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The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/the-worlds-old…

Don't miss Episode One on Sunday 12th February at 7.00pm which includes the amazing dinosaur embryos that I've been working on with Terry Manning ! Stephen Fry to explore virtual dinosaur world for C5 - Televisual televisual.com/news/stephen-f…

I'll be talking about some amazing dinosaur embryos in Part 1 tonight 🙂 5 reasons why you won’t want to miss Stephen Fry’s new show Dinosaur! metro.co.uk/2023/02/12/5-r… via Metro

Channel 5 Sir Stephen Fry DINOSAUR with Stephen Fry. Ep 1 featured: NHMdinolab @PalaeoStephan Dr Joe Bonsor Adam Wojcik @Tweetisaurus @nathanmyhrvold Steve Brusatte Paige dePolo John Nudds 👀: channel5.com/show/dinosaur-… #Dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #palaeontology #DinosaurWithStephenFry 🦖🦕

Channel 5 Sir Stephen Fry NHMdinolab @PalaeoStephan Dr Joe Bonsor @Tweetisaurus @nathanmyhrvold Steve Brusatte Paige dePolo John Nudds Mentorn Media My5 DINOSAUR with Stephen Fry. What did dinosaurs look like, how did they behave? Ep 2 featured: Jim Kirkland Dr Dean Lomax Adam Wojcik Dr Joe Bonsor Jakob Vinther Rebecca Joy Lakin 👀: channel5.com/show/dinosaur-… #Dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleontology #palaeontology #DinosaurWithStephenFry 🦖🦕

So, the latest 'new' entrance to Manchester Museum is right in the middle of the old Mineralogy Gallery, or as it should properly be called, 'The First Geology Gallery'. Michael Eagar would be horrified - he fought to keep this for Geology. #manchestermuseum

Great to catch up with John Nudds this morning and show him round the new Manchester Museum dinosaur gallery! April seemed happy to see her dad again 😊🦕💗

Certainly good to see 'April' the Tenontosaurus back on display at Manchester Museum Manchester Museum, after deteriorating in the museum cellars for 20 years, but some concerns about the mounting.

1. A lot is being made of the 'new' quadrupedal pose. The irony is that when we bought 'April' in 1999, it was a toss-up between her, a 75% complete real dinosaur, and a resin cast of one of the Bernissart Iguanodons in what was then the new quadrupedal pose. We chose April !

2. Only the original bones have been mounted with all reconstructed elements omitted - that's rather strange? It illustrates how complete April is, but she is rather bereft of chevrons and digits ! Just as well she has all her limbs !

3. All bones attached to the armature with nylon fishing line. I suspect this will degrade with time - rather worrying...

4. Limb bones have been mounted in their broken state, rather than repairing (glueing) them. Thus an ugly gap in the sinistral femur and even worse in the sinistral ulna.

5. Original colour-wash, varnish and Paraloid B-72 has been removed. The bone surface has deteriorated over the last 20 years after surviving well for 100 million years +

6. And of course Manchester Museum has to join the woke brigade and make a comment on 'decolonisation', whatever that word means. If they'd bothered to ask me, all the dinosaurs I collected in North America were done so along with members of the Blackfeet Indian tribe in Montana !!

7. How I wish our late friend and colleague, Jon Tennant, could have seen the remounted 'April'. He wrote a superb thesis on this specimen. Dr Dean Lomax Rebecca Tennant Nigel Larkin

John Nudds Rebecca Tennant Nigel Larkin Not forgetting our paper, of course, John. The only published paper on this specimen. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Visited the Dinosaur Discovery site at St George in Utah recently. Very impressive ! #dinosaurfootprints #ichnology