🦠🌏 Happy #FossilFriday from one of the oldest records of life on Earth! These stunning structures are stromatolites from the ~3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, nestled in the North Pole Dome of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. #Stromatolites #PrecambrianLife

This Week's PaleoArt Highlight features Dolores, the Triceratops 🦖🎨 📸 Thanks to Michael Fruecht @freelancerioter for your submission! 📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6 #Triceratops #Paleontology #Dinosauria

📢 Calling ALL paleoartists! 👩‍🎨🧑‍🎨 All Paleontological Society members are encouraged to submit a design! 🎨 Your artwork may be featured on Society swag and used for marketing and promotions.

This week, we’re spotlighting Kayla Irizarry, a PhD student at Penn State whose research explores how oxygen shaped evolution during the Late Cambrian. With support from a PaleoSociety Student Research Grant, Kayla funded fieldwork in 2022 #CambrianFossils #CambrianResearch #CambrianPaleontology

Happy #FossilFriday! 🌈 This week we’re back in Mongolia’s #GobiDesert with Sally Hurst (Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia). Fieldwork is often unpredictable, with field crews in the Gobi Desert often face rapidly shifting weather, this time ending in a stunning rainbow over camp✨

Now open: Applications to join our Social Media team ✨ We’re looking for a student member (undergrad/grad) excited about science communication and content creation. 🔗 Learn more & apply: shorturl.at/TQs7D #Paleontology #ScienceCommunication #STEMInternship #AcademicOpportunities

This Week's PaleoArt Highlight features this digital art made by Niki Krivka from the Natural History Museum of #Utah (NHMU) 🦖🎨 The art shows a #Spinosaurus mirabilis wandering through marshlands inspired by the #GreatSaltLake. 📸 Thanks to @albluu.bsky.social for your submission!

📢 Last call for EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS 📌 Paleobiology is still accepting proposals for special issues. Proposals in all aspects of paleontology are encouraged. 🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾

“Himalayas From Space Breathtaking View of Earth’s Greatest Mountain Range”. ISS

🪸🦕 📈 🪨 Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Bridging Stratigraphic Palaeobiology & Phylogenetics, with Emilia Jarochowska, @niklashohmann.bsky.social, @rachelwarnock.bsky.social, and Johan Hidding 📍 Lorentz Centre, Leiden 📅 28 Sep – 2 Oct 2026 Applications open - details below 👇

📢 Now Hiring: 2026 Editorial Intern! The Paleontological Society Journals are looking for a summer 2026 Editorial Intern (June to August)! 🦴📚 Get hands-on experience in academic publishing; work with the J. of Paleontology and Paleobiology; and contribute to author guides, social media & blog posts

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦀🌊 Today, we are being visited by a tiny legendary crab that lived in the #Cretaceous waters of #Colombia 👀 With enormous eyes, without sockets, and paddle-like legs, Callichimaera perplexa defied the traditional definition of "crab" and rewrote the evolution of the clade

This week's PaleoArt Highlight showcases this beautiful collage made by Matti Holmes from Eastern Washington University 🎨🦕 The collage captures how he felt starting the next step in his education, the goals he'd like to achieve, as well as his passion for art. #PaleoArt #Collage

🤔 Do you know someone who needs funding to support specimen curation/digitization, or who is developing a training workshop in collections? Share this opportunity with them! This grant supports paleontological curatorial and digitization projects, addressing the backlog many collections face 💪

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦷🦘 Last week, a new branch was added to the Marsupialia phylogenetic tree! A recent study by Churchill et al. described three species belonging to the newly recognized Order Keeunamorphia from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area. 📸 Phantasmodon travouilloni (pictured)

For #FossilFriday, a pair (front foot, rear foot) of wee little ornithopod tracks in the Dakota Formation (~100 mya) at Dinosaur Ridge near Morrison, CO. Dinosaur Ridge is one of the most popular dinosaur tracksites in the U.S. (cc: @dinoridge.bsky.social, @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social)

@paleosoc.bsky.social invites applications for its new Collections Grants program, which provides funding for members working in natural history collections to support paleontological/paleobiological curatorial and digitization projects, proposals due June 1st! paleo.memberclicks.net/the-paleonto...

Today's #PaleoArt Highlight features Dakota Wraith by paleotufts_studios 🦖🎨 Four baby #T.rex wander from their nest into the #HellCreek forest at night. It seems fun… except they are not the top predators They’re being hunted 👀 by a #Dakotaraptor It just needs to find them first

Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida Explore our state's freshwater fish species, including our collection records, photos and map. Shown: Gulf Pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli), a marine invader to Florida's freshwaters 🔗 Info & browse: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...

Happy #FossilFriday! Today, we are traveling to the earliest known Neotropical rainforests from the Bogotá Formation (#Eocene), #Colombia 👀 See the tiny holes along the margin of the leaf? Those are chewing marks made by insect herbivores feasting on this tasty leaf 🐛🤤 #Paleobotany #Ichnology

This week, we are starting our first #PaleoArt Highlight! 🎨 This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊 🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway ✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer

Happy #FossilFriday! 🐟🦴 Meet the mighty Cooyoo australis: A large predatory #teleost that ruled the #Cretaceous Eromanga Sea of Australia. With its bulldog-like skull and large conical teeth, it reached up to 3 meters in length, making it the largest known elopiform from these waters.⚡️

📢 Early Career Researchers, this one is for you 📌 Paleobiology is accepting proposals for special issues. 🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾 For more information: cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/call-for-proposals

🎨🦖 ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS: Paleo-art Highlight! 👉 We’re accepting submissions of tattoos, sculptures, drawings, paintings, and all paleo-inspired art. 📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6 📸 Sent by @macc_ench, tattoo artist @buddyclarke_tattoos

We agree with Davey's comment! And if you have a fossil specimen or fieldwork photo to share, we welcome new submissions through the form below: bit.ly/47U31vm

Congrats to @gwynchil.bsky.social on her first first-author publication in @paleosoc.bsky.social Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - based on her undergrad thesis w/ me at Williams, Gwyn finds that tiny worm teeth(scolecodonts) get smaller across the Late Devonian extinction event

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦖 This week we’re heading to Alberta, #Canada, where Sally Hurst (pictured) is hard at work digging for dinos in the world-famous UNESCO World Heritage Site #DinosaurProvincialPark 🦴

March 20 🐸 World Frog Day! Learn to ID Florida's frogs by their calls with our online guide 🐸🎶 Florida Frog Calls: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-her... Also: March 24 📌 Science on Tap: Ribbit & Sip It Frogs + beer + herpetologist Dave Blackburn! Info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/scienc...

Happy #FossilFriday! The seaway that covered much of North America in the #Cretaceous was filled with giant carnivorous #reptiles. #Mosasaurus (#MOR006) and other mosasaurs had a second set of #teeth on the roof of the mouth that helped hold struggling prey.

Happy #FossilFriday! Here’s a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a tiny but mighty ostracod🦀 📢 This image shows the trefoil-patterned left valve of an ostracod, a minuscule bivalved crustacean from the Eastern Coral Sea (Australia) 📸Thank you to Lalita Weerachai for your submission!

Happy #FossilFriday! from the #Cretaceous of #Antarctica 🐧 🐙 Here is an #ammonite of the subgenus Kossmaticeras (Natalites) from the Santa Marta Formation. 📸 Specimen no. MN 8688-I from the Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)📌 Photo taken before the fire of 2018.

Today, March 11, 2026, our longest active member (69 years!), Michael Arthur Murphy, turns 101! Mike’s impact on paleontology is profound. Mike is receiving a PS Presidential Citation in recognition of his long-standing support of the field and membership in the PS. Thank you, Mike!

Happy #FossilFriday from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia 🏜️🦴 The skeleton likely belonged to Sloanbaatar, a multituberculate #mammal from the L. Cretaceous Baruungoyot Fm, highlighting a glimpse into the diversity of Mesozoic mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs. 🦕🤝🐁 📸 Photo by Phil Bell (UNE)

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴 This week we’re travelling to the wide, windswept exposures of Punta Peligro in Patagonia, Argentina, where researchers scour the Paleocene strata for fossil vertebrates. 📷 Thank you to Francisco Barrios for capturing this moment in the field! #Patagonia #Argentina

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Happy #FossilFriday! from Anticosti Island, Quebec 🌊🪨 There’s nothing quite like the thrill of fieldwork—when someone shouts “Oh! Come look at this!” and the whole team gathers around to see what ancient story the rocks are about to reveal. #AnticostiIsland #CanadianFossils

Happy Valentine’s Day!❤️🦖 This #fossil is the “Triassic cuddle” discovered in South Africa in 1975 by James Kitching🇿🇦They are 250 million year old skeletons of an amphibian and a protomammal that crawled into a burrow for protection before fossilization. Together forever! #Paleontology #ValentinesDay

#FossilFriday at the ~2.7 billion-year-old Tumbiana Fm, #PilbaraCraton, W #Australia 🦠 Pictured are lake-deposited #stromatolites, where calm water conditions allowed larger, intricate structures to form. Fieldtrip led by Curtin Earth & Planetary Sciences professor Dr. Kranendonk 🛑Permit SGR041.

Is there a short course, field trip, or technical session you would like to see at GSA 2026? 👀 Submit your proposal TODAY for GSA 2026 in Denver, Colorado! ⛰️🌲 📅 Proposals are due by 11:59 PM (Pacific Time) February 19th Learn more at gsameetings.secure-platform.com/connects26/ #GSAconnects2026

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴🦕 This week, we’re travelling to the Gobi Desert in #Mongolia, where an articulated #Oviraptorid foot was uncovered near the Dragon’s Tomb. The foot was pieced together, bone by bone, revealing features that help us better understand oviraptorid movement 🐾 📷 Sally Hurst

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦷🌊 🦴 This impressive tooth belonged to Kronosaurus queenslandicus, a giant pliosaur that ruled Australia’s ancient inland sea (Eromanga Sea) during the Cretaceous Period 📍 Toolebuc Fm, Queensland, #Australia, on the traditional lands of the people of the Wunumara Nation

Happy #FossilFriday!🦘🦴🐀 Today we’re traveling to Barrow Island (NW 🇦🇺), home to both extant mammals and their Plio-Pleistocene fossil relatives. 📸 Pictured here are @palaeontolucy.bsky.social and Dr. Travouillon documenting one of the island’s ex-cave deposits. #AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

Happy #FossilFriday! This week we’re heading down under to the Bass Coast of Victoria🇦🇺, where dinosaur bones are being carefully freed by the recently appointed Dr Jake Kotevski! These were discovered by Melissa Lowery and date to between 120-128 million years ago🦴🦖 #AustralianDinosaurs #Theropods

🦖🐾Dinosaurs Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana by Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho is an incredible book about Brazilian fossils and how paleontologists use trace fossils to study ancient ecosystems🏞️🌿 📚PS book reviews like this are posted on our website paleosoc.org monthly!

Happy holidays from the Paleo Society!🎉 This #BookReview features Sea Level: A History by Wilko Graf von Hardenburg🌊which tells the history of developing technology and #Oceanography ⚙️🌏Learn how we know what we know about oceans & start off ‘26 with this page turner! #Paleontology #Literature #Ocean

Did you know that PS provided over $250k to support students and early career paleontologists?🦕🌿Help support PS’s mission to advance paleontology through research, education, and advocacy. Include PS in your #GivingTuesday plans and donate at paleosoc.org/donate2 🦖 ✨ #PaleoSociety #Science #Research

Happy #FossilFriday from Kronosaurus Korner! This specimen is part of the lower and upper jaw of Platypterygius australis from the upper Albion Toolebuc Formation of the Eromanga Basin in Queensland. Thanks to Kronosaurus Korner for today’s feature! #Palaeontology #Australia #Ichthyosaur #Fossil

Happy #FossilFriday with these rusophycus, cruziana, and planolites trace fossils from east TN! These were found at a thrust fault in the Great Smoky thrust fault belt on a field trip from UT Knoxville’s field methods course. #Fossils #Trilobites #Science #Geology #Education

The winner of Clash of the Clades: a new taxon, Finnegan-ada! Fear not, mollusk lovers, your clade raised the most money! Thank you all who participated in this wild and wacky fundraiser. We appreciate all who donated and cast their vote! 👑 #paleontology #geology #geosciences