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Growing up in America, I never had a chance to get a Blue Peter badge as a kid...

But I have one now!

Ticked one off the bucket list as Abby & the crew filmed with our Univ of Edinburgh palaeo PhD, Masters & undergrad students. In the lab and in the field on Skye!

And the students did brilliant!

Fun evening at @pintofscience.uk, talking dinosaurs over a cold Guinness and showcasing the work of our awesome Edinburgh students!

First @adammpalaeo.bsky.social wowed the crowd with his keynote on dinosaur brains, and then our student panel captivated everyone with a discussion on their research.

Thanks for having me BBC Breakfast, to talk dinosaurs and gush about the new Walking With Dinosaurs series!

I watched the original landmark series as a teenager in America. It inspired me to study dinosaurs. To work as a consultant on the new one has been a huge joy and honor!

Trump tariffed some Penguins

The Trump regime has put a 10% tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald which is inhabited only by Penguins. The majestic Penguin has become the first nonhuman in history to enter a trade war with the United States.

SAPS is the first undergraduate conference for palaeontology students in the UK. Our goal is to promote undergraduate research and help build ties within the field.

Thank you to all who attended the first ever SAPS undergraduate conference! So proud to have been part of the organising team along with Finn, Mo and Emma.

Special thanks to our keynote speaker @stevebrusatte.bsky.social, along with our undergraduate and postgraduate presenters!

Delighted to announce that I will be presenting at SAPS 2025 in Edinburgh from 29th-30th this month, unravelling the mysteries of avian evolution and revealing the latest research on the dinosaur’s conquest to dominate the skies!

An illustration showing Ahvaytum inspecting a series of dying/dead metoposaurid tmenospondyls in a drying pond

Let me introduce you to Ahvaytum bahndooiveche, a new #dinosaur described yesterday that represents the oldest Laurasian dinosaur known so far!

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to create the reconstruction of this taxon. Congratulations to Dr. David Lovelace and colleagues!

#paleoart #sciart

Happy new year everyone!!!

Tweet from Matthew Black: “The thing is, Die Hard wasn’t a Christmas movie originally. The script was changed by Constantine in 336 to align it with the Sol Invictus festival.” Response by “The Messianic Secret,”: IT WAS DECLARED A CHRISTMAS MOVIE AT THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA I CAN’T BELIEVE I HAVE TO GET ANGRY ABOUT THIS.”

This will never not be funny.

rhamphorhynchus reconstruction with raging sea background

Laser scanned pterosaur from ROM

NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵

Sharks eating dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in Prague.
Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.

Spinosaurs, dromaeosaurs... and tyrannosaurs? Our new #OA paper with @tetzoo.bsky.social @neilgostling.bsky.social
@simonwills.bsky.social and colleagues examines the theropod assemblage from a poorly known part of the British Cretaceous is out: doi.org/10.1002/spp2.... Art by Anthony Hutchings.

Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead The gradual unfurling of fronds from tightly coiled tips, termed fiddleheads or croziers, is one of the most recognizable features of the fern lineage…

Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social

Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!

Here’s a starter pack for early career palaeontologists. Let me know if I’ve missed you, and I’ll create a second!
go.bsky.app/EGhaGWk

Absolute shock and pleasure that my artwork will feature in the upcoming Mesozic Art II

I've no formal education in art, most of my works are just quick personal doodles for fun. I'm glad they resonate with people. But, geniuenly, a huh, moment.

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us!
Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens!
Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me.
Details👇
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

I think it might be the best

Lovely afternoon with our Edinburgh students, talking Mary Anning & the unheraled heroes of paleontological history, with newly minted Dr Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social & Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social .
Check out Tom's book The Fossil Woman, a great Mary Anning bio.

Congrats!!

Natalia holding a red scroll with PhD thesis

Five years of work, five accepted research papers, a Scottish pterosaur, numerous breakdowns, all in one doctorate 🎓 Finally the PhD is formally over 🎓

Truly one of the greatest honors of my life to today present Dugie Ross an honorary Doctor of Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Ross left school young, built his own museum, discovered some of the first Scottish dinosaurs & made Skye into Scotland's Dinosaur Island.
Congrats Dr Dugie!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🦖🎅

Ok, so the news is still new. I have a new paper out today naming a cool new pterosaur: Skiphosoura bavarica (Bavarian sword-tail), from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany. The full paper is here with all the info: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Artwork by @serpenillus.bsky.social.

A pair of Skiphosoura flying against a dark sky

Please welcome the new pterosaur Skiphosoura bavarica from the Late Jurassic of Europe

This amazing darwinopteran is known from an incredibly complete fossil, largely preserved in 3D! Needless to say I was SUPER excited when @davehone.bsky.social commissioned me to reconstruct this amazing animal!

Loch Lomond and the start of the west highland way

When Man-Eating Miocene Beavers Ruled the Earth

#texasfossils #fossilfriday #paleontology #Anchitheriomysbuceei