From the excavation to the museum: a thread on how fossils are found and prepared until you can admire them in the museum! 👇

I am hiring two Master students for 2 years, to work with me on my project on #Cenozoic #Squamata funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki
If you are interested in #reptiles and want to work with me in Krakow, feel free to contact me.
More details here
www2.ncn.gov.pl/baza-ofert/?ak…
&
isez.pan.krakow.pl/aktualnosci/co…

It was a pleasure to participate on this paper on the small insular horses of Skyros and Rhodes Islands, for the purposes of which we traveled several times to these beautiful Greek islands.
Paper is in open access:
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Habilitation obtained :)

For #WorldFrogDay , the might pyxicephalids, once inhabiting also Europe ( #Thaumastosaurus )

The new Natural History Museum of UZH brings together zoology, paleontology, anthropology and botany under the same roof. The museum opens with four new dinosaur skeletons and various other additions: news.uzh.ch/en/articles/me… UZH Science

Are you interested in Cenozoic reptile and amphibian evolution, taxonomy, and skeletal anatomy? Then this is a great opportunity to make a postdoc with me in Krakow :) Feel free to contact me!

Just tried scholargoggler.com
Reptiles and amphibians linked to my research profile? Totally unexpected :)

Pleased to anounce that I am now an Associate Editor of the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. We are looking forward for your new submissions :)
sjpp.springeropen.com/about/editoria…

Excited to be in London to study beautiful Eocene squamates at Natural History Museum
Huge thanks Palaeontographical Society for the Richard Owen Fund!
Of course, i said a hello to the fund's name sake (and palaeo-idol of my childhood), the great Richard Owen!

Our new paper on new #trionychid remains from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kos Island, Greece, representing among the youngest fossil occurrences of the group in Europe.
Avrithis, A.I. and G.L. Georgalis. 2024. Historical Biology
tandfonline.com/eprint/BBZKB59…

I am grateful to Narodowe Centrum Nauki , as thanks to #OPUS grant, I just launched my new Project as a PI and eventually started building my own research team at my Institute. I fully recommend an increase in the budget - it would definitely allow the establishement of many young researchers

Reconstruction of #Eocene Dielsdorf, Switzerland
Featured: the #snake #Palaeopython helveticus, the #lizard #Palaeovaranus , a #crocodylian and some mammals
Artwork:Jaime Chirinos
From our #OpenAccess :
Georgalis & Scheyer 2019. Swiss J Geosci 112:383–417
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Press release from Senckenberg Research on our recent study on the bizarre vertebrae of the birds Perplexicervicidae from the #Eocene of Europe