@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!
❄️ ⛄️ 🦖
#dinosaur #snow #OxfordUniversityMuseumofNaturalHistory @ox.ac.uk
Dr Emma Nicholls standing on a saurapod trackway, large roundish footprints embedded into white limestone, pointing to the long trackways continuing on behind her
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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12.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A FANTASTIC evening Rich, huge congrats and thanks to you and your team! 🙌
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Jo Hellawell representing the The Palaeontologial Association - table with books, postcards, pens, and a jigsaw puzzle that needs completing!
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...
12.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0At first I read that as meaning “say hello in Hall 3, please bring us coffee”! Maybe that reflects my energy levels rather than yours?! 😆
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The tension is building at #SVP2025 in hall 1 as the crowd builds for Nanotyrannus
12.11.2025 11:48 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Aaaaaand - Nanotyrannus / Tyrannosaurus debate time!
12.11.2025 11:52 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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!
12.11.2025 07:37 — 👍 93 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 0
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 🦕
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
It was a pleasure to meet you both!
16.08.2025 08:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woman in front of screen, giving presentation
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…)
A deep green background on which white lettering reads "The society for the history of natural history - call for papers", along with historical botanical illustrations of red, purple and pink flowers.
📢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.
Dinosaur in museum gallery
🥳 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.
08.02.2025 09:16 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Four palaeontologists in a Q&A session in front of some hack's painting of the Dewars Farm Quarry dinosaur tracks, as it might have appeared in the Jurassic.
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!
30.01.2025 20:37 — 👍 83 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mark, me, and Emma.
Megalosaurus display with painting, fossil replica, footprint cast and tools from the excavation site.
Panel of experts with art of the theropod and sauropod walking along the beach (by Mark Witton) in the background.
The Jurassic Highway panel of experts, talking about the Oxfordshire dinosaur trackways discovery and excavation.
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
30.01.2025 21:10 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dark blue-green encrustation of cornwallite on quartz and limonite (brown, sharp looking matrix). From Potts Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.
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 😍
30.01.2025 07:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the background is an out of focus laptop keyboard. In the foreground a hand hold a moth on a pin. The moth has a brown body, fluffy thorax and head. Its wings are folded back in a lifelike resting pose so you can only see the forewings. The pattern on these wings is composed of browns and yellows in soft blocks and lines with marks that almost look like the outline of eyes towards the wingtips. Over this are light swirls of white and pale pink. This moth is beautiful.
This moth 😍 #museum #collection #lepidoptera #moth
30.01.2025 07:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0We’re extremely grateful for your support! Thank you again, so much 😁
29.01.2025 09:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Geologists' Association are pleased to have supported this excavation with a Curry Fund Award. Well done everyone!
28.01.2025 10:36 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Aw, you’re too kind!
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Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.
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 🤣
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