Happy holidays from the Paleo Society!🎉 This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner! #Paleontology #Literature #Ocean

#FossilFriday Wiped out from delivering presents, little Cambrian arthropod Sanctacaris (aka "Santa Claws") takes a very long (508 million year) rest. Specimen at @romtoronto.bsky.social

So are aetosaurs and ankylosaurs convergent on giant millipeds ?? @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Fun podcast on a extraordinarily spiny ankylosaurid. open.spotify.com/episode/6t9V... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @dinodadreviews.bsky.social @stupond.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Danny "just" posted some field interviews from a couple years ago. So if you are not interested in watching football give them a view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIU0... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @jgn-paleo.bsky.social

#fossilfriday ⚒️🦑🇦🇶

A historic picture of some awesome talent; Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol. Jean-Míchel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo. Love to learn more about this historic picture.

This will be interesting. It would be at &PM GMT; 12 noon, Mountain Time Let's look at super green housing in our past rather than in our future. The view from across the pond. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social [email protected] to register for Zoom link. @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Turiasaurs invaded North America in the basal Cretaceous following the terminal Jurassic extinction of most of the Morrison Dinosaur fauna. So here are some images of Turiasaurus from the Spain for #FossilFriday @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de

The history of deep time thinking and its effect on society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRM... @paleontologizing.bsky.social

This is really gross: a book full of plagiarised #paleoart published by a legit UK publisher. As if we don't have enough problems with AI! There is no excuse for the author/artist not knowing better, either: this isn't the first time they've been caught committing major acts of plagiarism.

📣Editor spotlight Dr. Sue Beardmore uses skeletal taphonomy (articulation & completeness) to indicate past environments. She works for Historic Environment Scotland, reviewed fossil collections for National Museums Scotland & excavates Mesozoic vertebrates with the Natural History Museum of Utah

Our newest issue is live online! Read the latest on killer whales, flashes in the night sky, friendly robots, and much, much more!

Step 1: Fire the experts funding American science. Step 2: Change review process. (You are here) Step 3: Hire partisans to fund ideologues. Step 4: Bemoan the lack progress, gut remaining science funding.

Is this a turtle claw from the Utahraptor Megablock. If so it is huge for the mid-Mesozoic of North America? @heatherfsmith.bsky.social

Rest easy, Rob Reiner 🙏🏾💙🕊 This scene from "All In The Family"..... still applicable. Caroll O'Connor 🕊 Sally Struthers 💙

The U.S.’s and Denmark’s health systems are starkly different, so it makes sense that their vaccination schedules would differ, too

You do what you can

Shine the brightest lights on what Trump is doing with masked goons.

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

A fabulous area for Mesozoic paleontology, where I got to spend a bit over a month in the late 80s prospecting for fossils relative to a bid the base the supercollider out there. I'm thrilled that many of these amazing fossils are in museums to be shared by all. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Question for #FossilFriday. Big iguanodont or big theropod long lateral metatarsal, Berriasian, Doellings Bowl bonebed. Certainly the shed teeth suggest there was a big theropod, but the allosauroid quadrate certainly from smaller beast. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Just got notification that a video I was interviewed for on Paleozoic lagerstatten is out, also featuring numerous excellent people including Brenda Hunda, Nigel Hughes, and Derek Briggs. (I did not know about the unfortunate use of AI generated "animals", I'm sorry T_T) youtu.be/DJOm5PQnhN8?...

I hear from @paleontologizing.bsky.social , I'll be interviewed live today,on twitch.tv/paleontologizing, Dec. 10th at 3:00 MT on Jurassic ankylosaurs and who knows what else. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @thepalass.bsky.social

You may realize that nightmarish visa requirements are bad for US tourism … … but you may not realize that most visa policies are reciprocal. The harder for foreigners to visit America, the harder for Americans to visit other countries. This doubles as a trap that prevents Americans from leaving.

ESCONI December 2025 General Meeting – “Fossils of the Comanche National Grasslands located in southeastern Colorado” #fossils #paleontology #WIPS #Colorado

#T-shirtTuesday I have seen a lot of Utahraptor T-shirt designs, but BJ Nichols' design for the 2019 @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social meeting in Moab, Utah is still by far the best! @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

Steady state theory of evolution does not reflect the history of life. I am more a fan of reticulate evolution. Things go well, populations expand and gene pool diversifies and given a crisis gene pool diversity and populations contract... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to Audrey Williams & Jerry Harris on their new paper on the necks of sauropod dinosaurs. Hold your head up.. journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.p... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @andrewtracks.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!! Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart! #paleobotany #paleoart #podcast

Not a very good shot of skull, suggesting the skull may largely be a sculpture....... sad....to see such a rare fossil sold off. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday let's get away from ankylosaurs! I got to get up and personal with this placodont Sinocyamodus from the Upper Triassic Xiaowa Formation of southwest China a few years ago. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

I passed out some pdfs of this paper yesterday, but I'm thrilled to say that the Morrison Ankylosaur monograph is on line. Hopefully this will aid in folks needing Jurassic ankylosaur character states. giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Welcome to the wackiest Wednesday!!! #Museum #wednesday #VirginiaTech #earthsciences #VTGeosciences #geology #hokies #dinosaurs

@paleontologizing.bsky.social what can I say? 😬😬 #twitch #paleontology

The database is vital for studying Permian–Triassic stratigraphy, diversity, and evolution—and it spotlights the broader need to fund taxonomic expertise, collect new data, integrate scattered resources, and build sustainable, accessible, community-driven infrastructure. doi.org/10.1017/pab....

🚨 Apply to host the PalAss Exceptional Lecturer! Dr Yara Haridy from the University of Chicago, USA can give a talk entitled "Deep time origins of your skeleton and the evolution of bone disease" either at your institution or online. [1/2]

Another excellent paper, hot off the Utah Geological Association presses. giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

An inspiring article for National Illustration Day: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign.... Most #paleoart is probably "illustration" rather than "art" (if, indeed, these are distinct categories) and is an excellent example of how images augment written/verbal communication and democratise #scicomm.

Cannot be geologist without a Brunton pocket transit.

Getting excited... for #FossilFriday ! Our Morrison Ankylosaur monograph may be published online in a week. Hopefully, this will lead to a fix in many ankylosaur phylogenies. A dozen known Morrison ankylosaur sites spanning 4 states. Who would have think it 35 years ago?

I really appreciated Nick Longrich's approach to estimating the total number of dinosaurs that ever lived. As he says more than you think; and I am thankful for that. Rational estimates of the "unknowable" are generally useful & more practical. Gives his talk a listen. It is very worth the time.

Digital 3D data is the future; and how society will archive it in formats that will be accessible into the future is important to consider. @witmerlab.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @amnh.org @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @tetzoo.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY

Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students. c.org/HJW7FVxPwv

Foot in door! NPS paleontology seasonal positions! www.usajobs.gov/job/85081670... @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Tut Tran has put a huge amount of effort in shepherding this state of the art review of paleontology in Utah's National Parks and Monuments. giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph... Paleontology in these NPS units will always be evolving and new things are already in the works.

🦖 Attn: Campanian researchers: Andrew A. Farke, Brent Adrian, & Heather Smith are inviting submissions for “The Campanian Crucible”, a session at the 76th Annual Meeting of the GSA Rocky Mt Sec, Albuquerque, NM (May 17–20, 2026). Deadline: Jan 13, 2026 gsameetings.secure-platform.com/rm26/

For #FossilFriday: one of the very first fossils of the American mastodon ever discovered. This specimen was found at Big Bone Lick, KY, US, in 1739 by a French military expedition, then sent back to Paris for study. On display at the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris. 🧪