#MolluscMonday The half-a-million people using Tokyo Railway Station each day can search for sectioned rudist bivalves in the polished limestone cladding around the stairwells while waiting for their trains.

Happy New Year to all of our members and followers! We hope your 2025 is fossil-filled!

#FossilFriday One of my favourite bryozoans to kick-off 2025, Herpetopora, a runner-like cheilostome here spreading across the shell of a Chalk inoceramid bivalve.

For the first #FossilFriday of the New Year, here is the late Jurassic (Tithonian) ammonite Titanites giganteus (J. Sowerby, 1818) from the Isle of Portland, which greets visitors at the entrance of the School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield.

#MolluscMonday The flat surface of the stone in the lower left in this Japanese graveyard was scratched by the radula of a snail grazing for food, leaving the incipient trace fossil Radulichnus.

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#FossilFriday Another favourite bryozoan genus: Steginoporella exemplified here by a Pleistocene example of Steginoporella magnifica from North Island, New Zealand.

#MolluscMonday Corroded ammonites are visible in a stone staircase at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. The nodular limestone looks like European Ammonitico Rosso.

#FossilFriday Sectioned Oligocene brachiopods in stone cladding of Whangarei Limestone at Wellington Railway Station, New Zealand.

#MolluscMonday On display in the public galleries of the Japanese National Museum in Tokyo, ancient bracelets made from bivalve and limpet shells.

An article on the #TullyMonster #fossils from #MazonCreek (309 Ma), an evolutionary enigma, figures by Nobu Tamura (Nobu Tamura). Probably a pterotracheid gastropod like the living 'sea elephant'. #paleontology 2025 - Geology Today - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gt…

🚨🚨🚨Paper alert! Our paper on patterns of #coral macrosymbioses throughout the time is out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ears…

My new book ‘Fossils. The Essential Guide’ is now available at the Natural History Museum bookshop and perhaps elsewhere too.

Are you curious about paleobiology research at IISER Pune and want to know if you can be a part of it? Join us for a virtual lab tour. Please register before 12th March 2025

We are producing an animation of some of the results of the National Plan project #MedCalRes and to raise awareness of #bryozoans. If you want to know more, follow Cooked Illustrations on Linkedin, Instagram and Bluesky where new updates will be posted :) linkedin.com/posts/cooked-i…

Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

We are pleased to announce that our AGM and Annual lectures with be on the 8th May 2025 Natural History Museum , with special guest speakers: Professor Sam Giles and Dr Imran Rahman It's free to attend: both in person and online, but please sign up. Link ⬇️

The source of this map, 'The Building Stones of Strata Florida Abbey' (pub. by The Strata Florida Trust), is in the final stages of proof correction. Printing anticipated shortly. Please retweet if you know anyone who might be interested.

研究室の卒業生が、かわいいムセキツイ本を出しました。 卒業生とこのようなかたちでコラボできたのも嬉しかったです！ かわいい漫画と豆知識が満載で、ムセキツイに興味をもつ導入にもピッタリの本です。

Iron staining on bryozoan hash, real pretty, Ordovician, don’t argue #FossilFriday