Rescuing local palaeo heritage with @pborogeopalaeo | museum volunteer @PboroMuseum & Rutland County Museum | synergistically work with ⚒️Palaeontologists⚒️
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Want to discover how Chatteris Museum is bringing its hidden fossil collection into the spotlight this #FossilFriday? Read our new blog post by Amalia Robertson, volunteer at the museum 👇
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January 1, 1638 (Julian calendar), birthday of Danish physician Niels Steensen or latinized Nicolas Steno. He popularized the first stratigraphical principles and recognized the true origin of fossils studying "tongue-stones" - petrified shark teeth 🦈 ...
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What a superbly comprehensive paper! My sincere congratulations to the authors. The projections on the lachrymal and prefrontal again indicate something very interesting going on function wise in the posterior naris area, don't you think?
Meet the Sword Dragon of Dorset, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, an awesome new ichthyosaur we describe today! #fossilfriday
The world’s most complete Pliensbachian marine reptile.
Study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Sea Monsters in Cornwall. Sunday 26th October 2025, I’ll be talking Sea Monsters Past and Present as part of the Dark Folklore Festival in Porthtowan, Cornwall. More info and tickets at... darkcornwall.com/event-detai…
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Congratulations to you both. And to all those who helped to endure the journey.
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Mesozoic Art II - edited by @sharkbitesteve and myself and featuring the incredible work of 25 cutting-edge palaeoartists - is out in just a few days. The ultimate must-have book on modern #palaeoart / #paleoart. Buy yours now ... bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-a… #books #dinosaurs
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Sadly, this year I won't make it to @EAVPalaeo #EAVP2025. Sprout II is too little & I'm too freshly postpartum to travel, do conference things! BUT am generously invited to send a poster, so now with @BdfJjl writing on Peterborough Oxford Clay dinos & marine critters (much fun)😊
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Enormously excited to reveal my new book, beautifully illustrated in FULL COLOUR by the brilliant @BobNichollsArt
Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by @ColumbiaUP
More details from the publisher:
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-se…
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Ep163: Ecosystem Engineers
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What happens when the presence of a single species impacts everything in an environment? Dr Tom Smith of @OxUniEarthSci joins us to discuss ecosystem engineers.
#podcast #evolution #extinction #paleo #paleontology
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Interesting situation - if the probability remains this high then we will have to make a decision on preparing a deflection mission - which would be a good investment even if (as is most likely) we don’t need to use it this time. It’s as if the Universe has decided to do an experiment to see if Planet Earth is still capable of taking rational decisions!
While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a 2.3% chance on Dec. 22, 2032. As we observe the asteroid more, the impact probability will become better known. More: go.nasa.gov/3WNhxyQ
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January 27, 1873, died #OTD Adam Sedgwick, British geologist who introduced a young C. Darwin in the art of field geology & first applied the name Cambrian to the geologic period now dated at 538 to 485-million-years-ago when complex animals appeared
ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/se…
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Join us at 18.00 GMT on Fri 10 Jan 2025 for our next FREE lecture: Whoops! Fossil Faux Pas by @dinojonrox
An online event via Zoom: members will receive an access code via email
Non-members telephone 020 7434 9298 or email [email protected] for details
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It was an absolute pleasure to present my research on #ichthyosaurs and other #marinereptiles at #SVPCA2024 and #PalGes2024 over the past two weeks! Many thanks to the organizers for the opportunity and to my colleagues for their interest and feedback! #MondayMotivation
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Three years ago this week, we were wrapping up the excavation of the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’, AKA the 10-metre-long ichthyosaur found by Joe Davis at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve.
The two photos were taken a year apart (2021-2022).
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Had a great time in Münster studying the beautifully preserved holotype of the plesiosaur Westphaliasaurus together with @JoschuaKnuppe
#fossilfriday #plesiosaur #research – at North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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The annual EAVP Women in Palaeo was a success, we talked about the importance of mentorship, support networks and proper friendly peer behaviour as keystones to success for women in our field #EAVP2024 #WiP2024 @EAVPalaeo @Daniajinn @paleotaissa
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Thread of the most beautiful libraries on Earth.
1. Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Brazil 🇧🇷
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We have published four new Walk Guides this week - good timing as it is @GeoWeekUK! Stanground to Yaxley, Wood Walton to Ramsey, St Ives to Swavesey and Milton to Cambridge. Download the free guides to explore the unique landscape heritage of the Fens fenedgetrail.org
