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

Some plant fossils, like this piece of Triassic wood, retain some organic matter of their cell walls 🌿⛏️ With a little bit of chemistry we can remove minerals & transfer the organic matter on a piece of cellulose acetate that can be observed under the microscope 🧪Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany

For #FossilFriday, a spectacular fossil palm frond from the Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous), North Dakota, in the process of being prepared at the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social last week: juvenile tyrannosaur skull for scale. (cc: @susieoftraken.bsky.social, @arctomet.bsky.social) 🧪🌴🦖

Here's an assortment of #Jurassic critters for #FossiFriday, which I recently put together! Honestly, I particularly love my #Heterodontosaurus (the best dinosaur!) and the wittle #moth Archaeolepis! And of course, there are plenty of #plants. #paleoart #paleontology #paleobotany #sciart #dinosaur

Behold our Lord and Saviour, @davehone.bsky.social !

Nanjinganthus was originally described as an Early Jurassic flower but was very quickly suggested to be a conifer cone. However, it's never been drawn the latter way - this undoubtedly warps people's perspectives of it as male #conifer cones don't look the way we imagine them! #paleoart #paleobotany

Speaking of this: I'm still really proud of my geological and palaeogeographic maps, and the strat column I created for my undergrad Dissertation! They're all inspired by the Sheikah Slate map in #Zelda: Breath of the Wild!!! It took me a long time to match their style, but I'm very pleased with it!

Aaaand here's the final haul from @dinoconuk.bsky.social!!!! Omg there were so many gorgeous things, but I was good, and didn't get too much.... most of these are gifts or sticker swaps from some of the amazing palaeoartists at #dinocon: thank-you so much, Everyone!!!!! I had a wonderful weekend!! 🥰

Ahhhhh!!!!! This is GORGEOUS!!!! You even have the marbled background!!!! Omg it's lovely!!! 😍

Almost a week on, and I had a simply AMAZING weekend at the first ever @dinoconuk.bsky.social! Ahhhhh!!! I can't believe how well it went!!! So many nice people! So many great stalls! So many fantastic talks and workshops! It was incredible and I can't wait for next year!!! #FossilFriday #paleoart

The fruits of Prunus serotina contain a cyanogenic glycoside but lack the β-glucosidase enzyme. Cedar waxwings can feed on the fruits & excrete the glycoside intact. They lack the appropriate enzyme to release the HCN. What happens to the cyanogenic 💩? ☠️ #HCN #Rosaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

#DinoConUK What’s most challenging about paleoart? @palaeojules.bsky.social: Extinct plants often require doing research and reconstruction from the ground up due to lack of existing references. “Yeah, fuck plants.”

#DinoConUK Paleoart panel with @palaeojules.bsky.social, @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, @emilyhiggs-art.bsky.social, and Gaëlle Seguillon!

We're all prepped and on our way to @dinoconuk.bsky.social!!! See y'all soon!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology #comicon #stall #dinocon

I missed #FossilFriday so here are some cool #Eocene flower #fossils from British Columbia’s Allenby Formation. Collected near Princeton, BC. #PaleoSky #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeobotany #Paleobotany

I had an idea.... I made said idea.... I made myself a LOT more work....and I'll have Palaeobotanist badges at @dinoconuk.bsky.social !!!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #paleobotanist #badges #convention #comicon

Badges for @dinoconuk.bsky.social complete!!!!! Well, the Pride ones at least... I'm just about to start work on these adorable baby ammonite ones!!!! See you all there soon!!! #paleoart #badges #dinocon #paleontology #convention #comicon

So...... I made some more stickers!!!!!!! #jurassicpark #paleoart #paleobotany #paleobotanist #plants #dinosaurs #stickers

I'm busy restocking for @dinoconuk.bsky.social this weekend, and part of that has been me increasing my range of stickers!!!! I've been making some new iridescent ones which I'm looking forwardto having on my stall!!! #paleoart #stickers #artstall

And on a funnie #FossilFriday note.... FERNS ARE EVIL TO DRAWWWWW!!!!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO DRAW 4-5 ORDERS OF BRANCHING IN A SINGLE LEAF?!?!?! That's just excessive. #paleobotany #sciart #ferns #botany #plants #paleoart (P.s. don't worry, I love 'em really, and they turn out really pretty)

Some photos this #FossilFriday from the Family Fun Day I hosted at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social on Wednesday!!!! It was such an amazing day!!! Hundreds of people, plenty of plants, and Rory dressing up all fancy for the occasion!!! #paleontology #paleobotany #plants #scicomm #botany #MuseumSelfie

Pollination in Passiflora is so interesting. The genus is believed to be ancestrally bee-pollinated, but hummingbird pollination has evolved several times. 1st 📷: Passiflora membranacea. 2nd 📷: Passiflora perfoliata. #hummingbird #pollination #TropicalBotany #Passifloraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

I'll be posting a Patreon post later today, but while I was writing it, I realised that I needed to produce an additional diagram because.... not many people seem to know how #Ginkgo actually grows!!! Anyway, here's that diagram: Ginkgo long shoot development. #paleobotany #botany #plants #trees

Being a scientist is doing an hour of research and reading to justify HALF a sentence. (And I still LOVE it!!!) #scientist #paleobotany #paleobotanist #paleontologist #botany #taxonomy

Happy #FossilFriday and #FernFriday ! This beautiful fossil leaf belongs to a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France during the late Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #fossil #botany