Prof Susie Maidment

Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors combine fossil occurrence data, phylogenies and climatic niche modelling to explore the palaeobiogeography of early pterosaurs and their non-flying close relatives, the lagerpetids.

Paper: Foffa et al 2025 Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Where did Pterosaurs come from? The Fossil Files · Episode

Our new is episode out today!

In it Susie and Rob discuss the origins of pterosaurs and how environmental changes influenced their evolution.

Available now from Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts

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The Fossil Files In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...

A brand new Fossil Files podcast (@thefossilfiles.bsky.social) on pterosaurs, lagerpetids and climate modelling is out now here: fossils.libsyn.com and on all your favourite podcast platforms. In it, we spend a lot of time discussing how it is easy to say 'lager' but hard to say 'lagerpetid'.

What a hero. ❤️ Chris Woakes.

A pair of Jakapil running up a boulder, trying to move out of the path of two titanosaurs walking near them

The enigmatic Jakapil kaniukura, a really weird armored ornithischian dinosaur from the earliest part of the Late Cretaceous of South America

#paleoart #dinosaurs #jakapil

Prof. Susannah Maidment JSP Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to our new co-Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susannah Maidment

Susannah is a renowned expert on the palaeobiology of bird-hipped ‘ornithischian’ dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, London

🦕Read about her amazing work: buff.ly/4AfhohB

@tweetisaurus.bsky.social #Fossils #PaleoSky #Dinosaurs

Nothing scarier than a short girl with a tall mouth and a tiny fuse, tbh.

So true. We got given an early 00s edition of the Beano and it was the same! I was really shocked that we used to consider that 'ok'

Today I've got a nine-hour car journey and it's day four of the test match. My family are extatic...

I would have thought so. Although the other is to put a paper up so bad that no one else would publish it

Wow, the authors have complained that I posted a review of their manuscript, which they posted on Bioarxiv, online. I've been told to delete it by ZJLS. Nope. If you don't want people to review your work, don't put it on a preprint server.

We have done this experiment one billion times and it has worked great all one billion times.

How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size Ornithopoda is one of the three main ornithischian dinosaur clades in which secondary quadrupedality is represented. However, when it evolved from obligate bipedality remains controversial. Indeed, t....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This is exceptional news. I hope that the necessity for a Popworld in close proximity is in the document of advice for future PalAss organisers that you are putting together.

Is it a bird? A monkey? No, it's a 'miraculous' new prehistoric reptile Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away by a new fossil discovery.”

Proud to make my National Geographic debut with this incredible discovery! Meet Mirasaura, an extremely weird little guy with independently-evolved "feathers" that solves a longstanding Triassic mystery and makes one of the period's oddest families even stranger.

(Now with a fixed link!)

My comment was gonna be "I don't know where you are but it's got a Popworld so it must be okay" but you got there first with a funnier comment

Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto

I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎

Illustration of Mirasaura on a blank background

BIG Congratulations to @stephanspiekman.bsky.social and colleagues for a once in a lifetime publication and thank sooo very much for confiding in me to illustrate this magnificent animal. Here is the link to the Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09167-9

*love* this reconstruction Gabriel!

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

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...

Hi Everyone. This is my first post on Bluesky as I seek to spread excitement about paleontology, animation, anatomy, and (as the current president of) the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! #StuartSumida #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #Paleontology #VertebratePaleontology

Today I played in a softball cricket tournament and it was like being back in school PE lessons: standing in a field with a number of people who could neither throw nor catch. I got through it by drinking an unprecedented about of Pimms.

Dry for five months and it rains when we go to Lord's. Typical.

Jurassic perk? A rare dinosaur skeleton from a Utah museum sells for massive amount at auction A Ceratosaurus skeleton sold for millions of dollars at auction Wednesday. It had previously been owned by Thanksgiving Point.

This sucks, and we keep hearing the same story over and over. Privately-owned dinosaurs, in someone’s foyer or on loan to a museum, can’t be studied because they can be yanked from view or sold again with no notice. No access, no reproducibility, no sustained long term care. Only assholes do this.

Christ, there are COURSES which teach this stuff??!

😁 I'm not allowed to make comments about expenses on social media. Last time I did that they launched an official investigation into me. So I shall smile and stay silent.

True but it seems extreme for an email.