We are pleased to announce that our AGM and Annual lectures with be on the 8th May 2025 Natural History Museum , with special guest speakers: Professor Sam Giles and Dr Imran Rahman It's free to attend: both in person and online, but please sign up. Link ⬇️

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Ancient reticulation, incomplete lineage sorting and the evolution of the pyrenoid at the dawn of hornwort diversification doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc…

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New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Just a reminder that our Annual Meeting is in less than a month! Both online and in person :), please share and attend :)

Goodbye "Nanosaurus", "Othnielosaurus", "Othnielia", "Drinker" and CO. ALL SMALL BODIED ORNITHISCHIANS FROM MORRISON ARE DUBIOUS (Minus Fruitadens) "Drinker" material can be an EARLY PACHYCEPHALOSAUR bioone.org/journals/bulle…

Unbelievable , I’ve just noticed how big our Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia obovata leaves are this year .

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Geographical variation in flower colour of a food-deceptive orchid reflects local pollinator preferences doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc…

Back to an ice-free future: Early Cretaceous seasonal cycles of sea surface temperature and glacier ice | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Only one week left to apply to join our new lab at the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt am Main! Are you interested in #fossil #plants, traits, and the #Mesozoic? senckenberg.de/en/career/scie…

Here's a quickly and roughly sketch of Chignik flora from Alaska (Campanian-Maastrichtian). Yup, it's dominated by angiosperms

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Geographical variation in flower colour of a food-deceptive orchid reflects local pollinator preferences’ in Annals of Botany by Steven Johnson and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/8) 👉 doi.org/pkq5 #FloralEvolution #AoBpapers

FINALLY!! Troodontid specimens from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (USA) and the validity of Troodon formosus | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/43aDhqC

O’Connor, J., Clark, A., Kuo, PC. et al. Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

Aaand it's live! My new skeletal reconstruction of #Leedsichthys problematicus, and a blog post to go with it! thecodontia.com/blog/leedsicht…

#Dacrycarpoides, a new genus of extinct #Podocarpaceae (Coniferales) from the early #Miocene of New #Caledonia doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.7…

Here is a reconstruction of the Weichselia reticulata as promised. Keep in mind, the reconstruction is tentative because its growth habit is unknown. #Cretaceous #Paleobotany