Corinne Mensforth

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

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

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I’m having a blast catching up with everyone at CAVEPS, and stoked to share some fishy results
📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social

Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS

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

I’m proud to be part of the newly formed ‘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.

It’s the first day of the CAVEPS Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, hosted by Flinders Uni on Kaurna Yerta 🎉

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

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

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

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.

…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩

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

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

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

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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.
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01

🎉 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