NSF GRFP awards just announced: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee.... Nice to see that the overall numbers are back up, but only one award in paleontology (7 honorable mentions). No awards, one honorable mention for sedimentary geology.

First Report of a Hollow Cranial Crest in an Early-Diverging Duck-Billed Dinosaur, with Implications for Convergent Evolution of Acoustic Signaling www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/15...

Join Utah Gelogical Survey Mapping Program in creationing Geological Maps in some of the most spectacular Geology in the world. utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Job stability in these trying times. @agu.org @geosociety.bsky.social

Anatomy of a perinatal woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Niederweningen (Late Pleistocene), Switzerland sjp.pensoft.net/articles.php...

📣 #EGU seeks proposals for the development of a #ScienceForPolicy workshop! Have some ideas? Why not submit your proposal and get up to €2,000? 📝 Submit your proposal by 24 April 2026. 👀 Learn more here: egu.eu/9RMKKK 📸 Stephan Sprinz on imaggeo.egu.eu

Musculoskeletal function of stem tetrapod limbs - Molnar - 2026 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Massive wildfires followed oceanic anoxic events during the Late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Musculoskeletal function of stem tetrapod limbs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @crocodilejulia.bsky.social @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social

Dino talk in Rangely, Colorado by the Craig Community College branch campus' paleontologist Logan King. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @drjmchugh.bsky.social @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social @npr.org @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social

Are you interested in understanding the planetary crisis and how we can solve it? Would you like to join inspiring young activists from around the world to learn how to tackle these challenges? Join us @nhm-london.bsky.social for Generation Hope 2026. www.nhm.ac.uk/events/gener.... Events are free

🎓🦴 PhD Opportunities in Palaeontology – Open Call! 🌍✨ Looking to take the next step in your academic journey? Explore the latest PhD opportunities in palaeontology now available! 🔍 For full details and descriptions of each call, visit: 👉 palass.org/phd-opportun...

🚨New Pub!🚨A bite to the throat: A probable Xiphactinus attack on a Polycotylus from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, U.S.A.🐟🦷by Drumheller et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Calling all young paleo-artists! Museum of the Rockies is thrilled to announce our Dinos and MOR! Festival Art Contest, a digital showcase for creators ages 0-18. Details at the bottom of the page at museumoftherockies.org/signature-ev...

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this Allosaurus dorsal rib next to the ribs of a Ceratosaurus. There is definitely a size overlap in these Jurassic predators, but when it comes to body size (and abundance), Allosaurus takes the cake.

A belated #FossilFriday... I spent Friday with Logan King (CNCC) and Lukas Trout (BLM) examining Uinta Formation sites for collection & student work. Our shared paleo heritage serves many purposes. Museums, educators, & resource mgrs work together to make the most of every fossil!

A new titanosauriform with European affinities in the Early Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on Somphospondyli phylogeny, histology and biogeography: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: Vol 24 , No 1 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Concerned about the Point of No Return? Today we published a paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW49C~Iu...

Not everyone in the Jurassic Period was a giant. This tiny jaw of teeth was collected from the Mygatt-Moore dinosaur bonebed. It belonged to no dino, but instead to a small, lizard-like animal called a rhynchocephalian. Today, this group is represented by the Tuataras of New Zealand. #FossilFriday

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work. n.pr/4qTSIhz

A children’s book about the life of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska? Yes please! Learn more about the discoveries of the Polish-Mongolian Expeditions with “Dinosaur Desert”! 🦕📖🦖 dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/01/d...

Happy #FossilFriday! We got the good news that our abstract for WAVP was accepted for a talk. Super excited to be part of the Wedel Pneumaticity Crew!

I'm hearing from multiple people that students who submitted ecology GRFP proposals are having those proposals rejected without review, despite ecology being listed as an eligible field. If this is a programmatic change, this is devastating. Ecology is the study of Earth's life support systems.

First pub of the new year, with @drjmchugh.bsky.social We're back on our bone surface modification nonsense, this time comparing bite marks and insect traces between two Jurassic sites and between our work on those sites and other teams' to see how comparable they all are.

#MLK #Dream #MLKday youtube.com/watch?v=dzn0...

Artemis II moving out of the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to the launch pad. Launch for the first trip to the Moon in more than 50 years is scheduled for February 6. 📸 NASA

🚨New paper out with @alexauderset.bsky.social! We show that the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) was better oxygenated during the warm Miocene Climate Optimum than today, but its path to full deoxygenation was slow and complex. Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This is a coalified log from the Mygatt-Moore Quarry, collected by Museum crews in 2023. Coalification is a longer, slower than carbonization. This log was found buried in the bottom of a mudstone bonebed and was likely submerged in a boggy muck for a long time. #FossilFriday #fossil #Jurassic

Nothing like a good piece of tail... For this #FossilFriday, enjoy a distal causal vertebra from the King of the Jurassic- Allosaurus fragilis! The enlongate prezygapotheses are a hallmark of tetanuran theropods, lime Allosaurus. They help stiffen the posterior tail.

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...

First #FossilFriday of 2026! To celebrate, check out this beauty on my desk today: a neural arch from a juvenile Apatosaurus cervical vertebra. This lovely specimen was collected by Museum crews from the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in 2025.

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Hope everyone has as good a Christmas as a goofy dog and her new toy!

New life goal: Be brave enough to go skydiving by the my 50th birthday. That gives me just a few years to get over my fear of heights! 🫣

PTO is here! I spent last night drinking wine, listing to holiday music, & wrapping presents! Let the holidays begin!

For every one else who is just trying to make it through the holiday season in one piece... Cheers to you! See you in 2026.

Would love to see this position go to a paleo person! Dean of Collections American Museum of Natural History | New York, New York www.imsearch.com/open-searche...

SOLD!

All set up to sell some photography at the Fruita Holiday Arts & Craft Show. #GoFruita #holidays #craftfair #photography earthlyexposures.com

Today, I am most thankful for my mom. Sat. she went into the hospital with acute shortness of breath. After 2 days of tests & waiting, discovered it was caused by fluid build up around her heart and her left ventricle was only @ 25%, aka heart failure.

Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx

This is my first full weekend in a month. Feels weird.

My poor kitty, Kona, has earned herself a trip to the vet with scabs like these. She's had them a few weeks and even though I've cut out the possible allergen... they persist. Time for an expert analysis.

An amazing study you NEED to read!!

A. Romilio et al. (2025) Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado) Geomatics 5(4): 67 www.mdpi.com/3599020

To mark the 85th Annual SVP Meeting 2025, we've curated an open access collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next up.. 🐸 Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem by Ruta & Coates (2007) 🦎 buff.ly/VnuPdEH #PaleoSky #2025SVP #Frogs #Amphibian

Thanks so much to all the #2025SVP host committee members & student volunteers & huge thanks to SVP & the community for joining us in Birmingham! We’re super happy with how it turned out. Time now to run a three-day field trip!

And that's a wrap on #2025SVP! See you all again in Cleveland.