Hype levels rising

For fossil-loving folk in Adelaide at the end of the month (maybe there's a conference or something 😉), we're hosting some live pods over pints and pizza www.eventbrite.com/e/live-palae...

Episode 53: The deals with seals

Episode 53: The deals with seals

Your Sunday read! In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing far ahead of schedule. In doing so, he's run headlong into a very difficult question: How on earth do you prove it? My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social! 🧪

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Help fund art and science on the iconic sauropod family group Diplodocoidea experiment.com/projects/rea...

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

October 12 marks the start of Earth Science Week across Australia. Explore the resources provided by Geoscience Australia at www.ga.gov.au/about/earth-...

Episode 52: Opening up palaeontology

New at the Terrible Lizards Podcast, a discussion between Iszi, Dave and me on the contents of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, now out in softback ... terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e09-anc...

Fun Fact: Trilobites evolved eyes made out of hard calcite minerals. These little crystal eyes fossilize beautifully! Art from my new book: DINOSAURS 🦕 where I illustrate all prehistoric life! Preorder book here: a.co/d/7X856do #paleoart #fossiladdict #evolution #sciart #dinosaurs

Artist Zev Landes is responsible for some iconic modern Australian palaeo-art, but maybe he doesn't like the field at all? Find out in the newest episode of Fossils and Fiction, now in your feeds rss.com/podcasts/fos...

It's Book Week in Australia. If you're looking for Dino books for young readers, check out our interview with Bronwyn Saunders, author of "Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey" www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/03/28/e...

Dinosaur dance floors and ancient sharks. What a combo! Followed up by 'Would you Rather?' rss.com/podcasts/fos...

Episode 49: One Big Shark

Kiwis at twilight. A coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf depicting 'Mantell's Apteryx', published in Zoological Sketches, vol. 1 (1861). The book's images were based on animals in the vivarium of the Zoological Society of London in Regent's Park.

Episode 48: That is one big pile of Poozeum

Discover megalodon and other ancient ocean giants with palaeontologist Ben Francischelli youtu.be/TkAkdk1YPgQ

Eyes like heaven Infernodrakon hastacollis #paleoart #sciart

In this episode, @markwitton.bsky.social offers thoughts on AI, how to support palaeo-art and more. Plus @travish.co fails miserably in a game of guess that fossil.

Episode 47: King Tyrant vs AI

Review: The Mutated Mess of Jurassic World Rebirth

Hot damn, the Palaeontology in Public book by @chrismanias.bsky.social is the subject of an article in @theguardian.com, following a theme in recent Jurassic World films that the public are bored with dinosaurs. (Fact: Chris has not watched a single JP sequel!) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you edit me correctly, for small snippets of time I sound like I know what I'm talking about... (Full interview: www.fossilsfiction.co/2025/06/15/e... Thanks to @fossilsfiction.co for inviting me onto their show!)

One is the brains, the other is the muscle.

How do you balance science with storytelling when animating pterosaurs, or sauropods? Just ask @markwitton.bsky.social

Episode 46: Mark Witton's Palaeoart

Palaeontologist+palaeoartist+nice guy @markwitton.bsky.social talks about his new book King Tyrant and more, in your podfeeds now

Episode 45: T. rex: the Asian king?

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

So for this Fossil(andfiction) Friday here’s a few pics relating to one of the questions that came up from @slyssabits.bsky.social during our chat about how actual palaeontologists and Palaeoartists respond to the things I get up to 😅 Podcast link below podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Remember when Adele Pentland introduced us to Australia's remarkable pterosaur fossils? From Haliskia to Ferrodraco and more, revisit one of our most popular episodes to take flight into Australia's prehistoric skies! www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/07/03/e...

My chat with with the lovely @slyssabits.bsky.social and @travish.co has just dropped, talking Palaeoart, Lyme Regis, Luis Rey, & the importance of outreach so if you want to hear a poetic and piratical welsh rogue talk with wonderful people give it a listen! 🏴‍☠️🖤 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

Featuring an interview with @pascoejj about his miniatures, discussion of a new paper on the origins of T. rex and megaraptorans, and another paper on the world's new earliest tetrapods. Also listener feedback and more. Check your podcast feeds now.

It was a monumental effort to try to quantify employment trends in US paleo. Please give it a read and see how your academic society can help address these issues. Huge thanks to @fossilexpress.bsky.social @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social @jkimmig.bsky.social Sandy Carlson and Elizabeth Petsios

Pint of Science🍺 🧪 coming soon. Alyssa is presenting Wednesday May 19 in Melbourne. Others here: pintofscience.com.au @pintofscienceau

C. Morrison et al. (2025) Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 242238 doi: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Today’s random piece of nostalgic palaeoart: Brian Franczak’s Ouranosaurus! This is one of a huge number of pieces Franczak produced in the early 90s, all of which featured prominently in a number of high-quality dinosaur books aimed at general audiences. (1/4)

Episode 44: Do direwolves dream of extinct sheep?

Why are we so obsessed with dinosaurs? The first-ever episode of Fossils and Fiction attempted to answer this in conversation with author Boria Sax about his book 'Dinomania' www.fossilsfiction.co/2022/03/31/e...

So I had the absolute pleasure of taking part in the first of these and it was absolutely amazing! I’d love the chance to meet even more of you wonderful creative people online and talk about Palaeoart! @extinctfineart.bsky.social is both a talented artist and a gracious event host!

This one goes out to the Tree Star fans open.spotify.com/episode/2KK9...

Checking out the Gray Fossil Site in Eastern Tennessee and chatting dire wolf resurrection open.spotify.com/episode/2iKw...

Checking out the Gray Fossil Site in Eastern Tennessee and chatting dire wolf resurrection open.spotify.com/episode/2iKw...

Coming to your podfeeds sooon

Awesome short explainer on the whole dire wolf situation. Even if you’re fine with “modified grey wolves”, should a company that misleads the public and investors keep getting access to resources, materials and funding to make them? esp when it’s a method that won’t/can’t produce real dire wolves?

I'm so excited for the world to see what we've been working on. It is such a genuine joy to see my babies out in the world! Walking with Dinosaurs - coming soon.

When @mauritiantales.bsky.social and I began leading this study, we never thought it would get 10 citations let alone the 200 it reached his week! But what started almost 5 years ago as a lockdown data project has taken us on an unimaginable rollercoaster... (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For my friends at the @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social the incredible Karen Fawcett produced these beautiful homages to the models of Crystal Palace. Megalosaurus, Iguanadon, a Plesiosaurus and the most beautiful Megalosaurus I’ve ever seen! A master at her craft!!