Charlotte MacMillan

Update: that final number is 5.377 million, which makes her the 13th most expensive fossil ever sold at auction.

Garfield Minott at microphone, holding sauropod model. Photo from Simcoe Muskoka Family Connections Black History Month event.

Carcharodontosaurus head model by Minott, as used in technical paper by Kent Stevens.

Minott Carcharodontosaurus head model from Paul Sereno lab website.

Mainstream palaeoart often seems lily-white in terms of the diversity of its contributors. But pieces of palaeoart that rank among the -MOST SEEN- works in the entire field were examples of black craftsmanship. This week came news on the passing of Garfield G. Minott (1966-2025)... cont

Cera the juvenile triceratops just sold at auction from Phillips for 4.35 million USD. That will probably go up some once certain fees are calculated.

a pair of bakiribu filter-feed in a shallow lake as a spinosaurid pursues a flock of them in the background

🚨PTEROSAUR NEWS🚨
a warm welcome to bakiribu waridza, a filter-feeding ctenochasmatid from the early cretaceous romualdo formation of brazil. described by @alinemghilardi.bsky.social et al., it is recovered as a sibling taxon to the 'flamingo pterosaur' pterodaustro
(art by julio lacerda)

Feeding Without Jaws opens this Wednesday!

Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them.

www.birmingham.ac.uk...

#LapworthRocks

Also, Cera from Christie's is going to be auctioned next week on Nov. 19th.

What I'm wondering is if this is going to become another specimen like last July's ceratosaurus and completely blow the estimate out of the water.

If Spike sells for at least the higher end of the estimate, it will be at least the tenth most expensive dinosaur ever sold at auction. On the lowest end of the estimate, it becomes the 13th most expensive dinosaur ever sold at auction. #fossils #paleontology

How are we feeling about next month's Christie's auction of Spike the Caenagnathid? #fossils #paleontology

This Exceptionally Preserved Dinosaur Skeleton Could Fetch Up to $6.5 Million at Auction An exceptionally preserved Caenagnathid skeleton known as "Spike" could fetch up to £5 million ($6.5 million) at Christie's London this December.

An exceptionally preserved Caenagnathid skeleton known as "Spike" could fetch up to £5 million ($6.5 million) at Christie's London this December.

This is the book that got me into paleontology when I was five. I poured over the pictures again and again, especially the marine life at the beginning.

I will be very curious to see if there are any nanotyrannus fossils that go up for auction or other major sales within the next couple of years...

As someone currently writing about certain controversial aspects of paleontology and related lines of work (namely the fossil trade) it's definitely a very intriguing subject!

Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex

Nanotyrannus is real.

For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.

But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.

Isn’t science fun?!

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Interior image from Creative Sports: Ganadores de la Copa del Mundo (Creative Sports: World Cup Winners). The Creative Company/Creative Education. I

Make sure you are meeting the needs and interests of all readers in your community! Check out our #SpanishSeriesNonfiction list with both new and upcoming titles: bit.ly/4hyKbge

No kings in America.

#FossilFriday I decided to try bring awareness to a dinosaur from where I live: California. Enter Augustynolophus morrisi. Discovered in the Moreno Formation, this hadrosaur lived sometime around 70-66 million years ago, and is the state dinosaur of California. 1/2

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #Croctober so check out these #fossils of the ‘Terror Croc’ Deinosuchus! These’re from South Carolina, about 80 million years ago, now at the Science Museum of Minnesota, incl. osteoderms (armor plates), & parts of 2 vertebrae from this croc that reached up to 35 feet long!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

It's my final year of undergrad! My battered @geosociety.bsky.social geologic time scale is here to keep me company throughout my senior project/thesis.

Closeup of cover image of LILY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE by Kevin Henkes

We're still reliving the glory days of #ALAAC25 and bookness, do we have something great to share. 🤓😍@booklistaudio.bsky.social interviewed THE Kevin Henkes
to talk about his new book IS IT SPRING? (@harperstacks.bsky.social), libraries, his career, and more: bit.ly/4mqUXps

A group of students sit on a classroom floor facing the projector screen which displays a map of the United States and the faces of meteorologists virtually speaking about the presentation. The students hold their laptops and listen intently to the presentation. Text on the photo reads: Virtual School Talks

Attention Teachers and Educators!
Have the NWS visit your classroom virtually! Presentation topics include weather, climate, space weather, hydrology (rivers) & tsunamis, and are available in English and Spanish. weather.gov/education/sc... #BackToSchoolNOAA

This specimen represents Paleodictyon. They first appear in the geological record as far back as the Precambrian/Early Cambrian, and exist to this day. Despite efforts, scientists have been unable to identify which organism creates these enigmatic hexagonal structures.

Post by Elijah L. I. Wait.

I've loved prehistoric and deep sea creatures since I was a little kid and I must say it's skewed my idea of what a "cute" animal is.

A buzz saw like whorl of prehistoric chimera teeth

What a whorl.

Helicoprion tooth spirals were first described by paleontologists in 1886. How and where the whorls fit in the living fish was a mystery. It wasn’t until 2013 that CT scans of a whorl with some skull cartilage revealed its placement in the lower jaw of a prehistoric ratfish. 🧪

Fossilized skull of the ray-finned fish Saurichthys

Beautiful specimen of Saurichthys on display at the Smithsonian. Giant radiation of long jawed, predatory fishes found all over the world in the Triassic. I had the pleasure of describing a new species from Texas for my dissertation. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

#paleoart #sciart

Troodon formosus

ALA Executive Board Member Sophia Sotilleo and librarian/archivist Rodney Freeman interviewed for this WTTW feature highlighting "Are You a Librarian?," the new documentary highlighting the untold story of Black librarians and their impact.

SVP PRESIDENT'S TOWN HALL MEETING
Traveling to Birmingham for the Annual Meeting

Hi Everyone

SVP members are invited to a SVP Town Hall meeting on 5 Aug. The topic: "Traveling to Birmingham for the Annual Meeting". Check SVP email for the link! Interested nonmembers - contact me directly for link.

Hello! I'm a nonmember interested in the link.