@dremmanicholls.bsky.social
Vertebrate Palaeontologist and Collections Manager at OUMNH / @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Research areas: Mesozoic reptiles and sharks. Chair of @originalgcg.bsky.social. Anti-racism. She/Her
Join us online via Zoom on Fri 6th Feb at 19.00 GMT for our next free talk when @dremmanicholls.bsky.social of @morethanadodo.bsky.social will deliver 'Tales from a Geological Curator'
Members and non-members must register in advance: non-members email sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk for details
We have di-snow-saurs at @morethanadodo.bsky.social!
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#dinosaur #snow #OxfordUniversityMuseumofNaturalHistory @ox.ac.uk
We asked @dremmanicholls.bsky.social what exactly needs to happen for dinosaur footprints to be preserved like those found in Oxfordshire.
The answer is such a specific set of circumstances you'll be amazed that any have been found at all...
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A FANTASTIC evening Rich, huge congrats and thanks to you and your team! 🙌
We're at #SVP2025 - come and say hello in Hall 3 (with the coffee) and put some pieces in our jigsaw puzzle! Free stickers & postcards...
At first I read that as meaning “say hello in Hall 3, please bring us coffee”! Maybe that reflects my energy levels rather than yours?! 😆
The tension is building at #SVP2025 in hall 1 as the crowd builds for Nanotyrannus
Aaaaaand - Nanotyrannus / Tyrannosaurus debate time!
Time for the Tyrannosaurus #PowerHour at #SVP2025 🦖 🦖 🦖
It wouldn’t be a vertebrate palaeontology conference without this in the schedule huh?!
#dinosaur #Trex #Tothers
Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!
Wishing a warm welcome to everyone at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 85th Annual Meeting. While in Brum, snap a selfie with our #Museum icons and share with #LapworthRocks!
Images by Greg Milner.
#geologyrocks #geology #palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #minerals #SVP2025 #2025SVP
Love this conference quote just now by dinosaur palaeontologist Gregory Funston:
“It can be hard to tell which is the [front] end of an oviraptorid skull”
Haha… yep!! 😆
#2025SVP #DinosaurProblems #HerbivorousTheropods
Great article on the Oxfordshire sauropod trackway, with contributions from @dremmanicholls.bsky.social, Prof. Kirsty Edgar and @peterfalkingham.com, who also made the excellent animation. Check out the overhead shot too - very cool 🦕
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It was a pleasure to meet you both!
Any presentation that starts with a Star Trek reference has my FULL attention!! 🖖
We had an EPIC talk this morning by @pselaphacus.bsky.social on what the Life Collections team gets up to @morethanadodo.bsky.social
(A LOT, is the take home message…)
📢Calling all natural historians!
This year our Summer Meeting is exploring the ✨senses✨
So we want to hear from you! We're looking for papers that explore the intersections of the senses - including sight, sound, smell, taste and touch - with the history of natural history.
🥳 HAPPY IGUANODON DAY! 🥳
It was the 2nd dinosaur scientifically named & described, & presented to the Royal Society 200 years ago today!
It’s 1 of 3 animals upon which the group ‘Dinosauria’ itself was first based 💪
Visit OUMNH to see more on this fantastic #dinosaur!
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
Really devastating news.
Attended a great panel at @morethanadodo.bsky.social this evening about the amazing new Dewars Farm tracksite. Well done to @dremmanicholls.bsky.social, @djemurdock.bsky.social @kirstymedgar.bsky.social and @lukeemeade.bsky.social for informative answers to heaps of audience questions!
Celebrating the Year of the Snake 🐍 with a visit to Oxford University Museum of Natural History for a panel on the amazing Oxfordshire dinosaur trackways. 🦕🦖 #Palaeontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs Featuring @markwitton.bsky.social and @dremmanicholls.bsky.social
29 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Cornwallite:
- An uncommon copper arsenate mineral
- A secondary mineral in the oxidised zone of copper sulphide deposits
- Named in 1846 after Cornwall, its type locality #minerals
This post 😍
This moth 😍 #museum #collection #lepidoptera #moth
We’re extremely grateful for your support! Thank you again, so much 😁
The Geologists' Association are pleased to have supported this excavation with a Curry Fund Award. Well done everyone!
Aw, you’re too kind!
1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️
Quetzalcoatlite:
- Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour
- Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
- This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)
For #FossilFriday here is one of my favourite pterosaurs, Istiodactylus, from the Cretaceous of the UK
Their razor-edged, interlocking teeth are thought to have helped deflesh carcasses, basically the Cretaceous equivalent of vultures!
Specimen housed at the London NHM
It might have felt longer to the public 🤣