This raises the question of what counts as a good home for a giant mechanical scorpion... Giant heat lamps? Good hiding spots? A supply of pets and/or small children for it eat?

Looking through my photos of the Triassic archosaur Incertovenator on this #fossilfriday. It's currently unknown whether this animal is more closely related to birds or crocodiles...

Can #paleontologists pinpoint the dawn of the #dinosaurs? Researchers are uncovering the early evolutionary steps that set the stage for their impressive reign. A PNAS News Feature: https://ow.ly/Ntt050XTtUk#paleontologists#dinosaurs?#Lewisuchus #Triassic #Silesaurus #ornithischians #extinction

Excited to have the chance to discuss my PhD research with PNAs for this article on the origin of dinosaurs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Despite being ill I think this first formation #paleostream of the year turned out pretty good. The Upper Elliot Formation from the early Jurassic of South Africa is an important piece for our understanding of sauropod evolution but beyond that it's just a really cool assemblage...

I strongly encourage my palaeoart peers who work in the museum display sector to write explicit "no AI modification" clauses into their contracts. Even if your employee contacts at a given museum are trustworthy, you can't rely on outsourced 3rd parties to not butcher your work without said clause.

Like to imagine that when papers refer to animals as large bodied rather than simply large it's because they are also taking personality size into account

New paper on the notosuchian Eremosuchus by @piginatutu.bsky.social, co-authored by myself and @pdmannion.bsky.social among others out now!! We even find some cool evidence of replacement teeth in the dentary! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new MADEx team paper is out now in Sedimentology: we refine the geology & paleoenvironment of Mongolia’s Bayanshiree Fm, home to iconic taxa like Segnosaurus & Garudimimus: a 95.5-89.6 Ma age places this rich paleobiota at the acme of the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum! 🏜️🦕🌡 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/sed....

Making my way home after a great #SVP2025 in Birmingham, thank you for everyone who gave me such lovely, kind feedback after my Romer talk!! Big up the crocs 🐊

repping UCL at #SVP2025

Excited to give my SVP talk on Camelotia, a interesting dinosaur from the Triassic of Somerset If you are at the meeting I'm talking at 3:30 this #fossilfriday afternoon in Hall 1 #SVP2025 #2025SVP

Heading up to Birmingham for #SVP2025 #2025SVP ! Marylebone- Moor street is definitely the way to go

"oh wow that's some tongue twisting terminology, I'd hate to have to memorize it and then say in front of a huge room full of people" I think while writing a script for myself, for a conference talk, this Friday...

Top Halloween tip! You can scare any #dinosaur #palaeontologist by asking them to explain Plateosaurus taxonomy for #fossilfriday

Excited to appear in this months Wild World magazine talking about my dyspraxia. This is part of an article highlighting the work of Neurodiverse scientists @nhm-london.bsky.social !

A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Martínez, R.N., Colombi, C.E., Ezcurra, M.D. et al. A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Disappointed that palaeontologists have never followed up Euparkeria, Parker's good animal, with Dysparkeria, Parker's bad animal.

A bit late, but our re-assessement of the infamous "Zanclodon cambrensis" is now out, and open access. doi.org/10.1016/j.pg...

Wales gets it's fourth mesozoic dinosaur genus! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) sheds light on early dinosaur wrist evolution url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Here's the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So the answer to "what where ankylosaurs getting up to during the poorly sampled middle Jurassic" turns out to be "getting ludicrously spikey"! Congratulations to the authors on a cool paper/specimen

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Photoshoot for an upcoming article with me and my esteemed colleague, the bronze Hypsilophodon. I was given permission to jump the fence, please do not attempt yourself as the Hypsilophodon may bite

Say hello to Istiorachis macaruthurae, a new sail-backed iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous rocks of the Isle of Wight, discovered by @valdosaurus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Hi Everyone. This was just published on the "Conversation" website. An important discussion of "who owns history". theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

The Isle of Wight is one of the most important sites for dinosaur palaeontology in Europe and it deserves a shiny new museum and science park! 🧪🦕 chng.it/567rLM8HzN

The rare privilege of seeing this corridor completely empty in the summer sun

No live #platypus has ever reached the UK, but in #PlatypusMatters I share how, at the height of WW2, Churchill asked Australia to send him one. The story goes that it died of shock when its ship was attacked, but new research suggests that may not be the whole story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Say hello to Florida's newest established species, Typhlonectes natans - the Rio Cauca Caecilian! You can read about their relative abundance, distribution, & natural history, in our brand new paper: journals.ku.edu/reptilesanda... Here is one individual I CT scanned that had 7 babies inside!

Article including my thoughts on an exciting new Canadian tracksite!

This new #RSOS paper describes a new large ‘silesaur’ specimen from the Late Triassic of Zambia: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #palaeontology #fossils @jackl0vegr0ve.bsky.social @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @gondwannabe.bsky.social

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today! This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures! I was commissioned to bring it to life #paleoart

The Triassic remains unbeaten in terms of loveable oddball taxa!

Everyone has covered the sensible and serious critiques of this article but missed the funniest part which is the suggestion/ threat that Barney the Dinosaur is responsible for driving most palaeontological research

Someone replies to me seemingly having genuinely misinterpreted part of my paper so I reply, suddenly I get: * All palaeontologists are too stupid to understand cladograms *I wasn't on the DML so I'm too young to comment * He's acknowledged in the Dinosauria so how dare I question him

Titanosaur-sum discovery! Well-preserved tracks of Nemegt sauropods from S Mongolia have revealed novel insights into soft tissue anatomy & function, including scales that may have helped with scratch digging on sandy surfaces! 🧪🌍🦕 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a... @linneansociety.bsky.social

Keeping with the silesaur theme for #fossilfriday here is the holotype of Ignotosaurus fragilis ( a partial right ilium) for your viewing pleasure.

Where do the dinosaurs come from? It's a good question! 🦖 Their origins are shrouded in mystery, but one group that might reveal where they come from are the silesaurs - and a new fossil suggests they could be bigger than expected. Dig into their early history👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

@nhm-london.bsky.social piece on our new paper! Headline based on the potential impact of these large silesaurs on our understanding of size evolution in early dinosaurs 🧪🦕 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

New paper out today with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @gondwannabe.bsky.social Kimi Chapelle and Paul Upchurch. In it we describe the partial femur of a large silesaur from Zambia 🧪🦕 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Apologies to shark fans but it might be O.megalodon, Based on the most recent outreach I did lots of kids are now obsessed with it as an inaccurate movie monster or because they know its teeth can be expensive... No disrespect to people who do cool megalodon research it's not their fault!

Is there a fancy German word for the feeling when you submit proofs and then a super relevant paper you would have cited a bunch of times comes out the literal next day🙃

Everyone, please meet Sphenodraco! A newly described sphenodontian (a tuatara relative) from the Late Jurassic of Europe published TODAY! #paleoart #reptiles #sciart #art

This overlooks Sophie the stegosaurus, the first time these two dinosaurs can be seen together since the Jurassic!

Morning all. Meet Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a new neornithishian dinosaur from the Morrison Formation. It goes on display @nhm-london.bsky.social from tomorrow. Paper by @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and I in @royalsocietypublishing.org Open Science. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Earlier this month, the NHM student association hosted our 19th annual student conference! Over two days, we welcomed over 100 Masters and PhD students affiliated with NHM to present their work and attend interesting tours and talks. Take a sneak peek at some of the conference’s highlights. 👇