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

March 4, 5 - 7 pm: Exploring Alberta's Northern Dinosaur Ecosystem @ U of A March 5, 11 am - 1 pm: Mass Extinctions? @ RTMP (and Zoom) March 5, 3 - 3:30 pm: Dino Dentist (RAM) albertapaleo.org/events/calen... (1 / 2) #palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #events

Looking forward to Utah Paleontological License Plates supporting paleo research in Utah. mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @nhmu.bsky.social

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In honor of Hans Dieter Sues a #FossilFriday, the big Kayentatherium that Hans built much of his dissertation around. Got to help excavate in July 1981 working for Farrish Jenkins and first met Hans, while he was working on the specimen at Harvard a few years later. @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Cropping teeth of Utah's new Kayenta ornithischian, so for #FossilFriday Scutellosaurus lawleri. My pics of the original exhibit & gastondesign.com mount. Not the transition at base of tail from 2 rows of osteoderms across midline to 1 medial row running down the tail. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

#FossilFriday A beautiful Cretaceous seastar. This fully articulated specimen of Calliderma was collected in the Chalk of England.

I’m excited to share a new project that I hope will be a valuable resource for the paleo community! I'm working on a textbook about plesiosaurs and compiled a comprehensive overview of all currently valid plesiosaur taxa and some nomina dubia. 1/3 www.sachspal.de/plesiosauria/ #FossilFriday

Paleo mitigation is important! The yellow star marks the most import Kayenta fossil site in Utah, plants, tracks, fish (whole and partial) abundant and diverse teeth (diverse dinos & crocs, pterosaurs). Sadly, the site is under a new highway & hill is gone forever. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Well for anyone that thinks mitigation is not important in paleontology. The yellow star marks the most import Kayenta fossil site in Utah, plants, tracks, fish (whole and partial) abundant and diverse teeth (diverse dinos & crocs, pterosaurs) We are documenting the 4th ornithischian in the E. Jur.

Reporting 2 verts from Quarry 9 as alverezsaurid is a big deal, but I would strongly suggest that Quarry 9 is Kimmeringian in age and not latest Tithonian. Bet older than 150... Still very cool Pete, very cool! Cope's Nipple on west side of Denver Basin is Tithonian, I bet, but anything in Wyoming??

One of our younger members of Utah Friends of Paleontology kicking some butt with his artistic skills. cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/dE3... Nice to see! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @thestemvillage.bsky.social

Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now! Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave. 🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...

New specimen of Alnashetri shows it to be a late-surviving non-alvarezsaurid alvarezsaur retaining unreduced forelimbs and representing an independent evolution of miniaturization: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 (📷Makovicky et al.)

Woah. Calamosaurus from the Wessex Formation reidentified as an alvarezsauroid... I'm reeling and certainly didn't see that one coming :) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dinosaurs

Only $2400. #TrilobiteTuesday @brianbrachiopod.bsky.social