Happy Halloween from @LaurenH_paleo of @OSUVertPaleo and me at #2024SVP with a #Velociraptor puppet of TRX Dinosaurs. #dinosaurs #paleontology

Great work by Abdullah Gohar and Holly Woodward! @OSUVertPaleo #SallamLab #MUVP #Egypt

If you’re at #2024SVP (I’m not this year), check out Erika R Goldsmith presenting some of her dissertation research on Saturday—I’m biased as a member of the research team, but it promises to be spectacular given that session title! :)

Since we just passed the centenary of the Osborn 1924 paper naming Velociraptor mongoliensis, Oviraptor philoceratops, and Saurornithoides mongoliensis, here are the holotype skulls for a bonus #FossilFriday

So excited to be able to publish this work in the Journal of Anatomy special issue on #paleohistology with awesome editors Mateusz Wosik 🇵🇱🦕 and Greg Funston

Congratulations Erika!! And thanks for inviting me to contribute to this study! If you’re interested in seeing the smallest phytosaur femora yet discovered and some histological surprises, be sure to check out this open access paper!

Osteohistological signal from the smallest known phytosaur femur reveals slow growth and new insights into the evolution of growth in Archosauria - Goldsmith - Journal of Anatomy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

Great description of the work by Danison et al. 2024, the status of #Saurophaganax, and the scientific method at work: testing hypotheses, retesting later with more data, and knowing a hypothesis could be tested again in the future. svpow.com/2024/12/22/abo…

In January 2024 I had the pleasure of presenting at the 200 years of dinosaurs meeting at the Natural History Museum. Today, our invited review in the Royal Society Publishing Biology Letters was published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

For #FossilFriday here’s part of the type specimen of the Zimbabwean dinosaur Syntarsus, housed in the NHMZ, one of the most abundantly and well preserved early theropods known currently 🦖🇿🇼

Finishing off my Zimbabwe themed posts with this model of Syntarsus on display in the NHMZ 🇿🇼🦖

Happy to see that our description of two beautiful specimens of the enigmatic oviraptorid dinosaur, Conchoraptor, was just published in AMNH Novitates: bioone.org/journals/ameri… (We're aware of the formatting issue in some figures, and are working on amending)

Many theropods shortened their arms and lost fingers. How did they do it? Our School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh student Milly Mead, in her first paper, looks into oviraptorosaurs. Turns out, arm shortening and finger loss were decoupled! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Congratulations to RGGS Comp Bio PhD alum Eugenia Gold for her tenure promotion to Associate Professor at Suffolk University, Boston!

Go Erika! I’m looking forward to this, I’ve learned so much from serving on your PhD committee. Almost there!

How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… Romain Pintore MorphoSource Wiley Earth and Space Science

🩺 Today, #OSUMedicineCN #Classof2029 received their #WhiteCoat—marking the start of their journey to serve, heal & uplift communities across #Oklahoma Our mission is clear: train doctors who stay & serve where they’re needed most🧡 #RuralHealth #TribalHealth OSU Center for Health Sciences

OSU-CHS Student Abdullah Gohar’s study of 43-million-year-old whale fossils reveals these ancient creatures had large brains and keen smell - before they were fully aquatic. Full story here: bit.ly/4ojDamh #Paleontology #Research

nytimes.com/2025/09/13/sci…

Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds nature.com/articles/d4158…