Merry Christmas from the Lapworth Museum! 🎄🦖 We hope you have a wonderful day filled with peace and joy. 🕊️ #LapworthRocks #Christmas #Dinosaur #Museum #Geology

Oooh, yisss!!! More of this!!! These are good!!! #paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #plants

🐸 NEW PAPER OUT! This time it’s all about FROGS and their melanosomes! Falk et al., 2025, iScience: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114220 #palaeontology #frogs #deeptime

New paper alert! 🚨 🐌 We studied historic Antarctic fossils from the Zinsmeister Collection to assess whether the K-Pg extinction, as recorded on Seymour Island, was sudden or gradual. We found that benthic life thrived in the 4 million years before the K-Pg. doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

You can watch the full episode of Live Lessons - Walking With Dinosaurs right now! Doesn’t the Museum look great! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Sharing cus, yeah.... I don't have much to say, and honestly for personal reasons no not want to have to think of this person; but he has been doing this for 10 years now and has committed plagiarism in every major pice of artwork he's done within that time. This also extends to his writings.

Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right. #paleobotany

Eeeee!!!! I got interviewed by Gemma for LitToC podcast!!!! Thanks so much for th invite; it was really fun getting to talk to you about plants and palaeoart! #paleobotany #paleoart #podcast

This Fossil Is Rewriting the Story of How Plants Spread across the Planet #fossils #paleontology #paleobotany #lichens #devonian #evolution

Prehistoric Planet was awesome. But being a smartass seems to go with the territory. #prehistoricplanet

OooooOOOOOoooooohhh!!!! This looks cooooool!!!!!

Cellularly preserved chlorophyte from the 518 million year old Chengjiang biota onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"No species in Prehistoric Planet last forever" #prehistoricplaneticeage #Walkingwithbeasts #ContinueThePrehistoricPlanet

Hehehe, I always do this to some extent! It gives my eyes a lovely shape even if it's only a small little one. And adding kohl to the waterline of the corner of your eye and accenting it with white can really make it pop! (Also, sorry, I couldn't find a better photo rn. This was just yesterday's)

Yes, this!!! While Mark's talking about restoring #invertebrates in this thread, everything he says is EXACTLY the same with plants. #Palaeoartists aren't disinterested in inverts or #plants or #fish, there just aren't any (or many) accessible resources on them. #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart

Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students. c.org/HJW7FVxPwv

Yay!!! Thoughtful palaeobotany rep in #paleoart!!!! @sauriancyh.bsky.social I adore the final piece you created! It's gorgeous and I love how you've displayed your work process!!!

Huge congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social for publishing the results of your Masters thesis. The work includes a new reconstruction of the Carboniferous isoetalean Oxroadia by the brilliant @palaeojules.bsky.social 🧵1/2

Thanks so much for bringing me onboard for this Sandy! It was great working with you again, and I really grew to love Oxroadia: it's a fascinating plant and I loved the resolutions we were able to get with these restorations! #paleobotany #paleoart #paleontology #fossilfriday

Congratulations to @jeremywyman.bsky.social et al 2025 for the publication of their Oxroadia paper! And thanks for bringing me onboard to do some restorations of this relative of Lepidodendron and Isoëtes from the Carboniferous of Scotland. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... #FossilFriday #paleobotany

A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching! If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅). Anyway, good luck to y'all! #paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! This is SUPER interesting!!!!!!!!!!! Yet another REALLY cool recent palaeobotanical paper which I need to read!!! #paleobotany #paleontology #plants

So, an unexpected development, but I'm gonna be giving a talk tomorrow at SVP in Birmingham!!!!! I'll be speaking about palaeobotany in palaeoart, so hopefully it goes well despite being slightly rushed😅. Anyway, if you're gonna be around for #SVP tomorrow, come say Hi!!! #paleoart #palaeobotany

I haven't posted much in a while because, probably unsurprisingly, my PhD has kept me busy! But I was just using this drawing of Wielandiella angustifolia from last year, and I realised that I've never shared a close-up showing all the details of the leaves! So anyway, enjoy! #paleobotany #paleoart

So, after teasing us with the press release for the last few hours, the new 'Nanotyrannus is valid, like pretty convincingly this time' paper is Finally online!!! #paleontology #tyrannosaurus #taxonomy www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @lewisajones.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social #FossilFriday

Oh wow, I just found out that Alderblattina simmsi got published a year ago! This still might be one of my best pieces of artwork; certainly one of the ones I'm most proud of. It went on to win an award, and it's one of the best environmental pieces I've done! #fossilfriday #paleoart #paleobotany

Reposting an oldie for #FossilFriday! This is Kalligramma brachyrhyncha, a medium-sized kalligrammatid ( #Mesozoic lacewings) from the Middle #Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. It is known to have had eyespots on its wings and may have acted as a pollinator for #bennettitaleans. #paleoart

Y.-T. Zhong et al. (2025) High-precision geochronology of the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation: Temporal constraints on the late phase of the Jehol Biota Earth and Planetary Science Letters 671: 119688 doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️ For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST! It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!

Welcome back to #fossilfriday Here is the holotype cast skull of Proceratosaurus bradleyi. It was found in the Middle Jurassic (Late Bathonian) Great Oolite Group (Forest Marble Formation) near Minchinhampton, a town in Gloucestershire, England.

Continuing my recent trend of #Yanliao beasties, here's an updated, more serious attempt at #Jeholopterus for #FossilFriday!!! The camouflaged colouration is based in #Ginkgo bark, which would have grown in contemporary forests. #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #pterosaur #Jurassic #paleobotany

And here we have the original Dead Darwin, which was just a relatively quick pen sketch! #paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs #jurassic #sciart #FossilFriday

A very happy #FossilFriday to everyone except this poor Darwinopterus, which has unfortunately succumbed to whatever ailed it. This is actually a redrawing of a Dead Darwinopterus which I drew years ago, only with updated anatomy. #paleoart #paleontology #pterosaurs #jurassic #sciart

Some good news from me; I've just started a PhD on plant evolution at @openuniversity.bsky.social!!! I'll be posting a lot more soon, but for now here're some of photos from my first week! I can't believe I'm finally here! #phd #paleobotany #paleontology #research #botany #plants #leaves #evolution

A large theropod (probably tyrannosaur) track from Nose Mountain, Alberta shows the fourth digit twisted such that half of the toe was folded underneath the rest. They ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine. #FossilFriday

Just a 300 million year old fossil leaf from France to wish everyone a happy #FossilFriday ! 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany

It's been a busy week, and I have a LOT of photos to post, so I'll be catching up over the weekend. But in the meantime, here's a Palaeobotanical Bouquet, which I drew earlier this week during an icebreaker event!!!!!! #FossilFriday #paleobotany #plants #paleontology

A frond of Phlebopteris, a 230 million year old fern from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, New Mexico/Arizona. #FossilFriday #FernFriday ⚒🌏🌱🧪🔬🌿

Happy #BiVisibilityday everyone!!! #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #bisexual #bi

Let's go #BehindTheScenes and back in time--with #JSE! Click the📽️🔗⬇️to join a team of #paleobotanists as they travel to the Miocene rainforests of #China and encounter the first known #fossil Parrotia flower. jse.ac.cn/attached/med... #evolution #FossilFriday (oops on a Monday!) #PlantScience

Mazon Monday #288: Callipteridium neuropteroides This is Mazon Monday post #288.  What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil?  Tell us at email:[email protected]. Callipteridium neuropteroides is one of the rarer seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) found in the Mazon Creek fossil deposit. Although,…

AHHHHH!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!!! It's so precious.🥰 #paleobotany

Ooooohhhhhhh!!!! Leafs!!!

Happy #FossilFriday! Here's a little goober I haven't shared here yet: a Tianyulong jumping of a broken branch of Yimaia capituliformis (a relative of ginkgo). This is based on an unpublished specimen which did the rounds online a few years ago. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology #dinosaur

🌱 BRs are well-known plant hormones, but plants also make other steroids like 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 & 𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬, whose roles are unknown Körber et al show they reshape roots in angiosperms, independently of BRs—opening new research paths. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70459

Oooohhhhh!!!!! I'll definitely be attending these!!!!!

Ooooohhhh, a REALLY nice specimen!!!

So, we finally have more iridescent mammals!!! This is really useful for paleoart as it helps to show what #iridescence on monofilaments looks like, which is difficult to tell from just birds. Now I just need to try and access the paper. share.google/jWVQz8BtmVmY... #paleoart #mammals

I re-illustrated #Anchiornis again, and it looks quite a bit different from usual!!! This still matches the known data for this #dinosaur, but I really wanted to avoid it looking copy-pasted this time. I've given a full description of it on my Patreon. #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #sciart