@ESI_FossilLab

The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of Witwatersrand. We investigate all aspects of the evolution of life on earth.

 Johannesburg, South Africa
wits.ac.za/esi/
Joined August 2015
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Congratulations to @MarcVanDenBran1 on his PhD! Well earned and we hope you are celebrating!!
Reminder on this #FossilFriday that we are giving away a Taung Child cast! To enter please fill out our #scicomm survey: forms.gle/dbgsVunGbL2jgJ… Leave your name and email address to be entered into the draw! @NRF_News @NRF_SAASTA @Qafzeh
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Something from our collections for #fossilfriday identified as Labisosaurus, a reptile from the permian
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looking for volunteers!
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Replying to @MostlyMammoths @evodevoeco
Enormous Crocodylomorph from the CIP-Colombia is now posted on Mostly Mammoths blog. Read it here mostlymammoths.wordpress.com… @mcgillu @RedpathMuseum @Centropaleo @diapophysis

Enormous Crocodylomorph Discovered in Colombia – Dirley Cortés

They lived first among and then survived long after the dinosaurs.  Their ancestors span the globe today, existing on every continent but two. Ancient crocodylomorphs were incredibly successful: th…

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Well done to @katpalaeo for submitting her PhD dissertation on the Early Jurassic crocs of Southern Africa!
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Many congratulations to @katpalaeo of @ESI_FossilLab for submitting her PhD today - go Kathleen! 🐊🐊🐊
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Fresh off the press! New publication out on phytosaurs found in Zimbabwe! The age of the Tashinga Formation (Karoo Supergroup) in the Mid-Zambez... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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A few days @Iziko_Museums looking and look at who I find for #fossilfriday holding just a bit of a titanosuchid! instagram.com/p/B0qOdEgJq7p/…
Prof Ron Clark unveiling Little Foot to an excited crowd in Oxford on Monday #littlefoot #paleoanthropologyhumanorigins #oxford instagram.com/p/BzatQmUp65p/…
#FossilFriday one of our students Kathleen is at @NHMdinolab and took a pic of Sophie. We have a relative of Sophie in South Africa, Paranthodon which was found in 1840s from a locality called Iguanodon hoek, how sweet!
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Call for Nominations of Young Scientists as Members of the South African Young Academy of Science 2019. We are requesting for nominations of outstanding young scientists @UniMpumalanga @iThemba_LABS @CSIR @NRF_News @HSRCza @Univenofficial @FreeStateU @theNWU
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SciFest 2019 6-12 March in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. From Dinosaurs to Dust. Impressive display by @ESI_FossilLab @CoE_Palaeo @Albany_Museum
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If you can, please help Bruce Rubidge @CoE_Palaeo & Michael Day @NHM_London with their kickstarter to fund important fieldwork that is unravelling the effects of the end-Guadalupian extinction in the Karoo 🇿🇦🏜 experiment.com/projects/pala…

Palaeontological field exploration in the South African Karoo

For palaeontologists, the South African Karoo is legendary, not only for its appealing wilderness, but mostly because of its great fossil discoveries. A 200 million year old skull or skeleton can pop...

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Our paper on the stratigraphy of the Vulcandon type locality by @Piazoic @ESI_FossilLab, me and others has received the AE Phaup Award for best contribution to Zimbabwean geology in 2018. Many thanks to the Geol Soc of Zimbabwe and go team! #nhmdino
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SciFest 2019 6-12 March in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. From Dinosaurs to Dust. Impressive display by @ESI_FossilLab @CoE_Palaeo @Albany_Museum
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Outreach knows no bounds. Sandiso and his peers from geology headed out to rural Limpopo to Madithame Secondary School to teach about career options in paleo. #outreach #STEM #empowerement
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Our first quarter #2019 grant applications close on 01 Feb. Apply to 5 research programmes including student support at #AfricanUniversities, young African scientist development and #OriginSciences publication and conference support. #AfricanLeadership past.org.za
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I'm giving an @NatureLive talk @NHM_London on our recent #dinosaur fieldwork in Zimbabwe, that we did in collaboration with @ESI_FossilLab. Come along and hear about what we got up to! nhm.ac.uk/events/discovering…
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We wish everyone a merry christmas and an awesome new years! We have has such an exciting 2018 and we cannot wait for 2019!
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