The McAbee #Fossil Beds are known for their abundance & diversity of lovely plant, insect & fish that lived in a lake bed setting 52-53 million yrs ago. The beds are 30 metres of shale in the Eocene #Kamloops Group. The fossils are preserved as impressions & carbonaceous films.

I got to spend 2 weeks in the field with this legendary group of researchers. 🤩 Such a pleasure being surrounded by such passion and excitement for science. 🦖🦕🐊⛏

Looking for potential PhD students in Dinosaur footprints. As always, funding is competitive. If interested, send me an email with up to date CV and expression of interest. (Note that my replies are on the slow side right now) findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

Some stag beetle goodies available over on the Etsy shop! (It's Billywitch season after all...) etsy.com/UK/shop/artofc…

A new Stag Beetle in the works, this one is a homage of sorts to the famous Stag Beetle of 1505 by Albrecht Dürer 🙏🏼

The coiled images of ancient Goniatite shells - preserved as fossils over 300 million years ago and, more recently, exposed to the air again by the action of the Atlantic ocean. County Clare, Ireland.

Happy #WorldOceansDay, everyone! Today is the day for us to celebrate and honor our oceans. 🌊🐋 Did you know that the ocean covers 71% of the Earth’s surface? It also holds about 96.5% of all Earth's water — that's a volume of 320 million cubic miles! Living in all of this

I visited both the Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart and the Wilhelma Zoo - both are amazing but I guess I visit it when there is no metaphorical zerg rush of people

#FossilFriday Slighty young for this grant, but check out this pyritized Silurian trilobite (Calymene tristani) from France! This specimen was originally part of UC Berkeley's College of Mines collection before moving to UCMP when it was established in 1921. UC Museum of Paleo

Devonian series #4: Pragian fish from Podolia, Ukraine: Heterostraci (Podolaspis), Osteostraci (Ukrainaspis, Wladysagitta, Zenaspis, Victoraspis), Arthrodira (Kujdanowiaspis)

[#Geodiversitas] New clues on the palaeodiversity of the middle Miocene freshwater ichthyofauna from the Tatacoa Desert, Colombia ✒️ Jorge Domingo CARRILLO-BRICEÑO et al. 🔗 geodiversitas.com/45/10 #bonyfishes #NewSpecies #neogene #freshwater #ichthyofauna #Neotropics #Rays

Happy Canada Day! 156 years young, but with half a billion years old fossils, here are some of the stars of the #BurgessShale - Anomalocaris canadensis, Canadia spinsoa, & Canadaspis perfecta #CanadaDay 🌊🦞🍁

🚨New Pub!🚨 Welcome, Ashaninkacebus simpsoni! This tiny primate of South Asian affinities was discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. Congratulations to everyone involved in the discovery. PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Casually having Science Magazine cover the work myself, Imran Rahman, Allison Daley and many others published in The Royal Society that explored Anomalocaris biology. Short and long: This Cambrian animal did not eat trilobites. Mic. Drop. 10.1126/science.adj5609

#DidYouKnow Even though whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world, they're actually filter feeders? Photo by Leighton Lum #SharkWeek #Photography #WhaleShark #Sharks #Wildlife #Ocean

Early #FossilFriday - Here is a slab with 10 sponges and a totally enigmatic organism (top right corner), all from the mid-Cambrian Marjum of Utah. These are large individuals (c. 2-3 cm long) of a new sponge species that shall be officially described in the months to come.

Trimerus delphinocephalus, a foot-long predatory trilobite from the Silurian-age Rochester Shale, resting beneath some rocks.

Last week Federico Fanti & I visited the ‘Superduck’ locality that produced the type of Probrachylophosaurus to run a section. One of our big #SADP2023 finds is a braincase of this taxon from just across the river in Alberta (!) Great to see my old buddy Mark Goodwin too