“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

New research takes us inside the brain of a 230-million-year-old animal! Scientists used 3D technology and mathematical modeling to reconstruct the brains of pterosaurs and their pre-flight ancestors, the lagerpetids.

doi.org/10.1098/rsos... new paper out now with @royalsociety.org on limb structure & function of the #fossil #kangaroo, Dorcopsoides fossilis, from central Australia. The oldest known macropodine (subfamily of all but one of living roos) & a fun glimpse into the great Late Miocene kangaroo radiation

60 million years ago, eastern #Aotearoa New Zealand was #penguin paradise! We describe 4 archaic penguin species from the Waipara Greensand, North Canterbury. This now totals 10 species from there, in addition to a diversity of Paleocene penguins from Otago and Chatham Island. #fossil #birds

A few years in the making, but I can finally share my first PhD paper and my first ever first-authored whale paper. In it, we name a new species of toothed baleen whale: Janjucetus dullardi. You can find our conversation article here: tinyurl.com/dullardi

Nice article by Cosmos on our new fossil forest-wallaby from central Australia cosmosmagazine.com/history/pala...

#FossilFriday Megacerops robustus, 38-34 mya, #SouthDakota, at the Yale Peabody Museum

New #research out today led by George Sangster, with Trevor Worthy, Pascale Lubbe, Paul Scofield & myself. Recently #extinct flightless #rail Hodgens' waterhen from #Aotearoa New Zealand is a 'giant' crake of the genus Porzana, rather than a nativehen of Tribonyx. (📷 credits given in ALT text)

NEW #RESEARCH WOOHOO Here's our description of Dorcopsoides cowpatensis sp. nov., a little #fossil macropodine #kangaroo from the late Miocene Ongeva locality in central #Australia. doi.org/10.1080/0311...

This would be such a huge loss to the biology community......

Once more some mammoths

Midsummer cottage doodle: Anisodon grande, a wonderfully weird gorilla-horse from the Miocene of Europe. I gave her a pacing gait as in camels and other animals with short torsos and long legs, where ordinary walking gait might cause the front and hind limbs to collide.

Today we’re publishing Ozboneviz, an open-access 3D atlas of Australian vertebrate (mostly mammal) bones: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

doi.org/10.1038/s415... #tetrapods are older than we thought! Cool new #trackways #research in @nature.com from Flinders colleagues

Hit submit on two #fossil papers in two days, it feels goooood to have some fun new #research out soon(ish) on the funny little ancestral #kangaroo that is Dorcopsoides...

New #evolution #research on dear little rat-kangaroos from Flinders Palaeos! (amongst distinguished others)

Out now with Transactions of @royalsocietysa.bsky.social: #fossil #research from friends & colleagues describing an interesting #palaeofauna from the oft-forgotten but (as they demonstrate) biogeographically important Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Have a look! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The “silent majority” of Australians support having more national parks, no matter who they vote for. Listen to the full interview and learn more about the study from @monashuniversity.bsky.social via our website: biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/austral... 🌱 🐨 🦘 🐸 ⛺ 🥾 🌳

New publication: taxonomy and classification of every fossil mammal species in Australasia—Wallace Line to New Zealand! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If ever you are displeased with a taxonomic description, I hope you can be comforted by the low bar set here by George Shaw in 1800 – still the taxonomic authority on the common wombat, Vombatus ursinus...

I've just created a new petition demanding Australian universities dump X/Twitter (#Xitter) in favour of other, more socially responsible social-media platforms www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... Please sign and share widely #eXit #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter