Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️

Sign the Petition Save Geology at the University of Leicester

My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

This scale image of Westlothiana makes me laugh - looks like the tetrapod is about to get splatted 😄

The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

Save Geology at the University of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure

Please show your support by signing the below!

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I'm assuming you're in southern England because we just boarded the Heathrow Express and it started snowing halfway!

Sign the Petition Save Geology at the University of Leicester

University of Leicester's Geology & Palaeontology staff & facilities are at risk. Show your support
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Our ancestors slept on cave floors and I need a pillow for my head, a pillow for my body, zero light, a white noise machine, and one leg out of my covers before I can even close my eyes

A Magnificent Spyhop. Read the full story here: buff.ly/0c2MouI
Photos by Roos
This is an encounter from 2025
#WhaleTales #orca

This was pretty amazing.. insanely busy day.. but happened to walk dog at lucky time to stumble into this. Only noticed because starring at all the sediment deposited by the San Lorenzo River from the rain.

I love my cats dearly but I always try to store my photography gear in cupboards

The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts — Tetrapod Zoology For some time now I’ve been interested in what the glyptodonts – a group of highly modified, large or gigantic armadillos – looked like when alive….

New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts, a remarkable group of giant and anatomically amazing group of extinct armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammals

Have you completed or commissioned a piece of palaeoart in the last year? Nominations are now open for The Marsh Palaeoart Award! 🎨🦕🌿🐌🐟🎨
You can self-nominate, or nominate an artist you think deserves recognition. Check out our website for more details - palaeosoc.org/grants-prize...

It's the end of the #2025SVP UK dinos field trip. We finished with a visit to Dewars Farm dinosaur track site (muddy), and the Oxford Uni Museum, where we were lucky enough to get a tour of the Buckland archives and collections. Home for sleep...

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.

AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.

Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

Fun with Fossils: Using Museum Collections in the 21st Century Posted on by geocurators Written by Harry T. Jones, who is a GCG assistant blog editor and palaeontological researcher. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you have …

In our most recent blog post, Harry Jones, GCG assistant blog editor and palaeontological researcher, reflects on how working with museum collections has shaped his career 🦖

Give it a read here: geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/f...

I need to remember this sentiment much more often 😌 eternally thankful I never have to take calculus again

Man I’m so glad I don’t have to do calculus for literally any reason anymore. Thank GOD.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

The south was a chattel slave empire until the 1860s and a de facto ethnic authoritarian state for the following century, which is well in living memory. I don't think we need to pretend that that hasn't left a distinctive cultural mark.

Learn & Teach — Paleontological Research Institution

I'll start: @ravenscimaven.bsky.social should share about PRI's need for donations before the end of the year because it is a center of science communication, teacher education, and science outreach, especially for Earth and climate science, and they are based in NY www.priweb.org/learn-and-te...

infographic about the Paleontological Research institution. 94 years of research here. One of the 10 largest fossil collections in the USA, with 7 million specimens. 1.2 million users of their online content annually, 30,000 in person visitors 1,500 teachers use PRI for continuing education each year link to donate: https://www.priweb.org/donate

infographic explaining that PRI needs to raise 1 million dollars by December 31st to pay off their mortgage, be free of that debt and continue future operations. They have already raised 2.1 million of the 3.1 million needed to pay this unexpected expense due to a major donor being unable to fulfill a long-term pledge

Well it seems it is going to be to late for @lastweektonight.com to help with their hiatus. Any suggestions for a big sci com/science interested news account I should play with to help save PRI?

Tag them in the comments with your pitch for why they should help out this museum maybe

Please, if you've ever wanted to help me financially, help PRI. They're an independent museum in Ithaca at immediate risk of foreclosure. I would be so crushed if they didn't make it.

An illustration of an Opah (a type of fish). This fish is disc-shaped, with a very deep, silvery body. There are white spots covering the body, and the eye is large. The mouth, and all fins are a bright red-orange.

I finally finished my Opah for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Here comes an angry fish to brighten your Monday

Xiphactinus
Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper
8.3″ x 5.9″ (21 x 15 cm)

#paleoart #paleoillustration #animalart #fishart #SciFi

#MolluscMonday The L.F. Spath collection at the NHM in London includes numerous thin sections through the early growth stages of ammonoids. This crudely photographed example is of a Cretaceous ammonite.

Can't say more than crab, unfortunately! I've only learned my Pliocene-Pleistocene forms and only for the CA coast.

Now that SVP is over, I can finally post the commission that I did for @mosasaurologist.bsky.social 's poster on a certain very cool taxon! #paleoart #sciart