Abi Crane

What a mad couple of weeks- 3 conferences #SVP2025, #AOC2025, #CAVEPS2025 across 2 continents. 1 poster, 3 talks and 1 best student talk prize! Thanks to everyone who came to listen to me talk about dead birds 🦤

03.12.2025 08:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The power of non-destructive techniques! #2025SVP

15.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

You know what they say about early birds catching worms? I’ll be talking at 8am Saturday at #2025svp all about CT scanning female bird bone and what it means for the dinosaur fossil record

14.11.2025 20:57 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

New ‘miniature T rex’ rewrites the history of the world’s largest predator The fossil may help end a long-running debate in palaeontology.

#Nanotyrannus is real! Read about this awesome new paper by @jgn-paleo.bsky.social and Dr Lindsay Zonna and what it means for the future of T. rex in my article for the Conversation: theconversation.com/new-miniatur...

30.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lunchtime on Southampton Common with one of my all-time favourite UK birds 🔥🔥
#birds #ukwildlife #ukbirding #wildlife #nature #photography

07.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 My first PhD paper is out! 🚨
In it we characterise the 3D structure of medullary bone, a type of bone tissue found only in female birds and (possibly) non-bird dinosaurs.
Read about it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#palaeontology #birds #dinosaurs #science #phd

21.02.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Adorable great crested grebe family this weekend- amazing that they have chicks so early in the year!
#birds #birding #ukwildlife

16.02.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A spherical mouse
(Apodemus sylvaticus)
#ukwildlife #wildlifephotography

12.02.2025 23:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0