These creatures won’t leave me alone! First in my thoughts, then in my Instagram feed, now on Bluesky!!

📖 Published📖 Duhamel et al. evaluate the predictability of bird migratory behaviour from bone remains using a novel experimental framework that combines stable isotope and histological analyses 🦴 🦅 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/5CyZpQI

One of the foci of our labs is the archaeology and ecology of islands and coasts. Accordingly, one of our specialties (@isazooarch.bsky.social’s specialties!) is FISH BONE!! It takes a special kind of archaeologist to love working with these tiny bones… #archaeology #ecology 🐠 🐟 🐡

Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

The final 2025 posting for #TalesFromTheDeep is now live in the StoryCorps Archive - check out Kaitlin Schaible talking about the IODP framework, food, ping pong, mentoring, Mario Kart, and more from her time on Chikyu for EXP 405. 🌊⚒️

Lab PIs are at the University of Georgia doing preliminary work for a new project at a 5,000yr old site on the Georgia coast. Step 1: DATES! They’re dating preserved fibers directly from sherds! These are the oldest ceramics north of Colombia and are tempered with Spanish moss! #archaeology #ecology

Last call! We're hiring 👉 Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager 📌 Apply by Jan 5, 2026 This position will manage the extensive collections, conduct fieldwork, participate in public outreach & pursue external funding. 🔸 Full info + application: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/inver...

Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )

So excited to announce the publication of this paper which is the first to come from my PhD! Combing data from the PleistoHERD and DeerPal project we analyse carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in ungulate bones from the Aquitaine Basin dating between the Ante-Quina and Quina periods.

Happy (in spite of everything) to share our new paper on loess tablelands, mesa-like landforms of highly erodible sediment, that persist without a resistant caprock for tens of thousands of years, if not longer. Why? 1/5 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Help me, Hive Mind! I've got multiple students interested in deep time vertebrate paleontology -- everything from early tetrapod evolution to dinosaurs. This is not my field, and we don't have any paleontologists at UMaine (vertebrate or invertebrate). Do you know of any good internships or REUs?

Fluorite crystal looking as cool as ice. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

I can't unsee a drone's eye view of Mammut borsoni.

#FossilFriday: The gorgonopsid therapsid Lycaenops, on display at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

The "Missourium" toured the US until 1843, when it was purchased (for £1300!) by the British Museum at the behest of none other than Sir Richard Owen, who then directed its disassembly, elimination of extraneous bones (& wood blocks), & the correct re-assembly into the skeleton as seen today. 🧪

For #FossilFriday: a skeleton of an American mastodon on display, Natural History Museum, London, UK. This particular skeleton, originally discovered in Missouri, US in 1840, was later "augmented" with additional vertebrae and ribs & named "Missourium" to distinguish it from standard mastodons. 🧪

Mosasaurs, the giant marine reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 66 million years ago, didn’t just live in the sea. Our new research shows that they could thrive in freshwater too! Let’s dive into what we’ve discovered. #Paleontology #Mosasaurs

Doing my best to pass on the wonder the elephant issue of ZooBooks instilled in me.

Hey, that looks familiar! Update: the cranium has now been prepped so the description of this guy is the next paper in the queue.

2026 field internship applications are now open at Elevation Science! If you want hands-on experience in field science/paleontology with an expert team, apply here: elevationscience.org/internships Questions welcome!

...and just in time to slide into my megafaunal extinctions lecture this week.

Google Map of the sampling location reported for "T13 Bay" near Blackville, SC. The elliptical feature directly to the west of the sampling location (the red symbol) is Peter's Pond. Old maps show that there used to be a railroad bed parallel and just north of Dexter Road (also called highway 78).

Result from the Mammoth Site #paleostream! This has been our first mammoth steppe formation stream, dwelling into some the classic giants of the Pleistocene. This site in South Dakota offered a unique opportunity is that is has so much stuff preserved in situ that we can...

AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections share.google/ZfVr7ntwBlsN...

In case you missed it, sharing again our recent review of the megafaunal extinction debate, led by @stewiestewart.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/mam...

Traveling through South America, I've seen many fossils big and small - so many that I should start my own #FossilFriday posts! Macrauchenia, one of the last and largest of the litopterns, a South American lineage that is totally extinct. Apparently, Macrauchenia had a remarkable nose ->

Oh, you haven’t seen the last of Nanotyrannus. A new study, overlapping with the big paper a few weeks ago, may add to the evidence Nanotyrannus is back. I’ll catch you up on my latest for National Geographic. 🧪

Very excited to share that our latest paper is out in Science! We show that the type specimen of Nanotyrannus—an isolated skull—is fully grown, showing that it is not a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex but a distinct species (1/12) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

From the annual Fort MacLeod Santa Claus parade yesterday. This dude shows up most years. #Alberta #yql

Humans, however, weren’t the only ones to leave traces in Sac Actun. Divers found #fossil footprints in one of the tunnels. Paleontologists on the team have attributed them to animals we associate with caves today: bears. gizmodo.com/undisturbed-...

Turkeys are exclusively Neogene. There, I said it. (Pretty sure...)

Oh hey, it's me! Very excited to finally launch this project in partnership with @wikimediauk.bsky.social, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. If you produce or work with cultural heritage 3D data in UK I'd love to speak with you! Links in thread 👇

Very interested to see where this goes!

Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨ Discover: - the #digitization of French natural history #collections - the equipment available - our partner institutions - a dedicated page for the latest news 👉 And it’s now available in English too!

Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture: artsandculture.google.com/project/nati... Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!

Two things about this.... North Dakota mammoths need paleontologists, seriously, please. (They must be everywhere up there, but still only a few for the state) And...I knew I liked Beulah for a reason.

#NeedMoreProboscideans 🤎🦣

Nice piece on the Hillsborough mastodon from New Brunswick, Canada. Fun fact: a replica of this mastodon is on display at the Museum of the Middle Appalachians in Saltville, Virginia. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

For my (fellow) American friends: an old #JohnsFreezer blog post (from the glory days) with fun facts about turkey anatomy. Happy Thanksgiving-to-come! whatsinjohnsfreezer.com/2012/11/22/a... (image has "graphic media" label because it shows a turkey dissection; nothing worse than that)

Was on the BBC talking about cool extinct megacritters and science in Florida! Check it out!

Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold ⚒️🧪 paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/f...

Jack M. Craig, Whitney L. Fisher, Allan S. Thomas, S. Blair Hedges & Sudhir Kumar (2025) Completing a molecular timetree of Afrotheria Frontiers in Bioinformatics 5: 1710926 doi: doi.org/10.3389/fbin... www.frontiersin.org/journals/bio...

Scientist Spotted 🦣 BBC talked to our paleontologist Advait Jukar about fossils preserved in Florida's freshwater springs and how they help researchers understand our past and present biodiversity. Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

My first image of this femur with an Eric for scale!

Happy #FossilFriday! In October, UNSM doubled our holdings of an unusual extinct species, Dasypus bellus, which literally translates to “beautiful armadillo.”✨ It was about twice the size of the modern nine-banded armadillo. These specimens are from 12-25 thousand years ago.🦴 #fossils #paleontology

Alas, this article on our reptile decomposition research does not come in a scratch-and-sniff format. However, if you'd like to see what my students, colleagues, and I have been up to with our decomposing lizards and crocodylians, here's your chance. 🧪

Not just ancient humans from Denisova cave but also secret Yaks. Secret Ancient Yaks! That’s you told.