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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology | Master’s student | Denver Basin & condylarth enthusiast
The first Serbian dinosaur fossils have been discovered! Delighted to have been invited by Serbian colleagues to contribute to this paper (available in early view) describing Late Cretaceous sauropod and theropod fossils www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
06.06.2025 16:29 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Photo and diagram of the fossilized skeleton and feathers of a bird-like dinosaur.
New specimen of Archaeopteryx described (the one housed at the Field Museum in Chicago), providing new info on the skull and soft tissue: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)
14.05.2025 15:47 — 👍 64 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Colorado Plateau field trip day 4!
11.05.2025 03:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colorado Plateau field trip day 3!
10.05.2025 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colorado Plateau field trip day 2!
09.05.2025 03:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Colorado Plateau field trip day 1!
08.05.2025 03:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy graduate student appreciation week from (just some) of my favorite fellow grads!!
07.04.2025 17:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A painting of a portrait of the palaeontologist Mary Anning. She is wearing a long, tiered dark dress, a bonnet and a red scarf. She’s holding a wicker basket around her elbow and a hold a hammer in her hand. Her other hand points to a small dog on the ground.
We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning!
Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴
No fewer than 165 of my books and papers have been stolen by Meta, to train AI that will make them billions. I've been paid $0.00.
If you want to read my real words, avoid the AI-generated crap and check out my upcoming book on bird evolution next year.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Happy international women in STEM day!
11.02.2025 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two summers ago, I went to Craters of the Moon as part of my geology field camp. I stumbled across this photo and forgot how much I loved the birds!
03.02.2025 21:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feeling this so hard this semester! Ready for a good one though, I may or may not have a descriptive paper coming out this summer 🫢
16.01.2025 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I second the art museum, plus it’s free! The botanical gardens are also very nice
26.12.2024 17:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Merry Christmas Eve! 🦖🎅
24.12.2024 23:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
an early ray-finned fish under a microscope with a foam background
If you’ll be at SICB in January, come see my talk titled “Hidden trophic diversity in early ray-finned fishes: evidence from the Carboniferous Sphaerolepis” on Sunday, Jan 4th, in the Morphology and Mechanics session.
Come chat to talk fish, paleontology, or science in general!
Semester 1 officially comes to a close!
10.12.2024 00:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
