Contrary to common belief, Mary Anning, wasn't obscure or unknown within palaeontological circles. She was a reowned celebrity in Lyme, with her recognition reaching back to her childhood 🐚

'A School-girl Meets Ichthyosaurus' Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia, 1925

Have you been considering a career in palaeontology? Why not check out how Dr Dean Lomax got started and hear his perspective of making his way in a geological career. #careers #palaeo Dr Dean Lomax

youtu.be/YTsQaxkg0T4

Gorgeous first day in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco with Dr Susie Maidment Kawtar Ech-charay, Driss & Khadija, getting the lay of the beautiful land, searching for Middle Jurassic microvertebrate sites & occasionally getting stuck up very high & slippery slopes. Bring on day 2!

👍 What a team.

👍 What a Precambrian-Triassic unconformity.

6 months ago this section was totally hidden from view. Thanks to the volunteers of Charnwood Forest Geopark it's now available for outreach and education.

The longest sauropods foot traces in the world 🗺 🦕 (147 m length trail) 👣 #jurassic #JurassicWorld #dinosaur #world #footprint #traces #paleontology #palaeontology #science #film #trip #sauropods #portugal #atlanticocean #geology

Left the #Sahara behind today to head to the Lower Jurassic Birkbeck School of Natural Sciences #Morocco field trip. Dinosaur trackways and dinoturbated rocks in #Dades gorge, folding and a nice unconformity.

Four random pieces of nostalgic palaeoart!

Stefano Maugeri’s Ankylosaurus
Dave Marrs’ Tyrannosaurus
John Gurche’s Tyrannosaurus
Wayne Barlowe’s Quaesitosaurus

Madygen: Can these awesome rocks become central Asia’s first UNESCO Geopark? | New Scientist newscientist.com/article/mg2623…

A selection of sauropodomorphs in paleomedia. These guys don’t get featured all that often…

Pitchstone is a glassy volcanic rock formed by the rapid cooling of silicate-rich lava. This specimen was found on the Isle of Arran, where such rock was used to craft blades during the Stone Age and Bronze Age!

#LapworthRocks #ThinSectionThursday #mineral #geology #geology rocks

Rock solid evidence: Angola geology reveals prehistoric split between South America and Africa phys.org/news/2024-05-s… via Phys.org

Skull reconstruction of a juvenile Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus from the Fruitland formation, New Mexico. #sciart #fossilfriday

Great new review paper out on the fish beds of #Lebanon . As i'm working on a lebanese project this is fortuitous.

And very useful, as it has references even I didn't know 😃Which is the geatest compliment you can give a review paper. Go check it out.

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jgs/article/do…

Related to modern komodo dragons, #mososaurs spent their lives in the ocean. These enormous, marine lizards could reach 18 meters long, and are thought to have been ambush predators that could swim rapidly for short distances to catch prey. #WetNWildWednesday

What do you want to know about Earth's magnetic field over the last 100 million years?

Atrociraptor was a dromaeosaur of similar size to the famous Velociraptor, though it likely had a somewhat e deeper skull.

Photo David Evans and art Mario Lanzas

Did you know? The Jurassic Coast is not the only place in England with Jurassic rocks! During the Jurassic, much of England was covered by shallow seaway, from Wessex, through the Midlands, all the way to Yorkshire. You can find Jurassic fossils along the entire stretch!

We will be there with our geological timescales, this one is 1cm = 1 million years #toiletrolloftime #BGSOpenDay National Environmental Isotope Facility will be there talking about most of Earth’s ~4560 million year history, and how we date rocks and minerals, and why

May 1, 1665, birthday of British naturalist and geologist John Woodward.
He studied the organic origin of fossils and recognized the stratigraphic succession of sedimentary rocks. His collection became the founding stone of the modern Sedgwick Museum
blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2014/02/21/dr-…

New album, 'Creatures of the Slime', has dropped!

My 3rd album for the year (🤯) is available wherever you get your tunes! See link for details...
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