39 people, one quarter of the CAVEPS delegates, attended our best practice workshop for collaborating with Indigenous communities. The yarning circle couldn't get any bigger. This gives me hope that the future is looking bright for decolonising vertebrate palaeontology in Australasia.

Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

✅ RNA? ✅ Ancient RNA? ✅ Ancient RNA from woolly mammoth! #FossilFriday 🦣 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The Ice Age megafauna has never felt so real: the art and science behind ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’, a #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge interview with myself and series producer Matthew Thompson... 3dvf.com/en/redaction...

Super chuffed to have been awarded $40,000 in the latest @universityofotago.bsky.social Research Grant round to continue our palaeontological research at St Bathans - with @palaeocharlie.bsky.social, @atennyson.bsky.social, Ross Thompson, Malcom Reid, Amy Adams, & Gerry Closs.

One of my favorite CT scans I helped make for #oVertTCN: a 5-day-old loggerhead shrike ate a tiny lizard! 🪶🧪🦎 How can we tell it's a lizard? Tail vertebrae in reptiles have chevrons for muscle attachment. Mammal tail bones don't have those. CT scan available: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

Tried to pull together a pack of AU/NZ palaeo crew - there's gotta be more, who have I missed? 🦘🥝🦕 go.bsky.app/JU83Md1

In celebration of USA's National Fossil Day, I’m excited to share Catriona’s shelduck from New Zealand! This is the eighth and largest duck species from the St Bathans fossil fauna which lived during the Miocene (19-16 Ma). Follow the link if you want to learn more! www.mdpi.com/2673-6500/2/...