The Beaty Centre for Species Discovery at #MuseumOfNature invites applications for the Visiting Student Awards, a #TravelGrant program for graduate student doing research on plant, animal, mineral and fossil systematics. Learn more and apply today 🔗 nature.ca/en/our-science…

Join me for an online class drawing dinosaurs, pterosaurs and marine reptiles! All profits go to the Epilepsy Action charity 🗣️

A 🐳of a tail! Turns out the transition from land-water in cetaceans resulted in repatterning of the backbone! #mczVertPaleo propose the Nested Regions Hypothesis to explain its hierarchical organization formed of segments, modules, and regions. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

Nature research paper: A climate threshold for ocean deoxygenation during the Early Cretaceous go.nature.com/4dSupKy

Interested in doing a PhD on reconstructing Phanerozoic marine biodiversity and testing its drivers? We are advertising a fully-funded position at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) in sunny Barcelona! ☀️ Details here: icm.csic.es/en/calls/fully… #palaeontology #palaeobiology

Nice and scientifically rich palaeontological exposition is opened at the Nature Research Centre 🇱🇹 #thursday #vilnius #Lithuania #paleontology #FossilFriday #science #research #collection #museum

Call her the palaeo paparazzi 📷 When prepared specimens arrive in Collections, Jill ensures they get photographed for our database. This hadrosaur caudal (tail) vertebra was collected in Horseshoe Canyon as part of an incomplete skeleton in 2023. #behindthescenes #palaeontology

Past Ocean Oxygen workshop in Bristol 11-13 November. Still time to apply for financial support (deadline 9 September)!

Research in Papers in Palaeontology (The PalAss) reveals Sasayamagnomus saegusai—a tiny, beaked dinosaur named after gnomes guarding hidden treasures. Could it explain how ceratopsians like Triceratops migrated to North America? Read more in Popular Science: ow.ly/gvgs50TgO1i

Special Issue of The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand is out: Fossil Vertebrates from Southern Zealandia is dedicated to the late Ewan Fordyce. Proud to have a paper in this monument to the collections Ewan built and the people he mentored. otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

Big thanks to Dr Emma Louise Nicholls for hosting me at the collections of Oxford University Museum of Natural History. I got to see the original holotype of Eustreptospondylus, a theropod from the Late Jurassic Period of Europe, & relative of Megalosaurus (pictured behind me & art by Julius Csotonyi).#FossilFriday

Ferocious looking Eurypholis from Lebanon, one of the fine fossil fish you can see in our Evolution of Wales gallery Amgueddfa Caerdydd #FossilFriday

One month until UNESCO International #GeodiversityDay: geodiversityday.org. I'm marking the occasion by leading a couple of prehistoric York's Hidden History tours on Sun Oct 6th, starting outside the Yorkshire Museum at 11am and 2pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-prehistori…

Today we’re celebrating Professor Mike Benton’s career with a day of talks bringing a number of his past students and colleagues together. Kicking off #Bentonfest now!

"Fresh" Late Devonian lycopsid stems for this #FossilFriday 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany

🚨Paper alert🚨 #Thermogenesis in plants resulted an essential character for the evolution of the #insect #pollination since more than 200 million years ago! 🌡️ Institut Botànic de Barcelona #labPaleoecology Amberia Research 👉nature.com/articles/s4147…

Article alert‼️ What do fossil decapod crustaceans look like? A new, open access Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology chapter describes and illustrates the morphology of adult decapods. 🦀 Short news story: t.ly/Dxxev. #FossilFriday UA Museums Alabama Museum of Natural History #paleontology

Take a look at another of our amazing fieldtrips --> Karoo Basin --> Transect through 110 million years of continental sedimentation characterized by progressive aridification punctuated by glaciations, tectonic pulses and volcanic outpourings. 👉ipc7.site/fieldtrip.html

We are looking for volunteers to join our team! Are you proficient in #graphicdesign and illustration tools? Or do you have an eye for creating engaging short form #videocontent? Apply for new #volunteer roles now: ow.ly/veuF50Thlc1 Positions will remain open until filled.