In this data visualization, see every dinosaur fossil known to science on a map! Look for where & when your favorite dinosaurs appear. See when birds like Archaeopteryx evolved & which groups of dinosaurs dominated the landscape from one time period to the next: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_i...

Full time, temporary, preparator at Canadian Museum of Nature. ME-04 - C$65, 436 to C$79,533 per year Temporary Full-time position (37.5 hours per week) for one year Closing April 30 nature.ca/en/join-give... @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Trying to figure out if the plant site below the upper sandstone toward top of hill is in the lower Cretaceous Burro Canyon or basal Upper Cretaceous Naturita Fm.. picks of plants below.

Wonderful new lecture by Mike Benton on Dinosaur behavior... OK basically, how we know what we know in the 21st century. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoum... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social @standupforscience.net @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Here on #FossilFriday, I offer possibly the most beautiful mosasaur skull ever found, the holotype skull of Plotosaurus bennisoni, a high derived mosasaurine with an akinetic skull, from California, discovered in 1937.

Some thoughts on our vertebrate paleontology community health and paths forward.

The Academy of Natural Sciences ( @acadnatsci), the oldest & 1st nat. hist. museum in North America, is under threat! Sign petition at bit.ly/save-academy to tell president of @drexeluniv to fund one of the most important educational & research institutions in the world! @geosociety.bsky.social

Park Naturalist: Antelope Island State Park. Click HERE to view the job details and/or apply. utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... This is a Full-time, Schedule AX position. Benefits: Yes Work Location: Syracuse, Utah Requisition: req386 Closes: Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

The only fossils we have found in the Yellow Cat Mbr. of the Burro Canyon Fm. in Blanding Basin are plant fossils of what we came to call "Prototempskya" like what we recover in the Barremian histosols of lower Yellow Cat near base of Cedar Mt. Fm. Nothing like these in Morrison. #FossilFriday

Do not forget Green River Rocks runs Friday April 10th to 12th; Archaeology, Geology, and Paleontology, oh my. First year for UGS to be there for Saturday Market. I'll be running the "Old SR-24 Diving into Cretaceous" trip. Something for everyone! www.greenriverrocks.com @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROJECT GEOLOGIST - ENERGY AND MINERALS PROGRAM - SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... @agu.org @geosociety.bsky.social

Great Basin Ch. UFOP presents April 9th, 7:00 pm. William Jude Hart, Master's student at East Tennessee State University speaking on Requiem for Accurate Reconstruction of Dinosaurian Ecosystems; on line only at meet.google.com/dfd-xeto-qdu @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Interested in getting locality data on the nodosaur track and osteoderm brought into brought into The Dinosaur Museum by a local Blanding farmer & exhibited at the Blanding Visitor's Center. Must be from a huge Sauropelta - Peleroplites, bet it's from Burro Canyon Fm., but need locality info.

Brush Basin vs Burro Canyon Monday. UGS has been out looking at the J-K boundary in the Blanding Basin to the east near Colorado. Where would you place the J-K boundary? Burro Canyon red beds are new to me. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

There are no programs in Utah, where you can earn a Ph.D. in field oriented vertebrate paleontology or even VP in general; barely an MS opportunity. Tragic, given we have one of best fossil records on the planet. I have been advising students to look overseas!! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

#FossilFriday Just a reminder on how cool the Utahraptor miegablock is... We have a manuscript on the bacteria coating the bones in review. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4h... Digital fly though. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social @elevationscience.bsky.social

Dr. Christina Lochman Balk was my first Paleontology professor in college. I owe much of my Invertebrate chops to her. Pioneering geologist, world-famous expert in trilobites Read more about Christina Lochman Balk's life here: www.nmt.edu/advancement/... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Novas informações sobre o holótipo de “Chasmosaurus” russelli (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) tornam necessária o estabelecimento de um novo gênero para abrigar a espécie cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Rocks, Fossils, and Ecology: Understanding How Time Is Sampled in the Fossil Record - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Dino talk in Rangely, Colorado by the Craig Community College branch campus' paleontologist Logan King. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @drjmchugh.bsky.social @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social @npr.org @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social

Nice, in depth review of Utahraptor State Park. I love it that they are finally looking into developing the dino site as an attraction in the park. Nice, in depth review of Utahraptor State Park. www.sfgate.com/national-par... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

The Burpee Museum, Rockford Illinois is hiring a Director of Collections and Research. They need a Ph.D. who is field, oriented, collaborative, can publish on their major fossil collections, generate grant money, & work with the public. App: burpee.org/director-of-... Dinosaurs & more galore.

There is a pretty comprehensive paper on the palaeoenvironments of the Eastern part of European archipelago in cretaceous, with focus on Hateg zookeys.pensoft.net/article/4474/

A fossil goblin shark from an ~85 million year old Lagerstatte in Lebanon. This gnarly fish is now on display in Paris You can support the people displaced by the criminal war on Lebanon here: gofund.me/38edcc7c7

More exciting soft bodied Cambrian Fossils from western Utah are making waves. Every bit as important as eastern Utah's extraordinary dinosaur record! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @nhmu.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social Delta, Utah needs to showcase these discoveries.

March 20 6 - 9pm: Dinosaur Research Institute Dinner @ Edmonton March 21, 12:30 - 5:30pm: 10th Research Symposium @ University of Alberta Sunday, March 22 7:30 - 8:15pm: Royal Tyrrell Museum Virtual Visit albertapaleo.org/events/calen... (2 / 2) #palaeontology #fossils #dinosaurs #events

Nothing like Scapanorhynchus! Goblin sharks were coastal sharks in the Cretaceous in the Western Interior US and survive as deep water sharks today. @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @sharkscience.bsky.social Save Lebanon & Palestinians.

John Foster shared that New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102 came out to 470 pages of Morrison goodness. Bull 102 is sold through the Natureworks Store located in the NMMNH Museum & can be ordered by phone at (505) 841-2803 at $40.00: almost a steal.

Great to see finally published by Misha Whittingham @deathandtaxa.bsky.social the magnum opus on the heteromorph ammonites of the Vancouver Island! With new genera and species. 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Working on describing new polacanthid ankylosaur species from the lower Yellow Cat, basal Cretaceous, Berriasian. Got to playing around with my ilia overview fig. and it got out of control... So I guess, I got a bit more done on our ankylosaur character appendix as well for #FossilFriday.

Weber State Univ. Ogden, Utah March 19,20 www.weber.edu/issummit Earth Science and Society "Nuclear Energy"- Spring 2026 Seminars www.weber.edu/geosciencean... Adam Hiscock (UGS) - Wasatch Fault Seismic Hazards Friday, March 27, 11am-12pm, Tracy Hall Science Center, Weber State University

Gastonia Chapter, @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social Andrew Knight, Utahraptor State Park presents THE DINOSAURS OF NEW ENGLAND the birthplace of American Paleontology. 6 pm, March 25 at the Grand Center (182 N 500 W),Moab open to the public, and free! @andrewtracks.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

UFOP Great Basin meeting Thurs March 12th, 7:00 pm MT: David Smith, Northland Pioneer College will present: "Uncovering the biology of therizinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Utah." In person & on line: meet.google.com/hzr-pkdu-wtp @ydawtheshow.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Benton & Rayfield's preproof "Bringing dinosaurs to life: A scientific revolution in palaeobiological methods" is a nice overview of the paleo revolution, I have had the pleasure of living through. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @palaeontosoc.bsky.social

I have another #paleobotany restoration guide for this #FossilFriday. This time, it's Kimuriella densifolia, a whole plant bennettitalean from the Late #Jurassic of Japan. This plant is composed of three organ taxa: Williamsonia, Zamites, and Weltrichia. #paleoart #sciart #botany

Utah deserves its own Dinosaur Documentary. No other place in the world has such a continuous record in one place intersperced with spectacular National Parks and Monuments. @scinews.bsky.social @netflix.com @altnps.bsky.social @whydinosaurs.bsky.social @agu.org @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

March 7 •Stand up for Science ✔️Events across US So far—What they did: Shared💌letters of career federal scientists raise alarm/harm of Trump policies 🦆impeach the quack RFK 💉🧫🕵🏻‍♂️ investigator sent overseas re: “unethical” hepatitis B vaccine trial •Science for Good org

OK for #FossilFriday, who has been watching Netflix' The Dinosaurs? Who were the consultants on this..I am just 20 minutes in and not to impressed so far. I have to admit I'm pretty fussy. PERHAPS,...I know to much and have to many opinions. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

New species evolved within a few thousand years of the Chicxulub Impact 🧪 pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... The immediate aftermath of the K/Pg mass extinction (ca. 66 Ma) in the marine realm was characterized by the initial recovery of productivity and the originations of new species.

Assuming a 30-min commute to/from train station, 45-min to/from airport, 30-min early arrival for train and 90-min for plane, 500 mph plane (LAX-JFK is ~450), a 280 mph train is faster than flying any distance less than 950 miles. Here is a 950-mile radius circle centered on Kansas City.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

It’s morning of day 1 of my shark field research skills class! Wish us luck, and let me know if you want to sign up for the fall! 🦑🧪🌎🦈

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

WELL, DORKS! @timothysnyder.bsky.social says there is nothing more important than science and no one more important than scientists to establish a decent society and politics...which is why we are STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE on MARCH 7TH across the nation! JOIN US! www.standupforscience.net/march7

Total lunar eclipse from 4-5 AM this morning. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/u...

Evolution of behaviors documented by trace fossils. @ichnologist.bsky.social