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Sophie M.@sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 3d ago

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Welcome to Nyana - the first dino to be named from our long-term project in the Late Triassic of the Qhemegha region of the Eastern Cape. Led by PhD student Atashni Moopen at Wits Uni 🦕🇿🇦 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

For #FossilFriday a natural cast of a sauropod dinosaur foot at Hanover Point #IsleofWight. Shows the traces of 5 toes moving through the sediment.

It's new dino day! Please welcome Paludohadros to the ever-expanding list of Wealden Group iguanodontians. This big specimen was a juvenile when it died.. could it be the Weald Clay's "Big Iggy", which isn't Iguanodon at all?

A rhino-sized dinosaur from a Surrey brickworks has been named as a new species. Paludohadros proudlovii lived around 125 million years ago—and was likely still a juvenile when it died. doi.org/hcpzx5

Fossils from brickworks reveal new dinosaur species that roamed England's wetlands 125 million years ago

More than 25 years after it was first discovered, a new species and genus of dinosaur have been named from the fossil collections cared for by the Natural History Museum.

phys.org

Our paper out today. A new iguanodontian dinosaur Paludohadros proudlovii from the same beds that produced Baryonyx. Congratulations Ricardo!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Smokejacks Brickworks, southern England

A new genus and species of an early-diverging hadrosauroid dinosaur, Paludohadros proudlovii gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Weald Clay Formation of Smokejacks Brickworks, ...

tandfonline.com

A 430 million-year-old coral, Halysites, which resembles a tiny chain. A tabulate coral from the Silurian Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, possibly from Wren's Nest, in tropical Dudley 🏖 #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🔬🧪🌊

125 million years ago on a rippled riverside a dinosaur walked out. #Isleofwight #Fossilfriday

Socks and sandals are nothing new! These well-preserved woollen socks from Egypt feature a split-toe design allowing them to be worn with thonged sandals to keep toes cosy in chilly weather some 1,500 years ago! 🩴🧦 V&A Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Not bombshells. Entirely on brand “appalling behaviour” and “extreme racism” from an appalling, extreme and racist party, led by an appalling, extreme and racist man. The apples are all rotten because the tree is. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The bombshells from the undercover sting operation which plunged Reform into crisis

The party has been accused of ‘appalling behaviour’ and ‘extreme racism’ following staggering revelations

independent.co.uk

There’s too much caution about calling Farage and Reform racist. They have no such timidity when they threaten to strip us of our rights and protections, to mass deport people and kill them at sea. They routinely insult, perv, vilify and hate people. You don’t ‘nice’ that away. You call it out.

The new Deep Time Trail to Siccar Point, opened this year to mark the tercentenary of the birth of geologist James Hutton, now has the interpretation this famous and important site deserves. Great work by @scottishgeology.bsky.social and Edinburgh Geological Society and donors.

“Portrait of Caubvick, an Inuit Woman from Labrador” by Unknown artist – Oil on canvas / c. 1772 – Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (London, UK) #WomenInArt #Inuk #HunterianMuseum #art #artText #arte #InuitWomen #LabradorInuit #IndigenousWomen #portraitofawoman #1770sArt

Holocystis elegans, a very pretty 110 million-year-old colonial coral from the Lower Greensand on the Isle of Wight. On display in Dinosaur Isle museum. #FossilFriday 🌏⚒🧪🏵🌊🏵🌊

For my second #FossilsFriday - the magnificent London Archaeopteryx!

Fossil taxa are sometimes considered island weirdos without any actual evidence that island effects were important in their evolution. So we wrote a paper on how we could do actual island biogeography in deep time. If you want a copy but can't access it, email me: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Island biogeography in deep time - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Island ecosystems feature unique species assemblages with diverse evolutionary histories, but identifying island communities in deep time comes with its own challenges. This Perspective explores the a...

nature.com

A big thumbs-up for Iguanodon this #FossilFriday 👍 The hand of Iguanodon bernissartensis, complete with thumb spike, on display in the Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels. 🌏⚒🦕🌲🦖

Hands up - are you guilty? I know I am! 🙈 #WritingCommunity

There is a plant which can mimic the leaves of other plants - including plastic ones - and the best explanation for this ability is that it has some form of vision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant

Upon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possi...

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Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2mo ago

Tell me a fun fact.

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Will Tattersdill@tattersdill.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So here we go then: the result of many years thinking about how dinosaurs make science and the imagination work together. It's written for both literary critics and scientists and my dearest hope is that it will help foster an academy where we talk to each other more

CEO of Anglian Water, England's worst-polluting water company, handed extra £1.3m despite govt ban on bonuses for failing firms. Companies circumvent rules to reward execs for dumping sewage, fleecing customers, neglecting investment. Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

England's most prolific polluters hand water boss extra £1.3m - despite ban on bonuses | LBC

Last year, the government delivered new legislation to prevent underperforming water companies from offering bonus payments to their executives.

lbc.co.uk

Gold octopus ornaments from Bronze Age Mycenae, some 3,500 years ago. Probably sewn onto a funerary garment or shroud. Grave IV, Grave Circle A. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology

Bog star is a much better name than Grass of Parnassus.

Friends of Lye Valley@friendlyevalley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The very first of our Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) or "bog star" flowers are just starting to open. 😍 Let's hope this is another bumper year for one of the southern most populations of this plant. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday a rare shark’s head in lagoonal sediments from the earliest Aptian of the #IsleofWight. About 30 cms across. A row of teeth can be seen across the lower jaw. On display at #DinosaurIsleMuseum.

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

An astonishing and shocking analysis in the British Medical Journal. So many deaths just to appease Trump. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests

Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports

theguardian.com

After years of advising palaeontologists to give up on the 'species recognition' hypothesis for elaborate structures AND of promoting mutual sexual selection in Mesozoic #dinosaurs, @davehone.bsky.social and I are seeing more takeup of what we suggested... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just got Broad-banded hopper wasp in the garden, a bembicid sand wasp that predates mostly on bugs. Relatively rare and my sighting is the first iNaturalist record for Southampton! Err, if it's correct. #wasps #hymenopteran

The extent to which fieldwork in palaeontology (& other research areas) is valued has been in long-term decline, with funding challenging despite its fundamental importance. Will the rise of AI change this given that finding, collecting & studying new fossils cannot be done by a computer? I hope so.

A massive mollusc for #FossilFriday Bourgetia is a 160 million year old gastropod from the tropical seas of the Yorkshire Jurassic. The grid on my desk is 50mm. There's a good article about these and other upper Jurassic snails here: fossilsinthills.weebly.com/blogs/the-tw... ⚒️🌍🐚🐌🔬🧪