Calling all past, present, and future users of PLASIM-GENIE! We are looking into launching a user group to facilitate easier access to support when setting up and running the model. We would like input on what would work best, so please get in touch here or on email! bryony.blades@open.ac.uk

Nice surprise to make a brief appearance in last night’s episode of #Evolution. I filmed material for the PBS (US) version, but wasn’t expecting to feature in the UK broadcast. Pleased to have had the opportunity to advise on the series & delighted to see the positive reception it’s received!

Like many palaeontologists, Jurassic Park holds a special place in my heart, having helped spark my passion for palaeontology as a child. Sam Neill’s Alan Grant was a big part of that inspiration. Saddened to hear of his passing. RIP Sam Neill

Andrej Spiridonov@andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Such a sad news. RIP Sam Neill (1947 – 2026).

Very pleased to share the trailer for the new BBC/PBS series, #Evolution! Really glad I could contribute to the show as one of the scientific consultants & help bring #palaeobiology research to life on screen for a wider public audience. 📺 Airs 13th July in the UK www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8s...

Evolution: Official Trailer | BBC Earth Science

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New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition

Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...

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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳 We are looking forward to hearing from Corinne Myers, Pablo Milla Carmona, @brpetrucci.bsky.social, and Emilia Jarochowska! Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 - Landi et al. present a morphometric study on the morpho-functional diversity of beaked terrestrial tetrapods across the Permo-Triassic ⬇️ Great to see this published & have been a part of this project! #Paleontology #Ecomorphology #Triassic #Science dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala...

Beaks of the Permo‐Triassic: a morpho‐functional analysis at the dawn of a novel structure in tetrapod evolution

The Triassic was a unique time for beak evolution, as seen in a wide diversity of terrestrial tetrapods. Beaks were present in dicynodont synapsid survivors of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction even...

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Last night was the premiere of the first episode of Surviving Earth! I want to share with you snippets of the concept art I did for Inostrancevia #SurvivingEarth

I managed to watch Surviving Earth (thanks Peacock)*, so here here are a couple gorgonopsian skulls! #FossilFriday *I enjoyed it! Would have preferred a little more geographic and temporal context, but there was a lot more to like than in most of the competition.

Benoit, J., Legendre, L.J., Araújo, R. et al. Evolutionary stasis in synapsid encephalization during the end-permian mass extinction. Sci Rep (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Last few spots left for this summer! Open to undergrad & postgrad students - an excellent opportunity to be a part of a paleontological dig right here in the UK! #StudentResearch #Palaeontology #Fossils

Dr Suresh Singh@palaeosingh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨 Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - See below for more details ⬇️ #Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR

1/10 🚨🚨🚨 New paper on dinosaur evolution! Chris Griffin and I look at why we can't seem to figure out how the major groups are related! It might be a hint about how dinosaurs came to be! Photo: Anchisaurus @yalepeabodymuseum royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Good to see that this specimen will reside in Brazil in the (hopefully near) future.

Paul Stewens@p-stewens.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The #fossil of Irritator challengeri is finally going back to Brazil after 35 years in Germany. This is a major event for #DecolonizeScience and the #restitution of natural history specimens. Let's talk about #IrritatorBelongstoBR. [1/17]

🚨BREAKING NEWS: We got our first glimpse of the poster of #EvolutionWithChrisPackham !

Wonderful to see the Natural History Museum is as popular as ever! 💚 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Natural History Museum most popular tourist attraction in 2025

The venue broke the record for the most visitors to any museum or gallery in a single year.

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Think you know the Jurassic period? Think again. 🌊 Announcing our new exhibition, Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep, opening 22 May 2026. Find out more info and book your early bird tickets here: brnw.ch/21x0MBt

Few spaces left now so do hurry if you want to get involved in some #palaeontology fieldwork in the UK! This #Carboniferous site is already yielding great floral fossils & we’re hopeful to find some more faunal fossils soon!🤞 See below for more details ⬇️ #Fossils #Science #Research #Geology

Dr Suresh Singh@palaeosingh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨 Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - See below for more details ⬇️ #Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR

Macungo et al. present a new middle #Permian gorgonopsian, Jirahgorgon ceto, from the Abrahamskraal Fm of South Africa 🇿🇦 - its large size suggests the emergence of large #gorgonopsians earlier than expected! 🔗 anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Paleontology #Science #Synapsid

Evolutionary radiation of large‐bodied gorgonopsians from the lower Abrahamskraal formation of South Africa

The middle Permian represents a critical interval in therapsid evolution, when gorgonopsians emerged as some of the first specialized apex predators within terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their signi...

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Delighted to see this paper from my former MSc student Elías Warshaw now published - Big Congrats to him on getting his dissertation published!👏👏👏 The study explores how constraints & ecology shaped Permian #synapsid skull #evolution ⬇️ 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #Paleontology #Science

Thrilled to have been a scientific advisor for Netflix’s new show: #TheDinosaurs 🦖🦕 Grand to see it out & the positive reception - 💯% on Rotten Tomatoes shows the enduring appeal of dinosaurs & their ability to inspire interest in #Paleontology, #NaturalHistory & #Science. #FossilFriday #SciComm

NHMLA has a student collections study award (deadline April 1) - nhm.org/student-coll.... NHM has great paleontology collections, AND it's near many other museums (Alf, San Bernardino Co. Museum, Western Center, Cooper Center, San Diego NHM), so a SoCal paleo trip can cover a lot of institutions!

🚨 Call for Abstracts 🚨 Abstract submission now open for a symposium meeting on #MarineReptile palaeontology hosted at @morethanadodo.bsky.social from 7-8th October 2026. Abstract deadline: 1st June 2026 #Palaeontology #Science #SciComm

Smith & Sidor present a new shuvosaurid, Sonselasuchus cedrus, from the Late #Triassic Chinle Fm. in Arizona 🇺🇸 & a mass assemblage of at least 36 individuals. Seems these crocodile-line ‘dinosaur mimics’ were quite abundant! ⬇️ #Paleontology #Fossils #Science www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Osteology and relationships of a new shuvosaurid (Pseudosuchia, Poposauroidea) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A.

Shuvosauridae is a clade of pseudosuchian archosaurs currently represented by three named species characterized by a body plan strikingly convergent with that of ornithomimid theropod dinosaurs. Th...

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Pardo et al. report a new stem tetrapod, Tanyka amnicola, from Brazil 🇧🇷 that survived into the early #Permian, with interesting implications for faunal #evolution across the Permo-Carboniferous in the Southern Hemisphere. ⬇️ #Paleontology #Fossils #Science royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

An aberrant stem tetrapod from the early Permian of Brazil

Abstract. Early evolutionary history of tetrapods is typically divided into two major phases: an initial diversification of archaic stem tetrapod groups, a

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CRUROTARSI🐊 these are only a few examples of how diverse the lineage Crocodiles come from used to be 🐊 #crurotarsi #pseudosuchia #paleoart #purussaurus #deinosuchus #postosuchus #plesiosuchus #arizonasaurus #phytosauria

🌴🦈Carboniferous Puertollano🐸🌋 In the lands of La Mancha, fossils from the Late Carboniferous known from old coal mines reveal a tropical coastal swamp ecosystem, rich in aquatic and plant life #paleoart #FossilFriday #Carboniferous #Puertollano 🧵Thread for additional explanation

New paper by Angielczyk et al. reports new #synapsids from the early #Permian tetrapod fauna of the Pedra de Fogo Formation, Brazil 🇧🇷 - South America’s first pelycosaurs! ⬇️ #Paleontology #Fossils #Science www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Early synapsids from the Cisuralian (lower Permian) Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil: the first definitive South American “pelycosaurs”

The paleotropics of Euramerica provide nearly our entire picture of Permo–Carboniferous terrestrial tetrapod evolution. The geographic sampling bias inherent in this record obscures important event...

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Really sad news. Hans worked on an incredible diversity of vertebrate groups but in particular made huge contributions to our understanding of the Triassic.

Henry Gee 亨利·纪@endofthepier.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very sad news just in from Neil Shubin that Hans-Dieter Sues has died: suddenly in his sleep this past weekend. Hans’ knowledge of vertebrate palaeontology was exceeded only by his good humour. 😞

Nice to see more spinosaur skull material published. Sereno et al. present a new species of #Spinosaurus, S. mirabilis - with a snazzy cranial crest. #Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation

We describe a close relative of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the sail-backed, fish-eating giant from nearshore deposits of northern Africa. Spinosaurus mirabilis sp. nov., discovered in the central Sahara...

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