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PaleoGalli @paleogalli.bsky.social · 1h

Caçadores caçados – presas de Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) em tratos gastrointestinais isolados do Jurássico Tardio do Arquipélago de Solnhofen fr.pensoft.net/article/1691...

Hunted hunters – prey of Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) within isolated gastrointestinal tracts from the late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago

Members of the Aspidorhynchidae, an extinct family of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) are amongst the most common larger predatory fish in the Late-Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago. Aspidorhynchids fro...

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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 14h

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊

I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!

💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
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Postdoc (m/f/x) – Population Data and Projections

OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...

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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @fbertpaleo.bsky.social · 5h

For ABSOLUTELY NO REASONS AT ALL, here the two replica skeletons of the Russian lambeosaurines Olorotitan and Amurosaurus at the Institute of Narural Sciences of Brussels for #fossilfriday

… hehehehe 😏👀🦕

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 4h

Public lands help us tell the story of natural history that we all can share in!

Hosted by @geosplore.bsky.social.
Episode 1 guest @al3xandr4.bsky.social
Editing by @cajune.bsky.social
#FossilTrailsUSA

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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT @picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 9h

To get back on track after a distraction, the brain appears to employ a rotating traveling wave, a new study by the lab of @earlkmiller.bsky.social finds. picower.mit.edu/news/after-d... @mitbcs.bsky.social #neuroscience #cognition

After distractions, rotating brain waves may help thought circle back to the task

To get back on track after a distraction, the cortex appears to employ a rotating traveling wave, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 4h

Re-evaluation of the Carboniferous tetrapod Asaphestera platyris with comments on the amniote fauna of the Joggins Formation, Canada onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @morphobank.bsky.social

A photograph and line drawing interpretation of partial fossil skull in dorsal view, identified as the holotype of Asaphestera platyris (now considered nomen dubium). Scale bar at lower right of photograph is 1 cm.

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Armita R. Manafzadeh @armanafzadeh.bsky.social · 4h

Happy to share 2 more patellofemoral papers out of Fulkerson group:
(1) On the importance of studying TTTG in 3-D to personalize treatment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(2) Dr. Fulkerson sharing his updated perspective on surgical planning for TTOs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 9h

I made a run to the Field Museum this week and finally saw the Chicago Archaeopteryx.
Just wow, it’s a stunner. And the exhibit is a beauty! 🪶 👀🤩
#FossilFriday

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed! Please create good old fashioned memes!

Slide entitled "Macroevolutionary role reversal in early bony fishes" with the Elton John in the car memr depecting the main differences between Devonian Sarcopts vs Actinopts in meme format based on results from Troyer et al., 2025 Current Biology

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 7h

and if you want to imagine what a phorusrhacid chick might look like, this is a seriema chick 🪹 you're welcome!
📸 at wildlife world zoo, arizona

a fluffy baby seriema who looks like they're having an existential crisis

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 7h

Keep an eye on the @dinoconuk.bsky.social website... news for #DinoConUK 2026 coming SOON :) For thoughts on our 2025 event, see... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/8/...

DinoCon 2025 Has Left the Building — Tetrapod Zoology

A look back at August’s DinoCon 2025, our outstandingly successful first event!

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Dr. Rich B @morphometrich.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out, #Nanotyrannus is real... like really real and I was wrong. But that's how science works: change with new data.

But it being shown valid does not excuse years of shoddy science before this paper. #Paleontology #FossilFriday

Turns out, Nanotyrannus is real… like really real.

Turns out I was very, very wrong about Nanotyrannus not being real. But it being shown valid does not excuse years of shoddy science before this pape

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Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social · 6h

Nanotyrannus is cool and all, but what if there was a brand new book written with, and illustrated by, @markwitton.bsky.social on Spinosaurus? Wouldn't that be really cool?

Listen to use talk about it here before it comes out in less than a week!

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 16h

New frond just dropped. Or do they flop? C. brasieri has a similar structural pattern to the enigmatic mid-Proterozoic "microbial" structures I've been documenting. But where C. brasieri forms elegant fronds, my structures are fractal sprawls. Greater complexity, but lower organisation.

Duncan McIlroy @dmcediacaran.bsky.social · 21h

This #FossilFriday I’m excitedly sharing a new #Ediacaran #Charnia brasieri named for my PhD Supervisor & friend Martin Brasier who died 2014. I’ve wanted to name something for him ever since but I wanted it to be something special. When I saw the first one from Inner Meadow I knew it was the 1 🧵

leaf shaped animal fossil with sickle shaped branches meeting a a zigzagged axis Charnia brasieri sp nov

Shaped of the currently valid species of Charnia and their branch types

seafloor reconstruction of Charnia brasieri as a procumbent organisms living among microbial matgrounds

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Christiana Garros @chrissygarros.bsky.social · 15h

Share to scare a Nanotyrannus denier

Happy Halloweeeeen! 🎃

Jack o' lantern carved onto two pumpkins of the famous 'dueling dinos' fossil featuring Triceratops and Nanotyrannus

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles

New evidence answers the question about whether some fossils are Tyrannosaurus rex juveniles or a different species, with implications for decades of published science.

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked

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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

Podcast Episode 44!

We get knocked down, but we get up again. You're never gonna keep the podcast down! Discussing the work of Brian Franczak and featuring a double interview with @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social!

Podcast Show Notes: Episode 44 – Brian Franczak and Mesozoic Art II

Your Charmosaurs crew is here again with a cool new episode. This month, we’re discussing the works of the late, great Brian Franczak as it appears in The National Audubon Pocket Guide: Dinos…

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Henry Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 1d

Pterosaur holoptypes! Klobiodon, Plataleorhynchus, Cimoliopterus, and Coloborhynchus

Holotype of Klobiodon rochei. It is most of a jaw, encased in matrix. The front of the lower jaw is downcurved and has a short upturned hook at the front. There are four spiky teeth

Holotype of Plataleorhynchus streptophorodon. It is a long, flat beak with an expanded spoon-shaped tip. Very much like a spoonbill, except it had little teeth lining the entire jaw

Holotype of Cimoliopterus cuvieri. It is the front part of the snout. It’s slightly upturned, and has and a trapezoidal crest and a bunch of tooth sockets

Holotype of Coloborhynchus clavirostris. It is a very chunky snout tip with a flattened front, the base of a large crest, and a bunch of sockets for large teeth

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this:

Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.

The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked

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Juned Zariwala @junedz.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you a speedy recovery, and fingers crossed you feel better soon!

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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like that non-pterodactyloids have their fifth toe on the ground, like that's part of your wing, don't rub it on the ground
(pics by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social and doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...)

reconstructed feet of various pterosaurs

diagram comparing a non-pterodactyloid footprint and foot bones

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Stu Pond @stupond.bsky.social · 2d

Blast from the past: Old digital flyer from the early 2010s showcasing some off the palaeo and sci vis work I'd done over the years as a freelancer. Much water passed under the bridge since then, but I'm still available for hire! #scivis #sciart

Promotional image for my work as a freelancer

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Alek Erickson @alekerickson.bsky.social · 2d

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 2d

We have lost the pillar of Scottish vertebrate palaeontology, Dugie Ross. The man that found & named Dearc. He made the science resonate locally, in his native language, on his native soil, while allowing it to grow globally. He embodied the best of science. Immeasurable loss.

Dugie to the right, with the Dearc holotype below

Scottish pterosaurs, who'd not be here without his efforts in popularising Scottish geology

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