I’m pleased to announce that registration for the second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology is now open! Visit www.geocollections.org/toarcian for more information and to register. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Merychippus everyone 🎄🐎

Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me). www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

trent reznor update: he came back. he's lost a sainsburys bag for life with two heat-up chicago town pizzas and thought he might have put it down when he was browsing but we can't find it. anyone in bloomsbury, please be on the lookout for a sainsburys bag for life with two chicago town pizzas

TOARCIAN THYLACOCEPHANS New Early Jurassic thylacocephalan assemblage from the Western Carpathians in Slovakia Dollocaris toarcica sp. nov. and Zazrivacaris jodorowskyi gen. et sp. nov. www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

A phenomenal end to August with a late walk yesterday! The beach certainly didn't disappoint with loads of finds including a beast of a belemnite, a beautiful pair of mussel shells and possibly one of the smallest finds all Summer with this gastropod!

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Enormous thank you to @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social for inviting me, to stand among best of the best in the industry. What a diverse portfolio of people, talents and styles. 💜

Very busy

The fossil, and the reconstruction, smaller than a sparrow, fully flight capable

Jurassic Park 1994 spawned a generation of kids who wanted to study to become palaeontologists. I pointed out the credits at the end which of course ran for ages, with just one palaeontologist. He didn’t complete his degree but is very highly regarded. As Natalia says, it’s what you do that counts.

I was on BBC Points West tonight talking about discovering the cave lion jaw 🦁💗🦣 (Only available for 24 hours) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Some of the most successful palaeontologists I've met, especially over the past week, have absolutely no formal qualifications outside of high school whatsoever. They're in it for the love. Palaeontology really is what you do and what you make of it, not what a piece of paper says about you

Palaeontology is what you do and not who you are. If you take time to broaden our understanding of natural history, via citizen science projects, fossil collecting, doing own research etc. you are a palaeontologist. You can finish a PhD in palaeontology, and leave the field entirely, many people do.

Does anyone have any recommendations for any UK based tattooists who do good fossil pieces? After a week at Cerney Wick I think it's finally time to invest in some pieces. I've been putting it off long enough.

I was on BBC Points West tonight talking about discovering the cave lion jaw 🦁💗🦣 (Only available for 24 hours) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

For #InternationalCatDay and #FossilFriday here is an in-situ cave lion found today at the Hills Quary products, Mammoth Graveyard. #TuskForce #CaveLion #IceAge

The news is out! On Wednesday I found this unsuspecting looking bone under a nodule. We thought it was a baby mammoth scapula. This morning we realised it was the jaw of a cave lion. An incredible team effort to expose, identify, and conserve this incredibly rare specimen 😍🦣🦁💗 #TuskForce

The news is out! On Wednesday I found this unsuspecting looking bone under a nodule. We thought it was a baby mammoth scapula. This morning we realised it was the jaw of a cave lion. An incredible team effort to expose, identify, and conserve this incredibly rare specimen 😍🦣🦁💗 #TuskForce

For anyone wondering, this is where I've been since Sunday! I'm having an incredible time. On Wednesday I found a baby mammoth tusk, as well as something really exciting that I can't talk about yet 🤐🦣👀

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Putting Bandcamp Friday on payday is so heinous like... the pay check literally only just dropped in my account and it has to last five weeks with a festival in the middle but also I've gotten into a billion new bands in the past few months and it is.... BANDCAMP FRIDAY 🙃🙃🙃

It's true, #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age is coming to #AppleTV for November 2025. These images show how good our animals are, but... believe me, this barely scratches the surface!! It has been a massive thrill and privilege to help bring this series together... you're in for an incredible treat.

It was great fun working as a consultant for Apple TV+/BBC Studios' Prehistoric Planet 3: Ice Age -- reconstructing Ice Age worlds down to the tiniest detail is what really floats my boat, and I cannot wait to see how it has turned out! Streaming from 26th November: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Every single time I tell a bassist friend I've got really tiny hands they're like "oh same" and then we compare hand size and Every. Single. Time. their fingers are always 1-2cm longer than mine 😭

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

AND ANOTHER Early Jurassic Chinese Sauropodormorph Because there aren´t enought A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia Wudingloong wui gen. et sp. nov. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've written almost 4000 words for my WIP manuscript in the past 30ish hours my brain is fried 😭

While we're talking about Temnodontosaurus's hunting strategies, apparently its preferred prey were belemnites and the babies of other ichthyosaurs, based on regurgitated boluses and this guy's gut contents. As described by Serafini et al. 2025: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I have decided to use it to get into the show that The Band™️ are putting on on Sunday. I think it'll be ~£15 on doors so I'll just be like "you suck you lose you get only ten pounds and the privilege of seeing my face"

Big news! Our study, just out in Nature, is a game-changer for giant ichthyosaurs! We describe the first Temnodontosaurus flipper with fossilized soft tissue, giving us a unique look at how these massive creatures used stealth while hunting in darkness. 1/7 #science #news #scicomm

Oh BOY! Story time! All the way back in 2016, on our way back from Munich for a EAVP meeting, @dinosven.bsky.social‬ got a mail by Georg Göltz, attached were some first images of an incredible specimen. That evening we went over the material again and again...

Someone is going to need to palaeoart the new ichthyosaur paper asap because I'm having trouble visualising what it would've looked like on a 3D animal and the paper itself doesn't provide any reconstructions!

Among my favourite marine reptiles are the temnodontosaurs, mostly big, predatory #ichthyosaurs, mostly from the European Early #Jurassic. WHAT were they doing, how were they making a living? An extraordinary new #OA paper in Nature provides some answers... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lindgren, J., Lomax, D.R., Szász, RZ. et al. Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Good morning to the soggy £10 note I found on the walk to the bus stop this morning

Hey Paleo folks! I strongly encourage paleos to boycott this year’s GSA. Texas is not a safe state for, well, anyone really, but particularly not for women, POC, LGBQT, etc. The state government is funded by sales taxes, so anything you buy funds Abbott & Klan. Attend PalAss or something else!

Love how your ancestor predicted the evolution of berries 75+ million years before they evolved 🍓🔍🐁

Workplace fire alarms as an adult are fun it really is just everybody looking around the room for several minutes going "well is anyone gonna answer that?" before deciding to move

Oh btw band update I didn't get it

Oh btw band update I didn't get it

"For the first time, scientists from Utrecht, the UK and the US have been able to determine how sea levels must have varied on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years." 🧪⚒️🌊 Paper:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25003243

I was having a really terrible day in my brain and all it took to fix me was listen to two Oingo Boingo albums... huh... everyone say thank you Danny Elfman

It's too warm on my way to my audition 😖😖😖

Kingdom: food Phylum: frozen food Order: ice cream Family: ice cream on a stick Genus: magnum Species: mint magnum

Went to Blea Wyke and Ravenscar today. Saw some really cool geology, lots of bivalves, and a friend 🐍 But most importantly I didn't die going down the fisherman's ropes. Never again 😱🫣

o-oh.. opabinia!! Are those for me? you shouldn't have!

Correction: I have just realised that this is a Moomin

I've been looking for a four leaf clover every time I see a clover patch for months with no luck and then this morning at the bus stop I just looked down briefly and there it was... Gotta be a sign right? 🍀