This event at North American Paleontological Convention 2024 is well worth attending, and also received support from the Treatise on Invertebrate #Paleontology University of Kansas Paleontological Institute

'The carnivoran adaptive landscape reveals trade-offs among functional traits in the skull, appendicular, and axial skeleton'

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Prepare to meet one of the most beautiful fossils ever. A spectacular crinoid colony.

This Jurassic giant measures over 100 square metres & took 18 years to prepare! On display at the excellent Hauff Museum.

This was one of the 50 fossils featured in, LOCKED IN TIME.

Giving the final exam in my Evolutionary Paleobiology class today. I can hear Yellow Warblers singing in the parking lot of both the Sam Noble Museum & the OU Geosciences building. It's a warm, sunny day outside. The end of the semester is so close and that is beautiful 😊

Fitting the threshold model under likelihood using the discrete approximation in #Rstats #phytools : blog.phytools.org/2024/05/fittin….

oh boy 😱😭

I've been out of town & unable to go birding during migration season. Thankfully, I finally got to see wood warblers this weekend, mostly from my backyard, including: Nashville, Yellow, Orange-crowned, Black and White, Prothonotary, Northern Parula, Blackpoll. I love them so much

Taken in 1936, L.I. Price and J. Willis Stovall sit next to an unearthed dinosaur rib in Kenton, Oklahoma. Just five years later in the upper Fruitland Formation (or lower Kirtland Formation) Stovall and a small team would discover the Pentaceratops specimen now on display in our…

Dioramas galore at Sam Noble Museum! Ediacaran. (1/6)

So lucky that my hyperfixation is birds. They are everywhere. Happy little featherheads that make fun sounds and have dinosaur feet. 10/10 that's the good stuff

OMG LFG

Paracrinoids are spectacularly bizarre and fascinating fossils. Happy to see some very cool Sam Noble Museum specimens in this publication. Congrats to all involved!

After my visit to Sam Noble Museum, there was only one option for #FossilFriday : the caseid Cotylorhynchus from the Permian of OK. Caseids are named for E. C. Case, first director of UM Paleontology.

Disorder is not violence. Camping is not violence. Trespassing is not violence. Genocide is violence. Knocking people to the ground and choking them is violence. Shooting people with rubber bullets is violence. Just feels like we need to remind each other of the meaning of words.

Always.

Thanks for the invitation to visit Univ. of Oklahoma and Sam Noble Museum, Emily Troyer 🐠🐟🐡. Had a great time!

So happy that my contribution to the Paleobiology Special Issue on the 50th Anniversary of Punctuated Equilibria has just been published online! Thanks to all! Reflections on punctuated equilibria | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3xYp4Bk

Heartbreaking devastation in Sulphur, OK

“The fossil hunter does not kill, he resurrects” -G.G. Simpson

Has to be one of the HARDEST science quotes out there.

It is incredibly important to find joy in as many things as you can