BIRDBASE, a new publicly available dataset, brings together "ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families." #ornithology

New paper just dropped finally describing a complete specimen of Dakosaurus maximus and what a beauty it is. Some highlights, in addition to this being a long time coming, is the presence of bitemarks on the face and chondrichthyan material in the stomach doi.org/10.26879/1577

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wrote a blog post about a tentative megalosaurid vertebra from the Lower Jurassic of northern Germany, described by the late Friedrich von Huene. www.sachspal.de/friedrich-vo... #dinosaurs #jurassic #germany #fossil

I wrote a blog post about the giant Temnodontosaurus from Banz, Germany. The 2.3 m long skull is the first known specimen of its kind, and the original 1854 description includes life-sized illustrations of the fossil. #paleontology #Germany #ichthyosaur #history www.sachspal.de/giant-ichthy...

A few new papers out recently that I'm excited to share with you! First: How well could stem reptiles hear? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Surprise, there's a fourth paper! Just out today, we segmented the skull of the Permian stem reptile Protorothyris, so you don't have to! Work done with Adam Behlke and @hanssues.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... All meshes also available on Morphosource.

Can finally share this #watercolor #paleoart I did a few years back of the “King of the Riverside” I did for the new paper by @melanieduring.com which shows that in Hell Creek there were giant Prognathodon mosasaurs that were living in freshwater (not just visiting)

Fossils are cultural objects - and this is not some woke b*llshit that people come up nowadays to spoil the fun in #palaeontology; this classification actually has a long history. If you're curious how fossils became #culturalproperty under int'l law, check my new paper: doi.org/10.1093/lril...

I'm guilty of that myself sometimes, but this is again a good reminder to become less emotional towards tetrapod taxonomy. They're just labels helping our monkey brains to understand biodiversity.

Me sitting over my thalattosuchian fragments while there is big fuss about some new dinosaur paper.

I'm pretty confident that certain online people are going to be cheering about how they were right all along on Nanotyrannus. Their take will be that they were right all along and their arguments, based on private specimens of uncertain provenance, photos of things without scale bars, and ideas...

Wildbienen, Hummeln und Schmetterlingen fehlt Lebensraum. Auch das Ziel der EU-Biodiversitätsstrategie, den Anteil naturnaher Flächen in der Landwirtschaft auf 10 % zu erhöhen, reicht nicht aus. Das zeigt eine neue Studie in Science mit Beteiligung der #UniFreiburg. ufr.link/bestaeuber-lebensraum

Climate scientist Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social has a message for younger scientists: Don't give up. "Be part of this fight for what's right, for science, for reason, for fact-based discourse and policy making."

In late August Renesto et al. published a paper where they described a specimen of Lariosaurus valceresii that preserves the skin, even outlining the body and limbs as well scales. I must say that I am happy that it is very very close to what I had hypothesized 😍 #paleoart #sciart #reptiles

Minus 90 Prozent in nur 15 Jahren - das ist de facto der ökologische Zusammenbruch des kompletten Unterlaufs der #Elbe .Aber egal, #Hamburg lässt weiter baggern, bis auch der letzte Stint krepiert. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Last week the German Meteorological Society warned that "the 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050". While not possible to fully rule out, the assessed warming scenarios we published in the IPCC AR6 report find this to be extremely unlikely.

Wie sich komplexe Lebensformen entwickelt haben, besagt etwa der Gehalt an gelöstem Kohlenstoff in den Urmeeren. Doch nun tut sich rund eine Milliarde Jahre vor heute eine Lücke auf. #repost

Maria Furtwängler rechnet mit der Union ab.

Was mich gerade beschäftigt und worum es gestern auch am Rande in "Der Tag" ging: share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

BREAKING 🌍🌡📈 The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050! Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action 1/8

With the Grassland Butterfly Index for Germany, @ufz.de scientists provide important input for the implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Regulation. 🦋 🔗 Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/24/g... @kuehneli.bsky.social

New paper alert! In our new paper @plosone.org, lead author Arianny Storari collected, reared, and analyzed decay and disarticulation of hundreds of aquatic insects, and compared them to Crato Formation fossils to figure out what happened to them before they fossilized. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Like Angela Bassett, I did the thing. I am knackered but yesterday morning I heard a group of 10 children screaming with excitement and suddenly everything was worth it.

I would like to use this morning to share a crowdfunding that my colleagues established for a project that is close to my heart experiment.com/projects/rea... I quickly summarize the goal and idea in the answers with a thread

Die Kinder, die jetzt aufwachsen, finden es normal, dass Schmetterlinge Tiere sind, die man nur selten sieht. Sie haben vermutlich noch nie eine Feldlerche gehört, wissen nicht, was ein Rebhuhn ist. Über das Phänomen der sich verschiebenden Basislinien. steady.page/de/jasminsch...

The revision of baphetids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: Morphology, ontogeny, palaeoecology, and the reassessment of the phylogeny of Baphetoidea - Barták - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Have you ever experienced an unprofessional peer review? This feature in @nature.com describes the consequences of bullying reviews with personal examples from Yours Truly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer! We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians. 1/4

#ZAVACEPHALE IS FINALLY OUT! 🥳 Our first definitive Early Cretaceous pachycephalosaur! (~15 my older than the previous oldest pachycephalosaurs) And the first hand material for the clade! I can't tell y'all how much of a pleasure it was to review this paper! ☺️

Hier erklärt Herbert Nickel selbst, weshalb es für den Erhalt unserer heimischen Artenvielfalt vor allem ganzjährige extensive Beweidung mit Rindern und Pferden braucht, weniger mit Schafen. Hat mit der Naturgeschichte der Landschaft Mitteleuropas zu tun. progressive-agrarwende.org/artenschutz-...

With great pleasure I would like to introduce you to the first ornithomimosaur from Germany! The fossils of this charming bugger are from Balve, a locality that preserves early Cretaceous fossils in a Devonian reef that had karstified already back then, giving us: cave dinosaurs

In some cases, the core may be unique and irreplaceable, especially where land has since been developed or reclassified. Maintaining a reference library of boreholes enables future research to take place using new techniques, saving time, reducing costs and limiting the environmental impact.

Very excited to present the first ornithomimosaurs from Early Cretaceous of Germany. Artwork by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and the paper is OA: www.app.pan.pl/article/item... Enjoy! More is to be described from this place

Forschende haben mit einem Robo-Aal entschlüsselt, wie Aale selbst mit verletztem Rückenmark noch schwimmen und kriechen können. Ihre Erkenntnisse zeigen auch: Der evolutionäre Übergang vom Wasser zum Land war ein cleveres neuronales Upgrade. #repost

The first ornithomimosaur remains from Germany Denis Theda, Darius Nau, René Dederichs, and Achim H. Schwermann Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70 (3), 2025: 543-555 doi:10.4202/app.01262.2025 www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Ich finde das traurig, dass jetzt bereits schon wissenschaftliche Vereinigungen wie die DGGV sich nicht mehr zu schade sind, schlechte KI-Bilder zu verwenden. Jaja, kostet uns nichts, pipapo, aber dann nicht mal kurz drüberschauen, ob das Gezeigte zumindest Sinn ergibt? www.dggv.de/produkt/edgg...

I was interviewed for this article. It's pleasing that a Moroccan fossil dealer confirms what I said the law was and clarifies that it isn't 'a grey area'. It's got nothing to do with UNESCO, btw John. www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/s...

Ein neuer Blogartikel von mir über Macrospondylus bollensis (traditionell auch Mystriosaurus oder Steneosaurus zugeordnet), das häufigste Meereskrokodil aus dem Posidonienschiefer von Süddeutschland. #paleobio #krokodile #thalattosuchia #fossilen #Paläontologie 🧪 erdgeschichten.net/2025/07/27/d...

Feather stars are marine invertebrates related to starfish and sea urchins they are characterized by their feathery branching arms which they use to filter food particles from the water many species of feather stars are capable of swimming freely…

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

Letztens gelernt, dass selbst der Feldhase als buchstäbliche Feld/Wald/Wiesen Art in einigen Bundesländern bereits als stark gefährdet gilt. Uff.

Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.

Die Ameisenbläulinge sind eines faszinierendsten Beispiele für das komplexe ökologische Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher Arten - mit der parasitoiden Schlupfwespe ergibt sich ein Netz aus vier Arten: Wiesenknopf-Knotenameise-Bläuling-Schlupfwespe. Natur ist spektakulär! 📸 David Singer & Fionn Pape

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetische Spurensuche: Kolumbiens frühe Jäger und Sammler verschwanden vollständig. Erkenntnisse zur Besiedelung Südamerikas – Forschende aus #Tübingen und Bogotá untersuchen Erbgut aus dem alten Kolumbien – frühe Population durch spätere Migration aus Zentralamerika ersetzt.

iNaturalist is my favorite monster-catching game

Genetische Spurensuche: Kolumbiens frühe Jäger und Sammler verschwanden vollständig. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

New paper out! You wouldnt want to be at the wrong end of a Temnodontosaurus! He would either swollow you hole, or rip you to pieces! Many congrats to Giovanni Serafini for leading this project! Very happy it's out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....