Corinne Mensforth

My mini mate G and I checking out some crocodilian skulls 🐊 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday gharial on the left, freshwater croc on the right.

Great evening out with local legend Dr. Mark Hutchinson speaking on two of the best subjects - herpetology and palaeontology 🦎🦴🐍 thanks heaps to the hosts Uni of Adelaide Palaeontologists

Fixed wet specimen of Lepidosiren paradoxa, the South American lungfish.

A partial barramundi skull, Lates calcarifer.

Four 3D printed lizard skulls.

Saltwater crocodile skull, Crocodylus porosus.

Stoked to spend some time with the 2nd year students in their Vertebrate Form and Function prac class on fish, amphibians and reptiles 🐟🦎

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Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039

Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org

'Missing links' of evolution, explained When we look at the world around us, we see a wondrous variety of living things. How do species evolve into all these different forms? UChicago scientists explain.

Missing links in evolution explained

news.uchicago.edu/explainer/mi...

Flinders Uni “fishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟

I ❤️ visiting SA Museum’s Science Centre any chance I get, and today’s opportunity came via a tour for National Science Week.

Big congrats to fellow palaeo student Cate Sexton on her very engaging 3MT presentation and progressing through to the Flinders Uni final. Cate spoke about the long history being uncovered at Warratyi rock shelter and partnering with the local Adnyamathanha community.

Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November?

Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org

'This takes the cake': Endangered handfish found in Hobart CBD street The handfish looked as if it had just "flopped out of the water" when it was discovered by an office worker in central Hobart.

Meanwhile in Australia... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Nothing better than Friday knock offs at Science in the Pub while @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social regales us with tales of bird brains and lungs and predation and senses and courting and calling 🦜 🐦‍⬛🪿🦉🦅

Canowindra Fossil Fish Slab F47L53 <p>This is the original slab found in 1955, collected by a road worker who was working approximately 10 km west of Canowindra. During this process he unearthed a large rock slab with unusual &ldquo;fo...

For #FossilFriday here's a 3D object of the fossil fish slab containing tetrapodomorph fish #Canowindra #grossi, produced by the Australian Museum.
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🎉 Happy #FossilFriday! Episode #87 is here! 🎉

Explore fossil fish 🦈 and the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Chair of Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor at the University of Chicago.

🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...

Return of the huia? Why Māori worldviews must be part of the ‘de-extinction’ debate There is nothing to stop de-extinction companies using specimens from museum collections, despite little Māori support for reviving lost native species.

Listening to and participating in the worldwide critical media commentary about the dire wolf 'de-extinction', one thing struck me. Indigenous voices, which have a vital role in this debate, were largely silent, leading me to co-write this theconversation.com/return-of-th...

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature Analysis of a fossil trackway from&nbsp;the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

Thrilled to announce our latest paper, published today in @nature.com on the oldest fossil amniote trackways, from the earliest Carboniferous of southeastern Australia.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are almost home 🚀 I’m looking forward to hearing their stories once they’re recovered and ready. Pic with Butch is from his lecture series a few years ago.

In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained

Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant

What it's like to work a day in Antarctica?

Learn more: www.sciencefriday.com/icefossils

Hello friends! CAVEPS (#Conference on #Australian #Vertebrate #Evolution #Palaeontology & #Systematics) to be held in Adelaide Nov 24-30th 2025 first circular is out!

If you haven't received it via email you may not be on our mailing list, but access it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Xm1w...

I’m back from holidays in Sri Lanka, highlights soon 🐆🐘🦚 but this water monitor in Kandy Lake couldn’t wait #Varanus #salvator

Vilma Perez kicks off the University of Adelaide presentations on day 1 of #sedna2025, showing some neat ancient lacustrine microbial communities and function from Kangaroo Island

We are now facing unprecedented, systemic challenges to scientific enterprise, its infrastructure, and the diverse people and communities that make it possible. The recent executive orders issued by the Office of the President of the United States threaten to directly harm our discipline and the people in it. As paleontologists, we know that in times of upheaval, ecological communities that fare the best tend to be the most diverse. Analogously, our varied backgrounds and perspectives and our willingness to listen to and learn from each other have enabled us to adapt to challenges facing our discipline and our Society in the past. We believe that the best approach to overcoming these new challenges is to turn to our fundamental values and our mission, which includes facilitating the cooperation of all persons concerned with the history, evolution, ecology, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy of vertebrate animals. We take this moment to specifically support and affirm the right of all of our members and our non-member colleagues to conduct science and live their lives in safety and harmony, no matter their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, or citizenship status. We encourage members in positions of safety and security to advocate for members who are not. Speak out in favor of research funding, evidence-based policies, and policies that ensure people of all identities receive equitable protections and opportunities. SVP leadership is actively working with other scientific organizations to respond to and mitigate the impact of these government actions on our members. We will continue to prioritize building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive vertebrate paleontology community where all feel welcome and are able to thrive. The mission of our Society is primarily scientific in nature. We seek to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology throughout the world,

and foster the scientific, educational, and personal appreciation and understanding of vertebrate fossils and fossil sites. Several executive actions taken by the current presidential administration are antithetical to this mission, including the pause and audit of federal grant funding, the silencing of federal employees, the stripping of climate history data from government websites, the attempts to downsize the federal workforce, including departments charged with maintaining fossils and fossil sites, and attacks on academic freedom, climate change research, disabled people, transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people, immigrants, and endeavors for diversity, equity and inclusion. These actions, if successful, will impede our ability to carry out our mission and harm the broader practice of science. The Society would like to gather additional information regarding the effects of recent federal action on paleontologists on the ground. To help us in this task, we ask that you share your experiences. We would like to know if you have been impacted or may be impacted by these executive actions. We recognize that at this point there is uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the federal funding audit, pending legal challenges, and other aspects of these executive actions, so you may not know the full impacts yet. This uncertainty itself is an impact. If you have been or might be impacted by these executive actions, please fill out this survey. Please also provide any ideas or suggestions, including areas of concern on which you believe the Society should focus. Below we share some resources that you may find helpful when considering ways to support your colleagues and/or take action during these tumultuous times. We appreciate that this is a time full of uncertainty for many of you, especially those located in the United States, and we will do our best to keep you informed of Society actions. In solidarity, Stuart Sumida, SVP President, and the SVP Executive Comm.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issues statement on the recent Executive Orders and their impact on the SVP community.

Ethical research

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) publishes the 'Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research' and the 'Guide to Applying the AIATSIS Code of Ethics' here: aiatsis.gov.au/research/eth...

I study sharks, including restraining them for data collection. People often think my job must be a scary adrenaline-fueled thrill ride (it’s not). But without question, the most heartstoppingly, gut-clenchingly terrifying day of my professional life was the day my sample freezer almost thawed.
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Hanging out with a bunch of “fishy” Flinders palaeo students… what a crew!

385 million year old #Tetrapod trackway on #Valentia island today.

The oldest in-situ record in the world of a vertebrate walking on land!

#speirgorm #coast #corkCoast #coKerry #kerey #WildAtlanticWay #ireland #irish #geology #Paleontology vid: kg

January 26 is not a date to celebrate in Australia #ChangeTheDate No pride in genocide
Artwork by Oumoula Mckenzie @tjukurpamaru on IG

Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts | Biology Letters For studies of the evolution of vertebrate brain anatomy and potentially associated behaviours, reconstructions of digital brain endocasts from computed tomography scans have revolutionized our capaci...

Check out our latest paper validating telencephalon and cerebellum endocast measurements in birds 🐦🦅🦆🦃🪿🐦‍⬛ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @evolsara.bsky.social @evoneuro.bsky.social