🚨New episode out today!

The Fossil Files: Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw Discovery of the smallest ever dinosaur acheived quite a splash when it was publised on the front cover of Nature in 2020. The new critter, Oculodentavis, was the size of a hummingbird and reconstruct...

#Fossil Files podcast fans!! Today sees the release of Fossil Fails II: The tiny dinosaur with the massive flaw... Get our take on that whole Oculudentavis thing - available now on libsyn and wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/fossil-fails...

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast How do you choose a name for a new #dinosaur ? #thefossilfiles #taxonomy

How do you select a name for a new dinosaur? Sneak peek on #FossilFriday of the next @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out on Tuesday with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/5Cbz9...

This episode was genuinely hilarious to make... listen in on all your favourite podcast platforms! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed

Could there have been dinosaurs on the moon? 🦕🌝 No really.
🚨 New episode out today on notorious "Fossil Fails" in which Susie and Rob explore some odd examples of palaeontology gone wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

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In this week's episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, I complete loose control
I think you can even pinpoint the exact moment that @tweetisaurus.bsky.social makes me laugh so hard that I burp.
Tune in for 🦕🌔🐝
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Stinging News: ‘Dickinsonia’ discovered in the Upper Vindhyan of India not worth the buzz A recent report of Dickinsonia tenuis ‘hiding in plain sight’ at the Bhimbetka rock shelters in rocks of the Maihar sandstone (Upper Vindhyan) has imp…

Here is a link to the proper paper we discuss, a really interesting example of a palaeontological whoopsie. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You can find the full episode on Spotfy, Apple, YouTube, or where ever you get your podcasts (links in bio)

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed

Could there have been dinosaurs on the moon? 🦕🌝 No really.
🚨 New episode out today on notorious "Fossil Fails" in which Susie and Rob explore some odd examples of palaeontology gone wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Right? Cautiously huggable.

Our newest episode is one not to miss!
Susie spills the beans on the latest research on Spicomellus, a beautiful armored ankylosaur

If you ever wondered what goes in to studying dinosaurs it’s the perfect way to answer your questions!

Find us on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube etc. links in the bio

The Fossil Files: The Spicomellus Special Perhaps the weirdest dinosaur ever has just been described in Nature, by The Fossil Files' own Susie Maidment. In a worldwide EXCLUSIVE*, Susie gives as the unvarnshed truth about how this spikey Jura...

Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...

Have a listen to our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susie Maidment's podcast- This episode she talking about how her team found, excavated and studied the amazingly weird and spikey #Spicomellus specimen! 🦴

#Fossils #FossilFiles @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #Dinosaur #Nature #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP

IDEA Award The ASN/SSE/SSB Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award was created in 2019 by the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the...

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity?

Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info:

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Sample movement path (thick grey line), subdivided into equidistant segments, with measures used in this study

Partial autocorrelation boxplots for the sampled Ediacaran specimens and Cambrian specimens

Creative use of autocorrelation in analyzing trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian explosion:
"..lack of temporal correlation in the studied Ediacaran trajectories and its presence in...Cambrian trajectories, indicating time-tuned behaviours.."
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02940
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷‍♂️

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Get the inside scoop on dinosaur weirdo Spicomellus from @tweetisaurus.bsky.social: behind the scenes, how the pandemic nearly killed it, where to put all those spikes, & dodgy fossil dealers
@thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out today
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Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.

Paper: Maidment, S.C.R., Ouarhache, D., Ech-charay, K. et al. Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The Spicomellus Special

🚨New Episode out today!

Susie and Rob talk all things Spicomellus, everyone’s new favourite dinosaur

No better way to get all the info than straight from the researcher who studied the fossil!

Out now on Spotify, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

open.spotify.com/episode/6t9V...

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What's better than an hour of Dave talking about dinosaurs? How about three and a half hours? Should keep a few of you busy at least. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qm1...

And have I ever looked this dramatic before?

News PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…

I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Mirasaura, Triassic Punk

Find out more in new @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out today: "Mirasaura, Triassic Punk"
Available now on Youtube, Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts
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Question: What the hell is this? (thread)

Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles - Nature A Middle Triassic diapsid is presented that has a distinctive crest consisting of integumentary appendages that are structurally distinct from avemetatarsalian feathers.

Paper: Spiekman, S.N.F., Foth, C., Rossi, V. et al. Triassic diapsid shows early diversification of skin appendages in reptiles. Nature 643, 1297–1303 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Mirasaura, Triassic Punk

🚨 New episode! Stunning fossil, cool techniques and interesting findings, what more could you want?

Susie and Rob discuss Mirasaura grauvogeli. A 247mil year old reptile that had stunning feather-like crest on its back!

Available now on Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts

I absolutely love this story by @jamesashway.bsky.social on he background about how we found Spicomellus

Ha! I’m just glad I know who to blame for my ice cream tooth aches now!

🎉 More new research from our podcast hosts.

This time Rob and a team of other fossil fish researchers has published an extensive family tree for Heterosctracans, a group the of armoured fish that formed part of the discussion on early vertebrates in our latest episode

A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem‐gnathostomes) The armoured jawless fishes (‘ostracoderms’) are major and widespread components of middle Palaeozoic ecosystems. As successive branches on the gnathostome stem lineage, they represent the early sequ...

A phylogeny for Heterostraci (stem-gnathostomes) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @datadryad @wileyearthspace @fossilrob.bsky.social @evopalaeo.bsky.social

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