the demon's parlor - 2020 #surrealism #popsurrealism #sculpture #handmade #mixedmedia #ooak #noai #airdryingclay #polymerclay #art #artwork #ellenjewett #botanical #slowart #maximalism #wabisabi #sculpture #crocodile

An enthusiastic baby Deinotherium giganteum tries to keep up with its mother as they take a walk in #Greece six million years ago 🐘🐘🐘 #paleoart #sciart #proboscidea

Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period | Nature Geoscience share.google/IhjU7nkNEmgN...

I dream of being a long snouted predator in the backwaters of Laurentian rivers, but for now I crush shells with my round teeth and am sad #garweek #scheenstiaposting #totalgroupginglymodi

Meet Bashanosaurus, a small stegosaur that still has osteoderm armor! They will be found in lower Shaximiao Formation biomes. This screenshot is in the Shaximiao Gallery Forest! #Minecraft #minecraftmodding #paleoart #dinosaur

New at Tetrapod Zoology, a brief look at what's surely the world's best known extinct proboscidean: that Ice Age superstar the Woolly mammoth .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammoths #IceAge #Pleistocene #fossilmammals #elephants

Only two days to go until our first Beringia Centre Science Talk of the season! Meet this week's speaker, Dr. Emil Karpinski. Tune in live Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 am Yukon Time for his talk: Mastodons at all ends of the continents. Learn more and pre-register on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u #BCST

Happy last day of Gomphtober!

SO EXCITING!! #FossilFriday #mastodons

I love working at a museum because that means I get to create fantabulous SciComm activities 🐟🐡 Visitors will have the chance to match 3D printed living and extinct fish jaws to what they think the fish eats, based on jaw and tooth shape.

🦣 The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852.. [Source]

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social has just published their "Best Practice Guidelines for Mitigation of Adverse Impacts on Paleontological Resources" for paleontologists around the world who work to recover & conserve fossils threatened by human activities.

Fossil fur seal bones with unusual circular punctures - not from sharks, but mammals. Is this a result of predation (or infanticide) by another pinniped? Or predation by a terrestrial carnivore? Read more about the fur seal fossil record here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

I’m going to use lidar-derived San Joaquin Rvr (dry section) DEM data to 3D print 300cm x 200cm model. Then lab S’s can measure streambed x-section. If we place it in our small stream tables, run hose through the model then we can calculate velocity & discharge on the model. Bring SJ river to them.

Hey, Oregon K12 folks! We're partnering with Oregon Historical Society to host the Chinese Diaspora in Oregon Traveling Trunk. This trunk is packed full of hands-on activities & lessons and can be rented from us for up to two weeks by schools and other institutions. tinyurl.com/2pu6379w

Mastodon fossils.

SVPers, come see my work on pterosaurs from Appalachia: several new morphotypes of pteranodontians and azhdarchoids. Thursday Poster Session B199 #2025SVP

Fourth entry for #gomphtober2025 a lower jaw of the spiral tusked gomphothere Cuvieronius. On display at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville. #fossilfriday #floridamuseumofnaturalhistory #universityofflorida #fossil #elephant #prehistoricflorida

This #fossilfriday , I wanted to post a very classic Pittsburgh fossil. This is Fedexia striegeli. It’s known from only one specimen (shown here) that was collected during a geology field trip to a roadcut near Pittsburgh in 2004. I credit it as the specimen that made me interested in local verts!

New species of #coelacanth from the Early Triassic of China just dropped. Say hello to Whiteia anniae.🐟🧪 #FossilFriday www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!

Please donate to UWY to help continue the excavation of a mammoth specimen at Natural Trap Cave, WY. www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

Once more some mammoths

And the scan itself! It's huge. This male aurochs had over 80cm horn span!

#FossilFriday - This rare Midwest partial skullcap and antler beam of Cervalces scotti marked the first stag-moose specimen found in Minnesota. Recovered in 2008 from Tyson Spring Cave along with a Homothereium skullcap! Published by @widga.bsky.social in Boreas (Widga et al., 2012). #Cervalces

Wake up, babe, a new species of Redhorse just dropped. Meet the Apalachicola Redhorse (Moxostoma antelunare), which is found throughout the Apalachicola River Drainage as well as Enconfina Creek in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. 🐟🧪 www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

It can not be exaggerated just how wild the climate of the Pleistocene was in which we evolved. All of recorded history is in pixel at the very top of the very last zigzag, all the way to the right of this graph. From a new paper on sea level over past 4.5 million yrs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#fossilfriday One of my favorite recent discoveries - the youngest record of the early ~7 myo 'dwarf' fur seal Pithanotaria starri, from the Purisima Formation of northern CA - only 90-100 cm long as an ADULT! I'll be presenting on this little cutie at SVP next month in the UK! #2025SVP 🦖🐬

Big week at the @imnh208.bsky.social as one of our *best* Bison latifrons 🤩 🦬 was packed for a long term loan to the Smithsonian in DC! #FossilFriday Named “Junior” btw. 👀 Look for this Idaho treasure next summer. Thanks @mosasaurologist.bsky.social!

Had no idea that #gomphtober2025 was a thing, but I'm totally here for it!

Welcome to the first instalment of #gomphtober2025 where we spotlight gomohotheres and their relatives. Kicking things off is Stegomastodon Arizona from the pliocene of Arizona. #fossilfriday #smithsonian #nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory #elephant #fossil #prehistoricarizona #paleontology

Second installment of #gomphtober2025 skeleton of gomphotherium from Mt. Diablo, California. Was on display at UC Berkeley, don't know if it still is. #fossilfriday #prehistoriccalifornia #gomphotherium #cenozoic #miocene #elephant #fossil

Nebraska preserves the largest camels that ever lived! 🐪 These Gigantocamelus died in a massive herd 3.5 million years ago. The Lisco Camel Quarry, late 1930's. A glimpse of history for #FossilFriday. @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social 🦕⚒️🧪

It was (and still is) an absolute pleasure to work with the brilliant Ana Lores Padin (UGent) to develop and calibrate this very cool "time of flight" laser ablation-application which allows us to map the chemistry of shell cross sections, such as the oyster shell below: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Palaeo jobs alert!! General manager and curator of Dinosaur Isle Museum!! Dinosaur Isle houses the most important dinosaur collection in the UK outside of the national collection. It would be *really fantastic* to get a palaeontologist into this role: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/...

Bacteria 🦠 🧫 play a crucial role in how animals become fossils! Read about how decay experiments demonstrate that bacteria from the gut dominate the thanatomicrobiome (the internal microbiome of decay) and probably control fossilisation in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy World Anatomy Day! 🦎 What better way to celebrate than announcing our veiled chameleon head atlas! This includes an awesome collection of 3D models - skull (with sutures!), jaw and tongue muscles, and the brain - plus lesson plans for your next anatomy practical! ✨️ Links below ✨️

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment. #iamabotanist Details (+ application portal) here: lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

The Peale mastodon at the National Portrait Gallery in 2021. It’s the 1st mounted fossil skeleton displayed in the US (1805), and 2nd worldwide. Its original viewers didn’t know about evolution. Even extinction was a new concept. More fossils interpreted as history and art, please! #FossilFriday

Great new paper by Mannion & Moore 2025 on diplodocoid sauropods for #FossilFriday I love their latest phylogeny as it certainly supports the mass extinction of sauropods at the end of the Jurassic that is so well documented in eastern Utah. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Nice write-up of new study on European cultural grassland diversity. Resurvey from 100 year old baseline. Plant richness declines. Good photo of the field botanists! Paper is linked in article. #botany

The fierce carnivore Inostrancevia is one of the species of synapsids that went extinct in the Great Dying, known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction event. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

Although my paper is not on the type of sabertooths you might be thinking, I'm honored to have my elephant/proboscidean tusks and trunks paper be included in this wonderful special issue! anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy establishment day for John Day Fossil Beds National Monument! On this day in 1975, JODA was taken over by the National Park Service. Its mission, to preserve the region's geological and paleontological resources and to provide for the scientific and public understanding of these resources.

Carrie Herbel with a baby mammoth tooth. 🦣🤎

Curious about the glacial geomorphology? Recent undergrad Regan Collins made this amazing ArcGIS Storymap about the formation of the Finger Lakes Region, complete with a map for a self-guided field trip to see some of the best examples of glacial geomorphology in the world! tinyurl.com/7w4asmwc

Shortly before my VP class every week someone draws these delightful critters on the chalkboard--usually just in time for me to discuss them in lecture. The students have started calling this unknown artist "EMS Banksy." Complete mystery!