1) Never smile at a crocodile 🐊 unless you're deep-diving into learning about its phylogenetic history! 🧬🤩 Modern crocodilian species belong to the Neosuchia clade, but there are currently many evolutionary knowledge gaps for this group.

🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future. Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ Calling all PalAss members & future members! ✨ 👉 Explore all opportunities here: palass.org/awards-grant... Not a PalAss member yet? You’re very welcome to join us! 🔗 palass.org/membership Please share with colleagues and students who might benefit 💬✨ #PalAss #grant #palaeontology #join

Did you know we have new data entry forms?! They're designed to make your life easier, we promise: The new Reference form allows you to enter a DOI which will (usually) retrieve pub data so you don't have to type it, and you can (and should!) now enter full author names instead of just initials.

Great news! A new NSF Geoinformatics grant to support the PBDB was funded in June of 2025! This will overhaul the technical underpinnings of PBDB, a necessary step for carrying the PBDB forward -- www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

It’s finally out! Extremely pleased to share the last chapter of my dissertation to be published! In this study, we take a deep dive into the 242 million-year squamate 🦎🐍 fossil record to quantify factors that lead to the mostly fragmentary specimens in collections today: doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Well, I clearly need to enter this into the Paleobiology Database @paleodb.bsky.social : but who is the author?

Databases like @paleodb.bsky.social are cornerstones of palaeobiological research. Most are concentrated in the 'Global North', but the associated socio-economic advantages sadly do not make them infallible to financial and infrastructure challenges... (4/n)

Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @climatesamwell.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social

Taphonomic controls on a multi-element marine skeletal fossil record onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @echinerd.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday

Diversification & disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @paleodb.bsky.social

Enriching experience at the @paleodb.bsky.social workshop focused on mastering the core functions of this powerful database and research tool. Some highlights include- entering occurrence and taxonomic data, extracting data for analysis and visualization, and of course international networking!

Convergent evolution among non-carnivorous, desert-dwelling theropods as revealed by the dentary of the noasaurid Berthasaura leopoldinae from the Cretaceous of Brazil onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @paleodb.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social

🚨 Deadline extended to May 1st! 🚨 Be sure to get your applications in for this summer's introductory workshop to the PBDB ASAP! More details and application form here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

Great opportunity, but - warning - may lead to you spending years of your life entering data...

Great to be involved in #Paleobiology paper led by @jonhendricks.bsky.social showing #stasis & #punctuatedequilibria in fossil record @nilese.bsky.social #macroevolution - also evaluates records in databases @paleodb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Do you want to learn how to contribute to and use the Paleobiology Database? 🌎🦕🐚 Look no further - we're now welcoming applications to the 2025 edition of our introductory workshop! More details here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

happy to share some freshly published work in Paleobiology with Daniel Phillipi and Linda Ivany (not on bluesky): doi.org/10.1017/pab.... @paleodb.bsky.social paper #493

New in #PapersinPalaeontology: Awakening Patagonia's sleeping sperm whale: a new description of the Early Miocene Idiorophus patagonicus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @paleodb.bsky.social

⛏️For people working on the Devonian, Carboniferous & Permian (=all the best periods). Deadline for abstract submission is April 1st. geotolosa2025.sciencesconf.org #geology #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoclimatology #paleozoic

New in @currentbiology.bsky.social Studies have found that fossil/molecular diversification rates scale with time, hinting at a disconnect between micro and macroevolution. We show that these trends are absent from the fossil record when controlling for sampling biases: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Taxonomic revision of the family Squalodontidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti): emptying the wastebasket of fragmentary holotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @paleodb.bsky.social

Yesterday one of my students taught me a couple of ways to sign “fossil” in ASL. The one on the right is evocative bc it’s the bone sign but buried. The one on the left is used more for plant fossils, apparently, and is meant to show an object on a slab. I love these!

Are you looking to pursue a career in #Palaeontology? On our website you can find information on Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Masters and #PhD) courses, and articles on possible career paths within palaeontology: www.palass.org/careers

The Paleobiology Database has landed on Bluesky! ✨ Here we'll be posting database updates, new publications and all things fossil-data-related 🌍🐚 Be sure to check out our website for more info on how to contribute to and use PBDB data as well as loads of other resources! 🦕📊 paleobiodb.org