The new season of Star Trek opens with the Enterprise travelling back 66 million years to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. I chatted with Inverse about what we know about it, how we know it, and how that scientific 'Enterprise' unfolded: www.inverse.com/entertainmen... Cheers from Mongolia! 🦖☄️🇲🇳

Star Trek Just Murdered The Dinosaurs, But What’s The Real Science?

Let's go back to the distant past... of 1980.

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If you are interested in a non-technical summary of our recent paper on how Cretaceous monsoons, tropical cyclones and tides created the exceptional Villaggio del Pescatore dinosaur fossil site, check out this piece I wrote for @theconversation.com: 🦖🌪️ theconversation.com/storms-that-...

Storms that built a graveyard: ancient monsoons created a spectacular dinosaur fossil site

A new study has found that layers in the rock record days, not years, representing storms.

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New paper out, co-led with Federico Fanti, in Global and Planetary Change! 🌩️🦖 We show how monsoons & tropical cyclones built the ~80 Ma Villaggio del Pescatore Lagerstätte in NE Italy, the Tethyshadros–Acynodon site. Image: “Stormbringer” by Davide Bonadonna. doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved is out and on (some of) the shelves... tetzoo.com/blog/2026/5/... #dinosaurs #books @nhm-london.bsky.social

The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved — Tetrapod Zoology

dinosaur book dinosaur evolution new for 2026 new edition covering anatomy evolution Tyrannosaurus Velociraptor Stegosaurus Triceratops stegosaurs ceratopsians origin of dinosaurs in Triassic diversif...

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Introducing Nagatitan, a new, large-bodied titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, with our paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Perth Sethapanichsakul: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper on the earliest Cretaceous Brazilian sauropod dinosaur Triunfosaurus, possibly the oldest known titanosaur, along with a new perspective on this clade's radiation, casting doubt on previous biogeographic proposals🦕(+ @ismarcarvalho.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/zool... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough! We fondly remember your visit to reopen UCL's Kathleen Lonsdale Building, home to our department. Sending our warmest wishes on this very special occasion

Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

Happy birthday to Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs”

April 25, 1925, birthday of Polish paleontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. She led fossil expeditions into the Mongolian desert revolutionizing our knowledge of Mesozoic mammals 🐭 www.nature.com/articles/520...

Ecstatic to share my latest published research, the last chapter of my PhD dissertation. 🦕 Iguanodontian dinosaurs may have originated earlier than we thought. 🦖We identified a new clade of 'sail backed' iguanodontians, we formally name it Ouranosauria.

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The early origin of Iguanodontia: new insights into the macroevolution, diversity & biogeography of the clade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social @palaeofil.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social

The early origin of Iguanodontia: new insights into the macroevolution, diversity & biogeography of the clade onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @morphobank.bsky.social @palaeofil.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social

New paper out today in @thepalass.bsky.social : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Co-led with @palaeofil.bsky.social , w/ Federico Fanti & Miguel Moreno-Azanza. Using the largest data matrix yet, we name a new sail-backed clade (Ouranosauria) & reassess Iguanodon taxonomy. 🎨Davide Bonadonna

Fabulous week with UCL Earth Sciences @es-ucl.bsky.social students in Dorset. Weather was lovely and the geology as always amazing!

Don't miss our Lapworth Lecture tomorrow with Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza Alessandro Chiarenza, exploring dinosaur ecosystem responses to climate change in the Mesozoic. Watch in-person or on Zoom, the lecture is free and open to all. 1/2

📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy! Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27... with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

At our next #LapworthLecture on Mon 9 March, Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza will speak about his research on #dinosaur ecosystem responses to #climatechange during the Mesozoic. Free & open to all. More info: www.birmingham.ac.uk... Illustration: Davide Bonadonna Alessandro Chiarenza

It was a pleasure for me discussing dinosaur ecology, evolution, and Mongolia fieldwork with you all at ICAL. Great research insights from many of you and thanks particularly to @fossilrob.bsky.social for the hospitality and the precious book gifts! Cheers from Georgie the Gorgosaurus 🦖

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Who’s that at our departmental seminar today? It’s the lovely @macroecoevoale.bsky.social wowing us with dinosaurs, ecology, and global science!

Our job adverts are now live! 🤩 We are hiring a Research Software Engineer and a Community Engagement Coordinator to support @palaeoverse.bsky.social over the next two years, based at UCL. Apply by January 18th 2026, ideally to start in March 2026 🗓️ More info and links below 👇

Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature

New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.

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Lava flow front from the ongoing effusive eruption in Valle del Bove, #Etna, Saturday, 3 January 2026, ~1345 m a.s.l.

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

Are you familiar with the @palaeoverse.bsky.social Lecture Series? Check out our YouTube Channel for lectures from community experts on method development and application in Palaeontology: www.youtube.com/@ThePalaeove... We will be announcing the next set of lectures in the New Year, stay tuned!

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Palaeoverse (https://palaeoverse.org) is an organisation that aims to bring the palaeobiology community together to share resources, work toward data standards, and improve reproducibility in palaeobi...

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Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )

If you can endure the bad jokes and childish banter, check out my chat with Susie & Rob on the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast! What were dinosaurs up to right before the asteroid hit? @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @fossilrob.bsky.social #fossilfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Q6...

18. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte. part 1

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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🪨💥🌎🦖🦕 What were dinosaurs up to before the asteroid hit? In the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and I sit down with @stevebrusatte.bsky.social to talk about new insights from New Mexico, out now on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts youtu.be/l4Q6ifORvVY?...

I wrote a piece for @theconversation.com about the top dinosaur discoveries of 2025, featuring Zavacephale, Istiorachis, Spicomellus, Nanotyrannus and Huayracursor. Research from @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @valdosaurus.bsky.social, Lindsay Zanno and more: theconversation.com/the-best-din...

The best dinosaur discoveries of 2025

We’re in a golden era for dinosaur science.

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Day 15 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert, where she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, where she & team found 🧵

Looking forward to presenting on Sunday (15:30, Richmond Building) at PalAss @thepalass.bsky.social in Portsmouth on climatic drivers of crocodile-line archosaurs macroevolution @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @pdmannion.bsky.social #PalAss25 #conference #portsmouth