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Paleo Mutt ⚫️⚪️🟤🤟🏿🕉 📿 💜 PhD student at Uppsala University 🇸🇪
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A giant plagiosaurid temnospondyl from Bjørnøya (Svalbard, Norway) and the origin of the plagiosaurid body plan
An articulated temnospondyl skeleton from Middle Triassic deposits of Bjørnøya (Bear Island) in the western Barents Sea is described as a new plagiosaurid genus and species, Arctobatrachus urdensis. ...
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We stumbled across a rather substantial collection of junkyard art in Wyoming. I jokingly named This Ichthyostega wyomingensis…
A prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) I encountered in Montana. Sadly my camera was at camp, and I did not have my snake hook to carry the snake back to camp.
SIGINT #88035 from MENTOR (TOP SECRET) 1. Pit of Coelacanths 2. A Matchmaking 3. AI Light
The Sam Noble Museum is hiring a Collection Manager for the Fish Collection! Come work with me in Oklahoma! Please share widely! #TeamFish #MuseumJobs jobs.ou.edu/jobs/curator...
Curator Archivist - Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Pay Range: Targeted salary $18.99 per hour, based on experience Benefits Eligible: Yes Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (may include some weekends) Travel: May be required For Be...
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Happy Juneteenth! But for me it’s never really that happy. Every year this day comes and I’m overloaded with happiness and sadness. Is Juneteenth a day of celebration or grieving? It‘s really hard being African American in paleontology, especially in my field of study... It’s quite lonely.
New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition
Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...
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New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Amphiuma Head and Skull tetzoo.com/blog/2026/6/... #amphibians #salamanders #herpetology
The Amphiuma Head and Skull — Tetrapod Zoology
Salamanders have been covered at Tet Zoo on numerous occasions, there being articles on newts and other salamandrids, plethodontids (lungless salamanders) of numerous sorts, and also ambystomatids (th...
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New (fragmentary) fossils extend the record of salamandrids (newts and allies) into the Cretaceous of Europe. Not a shocker given their close relatives also have Cretaceous records, but good to see, regardless. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New fossil evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Europe (southern France) deepens the origin of Salamandridae (Urodela) and refines the biogeography of the family - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - New fossil evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Europe (southern France) deepens the origin of Salamandridae (Urodela) and refines the biogeography of the family
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Absolutely overjoyed to share our new paper describing the oldest occurrence of soft-tissue preservation in crinoid echinoderms and their ecological significance 🧪
Exceptional soft-tissue preservation reveals the oldest evidence for tube feet and their ecological significance in crinoids
Abstract. Tube feet are extensions of the echinoderm water vascular system that play essential roles in feeding and ecology in living crinoids. However, on
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featuring art by @serpenillus.bsky.social and skeletals by @literallymiguel.bsky.social, an explosive new paper by @semifossorial.bsky.social et al. finds that testudines are archosauromorphs 🐢 it also recovers eunotosaurus within millerettidae
New paper. Modern hagfishes (Myxiniformes) have radically reduced eyes. When did these reductions happen, and how? Leveraging the diverse hagfish fauna from Mazon Creek, we show this happened gradually in animals occupying shallow marine environments royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
A few years back, we described Gaiasia, a giant stem tetrapod from the early Permian of Namibia. This summer we're going back, looking for the rest of Gaiasia's ecosystem. Stay tuned!
Paleontological Society@paleosoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago🦎 2026 Norman Newell Early Awardee Highlight! Dr. Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social will travel to Namibia to collect and describe early Permian vertebrates from the Huab Basin 🇳🇦 This project expands that picture to high-latitude Gondwana 🌍🔎 #Biogeography #Permian #NamibiaPaleontology #Tetrapods
Something we are missing in this discussion of LLM-generated text is that scientific papers are not a dispassionate report of data and results. They are an arguments for the unique evidentiary value of specific datasets or analyses among the wide range of data and analyses already available.
Intraskeletal variability in osteohistology and growth record in a single individual of Sclerocephalus nobilis (Temnospondyli; Early Permian) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Intraskeletal variability in osteohistology and growth record in a single individual of Sclerocephalus nobilis (Temnospondyli; Early Permian)
Abstract. The osteohistology and growth record of eight bones from a single individual of the Permian temnospondyl Sclerocephalus nobilis were analysed. Th
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Last week was a blast at Uppsala. I gave a seminar talk, chatted to so many brilliant palaeos, and enjoyed the Swedish Valborg festival that welcomes Spring. One of the highlights of the PhD journey. Huge thanks to @perahlberg.bsky.social @captain-colosteid.bsky.social and others not on bluesky
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Matt Friedman@friedmanlab.bsky.social · 3mo agoRay-finned fishes are famously diverse, but we know little about their brains or cranial endocasts. @rodrigoichthys.bsky.social opens this black box with a dice-CT survey of 86 species across the actinopt tree of life. #OA in @royalsocietypublishing.org 🐟🧠 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
I am so unbelievably proud to present 8 years of hard work: the worlds oldest octopus is not an octopus... Pohlsepia is actually a really rotten Nautiloid (but oldest soft tissue nautiloid ever found!). 🐙❌ royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Calling all archaeologists with expertise in British stone tools! These two just turned up among my father-in-law’s house contents. Unfortunately no provenance data. The narrow one is quite thick, diamond-shaped in cross-section, and the flat end appears to be broken.
"We're going for our families, we're going for humanity" Artemis II has launched. Follow us for coverage throughout the 10-day mission go.nature.com/4c4ib1G
Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do
Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
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Carboniferous tetrapod fauna of the fossil lycopsid trees at Joggins and the origin of the hollow tree guild
In their 1853 paper announcing the discovery of fossil tetrapods in the once-hollow trees at Joggins, Nova Scotia, Lyell and Dawson gave three possibi…
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🚨New species alert! 🚨 Meet Tanyka amnicola – a 275-million-year-old animal from Brazil with twisted jaws and sideways-facing teeth! Find out more about this strange species 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
New species of “living fossil” had jaws unlike anything seen before | Natural History Museum
Tanyka amnicola was a relic of an earlier and more experimental time in the evolution of life on Earth.
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This paper carries a special satisfaction for me. Years ago, Donglei Chen and I discovered small tooth-bearing elements in Silurian vertebrate micro-residues (obtained by dissolving rock in acid) of the stem osteichthyans Andreolepis and Lophosteus. We worked out that they must be the inner dental
Henry Gee 亨利·纪@endofthepier.bsky.social · 5mo agoMegamastax, a mighty chew from the Silurian - paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper! How weird could Permian animals get? Turns out, pretty weird. Meet the stem tetrapod Tanyka amnicola from the Pedra de Fogo Formation of northeast Brazil royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.
