Obligatory pilgrimage to the site of the Miss Phillips Conglomerate.
I am still surprised there isn't statue of Anne Phillips here - there isn't even an interpretation panel. Anne was a geo icon who proved Murchison wrong!
Obligatory pilgrimage to the site of the Miss Phillips Conglomerate.
I am still surprised there isn't statue of Anne Phillips here - there isn't even an interpretation panel. Anne was a geo icon who proved Murchison wrong!
We reserve the right to extend this statement to all vertebrates.
See vertebrate. Say vertebrate. Study invertebrates.
📢 BOOKING OPEN!
🌙 Geopark In The Dark: Illuminated Fossil Spectacular
📆 Fri 13 - Sun 15 March
🤩 Join us in the ruins at Bradgate Park for an amazing fossil light show!
🌐 Book your free tickets: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/geopar...
Charnwood Forest Geopark - a statement on dinosaurs:
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🗣️ Have YOUR say 🗣️
Geodiversity Day needs a theme for 2026, and your idea could be the chosen one!
📅 Deadline: March 18th
🌐 Suggest your theme here: www.geodiversityday.org/post/theme-f...
An absolute favourite I regularly return to! 🕸
21.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The few observations that I have made are necessarily imperfect, but I send them, as they afford a method which might lead a naturalist to notice habits otherwise difficult to observe, and so to arrive at conclusions which I in my ignorance of natural history must leave to others. C. V. Bovs
We just don't end papers like this any more. Maybe the world would be better if we did?
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Your favourite Ediacaran fossils are now available as cardboard and plaster of paris models, thanks to @charnwoodforest.bsky.social:
15.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
unnamed elongate Arboreomorph frond with broad flat disc numerous small branches arise from a central axis at a high angle
reconstruction of an elongated frondose arboreomorph organism with an inferred upright mode of life. Depicted on a hypothetical deep marine seafloor with patchy white microbial communities
coming soon another new Ediacaran taxon from Newfoundland. This one is an #Arboreomorph from the #Ediacaran of the NE Avalon Peninsula discovered and written up with PhD students Pascal Olschewski @simonrosse.bsky.social. The art needs some work to do justice to the fossil but Happy #FossilFriday!
13.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0We've reached the point where people don't realise the contradiction of loudly watching a video - without headphones - about the dangers of individualism, on an otherwise silent evening bus.
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Geologising complete. Time to return to base.
10.02.2026 02:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You won't want to miss this:
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long narrow arborea sp. frond with flat round disc
detail of branching in arborea and junction with the disc
Happy #FossilFriday from a wet cold La Niña Newfoundland. How about a new #Ediacaran fossil teaser, from a brand new fossil site north of St. John’s? This is one of several remarkable fossils that came out of a rockfall and discovered by my PhD student Pascal Olschewski. A new species of #Arborea!
16.01.2026 14:58 — 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1🙂 Proper chuffed with this geosite, telling the story of the Woodhouse Eaves earthquake of 1893, and the early example of citizen science that allowed Charles Davison to infer the location of the epicentre.
09.01.2026 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📖 Applications are now open for an exciting geopark-related PhD in storytelling at Loughborough University
🤔 Know anyone who might be interested?
🌐 Read more here: www.charnwoodforest.org/storytelling...
🚶♂️ Fabulous - if a little cold - day for a walk up Pen y Fan from Brecon
03.01.2026 18:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️
👉 In November we submitted our application to become a UNESCO Global Geopark... with the backing of Sir David Attenborough!
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
Delighted to see my @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social colleagues Gideon Henderson (CBE) and Tamsin Mather (OBE) recognised in the New Years honours list published this evening. Brilliant news for them and for Earth Sciences more generally.
30.12.2025 00:44 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Earthwatch Innovation team consisting of seven people stands in a decorated office, featuring a screen with the "Earthwatch Innovation" logo. Pine branches with red berries frame the image.
Quote on a purple background states: ""Our Innovation Team is already looking ahead to 2026, when we will be presenting some of our research projects at the European Citizen Science Association conference (ECSA). This is one of the biggest events on citizen science in the world and a great opportunity to network. We’ll be covering a whole range of topics: the circular economy, upscaling citizen science, the use of gamification, influencing policy through citizen science, and the use of generative AI.” Anna Witter, Researcher
The Earthwatch Innovation Team shares what we are looking forward to in 2026... ✨
💡Science is at the heart of what we do. Our Innovation Team leads and contributes to a range of projects exploring the power of #CitizenScience.
Discover more 🔗 https://earthwatch.pulse.ly/en38ajvze5
🎄 Merry Christmas everyone. May the servings of pigs in blankets be ever in your favour.
25.12.2025 14:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🎅 If you've got any space left on your list, it wouldn't harm to ask Father Christmas for UNESCO Global Geopark status for Charnwood Forest! 🎄
24.12.2025 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
three images of a leaf shaped fossil with low angle first order branches and fractal like higher order branches left is photo of a replica (mold of the lower surface) middle is interpretive drawing and right is a plan view of the inferred top of the same fossil
photo of holotype of Aninoides coombsorum super mature specimen with long first order branches. looks a bit like a comet below is interpretive drawing of the same. disk is accidental not associated with the fossil itself
retrodeformed image of Aninoides coombsorum super mature specimen after retrodeformation see ellipse bottom left which was originally a circle
Our final #Ediacaran palaeontology paper of the year! Introducing #Aninoides coombsorum gen et sp nov
Such a beautiful fossil. At the moment only known from our Inner Meadow site, Newfoundland. Paper led by PhD student Simon Rosse-Guillevic
Not OA sadly :-(
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
❓ Did you miss our recent public talk by Dr Duncan McIlroy on Charnwood Forest's newest fossil?
🌟 We've got you covered - watch the recording on our Youtube channel and discover the wonders of our fossil, Charnia brasieri!
🌐 youtube.com/live/poR8iv7...
Dr. Ryan receiving the OBE from His Majesty The King (Credit: British Ceremonial Arts Limited)
Dr. Ryan with his wife and son
Warm congratulations to Dr. Graham Ryan, OBE, Director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory, on receiving the Order of the British Empire for his outstanding contributions to volcanology and geothermal physics in Montserrat.
The investiture was held last week at Windsor Castle.
This was very well deserved - congratulations @lej-palaeo.bsky.social!
14.12.2025 22:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📅 Join me on Tuesday as we welcome Prof Duncan McIlroy for a free online talk on the new species of Charnia!
🍷 If you're having a glass of wine while you watch, I'm recommending a Chilean merlot.
🥳 We are delighted to announce that we have submitted Charnwood Forest's application to become a UNESCO Global Geopark, and we have done so with the backing of Sir David Attenborough!
🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
Great job in Jersey, helping to secure UNESCO Global Geopark status for the island: www.jerseyheritage.org/jobs/geopark...
27.11.2025 19:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
what a great crowd out to learn about #Charnia brasieri at the GeoCentre tonight and the celebratory cake from emthefairycakemother.
I can confirm that C. brasieri was delicious. I’ve decided that #Ediacaran organisms became extinct because they tasted so good.
Bright green background with black graphics of minerals and the text: 34 CRITICAL RAW MINERALS, art open call
The Museum of Natural History is seeking contemporary art work for our upcoming exhibition, with a total budget of £7000. Please note that that this must include all costs including artist time, shipping, fees, production, and travel (if necessary).
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