Alison Park
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Fossil Preparator Emanya Fossil Preparation and Conservation Random posts that could be fossil or pet-related. https://www.emanyaprep.com/
At Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC to see the garden of evolution designed by @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, with help from @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social & BIFoR, featuring Ajkaceratops, a dinosaur described by team including Attila Osi, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and me!
Another #Coccosteus update. I still need a pet name for this one. Having her listed as "second coccosteus (plus client number)" is starting to feel a little mean. Suggestions welcome :) #fossilprep #Devonian #fish
Here it is! My first time seeing The Story of Birds, the actual final published book. Whoa!
Get ready! Eight episodes. Not just dinosaurs, but the entire history of life on Earth. Extinctions, cataclysms, upheavals, survival. Coming in June on NBC. Oh yeah, and this one, I did work on 😉 www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/...
Surviving Earth's Summer 2026 Premiere Date on NBC Has Been Revealed (DETAILS)
Get details about "Surviving Earth," NBC's new docuseries premiering on Thursday, June 4, on at 8 pm ET on NBC.
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Join us next month on the 19th March at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Professor Michael Benton. How has the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline? New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted...
Its a boy! This week's #fossilfriday, a #Coccosteus from #Cromarty, #Scotland Unfortunately the head did not stay attached but there are two claspers. #Devonian #fossil #fossilpreparation
So @fossilrob.bsky.social has posted me something and told me I'm not allowed to open it until we record the next Fossil Files podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social. I have concerns. Find out what it is by listening in wherever you get your podcasts... new episodes every other Tuesday
Finished this awesome mid-devonian Pterichthyodes "Ptessa" recently. #achanarras #Scotland #fossilfish #notadinosaur #fossilfriday #Devonian #fossil #fossilpreparation
He will be greatly missed by so many! A huge loss to the whole community.
Steve Brusatte@stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn shock to hear that Richard Forrest passed this morning. What a guy. I've met few people as enthusiastic about fossils. He had a whole life, whole career, outside of the academic world but made huge contributions to scholarship. And was so kind and welcoming to everyone. RIP.
These are amazing!
Dragons of Wales@dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 8mo agoNo. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
After we published the new specimen of #Spicomellus a few weeks ago, we were contacted by George Blasing, who said he'd bought some on the commercial market, and wanted to return it to Morocco. It arrived last week. Thanks George for doing the right thing in the name of science!
AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...
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View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...
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Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...
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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...
The Fossil Files: The Spicomellus Special
Perhaps the weirdest dinosaur ever has just been described in Nature, by The Fossil Files' own Susie Maidment. In a worldwide EXCLUSIVE*, Susie gives as the unvarnshed truth about how this spikey Jura...
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www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dis... Such a lovely piece about the the behind the scenes written by James Ashworth #spicomellus #fossil #fossilpreparation #dinosaur
Discovering mysterious Middle Jurassic dinosaurs in Morocco | Natural History Museum
Discover how new fossils of the unusual dinosaur Spicomellus were found in Morocco.
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More on Spicomellus, the weird wacky spiky punk-rock porcupine of a dinosaur, from the mad minds of @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @richardjbutler.bsky.social Crazier than any of those hybrids we had in Jurassic World: Rebirth? My thoughts for @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Spikes, a tail weapon and a shield: Was this the world's weirdest dinosaur?
The Spicomellus is “totally unlike anything else that we have ever seen,” said a co-lead of a study on the dinosaur, which lived some 165 million years ago.
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A journalist asked me yesterday how we worked out where all the Spicomellus armour went & truth is it was a challenge & what we present is a hypothesis. We had fun laying out all the armour & trying to figure out what the hell was going on! Fortunately @tweetisaurus.bsky.social is a talented artist.
Have you ever heard of #Spicomellus? It’s one of the world’s strangest dinosaurs. Its rib bone has spikes fused to it - something unheard of in any other animal! But now, more of the skeleton has been uncovered - and it's even stranger than anyone imagined... (1/4) 🧵
It's finally here! Meet Spicomellus - one of the world's strangest dinosaurs! After being named in 2021, many questions remained about what this ankylosaur looked like. So, in 2023, I was part of an NHM content contingent who followed @tweetisaurus.bsky.social up into the Atlas Mountains...
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!
Andrew Harrison@nndroid.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhy is this thing not called Spikosaurus blackmetallus?
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
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur
Nature - The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.
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