2009 sounds right. The new mount is much better btw. Great job though, looks v cool!

Nice to see the old Leicester Museum Cetiosaurus mount have a starring role.

YouTube video by Peter Falkingham Oxfordshire Dinosaur tracks - Falkingham Lab from Liverpool John Moores University

Oxford had a talented group make a video about the #dinosaur tracks in Oxfordshire this summer.
Birmingham also had a talented group make a video.

I made the video for our group. It is less professional. And has wildly inappropriate music:

youtu.be/6ULOHr7dkF0

Geopark and Partners Seeking to Recruit Two Researchers - Charnwood Forest Geopark We’re looking for two researchers to join exciting and innovative projects that will help shape the future of our work in Charnwood Forest. Do you know someone who might be interested? Working with pa...

Museum researcher Frankie Dunn has a funded research placement opportunity with @charnwoodforest.bsky.social ! Applications are now open!

The project is part time (14 hours per week) over 12 weeks and the researcher will be receive a stipend of £1,300

www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...

Bargain!

And yet still quite small compared to the largest extinct penguins.

Frank will be greatly missed, such a friend and inspiration to so many.

Lions, (sabre-toothed) tigers, and bears!

I still think it’s a giant conodont.

Congratulations!!

@fossiliam.bsky.social I guess you’ve seen this one in Chapter House Street, York?

For #FossilFriday, a cobble from the streets of York with corals, not sure of the precise taxon. Maybe Carboniferous?

Very sharp, all of you. Does Fern not have a dedicated account?

A spectacular red sky over a snow covered landscape of mountains and sea with some buildings and construction vehicles in land in the foreground.

A range of snow covered mountains next to the icy sea and a flat snow covered piece of ground with some containers on it and two long narrow buildings at the foreground.

A pointed snow capped mountain range in the distance with two large buildings on top of a snowy landscape at the front - one is a large bright blue building with an octagonal tower on top with large windows around it and the other building is green with red around the windows.

👋Bon voyage as the 2024/25 season ends in Rothera! ❄️

The new Discovery Building is now in use, powering and supplying the station as a new era of polar science begins.
Final works continue ahead of handover later this year.

Read more: www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/e...

#PolarScience #Sustainability

Here we go, day 1 of Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. Come and find us in the Jubilee Pavilion @bas.ac.uk #FossilFestival

See you there. We’ll be showing fossils from Antarctica.

I wrote up Colonel Birch’s caricatures last year in GeoHistories, message me for a pdf if interested.

Congratulations - great to have a favourite thesis chapter!

The Household Cavalry Museum and Shop A chinless wonder James Birch was certainly not! In the age of the purchase system (pre-1871) the regiments of the Household Cavalry were deemed incredibly ‘fashionable’, and were accordingly...

And here’s the man himself, back in his military days. Maybe not the heart-throb some have made him out to be, but so generous to the Anning family. www.facebook.com/HCavMuseum/p...

I can ask, she’s here for a research visit.

I’m hosting Vera next week at BAS, oddly enough.

A very happy 99th birthday to Sir David. I’ve had the great honour to have met him several times in both human and ship form.

Great to see that the 2025 Lyme Regis Fossil Festival programme is now published. I'll be giving a couple of talks about local lass #MaryAnning (of course!) The festival is a fantastic event, loads to see and do, and not to be missed! I hope to see you there!
fossilfestival.com/lyme-regis-f...

Title of published paper: Notice of the discovery of a new Fossil Animal, forming a link between the Ichthyosaurus and Crocodile, together with general remarks on the Osteology of the Ichthyosaurus; from the Observations of H. T. De la BECHE, Esq. F.R.S. M.G.S. ANDThe Rev. W. D. CONYBEARE, F.R.S. M.G.S. DRAWN UP AND COMMUNICATED BY THE LATTER

Plate from the published paper showing vertebrae of Plesiosaurus.

A skeleton of the animal in question, deficient only in the bones of the head, preserved in the well known collection of Col, Birch, (who most liberally allowed us the full use of the very valuable materials he possessed) confirmed in a most satisfactory manner most of my previous conjectures, and enabled us to assign to it its true place in the zoological order, and to designate it by an appropriate name. That of Plesiosaurus has been chosen, as expressing its near approach to the order Lacerta.

Detail of a plate from the published paper showing the paddle bones of Plesiosaurus.

6 April 1821: at @geolsoc.bsky.social, William Conybeare introduces the genus Plesiosaurus for some bones from the Lias of Lyme Regis that differed from Ichthyosaurus. The best specimens (probably bought from #MaryAnning) were in the collection of Thomas Birch, but no complete specimen was known.

It was, indeed, incredible!

Only if they’re living fish, so no.

It’s a “thumbs up” from me!

For #FossilFriday here’s a Homo sapiens trace fossil on the Norfolk coast being revealed by coastal erosion due to anthropogenic climate change.

Sorry to hear of Richard’s passing. An inspiring scientist and writer.

Good luck!