New carcharodontosaur announced, Tameryraptor, as part of a reanalysis of the Bahariya material. Paper below Beautiful art by Joschua Knüppe

AND HERE IT IS! It was really hard to not tell everyone because I knew for more than 2 years now. Please welcome Tameryraptor, a new name for Stromers carcharodontosaurid. Based on Stromers descriptions, drawings and newly found photographs the authors conclude... #paleoart

I am thrilled to share my research, published in Current Biology, on the first in-depth analysis of plesiosaur soft tissues using a variety of techniques which demonstrate that some plesiosaurs were scaled and scale-less in different regions of the body! cell.com/current-biolog…

Here is the fantastic reconstruction of the newly studied plesiosaur in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog… Our research demonstrated that some plesiosaurs were scaled and scale-less in different regions of the body!

In case anyone finds this useful, I've now added a 'shape fitter' to the #blender extensions library, allowing you to fit spheres, planes, and cylinders to vertex selections: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/shapef…

What looks like a lizard, walks like a lizard, and climbs like a lizard? 🦎

Thanks to everyone who made #EAVP2025 in Kraków such a success! 👏 Grateful to all attendees, speakers, organisers, volunteers & funders for an inspiring week of #palaeontology & connection. See you at the next EAVP in 2026 in Lithuania! 🦖🌍

I am very excited to share with you a new article from Nature, detailing novel integumentary structures in an exceptionally preserved front flipper from the megapredator, Temnodontosaurus trigonodon. #Nature #ichthyosaur nature.com/articles/s4158…

NEW WORK INCLUDING PORTUGUESE SAUROPODS !!! By my teammate André Saleiro and his advisor Emanuel Tschopp among others! 🦕 #Lourinhã #FossilFriday nature.com/articles/s4155…

Two 'Issi Saaneq' prosauropods basking in the sun on a beach in winter

Sphenodraco scandentis

For this #FossilFriday, I'm happy to share our new study "Practical Guide and Review of Fossil Tip-Dating in Phylogenetics" now open access in Systematic Biology 🔗doi.org/10.1093/sysbio… 🦖🦈🐊🐞 Amazing work by Alessio Capobianco, 𝙱𝙰𝚂𝙰𝙽𝚃𝙰 𝙺𝙷𝙰𝙺𝚄𝚁𝙴𝙻, @heckeberg and Sebastian Hoehna