This #FossilFriday is also Halloween. And since everyone is talking about it, I give you... THE RETURN OF NANOTYRANNUS FROM THE BEYOND THE GRAVE!!! A recent paper brought back the validity of this taxon. So here's a photo of Jane, now referred to as Nanotyrannus in the paper.

My master's work on Brasilodon has been published!

#FossilFriday My newest PBS Eons episode on the Golden Age of Sharks is out! Big shout-out to Indiana University Paleontology Collection, Mammoth Cave National Park's recent discoveries, and Dr. John Long's The Secret History of Sharks for inspiration and information youtu.be/4ihYiTOIBT0?...

This #FossilFriday, one of the chapters from my PhD dissertation has been published! it is on the relationship of form and function in the Carnivora mandible using functional morphology, biomechanics, and geometric morphometrics on 3D data anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YV5A83...

This #FossilFriday, I'm showcasing the Ceratosaurus on display at the Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita, CO, that I saw 2 weeks ago. It was my first time back at this museum since I was 12 years old at their day-dig. It's funny to think about when I was a kid vs where I'm at now as a paleontologist

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.

A year ago today, we were treated to a total solar eclipse here in Bloomington. Photos from our big day, from graduate student @paleodanny.bsky.social (1), faculty member @codykirkp.bsky.social (2,3), and an instrumented tower set up by the Indiana Geological and Water Survey (4).

The newest episode that I wrote for @pbseons.bsky.social just dropped! This one is about the Gray Fossil Site in Eastern Tennessee, home to Pristinailurus, a genus of red panda! youtu.be/knh8skpSQLs?...

Happy #FossilFriday! MOR 740 preserves the skull of a Champsosaur, the long snout was used to capture freshwater prey. This group of crocodile-like reptiles and survived the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, only to go extinct at the end of the Paleocene, ~55mya.

This #FossilFriday, I present this skeleton of the bear-dog Amphicyon from @natural-history.bsky.social in celebration of news that one of my PhD dissertation chapters has been accepted for publication!

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

A Cochliodont tooth (possibly Sandalodus?) from Indiana University's Paleo Collections. This was a shell-crushing Holocephali (a group of cartilaginous fish related to sharks) from the Mississippian of Indiana that is a part of a shark fossil inventory project with undergrad workers #FossilFriday

For this #fossilfriday I’ve prepared a thread on some of the most famous fossils from the Italian region where I live (Piedmont, NW Italy). I’m talking about the Plio-Pleistocene land mammals of Villafranca d’Asti, locality that gives name to a widely used biochronological unit: the Villafranchian!

#FossilFriday Everyone's favorite tristichopterid sarcopterygian, Eusthenopteron! At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Join our Public Fossil Digs this summer in North Dakota! NDGSdigs2025.eventbrite.com Registration opens Feb 1st, but if you want to be assured of getting a spot you can become a Dig Supporter donor and get access to early registration next week. More info here: Ndpaleofriends.org/dig-supporters/

People who know me know that I'm more a vertebrate paleontologist, but recently, I've been looking at inverts. This #FossilFriday I was at Hanover College scanning conulariids. These are enigmatic mainly Paleozoic fossils possibly related to sea anemones. They look like 4-sided ice cream cones.

#FossilFriday A small herd of the oreodont Miniochoerus, nestling in death. At the Tate Geological Museum in Wyoming.

For #FossilFriday I wanted to showcase this Edestus tooth whorl from the Pennsylvanian/Late Carboniferous of Indiana. Edestus was a holocephalin fish (a group of cartilaginous fish that includes the modern rat fish) that would have had a tuniform body similar to lamnid sharks

Foth C, van de Kamp T, Tischlinger H, Kantelis T, Carney RM, Zuber M, Hamann E, Wallaard JJW, Lenz N, Rauhut OWM, Frey E (2025) A new Archaeopteryx from the lower Tithonian Mörnsheim Formation at Mühlheim (Late Jurassic). Fossil Record 28(1): 17-43. doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

Lots of great mammalogists are joining @bsky.app!!! go.bsky.app/2zPUXPV

Okay okay, I give in. Here's a #FossilFriday from the #IsleofSkye: a gorgeous ammonite and belemnite filled boulder on the beach in Trotternish. It's a Middle Jurassic piece of art. Just can't get enough of those #ScottishFossils.

Aelurodon wasn’t as big as some other borophagine dogs of 16-5 million years ago, but it was still a bone-crusher. Such dogs were once considered scavengers, but comparisons with living canids and hyenas led one study to suggest Aelurodon were hunters that picked out prey larger than themselves. 🧪

Another new Indiana University EAS paleo display case for #FossilFriday, but this time for our vertebrate collection! Big thanks again to undergraduate and graduate students. My favorite is the Paleozoic at the bottom, highlighting mostly fossils found in Indiana such as sharks and tetrapod tracks.

For this #FossilFriday, I wanted to showcase Indiana University Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department's new paleo invert display on the 5th floor. Big thanks to the undergraduate and graduate students who helped make this possible!

Presenting the skull of the #Allosaurus jimmadseni known as ‘Big Al 2’ at the Utah Field House of Natural History Museum for this #FossilFriday. Allosaurus was the ‘lion of the #Jurassic’, being one of the largest carnivorous #dinosaurs of the time. This reputation shows in their bones! 🧵 1/

The Dinosaur Hill (BLM MCNCA) trail in Fruita, Colorado got a lot of amazing new upgrades this year! #BLMPALEO If you have time for this 1 mile loop hike, check out the new interpretive signs, trail work, picnic areas, and even some footprints in the concrete. 🦕