The palaeontologist Mary Anning was born on this day 227 years ago! In our Fossil Marine Reptiles Gallery, you’ll find some of Mary Anning's spectacular finds, including her ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur. Much like they did two centuries ago, her discoveries continue to intrigue us today.🦴

The wait is over – our new exhibition Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep is open! 😍 From the pliosaur to the ichthyosaur, meet the legends of Earth’s prehistoric oceans. 🌊 Book your tickets now 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi...

This specimen of #Ichthyosaurus is one of the many spectacular fossils you can see at #JurassicOceans from today until 3rd Jan 2027! - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... @nhm-london.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🌊

"New exhibition, #JurassicOceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface & offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems." - www.theguardian.com/environment/... @nhm-london.bsky.social @theguardian.com 🌊

It's now less than 24 hours until #JurassicOceans opens at the Natural History Museum London, UK, marking it's European debut. - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... Come see #ichthyosaurs #plesiosaurs #mosasaurs #Leedsichthys & many more wonderful marine fossil creatures. 🌊🐚🐟🦈 @nhm-london.bsky.social

With just a single feather, the turtle managed to attract the attention of the female peacock.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐡𝐲𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬? Well, we’ve always assumed they did (and for good reason), but there’s been surprisingly little direct evidence to support this assumption. In a new paper, we describe an unassuming little Jurassic fossil that directly confirms it: doi.org/10.3374/014....

I'm thrilled to share my first published article ! A huge thank you to Erin, @deanrlomax.bsky.social and @feikosaur.bsky.social for their invaluable collaboration !

Do goats really faint and scream? 🤔 Find out in this week's #SurprisingScience!

Think you know the Jurassic period? Think again. 🌊 Announcing our new exhibition, Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep, opening 22 May 2026. Find out more info and book your early bird tickets here: brnw.ch/21x0MBt

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

Penguin Random House has started adding Bluesky as an option of where readers get book recs when they send out their Reader's Lounge surveys. We're slowly getting there 🙂‍↕️ 💙📚 #booksky

Many congratulations Jerry Hooker! @nhm-london.bsky.social Well deserved!

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough! 🎉🎂 youtu.be/ToGZ8ZkUaxY?... #Sylvicanthon #attenboroughi #Attenborosaurus #FossilFriday

⚠️Honouring Andy Currant: A 40 Year Legacy in Science and Curation 🔸Join the Natural History Museum, London in celebrating the life and work of Andy Currant (1952–2026), their long-serving Curator of Fossil Mammals ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honouring-...

Just a reminder that our AGM is next week. It is free to attend for both in person and online attendees, so do sign up :). The link is below www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

73 yrs ago today, May 6, 1953, the Hobart Mercury reports on carbon dioxide build-up, in article titled “Industrial Gas Earth’s ‘Greenhouse’ allouryesterdays.info/2026/05/05/m...

Bad weekend for the claret & blues. #COYS #THFC #Spurs #AstTot

Bad weekend for the claret & blues.

Don't forget to register for our (free) 179th Annual General Meeting! 📍 University of Southampton (and online) 📅 Wednesday 6 May 2026 Tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-palaeo...

This lovebird strips the leaves removing each midvein to tuck amongst its feathers for safe keeping: a more efficient way of gathering and transporting nest building material. Original post

1 May 1831: Oxford geologist William Buckland writes to Henry De la Beche 'I have a capital Class which I am sure is 30 per cent better for your Duria Antiquior by way of a Syllabus'. Published to assist Mary Anning, it was used by Buckland as a teaching aid in his lectures on the Lias saurians.

Paperback is out today - I am probably visiting a bookshop or library near you Swindon, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Pontypridd and many more www.robinince.com

It's one day since Tottenham last won a Premier League football match.

Well done to both @vftlpodcast.bsky.social and @theextrainch.bsky.social for calling out the lack of interest from X in responding to obvious racist abuse on their platform. #KickItOut #Football #Spurs #COYS #THFC

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Live in/near London with no plans this weekend? I have great news! It’s Generation Hope at @nhm-london.bsky.social and we’ve got loads of free events about the planetary crisis! Friday from 6.30pm…Tours! Storytelling! Art! Science! Amazing activists! www.nhm.ac.uk/events/a-nig... 1/3

New preprint🚨happy to share work from my first PhD chapter, evaluating the ways in which we can integrate ancestral state estimations into disparity workflows, completed alongside @tguillerme.bsky.social , Gavin Thomas & @nhcooper123.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪

#IanPlimer is a dishonest grifter trying to mislead people regarding climate change. His rhetoric is thoroughly debunked here: 🍋 #RealPeelScience - youtu.be/Jw9dWmxR38c?... 🙂

A great video about the 1976 heatwave which brought heat and drought to the UK: youtu.be/kB94zxxAtuE?is… @fascinatinghorror.bsky.social ☀️🍦🌡️🥵#Summer19767#Heatwaveve

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with petrol. And no need to wear gloves. Certainly not coming to a forecourt near you in America because the fossil fuel giants and their puppets in government like making lots and lots of cool money from easily-conned petrolheads.

‪Trevor Edwards‬ ‪@hedgehog1963.bsky.social‬ · 32s A fairway of putting it.

I asked myself "how do golf courses possibly afford property taxes" so I looked it up and came away convinced we could virtually eliminate the entire sport by simply removing several dumb tax loopholes

This is so well done. 👌

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

The majority against murdering children in Gaza are against the deliberate murdering of children by any regime - it is not about the religious identity of murderers, it is about the children murdered

Turns out, Iran is surprisingly good at trolling the Orange Atrocity. 🇮🇷 vs 🍊💩 Check it out their work here:

Drilling in the North Sea will not improve energy security or reduce bills. There is not much oil left & if accessed it will be sold on the international market & there is not enough to impact global prices. - youtu.be/O3AnLL2vR9I?... 🏭 @simonoxfphys.com #SimonClark #NetZero

London tickets here

You can't fool me, that's a man in some kind of suit

On this Trans Day of Visibility, please enjoy & learn something from this fascinating & clarifying read from @madeline-eppley.bsky.social, @andylee.bsky.social, Robert Dellinger & @allydefduf.bsky.social Read👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (🙏 for this excellent work & actionable recs!)

'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided' @chrischirp.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

On this day, March 25, 1957, Gilbert Plass and others were at La Jolla, in California, talking about, well climate change. 1/2 allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/24/m...

Bjorn Lomborg has been misleading people yet again with a climate related deaths graph. Details here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKL8...

#FossilFriday: a fossil sepia ink sac drawn with fossil sepia in 1834 by Lyme Regis fossil collector and friend of #MaryAnning, Elizabeth Philpot. The pencil annotation is by Oxford geologist William Buckland. More on fossil sepia coming in the next issue of @hoggroup.bsky.social's GeoHistories.

Yet another line of evidence that natural history #museums are the best museums: 7.3 million people visited @nhm-london.bsky.social last year, an all-time record for any UK museum or gallery. Natural history museums play a huge role in our relationship with nature www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Just under a month away until World Heritage Day where we'll be celebrating 25 years of the Jurassic Coast at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester! Be sure to join the celebrations on the 18th of April!

I just told BBC News: Energy crises are demand problems, not supply problems. 80% of our energy is fossil fuels, much of it imported, leaving us exposed to price spikes. The only long-term fix: electrify the economy with clean power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUI5...