Found an excellent 'techno fossil' of a leaf in a concrete pavement slab today. Veins and everything!
Dr Thomas Clements
@taphonomist.bsky.social
Doctor of Decay. Palaeontologist studying the dark art of taphonomy: how squishy animals become fossils. Lecturer of Invertebrates and deputy curator of Cole Museum at University of Reading. Loves 🐙♥️ (he/him).
Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving
This week I've been equal parts scared and angry. Juan Jairo Coronilla was a Mexican tourist with a tourist visa, like I have been for many conferences and research trips. ICE has killed 18 Mexican nationals. As a dinosaur palaeontologist, this is a setback for my career.
Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández@mathchaos.bsky.social · 3w ago🇺🇸🇲🇽| Claudia Sheinbaum announced that formal complaints will be filed today regarding the 17 Mexicans who have died during operations or while in ICE custody. "I call upon political parties, all of them, to stand in solidarity with our fellow citizens."
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
As part of the celebration events in Crystal Palace Park this weekend, the Dinosaurs will be illuminated each evening. We got a preview tonight..
If you want an up-to-date summary of whale and dolphin evolution, have a read of my new review paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com! I’ve tried to cover as much research as possible in this, so apologies if I’ve missed you! doi.org/10.1038/s443...
The evolution and diversification of Cetacea - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Cetaceans are a highly diverse and enigmatic group of animals with a well-documented evolutionary history. This Review describes the macroevolutionary and palaeobiological history of Cetacea, from the...
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Sad to wake up to the news that Sam Neill has passed away. An icon and inspiration to a generation of kids who grew up to be palaeontologists. 🦖💔
Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Iconic Shades Moment
ALT: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Iconic Shades Moment
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This #ProcB study presents the most complete evolutionary tree of tunas and mackerels to date, revealing warm-bloodedness evolved at least three times independently doi.org/10.1098/rspb... |#Evolution #Physiology #Taxonomy
The Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) Associate Editor team is growing! We’re currently looking for candidates with expertise in insects, other arthropods, molluscs, & conodonts. Interested in joining our team? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday
Associate Editor needed for Historical Biology
Associate Editor needed for Historical Biology
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Historical Biology (@historicalbiology.bsky.social) is creating a Review Board, and we’re looking for candidates across the entire span of palaeobiology. Interested in being a Review Editor? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday
Review Editors needed for Historical Biology
Review Editors needed for Historical Biology
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Thanks to a @thepalass.bsky.social grant we’ve been able to grow out outreach so much Today we’re at a school near Oldham running a mini palaeontology science fair for years 3&6. Not something we could have done without the grant money 💕
This #FossilFriday, go face to snout with Futabasaurus suzukii at the wonderful Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep now on @nhm-london.bsky.social. This long necked Plesiosaur is from the Cretaceous of Japan and is a beautifully mounted centrepiece of the exhibition!
She was trying to cross a busy street here in Alexandria and I love her $250 bucks in supplies later, I can very much say this crab could not have found a better sucker to rescue her off the street
Nighthawk (Birthday 8/10 🎂) 𓅣🌏🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☭@socialistpuffin.bsky.social · last mo.see a crab, post a crab
Since this outrageous heat started, I kept hearing animals trying to get into my roof. Turns out the local magpies have learnt that they can get water from my boiler overflow pipe. Clever little dinosaurs 🦖
Lovely, but exhausting, weekend at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. Hundreds of visitors visited the stand to learn about trilobites, how animals turn into fossils, and getting to meet real palaeontologsts! Very proud of our team, representing the very best of @thepalass.bsky.social!
Does anybody know the name of the trilobite species used in the @thepalass.bsky.social logo??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeon....
Palaeontological Association - Wikipedia
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And if anyone’s at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival this Saturday I’ll be giving the talk again! ⭐️
Lucy Jackson@lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 2mo agoLast week I gave my talk “Starfish before they were star-shaped” as part of the monthly Reading “Cafe Scientifique” talk series. This was my first time talking to the public about my research (!) and it was lots of fun sharing the weird world of extinct echinoderms with them!
Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
When we want to know what the rocks are under our towns, we use a special drill that can collect long cylinders of rock hundreds of feet below the surface. This core, collected under Reading, punched through a fossil layer, scooping up ancient shells and even a beautiful sea urchin! #fossilfriday
One of the best reasons to go fossil hunting on the coast is the excuse to go rock pooling at the same time. You get to meet beautiful Strawberry anemones like this beauty 😍
The vibrant flying gurnard showcases its stunning pectoral fins in Dominica's rich waters, a mesmerizing sight in the tropical Atlantic.
Recent University of Birmingham graduate Lucy chooses the fossil fish of Wyoming as her Object of the Month. Produced by Ran Gao. youtu.be/MSCw2eQRqHw #LapworthRocks #geology #geologyrocks #fossils #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeo #paleo #museum
Lapworth Museum of Geology - Object of the Month - Green River Fish
Recent University of Birmingham graduate Lucy chooses the fossil fish of Wyoming as her Object of the Month. Produced by Ran Gao.
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In celebration of #WorldBeeDay, here are trace fossils of brooding cells & burrows made by sweat bees (Halictinae) from the Late Cretaceous (~95 mya) of Argentina, preserved as natural casts. Specimen in Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aries. #ichnology 🐝
Very interesting, and very Cretaceous, choice of mascot for a company called Jurassic... Should I be that person and tell them? Will they care? Such are the perils of palaeontology.
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.