An Edinburgh family photo at the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social meeting. Soon after we lost my PhD advisor Mark Norell, it was special to be surrounded by the students and postdocs I’ve supervised!

🚨New Pub!🚨Australia’s oldest crocodylian eggshell: insights into the reproductive paleoecology of mekosuchines🐊🥚by Blas et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Eye think you should drop by poster 321 at today's poster session to see some cool research 👀🐊 #fossilfriday #2025svp

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Our big squamate origins and early evolution review is now fully published as open access! with @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social and F. Burbrink www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream! Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!

In honour of the 85th Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 2025, we have assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers published by JSP First up: A new phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon buff.ly/0XLPtMf #2025SVP #Paleosky @moononthebones.bsky.social #NHM

Year of the Ring, babyyyyy time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand

Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...

Um novo pliossaurídeo bracauqueniíneo (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) do Aptiano Superior da Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colômbia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hard as it is to believe, there was other paleo news yesterday! First, the "Dream Lizard": M.E.P Fonseca et al. 2025. Oneirosaurus caballeroi gen. et sp. nov., un nuevo mosasaurio de Colombia Earth Sciences Research Journal 29(3): 231-247 revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/es...

Jose P. O’Gorman and Roger B.J. Benson (2025) A basal elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the upper Albian– lower Cenomanian? Cambridge Greensand Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(4): 613-628 doi:10.4202/app.01219.2024 www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy #FossilFriday from "Texas Nessie", the polycotylid plesiosaur skull that we finished scanning, digitally restoring, printing and assembling about 1 year ago The original is still at the Heard Museum in McKinney, TX, but the last parts of this reconstruction are being molded for production 🧪

New paper on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob & me! More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best! The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I need you guys to see this ...

⚠️Job alert : "General Manager & Curator - Dinosaur Isle" ⬇️ 🔹https://www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/5783 #palaeontology #job #curator

Repostinh with working link: www.iow.gov.uk/jobs/detail/... Sounds like a super job

We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍 Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word! Link to position description and requirements: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/... Lab website: oriollapiedralab.com

So many levantine pterosaurs!!! And we have more, from Syria to Jordan!

Interested in fossils? Brains? Reptiles? Want to study how reptile (particularly squamate) brains and senses changed over time? Want to be part of an international team studying the evolution of cognition? Then apply for our Univ of Edinburgh PhD project! e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Happy ##MosasaurMonday from our reconstruction of MOR 1062, the holotype of Plioplatecarpus peckensis! This copy was supplied to the Dimosaurs and Mor! Event this past March. This bug-eyed little mosasaur comes from the Bearpaw shale of Montana, 75ish million years old . 🧪

A new long & narrow-snouted ichthyosaur illuminates a complex faunal turnover during an undersampled Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) interval onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday @morphobank.bsky.social #PapersinPalaeontology

#Paleoctober2025 day 6 paleoart sketch of the giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan. #Paleoctober #Paleoart #ichthyosaur #Ichthyotitan

Rutgers is looking for a vertebrate paleontologist: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

A zoom into my reconstruction of the "sea-rex," a Jurassic pliosaur. This piece was commissioned by The Etches Collection, which is where the spectacular skull is exhibited. Also pictured is a smaller "sea-rex" #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia #paleoart #sciart #art

For those who want to read the original Osborn paper from 1905 naming Tyrannosaurus rex, its junior synonym Dynamosaurus imperiosus, and Albertosaurus sarcophagus, here it is! digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/a02fc8...

It's marine reptile Monday! Okay, that's not a thing, but here's an old acrylic painting from 1999. It depicts a #Liopleurodon breaching with an unfortunate #Metriorhynchus in its jaws. It was commissioned for a TV series that was never made. #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Pliosaurs #JurassicWorld

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

New artwork drop for #FossilFriday Here's my reconstruction of the "sea-rex," a Jurassic pliosaur. It was commissioned by The Etches Collection, which is where the spectacular skull is exhibited. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

Benson, R.B.J., Walsh, S.A., Griffiths, E.F. et al. Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

More temporary palaeo exhibitions to check out in China, fossil fish in "Touch the Deep Ocean". At the Phoenix Centre, Beijing.

AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...

In late August Renesto et al. published a paper where they described a specimen of Lariosaurus valceresii that preserves the skin, even outlining the body and limbs as well scales. I must say that I am happy that it is very very close to what I had hypothesized 😍 #paleoart #sciart #reptiles

Happy #FossilFriday and shoutout to my lab mate Harrison on his first publication!!

We have several positions open at various levels (Research Assistant, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow) across our highly interactive teams in the Division of Translational Neuroscience 🧠🔬🧪 @lieberinstitute.bsky.social www.libd.org/careers/ Links to individual positions in the thread below.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Platypterygius elsuntuoso, the ichthyosaur, hunting an ammonoid, Nicklesia pulchella.

First Edinburgh undergrad fossil field trip of the year, to Dob’s Linn! Where all good graptolites went after they died…some 440 million years ago, when Scotland was at the bottom of a deep but shrinking ocean, on a tectonic warpath toward England. The global Ordovician-Silurian stratotype!

Interested in doing your PhD in Spain on 🧠 ? Contact me to discuss projects and apply for this position! www.icp.cat/index.php/en...

Ontogenetic dietary partitioning in a Triassic sauropterygian: implications from a new juvenile specimen of Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis (Reptilia: Diapsida) url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

The Green River Formation is rich in species diversity. This snapshot captures nocturnal animals emerging as their diurnal neighbors start to settle in. This work is commissioned by the NPS to highlight species found in the Fossil Butte Monument in Wyoming.

Please share widely! The Natural History Museum Denmark @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a PhD fellowship in collection-based Natural History Research, focused on dark taxa & unknown species, pref. including representatives of Danish flora, fauna or geology. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Join us!!! We’re hiring an Assistant Professor of Evolution! apply.interfolio.com/173889

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

On this day in 1846, the Franklin Expedition's Terror and Erebus became trapped in the ice off King William Island. Neither ship sailed again. The ships were rediscovered in 2014 and 2016. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2023/04/25/t...

We lost Mark Norell today. Dinosaur hunter extraordinaire. The coolest dude alive. My PhD supervisor. Wherever you are, raise a glass of your favorite lager or single malt, as it is what Mark would want.

Here is our newest paper just published in Scientific Reports TODAY about the biology of Early Triassic ichthyosaurs from Spitsbergen www.nature.com/articles/s41...