The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is celebrating our department's collections manager, Lyndsey Farrar! Many thanks for all the awesome work you do behind the scenes in the invertebrate paleontology collections and to the public! #FossilFriday

I will be in Cleveland for #Evol2026 in 2 weeks so feel free to chat with me if you will be in attendance! 🐠

Happy pride, mollusc-botherers 🤘

Behind the discovery The dawn of modern marine fish! @sanaaelsayed.bsky.social @friedmanlab.bsky.social

The year is 2026. A series of powerful earthquakes from Charleston to Halifax, and subsequent collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet, has radically transformed the coastlines of North America. Undeterred by the cataclysm, 48 teams from around the world gather to play "the beautiful game..."

Led by the incomparable Sanaa El-Sayed, a study out today in Science Advances throws open an important new window on marine fish diversity during the critical few million years following the K-Pg mass extinction. Below: artistic vision of the new fauna by Ian Baylatry.

Compared to trilobites, what is man

June 3, 1726 birthday of Scottish farmer &"philosopher of Earth" James Hutton ⚒️ ...

New blog post! All about the fossil record and evolution of kelp and kelp forest ecosystems! I discuss the basics of kelp phylogeny, ecology, fossil record of kelp & kelp-associated organisms, and kelp forest origins. Read it here! coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

A male scissor-tailed flycatcher performs a remarkable courtship sky dance for the female below. For at least 1-2 minutes, he put on quite the display of intricate aerial maneuvers involving twists and dives that even left me in awe. They flew off together, so I think it worked for the lil guy! 🥹

Spectators watch the flight of one of Alexander Graham Bell's tetrahedral kites in 1904. More pictures here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-graham-bell-s-tetrahedral-kites-1903-9?utm_content=buffer94624&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

You know you're in the Moenkopi Formation when every bedding surface sports fossilized ripple marks. #RockinTuesday

Great Bustard be like

The skull and neck of the early fish-shaped #ichthyosaur Macgowania from the Late Triassic (~220M years ago) of BC, Canada, examined during my recent visit to the Royal Tyrrell Museum as part of a research project with Dr Ilaria Paparella funded by MINIATURA 9 from @ncn.gov.pl #FossilFriday

See also: sketchfab.com/DigitalAtlas...

Commence squee. Baby ichthyosaur art by Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social - actually 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 but similar to 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 in many respects.

Garden of Earthly Delights

If you're into brachiopods, or just brachiopod curious, here is an article on brachiopods that I helped write (a little bit, Sandy Carlson did most of the heavy lifting and cat-wrangling) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #paleontology #evolution #brachiopod

🌴 The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: London: Printed for B. White, 1771. [Source]

Anyone who can get to Nashville and needs BEKI and/or fish crows, I got your spot!

She’s ready to deploy

Welcome back to #FossilFriday Here is a well preserved Carneyella pilea Edrioasterioid on a Rafinesquina brachiopod. This specimen comes from the Upper Ordovician (Maysvillian) Correyville Formation from Cincinnati, Ohio.

🦈 Fascinating new fossil alert! Researchers have described a 6.6-metre-long skeleton of the giant marine reptile Temnodontosaurus cf. trigonodon from Mistelgau, Germany. ➡️ Check out our latest blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/05/28/g... ➡️ Original study: doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.100.172724

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

Haywain - Closed

New paper. Modern hagfishes (Myxiniformes) have radically reduced eyes. When did these reductions happen, and how? Leveraging the diverse hagfish fauna from Mazon Creek, we show this happened gradually in animals occupying shallow marine environments royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

In recognition of #WorldOtterDay I touched up a skull restoration from a few years ago of the #extinct #otter Enhydritherium terranovae. This species lived during the late #Miocene across southern North America from coast to coast. It was the size of the modern Giant Otter #paleoart #paleontology

Opportunity (paid, short-term) for paleobotanists, hosted at my museum (Claremont, California) - looking for folks to assist with ID of plant fossils in our collection. Details here: www.alfmuseum.org/plantfossilp...

1/ #worldotterday Sea otters may be the most famous marine mammal on the California coast today - but they've only been here for less than a million years! (very brief in evolutionary terms). Here's a short thread on the small fossil record of sea otters - and, read more about it on my blog:

Me, and a bunch of people, basically

Me, basically

Poems, Potatoes The word, defining, muzzles; the drawn line

This is an amazing little guy, but I want to talk about the Hamin Mangha site in northeastern China where he was found. CW: the story centers around a small building containing the burnt remains of 97 villagers who died 5,000 years ago. I include images of their excavated remains (skeletons).

We now have 12,463 silhouettes on PhyloPic! Cant believe it took this long to get a Sacabambaspis. #sciart www.phylopic.org/images/a6428...

Yep, it's upside down, and we now know much more about its head and feeding. But I don't mind because this is ART and it looks awesome as hell

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

horseless carriage museum billboard, rapid city, south dakota, 1987

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts

Geological evolution https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20420

Twin Peaks: A llama and other pets waiting at the Lydecker Veterinary Clinic.

May 24, 1906, birthday of American naval officer and geologist Harry Hammond Hess. Best known for developing the theory of seafloor spreading, one of the foundations of modern plate tectonics ...