Thanks to everyone who helped deliver a great #PalAss2025. And big congrats to lab member @harryberks.bsky.social for winning one of the poster prizes for his study of mammalian jaw function and constraint 👏 🏆

So privileged to have worked with the team on this amazing dinosaur.

For #fossilfriday my first paper just dropped, published by @geolassoc.bsky.social with @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social. We found a mixed terrestrial and marine fauna with complex ecological implications and a Rhaetian age for these Holwell fissures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finished this ichthyosaur paddle a little while back. Really enjoyed working on this. #ichthyosaur #fossil #fossilprep #notadinosaur #marinereptile

Lunch at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with Mike Benton. Then new museum displays in Cirencester showcasing many of the finds from the Mammoth Graveyard site over the summer. A return dig has been confirmed for 2025. With @palaeo-olly.bsky.social @acsmillen.bsky.social #mammoth #tuskforce

This has been an amazing week working with a fantastic team.

Amazing successful day here in Morocco setting up a prep lab with our collaborators at USMBA. We even managed to start prepping some new Spicomellus material! Big, big thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social and Kate @Zoic Palaeotech! Impossible without their hard work! @richardjbutler.bsky.social

Pre-assembly for a new preparation lab, in Fes, Morocco on the hotel floor with Susie @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and Richard @richardjbutler.bsky.social #fossils #dinosaurs #fossilprep #zoicpalaeotech

Happy New Year! For the first post of the year here's an ichthyosaur found on the Jurassic coast, Uk by Ben Daly now completed and returned to them. Prep done using ZOIC PalaeoTech The Maia and The Balaur.

Late #fossilfriday - take a look at this...interesting museum display I found a few months ago 10/10 for effort

This lovely #Coccosteus was a placoderm, or armoured fish, which lived in the seas of the Devonian (~400 million years ago). This one was found in the Caithness Flagstones at Achanarras - Scotland. #fossilfriday 106 hours of prep time.

For #fossilfriday here's the most recent ammonite I've prepped - a Sigaloceras from Cerney Wick, found this summer next to a mammoth bone or two.

I raise you - cat