How did dinosaurs do it? We plumb new depths for the next episode 🦕❤️🦕

Thanks everyone support over the last year! Here is a look back at top episodes of 2025 🥳🎉

On this cold cold January morning, warm your cockles by listening to the second part of our chat with the one-and-only @stevebrusatte.bsky.social here: fossils.libsyn.com/19-dinosaurs... or wherever you get your podcasts #FossilFiles @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Am really enjoying & learning lots from @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast, particularly that they include any type of fossil, from the Edicaruan to Neanderthals, as well as dinos. Loved this episode on fossil fails, when paleontology gets it, um, wrong. V. funny but also informative.

JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

If you can endure the bad jokes and childish banter, check out my chat with Susie & Rob on the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast! What were dinosaurs up to right before the asteroid hit? @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @fossilrob.bsky.social #fossilfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Q6...

🪨💥🌎🦖🦕 What were dinosaurs up to before the asteroid hit? In the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and I sit down with @stevebrusatte.bsky.social to talk about new insights from New Mexico, out now on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts youtu.be/l4Q6ifORvVY?...

On the off-chance that you are one of the three people left in the world who hasn't heard me talking about stegosaurs, you can catch me here, on The Ancients podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=I9Vk...

Will AI replace palaeontologists? Can we use AI to find, classify, and interpret fossils? 🤖🦖🐚 New episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social looks at just that for #FossilFriday

The fossil files is at #SVP2025 to bring you all the hot gossip. First episode “Nanotyrannus and vertebrate origins” is out today with @jgn-paleo.bsky.social, @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and Yara Haridy

The fossil files are at #SVP2025 and will be bringing you all the exciting developments and hot gossip. Episodes out this week

Review of the Fossil Files podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social just in from a palaeo podcast skeptic: "I really thought palaeo podcasts weren't for me, but I guess I was listening to the wrong ones". Listen on libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts: fossils.libsyn.com

How did pachycephalosaurs get their head-butting dome? In the new episode out today, we take a look at Zavacephale, a lovely new dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia

Not only can a nasty fungus take over an ant or spider's brain causing behaviour changes before it explodes as spores out of the animal's head 🐜 🍄, but it seems this nightmarish behaviour can be captured in the fossil record. New episode: "Cretaceous Zombie Ants" new episode out today!

🚨 Time for a #FossilFriday round up: our selection of some recent research highlights. THREAD

🚨New episode out today!

#Fossil Files podcast fans!! Today sees the release of Fossil Fails II: The tiny dinosaur with the massive flaw... Get our take on that whole Oculudentavis thing - available now on libsyn and wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/fossil-fails...

How do you select a name for a new dinosaur? Sneak peek on #FossilFriday of the next @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out on Tuesday with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/5Cbz9...

This episode was genuinely hilarious to make... listen in on all your favourite podcast platforms! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

Could there have been dinosaurs on the moon? 🦕🌝 No really. 🚨 New episode out today on notorious "Fossil Fails" in which Susie and Rob explore some odd examples of palaeontology gone wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

In this week's episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, I complete loose control I think you can even pinpoint the exact moment that @tweetisaurus.bsky.social makes me laugh so hard that I burp. Tune in for 🦕🌔🐝 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Could there have been dinosaurs on the moon? 🦕🌝 No really. 🚨 New episode out today on notorious "Fossil Fails" in which Susie and Rob explore some odd examples of palaeontology gone wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Our newest episode is one not to miss! Susie spills the beans on the latest research on Spicomellus, a beautiful armored ankylosaur If you ever wondered what goes in to studying dinosaurs it’s the perfect way to answer your questions! Find us on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube etc. links in the bio

Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...

Have a listen to our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susie Maidment's podcast- This episode she talking about how her team found, excavated and studied the amazingly weird and spikey #Spicomellus specimen! 🦴 #Fossils #FossilFiles @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #Dinosaur #Nature #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity? Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info: www.systbio.org/idea-award.h... You may self-nominate!!!

Creative use of autocorrelation in analyzing trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian explosion: "..lack of temporal correlation in the studied Ediacaran trajectories and its presence in...Cambrian trajectories, indicating time-tuned behaviours.." arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02940 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷‍♂️ @universitedeliege.bsky.social @naturmusee.bsky.social @just-fre.bsky.social @peerj.bsky.social peerj.com/articles/19786

Get the inside scoop on dinosaur weirdo Spicomellus from @tweetisaurus.bsky.social: behind the scenes, how the pandemic nearly killed it, where to put all those spikes, & dodgy fossil dealers @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out today www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Xb...

🚨New Episode out today! Susie and Rob talk all things Spicomellus, everyone’s new favourite dinosaur No better way to get all the info than straight from the researcher who studied the fossil! Out now on Spotify, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/6t9V...

What's better than an hour of Dave talking about dinosaurs? How about three and a half hours? Should keep a few of you busy at least. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm1... And have I ever looked this dramatic before?

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

Find out more in new @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out today: "Mirasaura, Triassic Punk" Available now on Youtube, Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJX...

Question: What the hell is this? (thread)

🚨 New episode! Stunning fossil, cool techniques and interesting findings, what more could you want? Susie and Rob discuss Mirasaura grauvogeli. A 247mil year old reptile that had stunning feather-like crest on its back! Available now on Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts

I absolutely love this story by @jamesashway.bsky.social on he background about how we found Spicomellus

🎉 More new research from our podcast hosts. This time Rob and a team of other fossil fish researchers has published an extensive family tree for Heterosctracans, a group the of armoured fish that formed part of the discussion on early vertebrates in our latest episode

A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem-gnathostomes) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad @wileyearthspace @fossilrob.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social

It also highlights the incredible significance of Moroccan palaeontology. A very sad part of this story is that Spicomellus fossils - very likely parts of exactly the same skeleton that we describe - are for sale having been illegally poached & smuggled. I hope these find their way back to Morocco.

If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...

If you don't have access to Nature, but would like to read our paper on the new specimen of #Spicomellus, you can read it online at this link with no subscription: rdcu.be/eCJK3

Meet Spiny Norman, the earliest known and definitely the most outrageously spiky ankylosaur ever discovered, as presented by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @richardjbutler.bsky.social in @nature.com. Q: how did it mate? A: carefully. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social came up with the name 'Spicomellus', meaning 'spikey collar' back in 2021 based on a single partial rib, we never could have guessed how accurate he was!

Maidment, S.C.R., Ouarhache, D., Ech-charay, K. et al. Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Bonus mini-episode released today! Where do Squid come from? Susie and Rob discuss squid origins and the use of digital techniques a new paper from Imegami et al Available on Spotify, YouTube and all the usual places. Links in our bio

Morning! For #fossilfriday why not give our latest episode a listen! Susie and Rob have a chat about a new paper that explores the origins of vertebrate teeth via some very cool techniques Or check out our back catalogue that ranges from the first fossil hunters to where pterosaurs come from

A 🦋 #NaturalHistory 🦋 and 🟨 #Lego 🟨 superfan dream job?? #MuseumJobs jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The origin of vertebrates gets a shake up as one of the first fossils of vertebrate skeleton turns out to be an invertebrate. Latest episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social out now, where ever you get your podcasts