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Excited to see this article led by @seishirotada.bsky.social out in @anatrecord.bsky.social. Triceratops and their ceratopsian kin are more than horns and frills! Check out their narial regions! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Thank you @thepalass.bsky.social for a great conference and awarding me a prize for my poster on the results of the first chapter of my PhD! And congrats to @harrysavage.bsky.social and the other three recipients of poster prizes for their amazing work #PalAss25

I also presented my bachelors dissertation on some sabertooth FEA which I worked on with @palaeostephan.bsky.social! This was an amazing conference, super thankful for @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the host committee for letting me help out

This weekend I very briefly presented some of my research on hydrodynamics of bone beds at PalAss 2025. Big thanks to the host committee and @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @imranrahman.bsky.social for all the help with the project!

Amazing second year at this site! These footprints are really something special.

Richard Butler@richardjbutler.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Nature research paper: Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate go.nature.com/46WNnNU

Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate - Nature

Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov., an early squamate identified from a newly discovered Middle Jurassic skeleton on the Isle of Skye, provides new evidence on the origins of snakes.

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It's fair to say that not everyone was convinced by our identification. But now we have a much more complete skeleton, excavated by our UK-Moroccan-US team. Not only does Spicomellus have spikes fused to its dorsal ribs, it has metre-long spikes extending from a cervical half ring

That’s a wrap on my two months @thepalass.bsky.social research internship at the NHM 🦖! Spent two months working on some awesome techniques (bet you can’t guess by the photos 😂) with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @imranrahman.bsky.social! Grateful for the staff involved in making this happen.

November can’t come soon enough! So excited to share this research on evolutionary constraints of sabre teeth. 🐯 #SVP2025

Have you seen the Band of Brothers episode of Walking With Dinosaurs yet? Last year it was an absolute pleasure to dig at the site with our University of Birmingham undergraduates - thanks so much to @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social & @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social for an amazing experience!

Prehistoric Museum@prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

If you missed us on @pbs.org, you can stream the Band of Brothers episode of #WalkingWithDinosaurs online! #WWD2025 #FossilFriday www.pbs.org/video/band-o...

So glad to be able to share my opinions on the new series of Walking with Dinosaurs with BBC’s Points of View. Great opportunity to talk about the show and its significance to the public.

Exam period forces me to finally tackle palaeontology’s biggest question: What’s the relationship of the random items in room G26? Think this is definitely a future publication 😂. Still no closer to understanding the field of phylogenetics!

New therizinosaur fossils are always exciting. But this one is particularly weird/cool having only two fingers! Some comments from me on this new find in National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

This bizarre new dinosaur has something in common with modern sloths

Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand.

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Nothing like a spontaneous midweek trip to London to listen to @tweetisaurus.bsky.social’s amazing talk on stegosaurs. Great way to celebrate handing in a dissertation 🥳

Got a sneaky peek at these results last month. Might be the best matching of academics and Sci-Fi I could imagine!

Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · last yr.

This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...

Here’s the BBC News channel coverage of our Oxfordshire dinosaur tracks from earlier today, including an interview with me at the end: youtu.be/mIEmgtpO3RU?...

UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site discovered | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Super happy to finally be able to share this! These are some photos from the UK’s biggest dinosaur trackway which was uncovered in Oxford over the summer. It was an amazing experience getting to help excavate and photograph these tracks. Thanks to all the staff involved.