Happy 120 years of Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus sarcophagus! Both of these iconic dinosaur species were named by paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn on this day back in 1905. (Yes, this would have been a good #FossilFriday post, but it's Saturday and I'm terribly literal.) 🦖🧪

For #FossilFriday - a wonderful profile of U Nebraska fossil preparator Carrie Herbel! Carrie was a core mentor during my undergrad at SDSM&T, and a big part of getting me launched into the field. She continues to do fantastic work as a museum professional! 🧪

This adorable oreodont family has had quite a journey. Paul Miller made this mount for the U of Chicago Walker Museum in 1924. They were transferred to the Field when the Walker shut down, then loaned to the BYU museum for 60 years. The oreodonts are now back in Chicago. #FossilFriday

We mapped vertebral shape variation in rabbits, hares & relatives, from within species to across mammals. Patterns differ by scale, revealing new insights into how the spine evolves: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Taewcharoen et al. @anatomygiraffe.bsky.social

New preprint: Brawn before bite in endemic Asian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction. #Paleontology #Mammals #Extinction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... TLDR: S. China mammals diversified dentally, tracked environment, then leveled up bite mechanics all within the first 10 m.y. post K-Pg.

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today? dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042 Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

Wowzers. A _ton_ of cool talks by amazing people available on @palaeoverse.bsky.social palaeoverse.org/lectures 🧪

"The Netherlands plans to transfer more than 28,000 fossils from the Dubois collection to Indonesia, following a request by Indonesian authorities." omg

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

experiment.com/projects/rea... Absolutely consider supporting this fundraiser. This is something extremely important to sauropod researcher and done by a team of amazing people, some i am fortunate to consider friends.

When does biology become geology? This is a fun paper for us (although I, myself, was just one more member of Band-Aid for this particular paper), and hopefully it helps clarify a lot of things that we sort of already knew but never really formally addressed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very cool and important specimen!

i think regardless of who has authored a paper, we (the scientific community) can and should stop criticizing the work on lack of perceived novelty. we can do better than perpetuating harmful myths about individual scientific papers having to present a discovery no one has ever thought of before.

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this gorgeous juvenile hadrosaur jugal (cheek bone), collected this summer in the "Mesaverde" Formation of northwestern Wyoming. Our preparator Andrew is doing an amazing job cleaning it up. Collected under #BLMPaleo permit, accessioned at @alfpaleo.bsky.social 🧪

What’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!

Major update to Open Source photogrammetry software Meshroom Meshroom has for some time been one of my top choices for open-source or free photogrammetry software, offering a really deep amount of customization and tinkering. However, while this blog made a big splash early on reviewing all the…

Happy #FossilFriday! Check out this gorgeous juvenile hadrosaur jugal (cheek bone), collected this summer in the "Mesaverde" Formation of northwestern Wyoming. Our preparator Andrew is doing an amazing job cleaning it up. Collected under #BLMPaleo permit, accessioned at @alfpaleo.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

Timeline cleanse: do you want to see one of the best fossil animations I have EVER seen? @kiabugboy.bsky.social you are literally a master of the form. BBC or Discovery (whoever pays more) should hire you immediately 🧪🦑⚒️

Meet @albertonykus.bsky.social ! iobopen.com/2025/09/15/m...

📯Collection manager position in the Natural History Museum of Basel 🇨🇭 Collection: "invertebrate" fossils Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Svd1o2M333av... Workload: 70% of full-time Description and application page: stellenmarkt.bs.ch/kbs/job/deta...

Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The Green River Formation is rich in species diversity. This snapshot captures nocturnal animals emerging as their diurnal neighbors start to settle in. This work is commissioned by the NPS to highlight species found in the Fossil Butte Monument in Wyoming.

New in @peerj.bsky.social - Digitized endocasts and brains: a perspective on measurements & historical analyses of the evolution of 172 fossil & extant amniote specimens peerj.com/articles/198... A thread: <1/n>

After ten years, along with my co-founders and co-editors-in-chief @toriherridge.bsky.social and @mlaw.bsky.social, I am stepping down from the role of editor-in-chief of Open Quaternary. We're searching for someone who will be dedicated to continuing the success of the journal-could it be you?

Hey there, Los Angeles! I'm going to be at DinoFest today; stop by the @alfpaleo.bsky.social booth to say hello and chat about all things dinosaurian!

Here's my skeletal of Medusaceratops lokii, a Albertaceratopsini Centrosaurine from the Judith River formation of Montana. This taxon is known from a large bonebed containing many specimens. thanks to both @lordtrilobite.bsky.social and @andyfarke.bsky.social for helping the restoration! scalebar 1m

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Happy #FossilFriday! Earlier this week, I learned how to use our new 3D scanner. First up - some "Mesaverde" Formation hadrosaur bones. 🦕🧪

The National Geographic Society is hiring a full-time Museum Education Manager. www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

I just heard the news that vertebrate paleontologist Mark Norell passed away. When I was a kid, I eagerly followed the latest discoveries by him & his team. Although I did not know Mark well, he was always helpful during my research visits to the AMNH. His biggest kindness, though, was early on. 1/2

Excellent opportunity! (and if you are a paleontologist and want to maximize your trip, get in touch with us @alfpaleo.bsky.social to see if there are specimens at our institution you should see also - we're only 30 miles east of LA, now w/better public transit access, too!)

10 years after I started collecting data my paper on the use of spice in farmhouse brewing is finally submitted to a journal. It's based on 1052 individual accounts of farmhouse brewing. Material collected from 15 different archives in 8 different countries. 7191 pages of documentation in total.

Time to push these again! Open for work!

Just to fill the space and test posting here.

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

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Watched this young male mule deer out my window yesterday - great views, and it was cool to see the small antlers (probably its first set).

Happy to see the Guardian has an obituary for Martyn Cornell out today. He deserved that. Even if it does feel bitter-sweet to read it. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/au...

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

The Department of Integrative Biology @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy! Open until September 19. Please share with anatomy/paleo/func-morph colleagues and friends. Happy to answer any questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05053

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Matt Wedel (one of my co-authors on the Aquilops paper) and I had a fun time geeking out over this summer's Jurassic World installment. You can hear our thoughts in this new video from @alfpaleo.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWA...

New blog post: Even the worst fiction can be a fun mental playground, so here's a deep dive into the dinosaur exhibit at the "Natural History Museum of North America" in Jurassic World: Rebirth. extinctmonsters.net/2025/08/09/a...

Happy #FossilFriday! One of our interns found this gorgeous little multituberculate mammal tooth, ~3 mm long, in "Mesaverde" Formation matrix from Wyoming. We're slowly building up the picture of this vanished world from ~79 million years ago. #BLMPaleo permit, accessioned @alfpaleo.bsky.social 🧪

#ToeBoneTuesday Just found in the Teapot Sandstone of the "Mesaverde" Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Probably hadrosaur. #BLMPaleo permit, accessioned at @alfpaleo.bsky.social 🧪🦕🦖

Look what @andyfarke.bsky.social found at the @denvermuseumns.bsky.social the other day!!! So freaking cool!!! I can't think of a better place to sell I, ROCK than a natural history museum gift shop, it's just too perfect! 😃

One of our summer interns found this gorgeous multituberculate upper molar in matrix from the "Mesaverde" Formation of Wyoming (BLM Paleo permit, accessioned at @alfpaleo.bsky.social)! Maybe Filikomys? Mesodma? (leaning Fil) Gotta spend some more time with it to figure that out...(1/2) 🧪

Are you looking for a PhD project starting this year? I have a funded (UK rates) project on mammal skull diversity and function, looking at skull allometry and how mammal heads adapt to trade-offs in tissue demands during growth 🦌🦘🐘🦥 Please share and apply: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/buil...

One of our summer interns found this gorgeous multituberculate upper molar in matrix from the "Mesaverde" Formation of Wyoming (BLM Paleo permit, accessioned at @alfpaleo.bsky.social)! Maybe Filikomys? Mesodma? (leaning Fil) Gotta spend some more time with it to figure that out...(1/2) 🧪