Tetrapod vocal evolution reveals faster rates and higher-pitched sounds for mammals url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

We're #hiring! Passionate about natural history and historical collections? Here at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history, we're looking for an Assistant Archivist to support our Collections team. Closing date: 9 Nov 2025 Find out more:

Violence, scientific DRAMA, and misunderstanding! Who first asked if woodpeckers get headaches, or if rams are immune to brain damage? New Paper! I trace the history of human thought on brain injury in head-hitting animals, and it's a wild ride. 🧪 🏺 A thread - 1/🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

🚨NEW SAUROPODOMORPH NAMED🚨 a warm welcome to huayracursor jaguensis, the running wind of carnian argentina! huayracursor is described by hechenleitner et al. from an almost complete specimen in the andes of la rioja province www.nature.com/articles/s41... (art by jorge blanco)

The release of the BBC story on this year’s dinosaur track excavation at Dewars Farm means I can finally post these team photos. Thanks so much to quarry manager Mark Stanway & all his team at Smiths Bletchington for being utterly amazing & supporting our work at the site.

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

🦕 For #PalAss members: Are you planning to participate in #PalAss2025? 🌍 Don’t forget to check this option ✅ 💡 All information can be found here ⬇️ 🔗 palass.org/palaeontolog... #palass #conference #bursary #possibility #apply

When you visit Friday Harbor Labs, @fishguy.bsky.social always has cool fish to discuss 🐟 Last week we pondered the horned searobin (Bellator militaris), & what its spines could be for. CT scan available on MorphoSource for you to explore www.morphosource.org/media/000027546 Images made in 3D Slicer

In JSP this week, Bisconti 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. describe a newly discovered fossil from the Late Miocene of Piedmont (Italy), illuminating a long-lost chapter in the evolution of Cetotheriidae 🐋 an extinct lineage of baleen whales within Mysticeti 🐳 Read more: buff.ly/EPHt5wE #PaleoSky #Fossils #NewSpecies

No better reason to join Bluesky then to say the first chapter of my PhD is out as a preprint! New surgeonfish phylogeny, ecomorphological relationships, evolutionary shape correlations-with NEW method to accurately account for phylogenetic covariation among shapes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Newest #paleoart is Hesperosuchus running off with a stolen Coelophysis egg. Not often you see the little pseudosuchian preying on the dinosaur. Figured I’d switch it up. #watercolor #sciart

Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) This duck species is native to Asia, distinguished by its stunning plumage. Many birds have escaped from collections & there are now 7000 living wild in the UK & large populations in Germany, Carolina & California, USA. Terrific image taken by Graham Walker in the UK

academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds #nesting #evosky #ecology #ornithology

Opportunity to manage one of the world's great herpetology collections and join the outstanding community of museum folks here at U-M! 🐍🦎🐢🐊🐸

A new portrait of Monolophosaurus. The crest here is more voluminous than most reconstructions, exploring the idea that the underlying bone might have been anchoring a larger pneumatised casque. #SciArt

Animated Scutellosaurus!! (Also Dilophosaurus, prosauropods, and dimorphodonts, but I think I've seen animations of all those before...) youtu.be/BYCjeNQvISM?...

For #FossilFriday some iguanodontian dorsal vertebrae with ossified tendons which would have formed a crisscross pattern. First appeared Late Jurassic associated with increased mass and quadrupedality. From #IsleofWight in the collections of @nhm-london.bsky.social.

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

New paper @journalsystpal.bsky.social with Drew Moore @stonybrooku.bsky.social re-evaluating diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur phylogeny + biogeography, including illustrating synapomorphies, with implications for the early evolution of the major lineages: doi.org/10.1080/1477... @es-ucl.bsky.social

In advance of the publication of my new book with @markwitton.bsky.social, "Spinosaur Tales" (Nov 6th), for #FossilFriday, here's a nice close up of a tooth of Baryonyx sitting in the jaw of the holotype. More spinosaur goodness coming in the next weeks as I desperately try to promote the book.

New paper in JSP! Mannion & Moore reassessed a putative dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gondwana and revised the evolutionary relationships and biogeography of diplodocoids 🦕 Read the full study here: buff.ly/tNyUNS9 #Paleosky @pdmannion.bsky.social #FossilFriday #NHM

Sea Monsters at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery. Friday 21st November 2025, I’m talking Sea Monsters Past and Present at Dorset Museum, Dorchester. This will be followed by a book signing. Info and tickets at... www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/sea...

#FossilFriday: pterosaur jaw from the Lias of Lyme Regis, collected by Dr James Harrison (1819–1864) who moved to Charmouth in 1850 and took up fossil collecting, his most notable find being bones of the dinosaur Scelidosaurus at Charmouth in 1858. This specimen in Lyme Regis Museum.

#FossilFriday: Good to see a new ichthyosaur added to the Lias fauna of Dorset's Jurassic Coast by Dean Lomax, Judy Massare and Erin Maxwell. It was found by Chris Moore at Golden Cap, about 4 miles east of Lyme Regis, a section also visited by Mary Anning. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New burrowing owl behavior for me today-- taking a bath in the rain! So cool! 🪶

SVP President @stuartsumida.bsky.social speaks to Open Access Government about the importance of vertebrate paleontology and science in the United States. www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...

Very happy to have contributed two papers to this Special Issue on Sabertooths:

I am currently working on MANY commissions. Here are some sneak peeks of two. I cannot share anything else about them yet! #paleoart #sciart #reptiles #art

Did you see #Dinomania at @dinoconuk.bsky.social ? Guess who's on #DragonsDen this evening?

A closer 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. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

Look what I got my hands on! 👐

New bird paper led by the brilliant and talented Andrew Orkney! 🐣 We show that greater parental care is linked to greater evolutionary flexibility in how birds fly 🦅

Great spotlight on our recent @currentbiology.bsky.social paper! www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)01167-4

So this new otophysan fish from the Late Cretaceous revises the origin of the clade. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some good news from me; I've just started a PhD on plant evolution at @openuniversity.bsky.social!!! I'll be posting a lot more soon, but for now here're some of photos from my first week! I can't believe I'm finally here! #phd #paleobotany #paleontology #research #botany #plants #leaves #evolution

Extinct Pleistocene carnivores were diurnal and had high metabolic rates: "Only basal metabolic rate and diurnality are robust predictors of extinction, even after accounting for phylogenetic and trait uncertainty" nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology

My first ideas to the finished "sea-rex" artwork; commissioned by The Etches Collection, which is where the spectacular pliosaur's skull is exhibited. Also pictured is a smaller "sea-rex" and Thrissops fish. #SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

Happy establishment day for John Day Fossil Beds National Monument! On this day in 1975, JODA was taken over by the National Park Service. Its mission, to preserve the region's geological and paleontological resources and to provide for the scientific and public understanding of these resources.

We're excited to share a new Special Issue on sabretooth taxa, broadly defined. From defining what makes a sabertooth/tusk to exploring fossil taxa and saber function. anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Volume edited by Hartstone-Rose, Werdelin & Pollock

Proud to share a new piece in Scientific American co-authored with the brilliant @lnwilson.bsky.social , edited by @katewong.bsky.social, and featuring this spectacular depiction of the endless daylight of the Cretaceous summer in Alaska by Chase Stone! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

#microCT scan of the left palpal bulb (male copulatory organ) of a grass spider I found wandering Beckman's hallways last week! 😍(He was on his last legs when he was preserved for the scan). Taken in the Microscopy Suite of @beckmanillinois.bsky.social and rendered in the Visualization Lab.

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

We have a new paper out! Turtle ancestors evolved a shell—but what else? We found that an unique rostral vasculature was also obtained gradually along the lineage, and that one of the earliest turtles Proganochelys likely retained a mostly ancestral state!🐢 sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Cranial osteology of Archaeoceratops oshimai (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) and phylogenetic evaluation of basal Ceratopsia: Historical Biology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Live feed of a team of Argentinian Paleontologists digging for dinosaurs (and hopefully, plants) in Patagonia. Starting NOW! www.youtube.com/live/ahvR-kh...

My new book with @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus and their relatives is out a month today! It's available for preorder, so now is the time to get in on this amazing and well-illustrated book on these oddest of #dinosaurs. But don't take our word for it, here's what others have to say: