Been out for review for a few weeks, so closer to publication. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

PaleoJim@paleojim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Working on describing new polacanthid ankylosaur species from the lower Yellow Cat, basal Cretaceous, Berriasian. Got to playing around with my ilia overview fig. and it got out of control... So I guess, I got a bit more done on our ankylosaur character appendix as well for #FossilFriday.

#WhatisitWednesday This large, thin bone from the basal Cretaceous of eastern Utah has moved up to 1st on our preparation list on our return to lab. Any thoughts?? @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @thepalass.bsky.social

Read the article … small locality Prep Labs could house a couple of Grad Students … providing security at each site and gat a bunch of prep done, too. Time for a new paradym people. Move The Dinosaur Museum from behing the hardware store in Blanding to White Mesa and employee some Ute kids..

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

A study I co-authored in 2023 found ExxonMobil’s predictions of global heating over the following decades to have been mostly accurate, as skilful as independent academic and government models, and also very much at odds with its public statements on the matter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?

theguardian.com

It’s called a pogrom “a violent, organized attack aimed at massacring or expelling a specific ethnic or religious minority”

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7d ago

300,000 Haitians legally living in the U.S. have officially lost their Temporary Protected Status this week. ICE is reportedly planning to target Haitian communities and fast-track deportations to Haiti, which is controlled by violent gangs and deep in crisis. Trump’s cruelty knows no bounds.

Fisher and Danny flip a jacket containing a basal iguanodont scapula from the Berriasian Doellings Bowl bonebed complex, eastern Utah. @paleontologizing.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @renpoole.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @geosociety.bsky.social

Is it #microvertMonday ? The dot in the palm of my had is a archosaur tooth with a constriction between crown and root. Baby therizinosaur, Ist Cedar Mt heterodontosaur, or toothed bird. Crown height ~3mm. Certain new for fauna. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Doellings Bowl bone bed at base of Cretaceous is cooking, 100+ everyday. @paleontologizing.bsky.social live streaming on twitch every day 3-5. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org @geosociety.bsky.social @thepalass.bsky.social

It's hot!

Danny Anduza@paleontologizing.bsky.social · 3w ago

That's right! I'm back in the field and streaming on #Twitch (hopefully) every day through August 6

That's right! I'm back in the field and streaming on #Twitch (hopefully) every day through August 6

PaleoJim@paleojim.bsky.social · 3w ago

We will have Starlink with Paleontologizing live streaming every day from 3-5, -- August 6. #FossilFriday www.twitch.tv/paleontologi... Early work at Jim's Place at Doellings Bowl at the Dawn of the Cretaceous in eastern Utah. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Joining the team Friday for the last two weeks.

PaleoJim@paleojim.bsky.social · 3w ago

We will have Starlink with Paleontologizing live streaming every day from 3-5, -- August 6. #FossilFriday www.twitch.tv/paleontologi... Early work at Jim's Place at Doellings Bowl at the Dawn of the Cretaceous in eastern Utah. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

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.

theconversation.com

Oops... I interacted with "Voldemort," but I had ethical standards that were set just a touch to high to get sucked into this...lol Why not build a public museum "in Utah" as a legacy in perpituity with your name on the door! www.bloomberg.com/features/202... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Billionaires’ T. Rex Obsession Has Turned Fossils Into Red-Hot Drama

As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market.

bloomberg.com

#FossilFriday The holotype and paratype of the new species of Hoplitosaurus have dorsal osteoderms with distinct "invertebrate" induced pathologies that clearly different from the irrgular "fungal-bacterial" pathologies in the older Gastonia. @ichnologist.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

The UGS preparator-Field coordinator is finally posted. This is a career track position with someone with establish skills. Must be able to be a lead on fed. paleo permit and I would like to see porfolio of preparations. Geo-focused! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

#FossilFriday The < # of anky species in the 1st 25 Ma of the Cretaceous makes them more biostratigraphically useful than microfossils Massive dorsal osteoderms of Hoplitosaurus are unique & common, great tool for correlation in the west. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

We will have Starlink with Paleontologizing live streaming every day from 3-5, -- August 6. #FossilFriday www.twitch.tv/paleontologi... Early work at Jim's Place at Doellings Bowl at the Dawn of the Cretaceous in eastern Utah. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

TBH, I don’t give a damn if another T. rex is getting auctioned. How about every fossil site we’ve ever worked in Grand Staircase NO LONGER being within the monument?!? Let’s talk about protecting fossils on PUBLIC land.

Did you know..? The living echinoderms have a body plan which is equivalent to only the head of other bilateral animals. @echinerd.bsky.social Read about the Ordovician diversification of sea urchins by Thompson 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2022): buff.ly/FseMBZR #PaleoSky #Echinoderms #ECE12 www.euroechino.net

Range of motion in the forelimb of the Two Medicine Formation troodontid: peerj.com/articles/209... (I am surprised that the potential effects of wing feathers are not discussed...) 🪶🧪 (📷Serio et al.)

Why did we lose hybodont sharks at the end of the Cretaceous? I certainly miss them... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Jeremy Lockwood@valdosaurus.bsky.social · 3w ago

For #FossilFriday a rare shark’s head in lagoonal sediments from the earliest Aptian of the #IsleofWight. About 30 cms across. A row of teeth can be seen across the lower jaw. On display at #DinosaurIsleMuseum.

Worse than I could have imagined with near total loss of our Campanian dinosaur beds. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org @natgeosci.nature.com @paleosoc.bsky.social No one asked my opinion as Utah's State Paleontologist! @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Don DeBlieux has been overseeing a paleontological inventory for Canyonlands NP over the past 5 years. The Early Triassic Moenkopi story has turned out to be the most exciting, hopefully some of the more accessible sites will be interpreted. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Making my osteoderm figures for the new Utah species of the polacanthid, Hoplitosaurus and these pathologies are driving me nuts. Parasites?, too consistent for fungal or bacterial infections, so.. another gift for #FossilFriday @ichnologist.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social

Love me some Cretaceous freshwater elasmobranchs for #FossilFriday . The Myledaphus line is very well represented in Utah. Glad to see this magnificent Myledaphus mummy properly described.! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @paleontologizing.bsky.social @heatherfsmith.bsky.social

Love Cretaceous Freshwater elasmobranchs! @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology@journalsystpal.bsky.social · 4w ago

New paper out in JSP! Skeletal morphology and phylogenetics relationships of the Late Cretaceous freshwater ray Myledaphus bipartitus (Chondrichthyes; Batomorphii) by Türtscher 𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙡., clarifying the evolutionary relationships of batomorph lineages: buff.ly/gDhmnXZ #PaleoSky #FossilFriday

For Trace #FossilFriday from Gale Bishop in 2028; "First and only fossilized sea turtle nest (left) from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway compared with analogous modern structures from St. Catherine's (right) .." Keep looking for these amazing vertebrate traces. @heatherfsmith.bsky.social

Omar Yaghi, a refugee from Jordan took one for the team & won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. "The current state of US science is not so encouraging b/c of the cutting back on grants and a drop in the support from US science agencies that academic researchers rely on." 🧪 archive.today/Ke6wQ

Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China

Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent.

nature.com

Preparator – Field Paleontologist The Geologic Mapping and Paleontology Program of the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) seeking a full time permanent Preparator – Field Paleontologist. This is a unique opportunity to build a career focused on Field Paleontology in Utah. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social