we are so excited!! have a look at these 3d models of the sculptures, created in collaboration with Historic England they'll be used to help with conservation in the future click here to see more: 🔗 bit.ly/3sJCbDz

Arthur Burns, leading light in making King's History a place that cares as deeply for teaching as research, who loved mountains & collegiality who'd knock on my door to talk abdication vs usurpation & the madness of George III, here though ill giving his all in a pandemic awayday

Very pleased we'll be having the world famous TetZooCon at King's again this year! Taking over Bush House with marine reptiles, palaeoart, and more 🦕🦖🐍🦜 🐸 🐊 🐋

#Prehistoric lions and tigers and bears, oh my! 🦁 The developmental history of mammals was once the beating heart of #paleontology. In this book, Manias considers the cultural resonance of 19th-century mammal paleontology from a global perspective » bit.ly/48IhnNv

I'm having the online launch for my new book, The Age of Mammals, on Thu 26 October 18:00-19:30 (UK-time) With comments from Riley Black 🦕🏳️‍⚧️, Pratik Chakrabarti, Adrian Lister, Paige Madison, Victor Monnin & @SadiahQureshi All welcome! Signup link here forms.office.com/e/DQmM2XHgrY

Happening tomorrow!

This display also includes some mammoth-y things reflecting my research! Do have a look if you're walking by the Strand. 🦣🦣🦣

For #FossilFriday, the #PopPalaeo group will be hosting a special online event on 12 December, 18:00-19:30 (UK-time) to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of W.J.T. Mitchell's The Last Dinosaur Book If you'd like to tune in, just sign up here: forms.office.com/e/c4iRuPV5uH

🦕 How and why did humans become aware that organisms become extinct? This Friday at 6:15 PM join Dr Chris Manias, Dr @Cla_d_M, Dr dr amy cutler, Dr Darren Naish & Aidan Williams Dale for a panel discussion around the theme of extinctions ⬇️ #TetZooCon kcl.ac.uk/events/engagin…

Not sure where else you'd see this apart from #TetZooCon. I have kept both posters :)

This is happening in two days - come along to hear some reflections on Mitchell's The Last Dinosaur Book, and wider discussions on dinosaurs in modern culture

W J T Mitchell's The Last #Dinosaur Book is 25 years old; now is a good time to reflect on its legacy. An online discussion about the book recently occurred via the Popularizing Palaeontology network organized by Chris Manias .... youtube.com/watch?v=oOEYtr… #dinosaurs #books

About two months left for the deadline!

Call for images! - looking for good quality photos of #Neanderthal reconstructions/images ONLY by the artists Kennis & Kennis and Björklund *in their exhibition settings*, ie not official pics but ones you have taken personally. Email at my website! (NB- photos for OA article)

The Trust’s May Newsletter is out! Read about the evolution of South American biodiversity, gender impacts of face-to-face academic interactions, realising the explanatory power of body illusions, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter While you’re there, do take a look at the

#TetZooCon 2024 tickets are live! More info to come, but YES we are doing a coach tour (separate event) and yes .... Greg Paul, Chris Packham and others are speaking .... tetzoo.com/convention

Still another six months to go until the book is available (via UCL Press as an open access publication!), but we now have a catalogue page and a cover - by Mark Witton, and featuring Gertie the Dinosaur in centre stage uclpress.co.uk/collections/op…

Finishing off my talk for the "Cursed Objects in Museum Shops" workshop at Birkbeck tomorrow. Will talk about two sets of postcard "restorations" of prehistoric reptiles and mammals by Alice B. Woodward, sold at the London Natural History Museum in the mid-1920s. Examples below: