Jeremy Lockwood

A lovely thing too. Very hollow teeth!

A fossil fern leaf on a rock

Happy #FossilFriday and #FernFriday ! This beautiful fossil leaf belongs to a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France during the late Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany #fossil #botany

Eophrynus prestvicii, the Coseley Spider, is an extremely well-preserved, 300-million-year-old #arachnid discovered near Dudley. Though it looks like modern #spiders, it was unable to spin a web, instead catching prey using powerful jaws!

#FossilFriday #LapworthRocks #geology #palaeontology

For #FossilFriday, a panoramic view of abundant fossil burrows attributed to freshwater crayfish-like tracemakers, preserved as sandstone-filled vertical tubes in a reddish mudstone of the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic, ~210 mya) near Moab, Utah. 🧪⚒️🪨🦞🕳️

#FossilFriday Stone floor slab containing the corroded test of a Cenozoic echinoid. Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Bazas, SW France.

A close up picture of a partial icthyosaur fossil showing the bones of its flipper, along one edge of which there are white ridges in the sone which are the preserved cartilage.

A picture of the label for the specimen, which reads: "Look closely at this ichthyosaur's right front paddle. You will see preserved skin and ridges of cartilage, which supported the trailing edge. Thanks to this rare skin outline, we can see that the paddles were much broader than the skelton suggests."

ohhh this is fun!

there was a paper recently describing cartilage ridges in ichthyosaur flippers, and I just happened to be looking at those on display in @nhm-london.bsky.social this week and found the same structure in a fossil from 1889! #FossilFriday 🐬🧪

A polished section of iguanodontian dinosaur jaw #IsleofWight. The detail revealed in a 125 million year old bone by a bit of cut and polish is exquisite. Mostly empty alveolar sockets but the arrow marks an emergent tooth moving in to replace a fractured erupted crown. #FossilFriday.

Jam tomorrow!

Behold my very first non-avian dinosaur fossil find.🦖🦷 #FossilFriday

A recent trip to the #EtchesCollection was rewarded with coming face to face with their enormous pliosaur. A definite candidate for monarch of the Jurassic Kimmeridgian seas 150 million years ago. #FossilFriday.

I'll be talking about the J/K dino faunal turnover in the J/K boundary session at the 12th Int'l Cretaceous Symposium in Hanover, DM on Sept. 1 or 2. Total loss of Morrison sauropods!! Berriasian dino fauna totally unique! @valdosaurus.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

This is amazing news! 🎉 🎊 Michele's science contributions 🔭🧪 include space missions llike NASA's Cassini, and being astronomer royal places her in an ideal position to educate and inspire the public about astronomy!

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why doctors are really on strike – and what it says about Britain

Why doctors are really on strike – and what it says about Britain

I couldn’t agree more with this analysis from @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

Worth a watch @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing more from Cedar Mountain!

Top left: A fossil March Fly Top right: A fossil bird feather Bottom left: A fossil deciduous plant leaf with a toothed margin. Bottom right: A large fossil flower All were collected from the Eocene Allenby Formation of Southern British Columbia, near Princeton.

A teaser of some beautiful #Eocene #fossils that I will start featuring on BlueSky.

Collected from the Allenby Formation in the area around Princeton, British Columbia.

There are many more fine #insect, #plant, #fish, and #feather fossils to come. So stay tuned.

#PaleoSky #FossilFriday

WTF?

So with the preparation behind the scenes for the exciting debut next month of @dinoconuk.bsky.social reaching fever pitch & the whole team working incredibly hard to deliver an incredible weekend of SciComm, Outreach, Art, Workshops and Activities! It’s a busy Fossil Friday so forgive the repost 😉

𝘖𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘢 - An extinct Giraffid species from the Middle Miocene Chinji Formation of Pakistan, with the slenderest metatarsal of any known ruminants, represents the oldest definitive member of the giraffine lineage. Nikos Solounias & Maria Ríos (2025): buff.ly/LqW97Ky

#FossilFriday #PaleoSky #NHM

Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis is an ichthyosaur from the Lower #Jurassic of England, first described by Appleby in 1979. The #Museum holds this unique 3D skull, though the related geographic and stratigraphic information have been lost to time.

#FossilFriday #LapworthRocks #geology #palaeontology

For #FossilFriday the robust back end of the dentary of a big Iguanodon cf bernissartensis dinosaur found about 100 yrs ago at Sandown #IsleofWight in beds now obscured by sea defences. Nice mahogany brown teeth rather than the island’s usual black.

Sorry to learn Australian paleontologist & ichnologist Tony Thulborn died. He was one of the first ichnologists to study dinosaur tracks in Australia, & is probably best known for his & Mary Wade's mapping & interpretation of the Lark Quarry tracksite (3,000+ tracks!) near Winton, Queensland. 🧪🦖🦕🐾

PLEASE BE HONEST WITH THE PUBLIC Keir & Wes

There are not 2000 more GPs

May be 1000 but certainly not 2000, many are in ARRS roles which are not adding substantial patient benefit & consult rates are not up

3000 about to enter workforce with limited jobs available, better solutions needed

Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles - Nature A Middle Triassic diapsid is presented that has a distinctive crest consisting of integumentary appendages that are structurally distinct from avemetatarsalian feathers.

The Triassic just got *even weirder*... My buddy @stephanspiekman.bsky.social has just unveiled this new Triassic reptile with feather-like structures sticking up from its back.. super-cool, and in Nature 🩷 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I just want to note how good Suzanne is at flipping this blow book! I always need some practice.

What is a blow book, you ask?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow_book

Fossilised tree trunk found in Derby park stumps experts The stump is believed to be from the Jurassic period, but expects are not sure why it is in Derby.

A Purbeck tree stump in Markeaton Park?!

(No idea why it says it's a juniper)

Two bones sit on a grey shelf. A brown humerus is much larger than the small bone-colored one next to it.

The horrifying humerus of the giant short-faced bear for #FossilFriday.

This specimen from Nebraska makes a large adult black bear humerus look miniscule.

Not to be tangled with.

🧪⚒️🦕 @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday a mass of fragile #IsleofWight spinosaurid caudal vertebrae and chevrons rescued from heavy seas in 2017 on my dining room table. Mapped out, labelled and stabilised and safely transported to #DinosauIsleMuseum where much prep brought together a large part of the tail.

I particularly like the guy that came up with the four "d's": do, defer, delegate, delete. That's not an email hack. That's just all the options. There are no other options.

£84m in ARRS cash lost to general practice in 2024/25 Exclusive: Almost £84m in unclaimed additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) cash - enough to hire hundreds more GPs - was retained by NHS England in 2024/25 and lost to general practice, GPonline...

Almost £84m in unclaimed additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) cash - enough to hire hundreds more GPs - was retained by NHS England in 2024/25 & lost to general practice

Patients need GP appts & this could have been used to provide 5million with GPs

www.gponline.com/84m-arrs-cas...

It’s not long ago that ‘our’ NHS was the envy of the world. This is clearly weasel stuff.