If you’re interested in reading about the behind-the-scenes of the Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda research I did over the last 4 years, then check this @palaeocast.bsky.social blog post out. I embarrassed myself repeatedly so it’s kind of amusing www.palaeocast.com/on-the-origi...

Gondwanan royalty for today’s #FossilFriday Dinodontosaurus tener from Brazil, Dinodontosaurus brevirostris from Argentina, and Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda from Tanzania They probably didn’t think of themselves as royalty tbf, just very hungry

Two separate studies coming out in back to back days in the same journal have described the first “old-world” occurrences of two iconic Mesozoic tetrapods of the Americas: Diplodocus and Dinodontosaurus Life on our planet has always been more spectacular than we could ever expect

I found out my paper on Dinodontosaurus was provisionally accepted two days before Spencer’s post, and 6 days after it I got the official acceptance Few #FossilFriday posts have been such a timely surprise

Spencer K. Pevsner, MSc@skpevsner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy #FossilFriday! Today we’ve got Dinodontosaurus, a South American dicynodont! This display at the UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil, shows an adult skeletal mount surrounded by numerous juveniles - whether they’re a family or a graveyard resulting from the Great Dying is for you to decide! 🦊⚒️🧪

Big congrats to @houdzgeorge.bsky.social on this latest publication - a substantial and impressive piece of research! [And yes, I am leaving work now and heading to the pub to buy you a celebratory pint🍺]

Hady George@houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵

A little interview with BBC wildlife. A weird pig indeed www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-...

“Imagine a huge pig with a turtle’s beak and tusks.” New prehistoric species discovered hiding in London’s Natural History Museum | Discover Wildlife

The remains of a prehistoric animal species in London’s Natural History Museum have officially been classified – and it could change the dinosaur timeline

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Hady George@houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵

The best part about publishing on a dicynodont is getting to chat about it with @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social Check out this video for a fun breakdown of the science youtu.be/sGxqaqWbayw?...

How a new dicynodont rewrites the dawn of the dinosaurs | Interview with Hady George

YouTube video by Skeleton Crew

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Hady George@houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵

From the 🐐 of posting new papers ⬇️

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.@arctomet.bsky.social · 3d ago

Full article: Craniomandibular osteology of Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda sp. nov. (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Manda Beds of Tanzania and new support for a younger age for the alleged oldest dinosaurs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So wonderful to finally see this out! Congrats to @houdzgeorge.bsky.social and the team. 🎉 This is a big piece to refining the terrestrial Middle/Late Triassic across southern Pangea. And the award for best use of “U” goes to the original genus: Ruhuhuungulasaurus. 👀

Hady George@houdzgeorge.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵

Welcome Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda! I'm delighted to introduce you to a new species of protomammal. Hailing from the Triassic of Tanzania, this is the first record of Dinodontosaurus outside of South America, and it informs on the origin of dinosaurs. Here's a thread summarising our findings 🧵

A new species is coming your way tomorrow, watch this space…

1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what about the beauty of the eye itself? Vertebrate eyes show strong conservatism, but amphibians have additional structures in their irises that have never been fully described! Why has no one been LOOKING (😜) at these structures? buff.ly/eaJ2WMs

I do want to point out: from all we know, these papers (and the people behind them) agree on most relevant points. What makes this topic so exhausting are not different views on noisy data but needless personal attacks fragmenting an already tiny field. Very tired and glad to move on from this ...

The Anatomical Record@anatrecord.bsky.social · last wk.

🦖✨ New issue alert, spotlighting a timely and fascinating scientific debate: How should we infer cognition in extinct dinosaurs? Two recent papers dive headfirst into this debate — and they do not agree. Full issue here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

Check out our short paper from last year, now in a journal issue. We argue our side of the story in this debate. There’s a lot of important information in the table we put together. The co-evolution of warm-bloodedness and cognition is fascinating but far from a simple narrative

The Anatomical Record@anatrecord.bsky.social · last wk.

🦖✨ New issue alert, spotlighting a timely and fascinating scientific debate: How should we infer cognition in extinct dinosaurs? Two recent papers dive headfirst into this debate — and they do not agree. Full issue here: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494...

Double preprint alert! 🚨 Jaws: Baby shark 🦈 We used micro-CT scanning to examine the tessellated calcified cartilage in the jaws of 10 young chondrichthyans in 3D. We found some surprises—like chunky trabeculae in a baby nurse shark! Many thanks to all my co-authors for their help and support!

Early Ontogenetic Development of Tessellated Calcified Cartilage in Chondrichthyans

Tessellated calcified cartilage (TCC) is a hallmark of the chondrichthyan skeleton, yet its development early in ontogeny across the four major groups (batoids, galeomorphs, squalomorphs, and holoceph...

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🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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Life is short and precious. Harms to severe mental and physical health are irreparable. Jobs are many. Don't waste life, time and body for work. If it's toxic, leave. You've too little time to waste it on pain.

I have also been providing free illustration for struggling museums. One of which is Palestinian Museum of Natural History. Where I provided many illustrations for children's activity rooms and palaeontological displays (cheers @houdzgeorge.bsky.social for contacts!) along with other artists

New paper 🧪🪨🦐: We describe the N'kob Biota, a new Middle Ordovician Biota from Morocco that fills a critical gap between the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota and the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota. Out now in Geology: doi.org/10.1130/G546... Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

New #lungfish just dropped! Welcome to the world, Jumisodus latus, a #Devonian lungfish from the Famennian of #Latvia! Named for the Latvian figure 'Jumis', god of fertility and harvest, whose symbol represents the tooth plate outline in this new taxon... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new Late Devonian dipnoan from the Ketleri Formation of Latvia

Dipnoans (lungfishes) reached their peak of taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity during the Devonian Period, followed by a pronounced decline in both thereafter. The Late Devonian (Famen...

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I was lucky enough to see endangered turtles hatch from their eggs and make their trip to the sea yesterday. The large swarm of humans scared off any potential predators. It wasn’t nearly as dramatic as in the documentaries

A paper in Nature reports on a star that appears to be sensitive to the spin of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This discovery could enable researchers to more closely analyse the spin of supermassive black holes. go.nature.com/4zmNujb 🔭🧪

⚠️Please repost!⚠️ Over 99% of species that ever lived are extinct. Without palaeontology, the new Natural History GCSE will only cover a snapshot of life's history. We're making the case for fossils in the new GCSE 🦴🐚🌿 teach.ocr.org.uk/palaeontolog... The consultation is open now! Have your say👇

Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc position on vision in trilobites! Come and explore the exciting world of reconstructing vision in the fossil record, using some of the most iconic extinct animals to grace our oceans! Please reach out + RT! (*Deadline in fact 23.59 BST on the 26th August!*)

Lauren Sumner-Rooney@laurensr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Some principles of evolution that people should recognize more frequently: - First! - If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it - A thing that’s useful for X ends up useful for Y, so you end up always using it for Y - Every rule can have an exception

The PalAss is proud to support the new Natural History GCSE 🌿🦋. As the public consultation on subject content is under way, we make the case that fossils should be at the heart of this new qualification. Read the full story here and have your say 📚👇 teach.ocr.org.uk/palaeontolog...

Pleased to share our latest special issue: Feeding biomechanics in vertebrates & beyond! The issue brings together studies spanning insects, fishes & mammals to explore feeding biomechanics anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Guest Editors: Böhmer & Winkler

Our latest: Xinyuan Meng @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social describes Bataspis crux, expanding galeaspid (jawless fish) disparity with a bat-like head adapted for dynamic lift. Xinyuan's study was aided by @ferronhg.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Zhikun Gai and myself. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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