I'm off to a shockingly hot start this year considering that I didn't watch any college basketball. I'm sure it'll all bust soon, but I guess I pick better when I don't watch.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Skeletal morphology of an early ichthyopterygian, cf. Utatsusaurus hataii, from Japan with an emphasis on CT scan data of the skull: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I believe In evolution, except for the whole Triassic period"

Not fussed about Spinosaurs, but I do like PCAs. I do not like this PCA

Nice theropod but check out the third author on it

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

It's a sad world when articles about a photograph use an AI image instead of the actual photograph.

@garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @tuttran.bsky.social and myself are here at the @nhmu.bsky.social DinoFest! Come by today and tomorrow to learn about the #Idaho fossils from @imnh208.bsky.social that come from our ancient fliers!

Oh, Idaho. You make me ashamed. #idpol idahocapitalsun.com/2026/01/26/n...

First paper of 2026 is out for #FossilFriday, and the first of probably several ornithischian papers over the next interval. Here my coauthors and I describe some tantalizing bits that suggest that ornithischian diversity in the Morrison Formation is higher than previously recognized.

Even more recently, the holotype of Scyllacerta was referred to newly named Akkedops bremneri on the basis of them being from the same locality….. But they are separated by hundreds of miles and millions of years in stratigraphy…. As are the other specimens to referred to Akkedops 👀 🤷‍♂️

Introducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Had a productive week scanning at VTCT! I'm excited to dive into the data and start segmenting.

Come work with the vertebrate paleontology team at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC this summer! REU Students will have the opportunity to study and reconstruct the skulls of Permian and Triassic reptiles 😃 Reach out to me if you have any questions (: Apply by the 31st!!

Thanks for taking this photo @paleorob.bsky.social! *doctoral student*

Jingle Jam has officially begun, and our 2025 Games Collection is live! The redesigned collection is back, with 15 top-tier titles (and a few bits more). Donate £35 to charity, get some awesome games as a reward. Got a games-lover in your life? It's the perfect stocking stuffer!

New paper alert! (My first!) This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible! giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Mary Anning famously survived being struck by a bolt of lightning when she was 15 months old. From this and her extensive work on fossils and geology, we can infer that she was likely Ground-type

🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. London, W. Pickering, 1840. [Source]

Buffa et al.’s paper on the enigmatic Permian reptile 🦎 Galesphyrus and the origin of Neodiapsida is out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology! Read the thread 👇 for some important takeaways from our study @valentinbuffa.bsky.social #Paleontology #Reptile #Permian doi.org/10.1080/1477...

Always a great time at #2025SVP! I enjoyed getting to share some of my early dissertation work and hear what's going on around the world of marine reptiles.

Birding in England has been a good time. It is fun to see species that are similar to the North American birds I'm used to but with a fun little twist.

Pre-SVP trip to the NHM in London! The marine reptile wall is what I live for.

🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. London, W. Pickering, 1840. [Source]

FINALLY some good fuckin science www.cell.com/action/showP...

#FossilFriday and the Peecook lab is out in the Pleistocene of Idaho making some new friends! 🦬🐪🦥 @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @imnh208.bsky.social @idahostateucose.bsky.social

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer! We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians. 1/4

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

Reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus ('spiky collar'), certainly one of the most unusual dinosaurs known. Found in the mid-Jurassic El Mers Group of Morocco, it is also the oldest definitive ankylosaur.

Ichthyosaurs were fully pelagic five million years after the End Permian Mass Extinction - and we have fetal vertebrae from two Early Triassic taxa. That is the main findings in our @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports paper published just now🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 The Lego mineral set is available for preorder and it’s not as good as the original design but I won’t let that stop me 🚨 www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

X.A Jenkins et al. (2025) Evolutionary assembly of crown reptile anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida Peer Community Journal 5: e89 doi: doi.org/10.24072/pcj... - peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

It’s finally out! Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

Stratigraphy 🤝 Phylogeny One of my favorite parts of this paper as a paleontologist with a heavy geology background.

Specifically, by placing 'the earliest reptile' Hylonomus on the amniote stem and removing a ~50 million and ~30 million year ghost lineage for Millerettidae and Neodiapsida, we greatly improve the stratigraphic record of early reptiles and amniotes more broadly!

HYPE. It's so great to finally see this paper come out!

Abstract accepted for #SVP2025 - #2025SVP! I'm excited to head across the pond to Birmingham to give my talk and get caught up with all the latest research. I'm hoping for a higher than usual representation of marine reptile research 👀

First time in my time here that I've been happy with both my senators from Idaho. Glad this is facing bipartisan opposition.

Welcome the new (or at least newly described) Jurassic ichthyosaur 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘪 from British Columbia. Featured in a new paper by Massare & colleagues. www.sci.news/paleontology... #FossilFriday #Ichthyosaur Full paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I saw a Phidippus johnsoni today in the field and my first reaction was "Oh look! A velvet ant!" So I guess the mimicry works on me.

Huge congratulations to Xavier! He did some great work for this dissertation and was an excellent resource to have in the lab for the two years since I started.

Sure looks like the same Police Department that just put 9 rounds in a nonverbal autistic kid with cerebral palsy 12 seconds after arriving at his house just put snipers on the roof above a small peaceful protest. #Idaho www.reddit.com/r/Idaho/s/WJ...

As a huge fan of the books, I'd say I'm reasonably hyped for this. I wasn't sure how well SecUnit would transition from the page, but the trailer seems to capture the general feel. youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?...

RFK Jr is not going to just “determine the cause of autism.” That boiled kneecap has spent his life distorting scientific information. He’s not going to suddenly reveal a breakthrough in a field he barely understands.

Ah!! I'm so excited to get the Guanlingsaurus + Odontochelys piece!

Working on some big ichthyosaur histology today with Randy at U of U. Shout out to @semifossorial.bsky.social for running to the pharmacy down the street for mineral oil.

I am always excited to see more marine reptile CT data get published. peerj.com/articles/190...