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the value of museum collections - this project rapidly snowballed from Ryan Tokeley emailing me while surveying the Carnian collections in the Warwick Museum stores to say there is a specimen labelled as 'fossil shark' which led to a very fruitful fishing expedition #fossilfriday

Richard Dearden@euphanerops.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fan of weird end-Permian-surviving fossil sharks? Check out our preprint describing the first endoskeletal fossils of Carnian jalodontiform Keuperodus brodiei. #FossilFriday doi.org/10.64898/202... Led by Ryan Tokeley (no bsky), based on his great masters project work @nitroshutter.bsky.social

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.

A ChatGPT diagram of a skull with some weird labels. The lower jaw is both the mandible and the occipital bone. Also, the nasal cavity is between two teeth!

@worcswt.bsky.social most of these are from samples Russell collected from Upton Warren (in part to justify days spent birdwatching there)

Lapworth Museum of Geology@lapworthmuseum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Did you know the #Museum has a collection of Quaternary beetles from Worcestershire? Did you also know that these were analysed by G. Russell Coope, internationally famous for his work reconstructing ancient climates using these very #fossils? Image by Greg Milner. #LapworthRocks #FossilFriday