On ne connaissait qu'un #crâne depuis 1913. La découverte d'un 2nd crâne de #Genyornis a enfin levé le voile sur cet animal. Cet #oiseau frutivore de 2m de haut vivait il y a 50 000 ans en Australie🇦🇺 ! #Pléistocène #Aves futura-sciences.com/planete/actual… 📰doi.org/10.1080/089129…

Come join us from 6pm Thursday the 11th of July for the RSSA meeting to see guest speaker Dr Aidan Couzens from Flinders Palaeontology presenting on marsupial evolution. In-person and online options are available, register here: events.humanitix.com/royal-society-…

Thanks Isaac Kerr ! Of course, we will never know how it looked. Starting with what we know and building up from there, I love the process of discovery. As we come to understand more, I am sure the picture will develop. Thanks ABC Science for being so keen to hear my take!

Check out this ABC News article about Flinders University PhD student and #palaeoartist Jacob C. Blokland's reconstruction of the giant extinct bird 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪. abc.net.au/news/science/2… #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology #art #ornithology #bird #fossil Flinders University Newsroom

Palaeontologists working near Alice Springs uncover for the first time a set of articulated bones and partial skeleton of Ilbandornis woodburnei, a massive bird that once roamed an evolving continent 8 million years ago. ab.co/3YvH1SW

Jacob C. Blokland and I were lucky to spend time excavating fossils at the Alcoota Scientific Reserve with the amazing Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory team and volunteers. The site and new discoveries are beautifully summarised in this ABC News article (which includes some of my videos) abc.net.au/news/2024-08-0…

Thanks to the long-running relationship between Flinders Palaeontology and the team at Megafauna Central, Alice Springs. This has allowed many Flinders Palaeo Lab students to experience excavating fossils at Alcoota

Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.

Want to know more about how plate tectonic activity has driven more than 400 million years of #coelacanth #evolution? Read our The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article here: theconversation.com/exceptional-ne… 🐟 🌏 #Ngamugawi Flinders Palaeontology

SA Museum controversial restructure vetoed, as head of board resigns abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1… via ABC Australia

SAVE THE DATE! Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists! The 19th CAVEPS Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, November 24th - 30th, 2025. More info soon... Flinders Palaeontology

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

CONGRATS & Merry Fishy Xmas to Austin Fitzpatrick for his paper published today in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment peerj.com/articles/18759 Unique dental arrangement in a new species, #Groenlandaspis howittensis (#Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Middle #Devonian of Mount Howitt, Victoria 🦷 🐟 🦴

Yearly roundup time for new research in maniraptoran paleontology, anatomy, and evolution! What were everyone's favorite maniraptoran discoveries of 2024? albertonykus.blogspot.com/2025/01/review… (📷Luis M. Chiappe et al., Stiller et al., Jacob C. Blokland in Dr Phoebe McInerney et al., Goodman & Rasolonjatovo)

Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish depictions. Kamal Nahas Ella Marushchenko Jacob C. Blokland nature.com/articles/d4158…

There is no tomorrow for Moa kind. In this result of yesterdays #paleostream we explore the Holocene of New Zealand, a world we largely lost not even 1000 years ago.