lump that was Tyrannoroter.

Please come on this journey with me, the journey of the 290-million-year-old barf, I promise we'll have fun: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

A lot of people seem to be realizing that some of their scientific heroes are, at best, creeps.

Taylor et al present a refined Alcian blue + Alizarin red clearing and staining protocol optimized for large vertebrate specimens. Works on adult chickens and late-stage emu embryos, no trypsin needed, best on fresh frozen tissue! Check it out! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🦋 This study expands the limited existing workflows for digitizing #Lepidoptera and can be applied across #museum collections and other dried, pinned Lepidoptera specimens. doi.org/10.3897/zook... #butterfly #digitalization #museums

🪷 January 15th is #NationalHatDay 👒🎩👑 #Antinous as #Aristaeus divine Beekeeper wears a farmer's Sun Hat for #HatDay at Musée Louvre. Like #Antinoos, #Aristée plunged into a sacred river to work a miracle, to #SaveTheBees. We need it now as bees are dying. antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/as-b... 🪷

Happy birthday, #Wikipedia! 🎉 To mark its 25th anniversary, we share 25 openly licensed images on #Wikimedia Commons. The specimens shown here highlight only a small part of this diversity. 🔗 View more: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... 📸 Eran Wolff (1, 3), Bernhard Schurian (2)

How does 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 shape public engagement? 📍 The collaborative encyclopedia "Place in Engagement" explores how spaces and encounters influence collaboration and knowledge exchange. 🤝 🔗 zenodo.org/records/1796... 📸 Thomas Rosenthal #publicengagement #openscience #science #sciencenews

Another grant rejected

During #AEWAMOP9, delegates paid tribute to the Slender-billed Curlew — declared extinct by IUCN. A specimen from the Museum Koenig Bonn (@leibnizlib.bsky.social) stood as a symbol of what we’ve lost, and what international cooperation can still save. More: t1p.de/b5c5r #Biodiversity #Conservation

Explore what happens to soil during and after a wildfire! 🔥 Join our #art and #science workshop "Soil, wildfires and biological remediation” with Margherita Pevere, in collaboration with #mfnberlin researchers Katharina and Parm von Oheimb! 🐌 🗓️ Sat, 25 Oct, 14:00 to 18:00 🔗 bit.ly/soil-wildfires

Long before the dinosaurs, #insects were already eating their way through leaves! 🌿 #Fossils from Thuringia reveal the world’s oldest insect plague – 295 million years old. Understanding global change thanks to natural history collections! 🌍 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #science #sciencenews

New study tracks semicircular canal development. Rapid growth & shape change occur w/in postnatal week 1, stabilizing by day 14 as ossification completes. Brief but critical window of vestibular morphological plasticity Cárdenas-Serna & Jeffery: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this. A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new long & narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

What if #Berlin became a place where protecting nature and democracy go hand in hand? 🌱 Join our "Ideas for a liveable Berlin" event to explore how shared knowledge can shape our city’s future. 🤝 🗓️ Mon, 13 Oct | 18:00 | @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de 🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1719108452659 📸 Pablo Castagnola

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Louis Dollo, of Dollo's law and one of the founding father of palaeontology, was born in my beloved Lille. Just something I like to remember.

Thirty relatively intact iguanodon skeletons were found in a coal mine in Belgium in the late 1800s. Louis Dollo, who supervised the first assembly of these fossils, believed it was a biped, as it is shown here. We now know that this was a quadruped, meaning it walked on four legs instead of two.

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer! We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians. 1/4

Carnivorous #bats that hug? 🦇 New study on the spectral bat reveals prey provision, grooming and even wing-wrapped greetings – complex social behaviour with big implications for #conservation! 🌎 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 📸 Marisa Tietge #science #sciencenews

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

A new sail-back ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Group of the Isle of Wight & the origins of neural spine elongation in iguanodontians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday #PapersinPalaeontology

Crocodyliform diversity of the Cretaceous Açu Formation, Potiguar Basin, Brazil: geographical distribution & palaeobiological implications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

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Master your collection data with the #WiNoDa Winter School! 🎓 This free, online programme offers expert lectures and hands-on sessions on data management and analysis – from #biodiversity to #archaeology and beyond! 🦋 📅 24-28 November 🔗 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/win... 📸 Kirill Tatarenkov

Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Plesionectes longicollum made the news: www.tagesschau.de/wissen/wasse... @dinosven.bsky.social @danielmadzia.bsky.social

Trilling for love! 🦇 Male greater mouse-eared #bats compete acoustically in church attics – a rare lek mating system now documented by researchers from FU Berlin and #mfnberlin. Their roosts deserve protection, too! 🌍 🔗 Publication: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 📸 Lisa Printz

While examining fossils in our collection, paleontologists Sven Sachs (@dinosven.bsky.social) and Dr. Daniel Madzia‪ (@danielmadzia.bsky.social) social have discovered a new species of plesiosaur.

Dauphin, Y. Navigating the Limits: Unraveling Unidentified Fossil Bone and Tooth Fragments Through Histology, Chemistry, and Multivariate Statistics. Minerals 2025, 15, 807. doi.org/10.3390/min1...

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

255-million-year-old fossil reveals hidden diversity before Earth’s greatest extinction! 🌋 It belonged to an archosauromorph – a reptile group including crocodilians, #dinosaurs & #birds – and helps us trace how modern groups emerged. 🐊🦕🐣 🔗 Full publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘷𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘪 changes how we see reptile skin! 💡 Christian Foth joined us in June to study predatory #dinosaurs and bird origins. In this @nature.com study, he analysed Mirasaura's skin: feather-like, but independently evolved. 🪶 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📸 SMNS, Rick Stikkelorum

Lania, A., Pabst, B. & Scheyer, T.M. Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland. Swiss J Palaeontol 144, 39 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s133...

🏳️‍🌈Our editor @slefkopoulos.bsky.social discussed with @jzylicz.bsky.social about the importance of celebrating Pride, representation in science, and more! Happy Pride! Read here: rdcu.be/ewfba bit.ly/3Uc72TO

And the "know your sauropodomorph" cheat sheet:

Welcome to the "Permian Park"! 😉🦎 This year’s #Bromacker excavation revealed bones, tiny skeletons and even volcanic ash – offering insights into life 290 million years ago. Now, the #fossils head into the project labs for preparation and selected CT scans. 🌍 📲 Learn more via explore.bromacker.de!

Last night at Moth Night, we saw a lot more than moths. The highlight was happening upon this beaver absolutely chowing down on some wood, corn on the cob style. You’re gonna want to put your sound on for this one.

#FossilFriday !🪨 💀 Prosqualodon australis skull, a marine mammal from the Early Miocene of Patagonia 🐳 📄 Published in JSP by Gaetán et al.: buff.ly/FkwovSK

The nature of Neolithic society is one of the most debated topics in archaeology–a debate that's almost impossible to settle w/ conventional methods alone. Now, new DNA data from a site in Turkey called Çatalhöyük points to a significant role for women: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

How do #ticks reach their hosts? 🦊 A study led by @samjakeengland.bsky.social shows: Static electricity can passively pull ticks onto mammals, birds or even reptiles – despite the air gap. No jump needed, just electrostatic charge. ⚡ 🔗 Learn more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 📸 Credits: Sam J. England

Why is #OpenAccess to research data still such a challenge — despite better tech and years of advocacy? 🔓 Join the upcoming #WiNoDa webinar on 1 July to unpack the ethics and practical hurdles of data sharing in #science. 🔬 👉 Register here: winoda.de/en/event/web... 📸 Credits: Pablo Castagnola

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early signs of social behaviour? 🧠 New analyses of fossil traces from the #Bromacker site (Thuringia) reveal scale-like skin impressions and groups of resting synapsids, incl. possibly 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴! 🦴 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/43TFcjT 📸 C. Latenneur (1), L. Marchetti et al. (2) #science