Brandon Peecook

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Group selfie on an Idaho beach: wide sandy expanse and blue skies. Sloth vertebra in the foreground!

#FossilFriday and the Peecook lab is out in the Pleistocene of Idaho making some new friends!
🦬🐪🦥 @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @imnh208.bsky.social @idahostateucose.bsky.social

If I squint in yellow and purple I can see a @paleo-hank.bsky.social figure

A skeletonized American alligator decomposing in a wood framed box

Happy #Croctober to all who celebrate.

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Please have and encourage patience with US federal offices and our federal colleagues in the coming days. With a US federal government shutdown now in effect, progress on permit requests from federal agencies will very likely be delayed.

A collage of photos showing Browning High School students participating in a paleontology field program at Egg Mountain. The students and staff are outdoors in a rocky, hilly landscape, digging and examining fossils with tools and buckets, listening to instruction, and posing for group photos.

(Part 1) This past weekend, Museum of the Rockies staff led the first ever Browning High School Egg Mountain Eggspedition program at the Beatrice R. Taylor Paleontology Research Area near Choteau, Montana. With excitement and curiosity, students began an unforgettable journey.

With a pristine skull, tiny phalanges, gastroliths, & an articulated tail, Zavacephale is the oldest & most complete pachycephalosaur ever found #fossilfriday I had the pleasure of photographing it last week, what a beauty! Congrats to the authors, read about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The true inside scoop is that I named that Session "NOT Dinosaurs!!1!" originally and I almost added a pelycosaur talk.

Little miscommunication there with replacing a placeholder: Tech Session VI is "Mesozoic Seas & Skies" in the forthcoming Program 🌊 ⛅

Birmingham is built on the Triassic and our main logo for this year's conference features a Triassic reptile, a rhynchosaur, first described by Richard Owen in 1842 from Shropshire, just west of Birmingham.

We will be running two Triassic field trips this year, although both are now sold out

Check out the provisional programme for #SVP2025 #2025SVP - the Triassic symposium was so popular they are running it for the entire day!

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I don't disagree with others' gorgon ideas, but I think a dinocephalian

Repeated climate-driven dispersal and speciation in peripheral populations of Pleistocene mastodons Coastal mastodon mitochondrial genomes contextualize species distributions and dispersal patterns near southern glacial limits.

It lives!!! 🦣🦣🦣🧪

Repeated climate-driven dispersal and speciation in peripheral populations of Pleistocene mastodons | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Multicolored CT model of a fossil cichlid skeleton. Image credit: Austin Babut (project technician).

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

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What a phone catalog it must be. #FossilFriday

Not the first time.
Jeff will be missed, and it was always a treat to chat with him.

Hearing news that primatologist Prof Jeff Meldrum - probably best known as lone extant academically qualified advocate of the supposed biological reality of #bigfoot - died Tuesday after sudden downturn in health. Thanks Brandon Peecock of Idaho State University for info.

We lost Mark Norell today. Dinosaur hunter extraordinaire. The coolest dude alive. My PhD supervisor.
Wherever you are, raise a glass of your favorite lager or single malt, as it is what Mark would want.

Reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus afer, an armored ankylosaur dinosaur, showing known material on a black silhouette. The holotype specimen (an isolated partial rib) is shown in yellow, with a more complete referred specimen in white. Unknown material is indicated in grey, inferred from surrounding elements and related taxa. The arrangement of many of the osteoderms is speculative. Scale bar=1m.

Graphic illustrating the reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus afer, an armored ankylosaur dinosaur. The smaller two skeletals at the top show known material on a black silhouette; the first shows only the internal bones in light blue, while the second shows only the osteoderms in yellow. Unknown material is indicated in grey, inferred from surrounding elements and related taxa. The arrangement of many of the osteoderms is speculative. The larger bottom diagram shows a hypothetical full skeleton, with a human (~1.8m) for scale. Scale bars=1m.

Reconstructed skeleton of Spicomellus ('spiky collar'), certainly one of the most unusual dinosaurs known. Found in the mid-Jurassic El Mers Group of Morocco, it is also the oldest definitive ankylosaur.

#FossilFriday: the giant dicynodont Lisowicia from the Upper Triassic of Poland. Lisowicia is the largest known dicynodont (about the size of an elephant.) Lisowicia is also one of the last known dicynodonts. On display at the Museum of Evolution, Warsaw.

Article link here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It’s finally out!

Our work addressing the origins of reptiles is published in PCJ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

We use novel info gleaned from the scan data of dozens of stem reptiles to substantially revise our understanding of early reptile evolution #paleontology #herpetology

👋 Good-bye "Parareptilia"! Good-bye "Diapsida"! 👋

🚨 REPTILE ALERT 🦎🐍🐢🐊🦉
The backbone of @semifossorial.bsky.social's PhD in my lab is finally out after literally *years* in review, and it's a doozy.

Using synchrotron micro-CT scans of MANY amniotes and Paleozoic reptiles we completely restructure the reptile stem lineage across the Permian. 🤩

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

Notifications for #SVP2025 #2025SVP abstracts are going out!
Check your emails and get pumped for Birmingham! 😀
We've been working hard on the Program Committee. 🦴⛏️

This is one of the largest Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meetings of all time. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
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It’s a beaut! I commissioned @serpenillus.bsky.social for this incredible piece that has quite a purpose. The new SVP Memoir dropped while we were in Zambia 🇿🇲 on a field expedition alongside the government.
More soon, but for now enjoy. 😊