Just in time for #FossilsFriday but here are a few photos from my trip to the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster! I was mainly visiting for their Lepidodendron canopy specimen!!! It's a wonderful museum! #museum #paleontology #paleobotany #dinosaurs

I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart

I also had the opportunity to co-lead the first symposium on Plant Paleoart together with @palaeojules.bsky.social! It was extremely successful, with speakers coming from different career stages and paths and bringing interesting perspectives. Looking forward to repeating the experience at IOPC!

⚠️ Few PhD and project opportunities. More details below ⬇️ palass.org/phd-opportun... #PhD #opportunity #palaeontology #project

Some interesting invert photos from my first few days in Greece! A very polite jumping spider. A bug (nymph?) Drinking sap from a Magnolia. And two slugs mating! #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotogeaphy #insects #greece

Hot Take for #FossilFriday - the quest to make paleontology "useful" and "relevant" and "high impact" has backfired spectacularly. A hypothetical "Big Data Approaches to Deep Time Ecosystem Services" almost always end up largely disconnected from actual fossils. (thread) <1/n>

The moon was super bright tonight. So you know what that means... #MoonPics!!! Mounted my camera and got a nice pic of it (best pic I've ever taken of it, at least). The first image had some poat production light balance altering, second is the raw photo, and the other two are the setup. #moonphoto

My review of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants is now up at Palaeontologica Electronica. Approaching it wanting to know more about Mesozoic plants for my #paleoart, the reconstruction-heavy format is welcome, but many aspects could be improved. palaeo-electronica.org/content/?vie...

Review: The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

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I just realised I don't think I ever shared my Duckling Witch!!! So... here you go! Enjoy! #witch #witches #duckling #duck #digitalart

Here is our new paper: Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests. Peng J, Slater S. M, McLoughlin S, Rastier A, Vajda V: doi.org/10.1038/s445... #Paleobotany #lycopsids #Jurassic

Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests - npj Palaeoecosystems

npj Palaeoecosystems - Global proliferation of opportunistic pleuromeian lycopsids following the disappearance of the end-Triassic forests

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So, had a great time. Massive thanks to @markwitton.bsky.social for setting it up and for the tour, learnt a lot. Many vistas at Crystal Palace - shaped when the park was built - have a bucolic, Constable-like feel, and I don't think this is a coincidence. Visit, and support this amazing place :)

Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...

Bever et al. (2026, The American Naturalist) Conserved Polymorphism, Fossils, and the Macroevolutionary Reach of Microevolution doi.org/10.1086/740891

Conserved Polymorphism, Fossils, and the Macroevolutionary Reach of Microevolution | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

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Plants!!! Oh, and I suppose a dinosaur too. #paleobotany

Mark Witton@markwitton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another very busy week and manic #FossilFriday, so here's a drive-by new #paleoart post of Middle Jurassic British organisms: the (very poorly known) possible dryosaurid Callovosaurus, two bennettitaleans (Williamsonia and Williamsoniella), plus bonus Cladophlebis ferns. #sciart #fossils #dinosaurs

#FossilFriday The archaeological museum and art gallery in Aurillac has a small display of Cenozoic fossil leaves from the Massif Central of France collected and described by the palaeobotanist Pierre Marty (1868-1940).

A little game ahead of #FernFriday 🌿 🤔 Only 1 of these 4 photos doesn't show any #fern. Can you find which one? I'll post the answer and more details tomorrow! #botany

In preparation for @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social's Family Fun Day next week, I've made a large poster of Middle Jurassic Chinese plants for an activity I'm running. But what will I be doing with it? Perhaps it involves a few hidden beasties. #FossilFriday #Paleoart #paleontology #museum #paleobotany

Just submitted a review of the Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants. Short version: a book heavy on plant reconstructions is a great idea (and potential #paleoart reference), but it's let down by formatting issues and problematic plant recons. Thanks to @palaeojules.bsky.social for discussion.

When growth form fossilizes: a new liverwort species from the Cretaceous Las Hoyas site onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @davidhorcajada.bsky.social #FossilFriday

I haven't drawn anything in a while (outside of some comms), so here's an Archaeopteryx wip from this evening! #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur #bird

I'm in the @rbgkew.bsky.social Herbarium again today photographing leaves!!!!! Eeeee, it's so exciting to see it finally all set up!!!! #Kew #Botany #PhD #SpecimenPhotography #science

Happy #PrideMonth. #2SLGBTQIA+ #LGBTQ #trans #lesbian #TransRights

Wenwei Guo, Li Tian, Daoliang Chu, Wenchao Shu, Michael J Benton, Jun Liu, Jinnan Tong (2026) Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction eLife 14:RP104205 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction

In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.

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Hi all, Just a reminder that we're still accepting talk and poster abstracts for our Symposium Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and Promises, and the deadline is in two weeks, on the 31st May! I'm really looking forward to seeing some of you there!!! #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart

Mario Coiro@lepidodendron.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

Happy #FossilFriday, So, some fun news: I won a Highly Commended Prize for this year's Marsh Palaeoart Award, run by the @palaeontosoc.bsky.social, for My submission 'Life Restorations of the Rhizotaxy and Growth Architecture of Oxroadia'! #paleoart #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

No collections day for me tomorrow since I'll be somewhere over the Atlantic in an aluminum tube. So to make up for that, I spent some time in the gallery of the lovely Lapworth Museum at the University of Birmingham.

So you've heard about trilobites, but do you know Naraoids? These trilobite cousins shared similar bodies but differed in details. Most importantly, they lacked hard exoskeleton and had only soft cuticle. That's why they are known only from sites with exceptional preservation, such as Burgess Shale.

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.

Anne-Laure D 🌿@aldpaleo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...