Have a great holiday break folks

I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out. nature.ca/en/visit-us/... 🧪

I did a line drawing of the coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural history @amnh.org a few days ago. This morning I colored in that drawing with charcoal colored pencils. #SundayFishSketch #AMNH

If you've got a hankering for some coelacanth cookies (and with #Fishmas right around the corner, who doesn't?) then you're in luck My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...

I’m having a blast catching up with everyone at CAVEPS, and stoked to share some fishy results 📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social

Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS

It’s the first day of the CAVEPS Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, hosted by Flinders Uni on Kaurna Yerta 🎉

The jacaranda is blooming and the CAVEPS beers are here 💜 Must be time for CAVEPS 2025 to begin! Can’t wait to see more than 180 delegates descend on Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide this week!

This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...

From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.

…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩

Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!

30hrs in Sydney/Gadigal country contained far more lobe-fins than I anticipated! pt. 1 at Sealife Aquarium

My mini mate G and I checking out some crocodilian skulls 🐊 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday gharial on the left, freshwater croc on the right.

Great evening out with local legend Dr. Mark Hutchinson speaking on two of the best subjects - herpetology and palaeontology 🦎🦴🐍 thanks heaps to the hosts Uni of Adelaide Palaeontologists

Stoked to spend some time with the 2nd year students in their Vertebrate Form and Function prac class on fish, amphibians and reptiles 🐟🦎

Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039 Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org

Missing links in evolution explained news.uchicago.edu/explainer/mi...

Flinders Uni “fishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟

I ❤️ visiting SA Museum’s Science Centre any chance I get, and today’s opportunity came via a tour for National Science Week.

Big congrats to fellow palaeo student Cate Sexton on her very engaging 3MT presentation and progressing through to the Flinders Uni final. Cate spoke about the long history being uncovered at Warratyi rock shelter and partnering with the local Adnyamathanha community.

Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November? Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org

Meanwhile in Australia... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Nothing better than Friday knock offs at Science in the Pub while @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social regales us with tales of bird brains and lungs and predation and senses and courting and calling 🦜 🐦‍⬛🪿🦉🦅

For #FossilFriday here's a 3D object of the fossil fish slab containing tetrapodomorph fish #Canowindra #grossi, produced by the Australian Museum. austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01

🎉 Happy #FossilFriday! Episode #87 is here! 🎉 Explore fossil fish 🦈 and the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Chair of Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor at the University of Chicago. 🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...

Listening to and participating in the worldwide critical media commentary about the dire wolf 'de-extinction', one thing struck me. Indigenous voices, which have a vital role in this debate, were largely silent, leading me to co-write this theconversation.com/return-of-th...

Thrilled to announce our latest paper, published today in @nature.com on the oldest fossil amniote trackways, from the earliest Carboniferous of southeastern Australia. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are almost home 🚀 I’m looking forward to hearing their stories once they’re recovered and ready. Pic with Butch is from his lecture series a few years ago.

In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant

What it's like to work a day in Antarctica? Learn more: www.sciencefriday.com/icefossils

Hello friends! CAVEPS (#Conference on #Australian #Vertebrate #Evolution #Palaeontology & #Systematics) to be held in Adelaide Nov 24-30th 2025 first circular is out! If you haven't received it via email you may not be on our mailing list, but access it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Xm1w...

I’m back from holidays in Sri Lanka, highlights soon 🐆🐘🦚 but this water monitor in Kandy Lake couldn’t wait #Varanus #salvator

Vilma Perez kicks off the University of Adelaide presentations on day 1 of #sedna2025, showing some neat ancient lacustrine microbial communities and function from Kangaroo Island

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issues statement on the recent Executive Orders and their impact on the SVP community.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) publishes the 'Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research' and the 'Guide to Applying the AIATSIS Code of Ethics' here: aiatsis.gov.au/research/eth...

I study sharks, including restraining them for data collection. People often think my job must be a scary adrenaline-fueled thrill ride (it’s not). But without question, the most heartstoppingly, gut-clenchingly terrifying day of my professional life was the day my sample freezer almost thawed. 1/3

Hanging out with a bunch of “fishy” Flinders palaeo students… what a crew!

385 million year old #Tetrapod trackway on #Valentia island today. The oldest in-situ record in the world of a vertebrate walking on land! #speirgorm #coast #corkCoast #coKerry #kerey #WildAtlanticWay #ireland #irish #geology #Paleontology vid: kg

January 26 is not a date to celebrate in Australia #ChangeTheDate No pride in genocide Artwork by Oumoula Mckenzie @tjukurpamaru on IG

Check out our latest paper validating telencephalon and cerebellum endocast measurements in birds 🐦🦅🦆🦃🪿🐦‍⬛ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @evolsara.bsky.social @evoneuro.bsky.social

Fun Fact: lungfish are more closely related to humans and other tetrapods (amphibians, birds, reptiles, other mammals) than they are to sharks! 🦈 Bonus: lungfish are more closely related to tetrapods than they are to salmon/tuna/bass/all your favorite fishes! 🐟

#OutsideTheLab My resident backyard bluetongue died a while ago, I was v sad to lose them. Recently I've seen the newest inhabitant - an adult with vibrant stripes! I was all quiet excitement, trying not to scare them. I watched it warming up on the bricks before slithering off into the undergrowth

Devonion fishies Elpistostege (close relative of the famous Tiktaalik) and couple of bothriolepis swimming by. Needs updating but still thinking this is one of my better paintings I have done

New paper out on incredibly well-preserved Devonian placoderm fish called Groenlandaspis, with jaws and tail preserved, led by our super student Austin Fitzpatrick.. peerj.com/articles/187...

Happy Holidays from me and a bunch of E. coli! Image originally made in UniSA teaching labs in 2011

What would you most like to know about #lungfishes? ... Why they have such ginormous genomes? How they breathe air? How they embarrassed taxonomists? Check out my Quick Guide, published in Current Biology today: www.cell.com/current-biol...

We look inside this beautiful beast’s braincase over here: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...