Our work on the histology and mineralization patterns of 3 Devonian chondrichthyan taxa from Morocco is finally out now! I am very happy to share this work and hope there will be more to come about early shark tooth histology! Thanks to all my co-authors, especially Hector Botella! rdcu.be/e34zE

Introducing the soft-bodied fossil Paleocanna tentaculum n. gen. n. sp., a tube-dwelling medusozoan. The first 3 authors are students.👏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's Trilobite Tuesday! Some trilobite fossils provide extra insight about life in the Paleozoic seas—like this 430-million-year-old Arctinurus from the Rochester Shale of New York! Its 5-in- (12.7-cm-) long body is covered in brachiopod shells that hitched a ride on the trilobite's carapace.

Great start to the ISELV conference in Berrechid, Morocco. Has been fascinating to learn more about the latest work on early vertebrates. Looking forward to visiting some amazing Paleozoic sites in the coming days!

Welcome back to #fossilfriday! Here are the impressions of the Inoceramid clam Mytiloides mytiloides. This specimen comes from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Greenhorn Formation (Colorado Group) in northwestern Nebraska.

🚨New paper🚨 A new article in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, led by Dr. Lorenzo Lustri (Yunnan University), in which we discuss the affinities of two enigmatic Ordovician arthropods from the Czech Republic by means of elliptical Fourier analysis. Link: sjp.pensoft.net/article/1791...

New paper with @peterjwagner3.bsky.social, @wrightam.bsky.social, Jen Bauer, and Maggie Limbeck! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Manitoba Museum does the BEST dioramas, and this is no exception. totally recommend a visit!

Putting the finishing touches on the @romtoronto.bsky.social shark workshop! Tomorrow we'll be diving into shark evolution and diversity, from the earliest jawed fish, to Megalodon and the mako. #FossilFriday

ISELV pre-conference field trip has started strong, led by our fantastic host Abdul Lagnaoui! Day 1 & 2 spent in the #Cretaceous and #Jurassic of #Morocco 🇲🇦 🦖 🦕 heading back in time to Permian and Carboniferous next … #palaeontology #ISELV2026

It’s extremely rare to find an entire skeleton of a fossil amphibian. But that’s what this is – except for a few missing pieces of the hands and feet and the very tip of the tail.

Happy #FossilFriday how does a thread about the Inner Meadow biota and unexpected age for the fossils, and a refocusing of Martin Brasier’s #KotlinCrisis sound? We’ve been trickling out our findings from Inner Meadow including #Charnia brasieri, #Aninoides and there's even cooler stuff in review. 🧵

Last year, Dr. Moysiuk and Royal Ontario Museum colleague Dr. Caron announced their discovery of a 506-million-year-old predator, Mosura fentoni. See fossils and 2D & 3D representations of Mosura fentoni and related species in new exhibit “Weird Wonders from the dawn of complex life”! #FossilFriday

Today's lycopsids ("clubmosses") are small plants and do not produce wood but some of their Paleozoic relatives did! This is a detail of the wood cells in a stem of Sigillaria from the Carboniferous of the USA 🔬🌿⛏️ Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany

Stunning Fossil Site Reveals Life Rebounding After Extinction Event @cambrojoe.bsky.social @egmitchell.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 is.gd/osu4qw

When you think of fossils you probably think of dinosaur bones, mammoth tusks, or corals and shells. You probably don't think of eyes, guts, and nervous systems, but in some rare cases these soft tissues have been fossilized too! Check out some examples in this video with Dr. Joe Moysiuk.

It's #MuseumSelfieDay! This year some of our Museum team shared their Museum selfies too. Tell us what your favourite part of your last visit was with a Museum selfie! Tag us on social media @ManitobaMuseum with #MuseumSelfieDay and #MyMBMuseum.

Plant lovers and outdoor enthusiasts rejoice! Pre-orders for the second run of Dr. Diana Bizecki Robson's new book "Manitoba Flora: A Guide to the Vascular Plants of Manitoba" are open! Pre-order your copy of "Manitoba Flora" through Museum Shop: https://ow.ly/WBVZ50XYhV7 #MuseumShopSunday

Did you know that in rare circumstances even the soft tissue of organisms can be fossilized? Learn about the weird and wonderful fossils in our newest temporary display through Dr. Moysiuk's latest blog: https://ow.ly/YsNU50XWRRZ

Happy to see our paper on the earliest Horseshoe Crab - Trace Fossil association published. Thanks to Russell Bicknell for leading the effort and everyone involved for their help. Elsevier: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... Researchgate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday Here is a pygidium (tail section) from a large Dalmanitid trilobite. This specimen comes from the Lower Devonian Birdsong Shale in eastern Tennessee.

Pleased to share our latest exhibit, featuring some of the most fantastic looking #fossils from the #BurgessShale. Now on display in the @manitobamuseum.bsky.social lobby, so come on by and take a peek!

One of the earliest large predatory eurypterids, Megalograptus, for #FossilFriday. Megalograptus is known from abundant - and very unusual - material from the Ordovician of #Ohio, affording an important insight into the morphology of this rather bizarre species. ⚒️🧪

Manitoba Museum Student Associate and Mitacs Fellow Urgon Snider’s Master’s thesis research is on microfossils. He’ll be working dissolving ancient rocks, extracting tiny fossils, and mounting them for our collections, expanding our understanding of 450-million-year-old ecosystems! #FossilFriday

Museum colleagues discovered a completely white wood frog ("Boreorana sylvatica") in a pond just outside of Winnipeg! This is the first record of a white individual of this species anywhere in North America. The white wood frog was likely a female as it was found mating with a normal-coloured male.

Lophophorata is monophyletic! Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata. A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social! More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.

Manitoba has over 1,700 species of wildflowers, ferns, shrubs and trees, but identifying them is not easy. For two decades, staff at the Museum, with a team of volunteer botanists, have been working on an updated edition of Manitoba Flora. Pre-order today: www.manitobamuseumshop.ca/shop.html?lo...

Izquierdo-López et al. - Cambrian (Stage 4-Drumian）non-trilobite arthropods from the Murero biota (Spain) doi.org/10.1144/jgs2...

Fascinating article spotlighting urban geology in London with Ruth Siddall of @pavementgeology.bsky.social Ruth has led urban geology walks in London for the GA and has several free self-guided walking routes to download on her website: ruthsiddall.co.uk/UrbanGeology... www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This summer Dr. Diana Bizecki Robson was able to partner with the Birdtail Sioux First Nation to document the plant diversity and search for rare plants there. In this video she shows us the samples of a few of the rare plants found to be growing there! youtu.be/ZIXCGIGeknc

Recently our palaeontology team took a collecting trip to the Cat Head site, in collaboration with Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation. This site is known globally for its preservation of Ordovician Period fossils, and new samples will support research on the conditions under which it formed. #FossilFriday

I'm happy to introduce the newest Cambrian critter 'Tentalus spencensis' from the Spence Shale of Utah. Publications out today in Geological Magazine (Open Access). Thanks to Karma Nanglu and Paul Jamison for their help with the paper. Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Glad to share our latest article on the "co-coordinated stasis of large mammal diversity with the environments". Long in reviews it is finally out--a work done during the post-doc of Simona Bekeraitė app.pan.pl/article/item... 1/4 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology

Creative use of autocorrelation in analyzing trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian explosion: "..lack of temporal correlation in the studied Ediacaran trajectories and its presence in...Cambrian trajectories, indicating time-tuned behaviours.." arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02940 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

For anyone in Toronto in Oct. - 50 years of discovery: #BurgessShale research @romtoronto.bsky.social www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/eve... #FossilFriday

Last #FossilFriday I had the pleasure of visiting the @romtoronto.bsky.social and checking out the Dawn of Life gallery! I’ll dig into my favorite individual fossils soon, but the exhibit was a gorgeous mix of science, art and specimens and I loved that it featured specimens from across Canada! 🇨🇦

This week's #FossilFriday example is small... but luckily, there's a big model showing what it might have looked like alive! Habelia optata was an arthropod that lived in the waters 506 million years ago during the Cambrian. This fossil was found in British Columbia, Canada! 🇨🇦

Isotelus sp. from the #Ordovician Cat Head Member, Red River Formation. #TrilobiteTuesday #Paleozoic #ManitobaFossils

Job Alert‼️ Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity in paleontology/biology at the University of Alabama Museums: careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232b... Aim: assess biotic interactions using mollusks from both sides of the Isthmus of Panama. Please share widely! @paleosoc.bsky.social @almnh.bsky.social

Welcome back to #fossilfriday Here are the boney plates from a Placoderm fish. These come from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Silica Shale Formation in Sylvania, Ohio. I am unsure as to what genus and species of the fish plates belong to. -Image is from Wikipedia Commons

Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity in paleontology/biology at the University of Alabama Museums with @paleoadiel.bsky.social as part of the NSF-funded project “Energetic Controls on Marine Benthic Community Structure in Space and Time.” For more information see: careers.ua.edu/jobs/688232b...

I missed #FossilFriday so here are some cool #Eocene flower #fossils from British Columbia’s Allenby Formation. Collected near Princeton, BC. #PaleoSky #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeobotany #Paleobotany

How do scientists name a newly described species? Museum Postdoctoral Researcher Russell Bicknell, who recently had a trilobite named after himself, explains!

Eophrynus prestvicii, the Coseley Spider, is an extremely well-preserved, 300-million-year-old #arachnid discovered near Dudley. Though it looks like modern #spiders, it was unable to spin a web, instead catching prey using powerful jaws! #FossilFriday #LapworthRocks #geology #palaeontology

Celebrating our recent fieldwork this #FossilFriday with this pair of #crinoids from the #Ordovician Red River Formation, Cat Head Member. #ManitobaFossils #Paleozoic #echinoderm

Fun day trip this week! On a warm, sunny July day, paleontologist Melina Jobbins and her team search an old rock quarry near Lundar, Man., for 390-million-year-old fossils of an extinct fish that swam in what was once a vast inland sea. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @umanitoba.bsky.social

Just returned from a fantastic week of field work along the coasts of Lake Winnipeg. Many amazing #Ordovician #fossils now safely back at the museum and lots of new ideas for advancing research in the area. Couldn't have asked for a better team! #FossilFriday #ManitobaFossils

The Manitoba Museum is seeking a new Director of Research, Collections, and Exhibitions and Chief Curator: manitobamuseum.ca/director-of-...