Corinne Mensforth

Corinne Mensforth

@corinnemensforth.bsky.social

Biobanker and PhD student in early vertebrate evolution 🐠 🦴🌏🐟🦎🐍🩻 πŸ§ πŸ¦–πŸ¦•πŸ”¬ Kaurna/Adelaide AUS (she/her)

195 Followers 242 Following 29 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 month ago
Palaeo Jam | Dinosaur University Palaeo Jam is a podcast exploring a range of issues in science and the community, using the multidisciplinary aspects of, and public fascination with, palaeontology. Palaeo Jam uses fossils, and other...

Lets talk about fish (a podcast), with Michael Mills

www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-bz...

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1 month ago

Hope all the folks at #ISELV have a fantastic meeting this week 🦴 I’m very happy for the live feed, big thanks and best fishes to the @iselv18.bsky.social organisers 🐟

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Have a great holiday break folks

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3 months ago
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Life onto Land: The Devonian - Canadian Museum of Nature Special exhibition: visit Tiktaalik and other Devonian fossils of fishes from the Canadian Arctic, at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa.

I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out.

nature.ca/en/visit-us/...
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3 months ago
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I did a line drawing of the coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural history @amnh.org a few days ago. This morning I colored in that drawing with charcoal colored pencils. #SundayFishSketch #AMNH

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Coelacanth cookie cutter - Download Free 3D model by Paleontologizing Coelacanths are a group of fossil fishes with strange, limb-like fins and an unusual diphycercal tail. Although well known to paleontologists, coelacanths disappear from the fossil record toward the ...

If you've got a hankering for some coelacanth cookies (and with #Fishmas right around the corner, who doesn't?) then you're in luck

My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print

sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...

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3 months ago
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I’m having a blast catching up with everyone at CAVEPS, and stoked to share some fishy results
πŸ“· @draliceclement.bsky.social

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Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS

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Australasian Palaeontologists

Australasian Palaeontologists are a specialist group of the Geological Society of Australia who organise events and conferences, publish the Alcheringa journal plus regular newsletters, and coordinate the National Fossil Species Lists. Find out more at australasianpalaeontologists.com

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3 months ago

I’m proud to be part of the newly formed β€˜Community of Practice on Collaborating with Indigenous Peoples’ who are running a 3-hour workshop this afternoon, plus a session on Thursday with invited speakers Jade Turner and Jacinta Koolmatrie.

Huge thanks to our sponsor Australasian Palaeontologists.

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3 months ago
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It’s the first day of the CAVEPS Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, hosted by Flinders Uni on Kaurna Yerta πŸŽ‰

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The jacaranda is blooming and the CAVEPS beers are here πŸ’œ Must be time for CAVEPS 2025 to begin! Can’t wait to see more than 180 delegates descend on Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide this week!

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4 months ago
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This Coelacanth's Got Quite a Story! YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...

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4 months ago
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How a song cycle led scientists to hidden dinosaur tracks From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.

From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.

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4 months ago
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…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🀩

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Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!

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30hrs in Sydney/Gadigal country contained far more lobe-fins than I anticipated! pt. 1 at Sealife Aquarium

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

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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

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6 months ago
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

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6 months ago
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'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...

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6 months ago
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Flinders Uni β€œfishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟

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

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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.

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7 months ago
CAVEPS: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics CAVEPS 2025. You are invited to attend the 19th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS). It will be held from 24th - 30th of Nov 2025 on Kaurna Yarta at...

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

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7 months ago
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'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...

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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 🦜 πŸ¦β€β¬›πŸͺΏπŸ¦‰πŸ¦…

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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.
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01

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πŸŽ‰ Happy #FossilFriday! Episode #87 is here! πŸŽ‰

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.

πŸ”Š Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...

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