@fossilrob.bsky.social
Palaeobiologist in Manchester | Fossils, Parenting, Animal Evolution, Fish, Phylogeny, Existential Despair, Taphonomy, and occasionally Eurovision
Not fussed about Spinosaurs, but I do like PCAs. I do not like this PCA
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Do you think the Eurasian Lynx should be reintroduced into English forests? π²π²πββ¬
My undergraduate student Mel has made a video exploring the issues as part of her Science Communication project. Could you spare 5 minutes to watch and fill out her questionnaire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwk...
Fossil Fish News! (with some dinosaur news on the side)
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Was the solution to palaeo mysteries hidden right in front of our faces? High powered X-ray analyses of Silurian π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ fossils reveals cryptic ποΈ & 𦴠of early vertebrates, whilst new discoveries in Cretaceous ππΊ find the missing European ceratopsians. Find out more in this week's new episode!
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P p p p p pancake day!
17.02.2026 19:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The βleafyβ western part
11.02.2026 16:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Daily cycling commute through Gorton and Denton by election update- number of household placards I saw for each party:
Green 35
Labour 10
Other parties: 0
The end Permian nearly wiped out all life on earth.ππ¦π¬πππΈ Now new data shows that life bounced back much faster than expected with a big diversity of predators right at the beginning of the Triassic. Find out more in today's new episode
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What do you want to hear about? Every week we cover a new palaeo paper or discovery. This time, we are asking you to choose! Take a look at the options below and 'like' the title(s) you want @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @fossilrob.bsky.social to do next!
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So @fossilrob.bsky.social has posted me something and told me I'm not allowed to open it until we record the next Fossil Files podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social. I have concerns. Find out what it is by listening in wherever you get your podcasts... new episodes every other Tuesday
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Whoβs that at our departmental seminar today? Itβs the lovely @macroecoevoale.bsky.social wowing us with dinosaurs, ecology, and global science!
04.02.2026 19:04 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Whoβs that at our departmental seminar today? Itβs the lovely @macroecoevoale.bsky.social wowing us with dinosaurs, ecology, and global science!
04.02.2026 19:04 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
On second thoughts, I'm not hungry
28.01.2026 15:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
With proper link royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
28.01.2026 11:25 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0The paper lead by @fossilyarns.bsky.social with colleagues in Manchester and California is out today in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org [end]
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
We also found evidence of bony skeletal type tissues in these otherwise squishy vertebrates. nice.
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The specific chemistry and distribution shows evidence of a complex eye and a retinal pigmented epithelium, early in our evolution. COOL.
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Let's look closer at the eye. The Copper shows a really nice Camera-type eye structure, not seen before with normal light.
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The Zinc picks out nicely the eyes, the 'gills', and some mystery unknown structures, but NOT the 'mouth'
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Here is that same face, that only a mother could love, visualised in high powered X-rays at the Stamford Synchrotron to show Zinc
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Here is Jamoytius's gormless face in fossils from the Early Silurian of Scotland
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by Nobu Tamura
New paper story time. ποΈππ¦΄π©»
Here is your gormless jawless relative Jamoytius:
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My new paper is out today!
With @fossilrob.bsky.social looking at Silurian jawless fish (obvs)
With the SLAC synchrotron we find evidence for true bone in these squishy fish AND camera eyes - a nice kismet moment with that great recent Nature paper
Early vertebrate eyes are SO HOT right now!
Is it our ability to survive lead poisoning that made us human?β οΈ π¦§ π§ π¦· A new study combining data from gigant orangutan fossil teeth and artificially grown brains in jars paints a picture of distant human origins and language development. Episode out today!
27.01.2026 11:32 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Gigantopicthecus was gigantic @tweetisaurus.bsky.social
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Thanks everybody for the support over the last year! π₯³ π Here are the top 8 episodes for 2025- did your favourite make the list? Details of the episode and the artists of the images are on our YouTube channel and Libsyn pages
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π¨ New episode out today: "Back breaking and baby making, the disturbing bedroom habits of hadrosaurs",
π¦β€οΈπ¦we take a lurid look at pathologies and behaviours of duck bill fossils. Out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts
