Brandon Peecook
@gondwannabe.bsky.social
Paleontologist 🦴 / Curator 🏛 Idaho Museum of Natural History / Associate Prof 👨🏻🏫 Biological Sciences Idaho State University 🐅 Biodiversity Superfan 🌍🦚🦉🦩🦖🦕🐊🐢🐍🐋🦬🦒🦇🦫🦣🐠🐡🦈🐝🐞🦗🦞🕷🪱🦑🐌🪸🍄🌲🌴🌾🌻
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I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️
An early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: https://scim.ag/48bLsGI
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I guess now would be a good time for my first post here. Yesterday we published a new paper on the incredible ecosystem of tetrapods and other vertebrates in Science. It has been years of work - but we got there in the end. Thank you to everyone the contributed to this work ❤️
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New paper alert! (My first!)
This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible!
giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible!
giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New paper alert! (My first!)
This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible!
giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
This is a benchmark paper on all NPS fossils within the State of Utah through 2024. Loads of illustrations by me and pic by coauthors and collaborators. Open access, free to download! Thanks to all who made this possible!
giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
Things happening in the Permian reptile world!
Buffa et al.’s paper on the enigmatic Permian reptile 🦎 Galesphyrus and the origin of Neodiapsida is out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology! Read the thread 👇 for some important takeaways from our study
@valentinbuffa.bsky.social
#Paleontology #Reptile #Permian
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
@valentinbuffa.bsky.social
#Paleontology #Reptile #Permian
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Things happening in the Permian reptile world!
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Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Very excited to share my exploration of the phylogenetics of early ray-finned fishes, out today in the Anatomical Record! Really busy day but I’ll have more info shortly.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#2025SVP was a hit for Idaho and the IMNH, with a big showing for Peecook Lab members past and present! @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @slvrhwk.bsky.social @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @paleorob.bsky.social
@idahostateucose.bsky.social
@idahostateucose.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#2025SVP was a hit for Idaho and the IMNH, with a big showing for Peecook Lab members past and present! @garyonyx-mcgoy.bsky.social @slvrhwk.bsky.social @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social @paleorob.bsky.social
@idahostateucose.bsky.social
@idahostateucose.bsky.social
People always assume it’s Batesian (you decide), but is Mullerian.
#2025SVP
#2025SVP
#2025SVP ❤️Highlights: finding out I’m an incomplete mimicry form of @gondwannabe.bsky.social; intense Colbert Prize judging w/ incredible poster selection (as usual, SVP didn’t list Colbert chairs [2025: Proust&Holwerda]) during banquet; major specimen recoveries over all of Vertebrata; seeing y’all
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
People always assume it’s Batesian (you decide), but is Mullerian.
#2025SVP
#2025SVP
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Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!
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Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Results from tonights Flocking #paleostream!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
Nanotyrannus, Pteranodon, Phosphorosaurus and Helicoprion!
#2025SVP USA 🇺🇲 🗽 alert: as your travel begins make sure to check your flights proactively! ✈️
One of my legs was cancelled due to the US Govt shutdown, but luckily I caught it. Worse before it'll get better.
Stay frosty!
See you in Birmingham. 😅🇬🇧🫖
One of my legs was cancelled due to the US Govt shutdown, but luckily I caught it. Worse before it'll get better.
Stay frosty!
See you in Birmingham. 😅🇬🇧🫖
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#2025SVP USA 🇺🇲 🗽 alert: as your travel begins make sure to check your flights proactively! ✈️
One of my legs was cancelled due to the US Govt shutdown, but luckily I caught it. Worse before it'll get better.
Stay frosty!
See you in Birmingham. 😅🇬🇧🫖
One of my legs was cancelled due to the US Govt shutdown, but luckily I caught it. Worse before it'll get better.
Stay frosty!
See you in Birmingham. 😅🇬🇧🫖
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#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#2025SVP ! If you want to get an idea of the major steps of 🐢turtle🐢 evolution, come to see my talk on Friday, Nov 14, 8:30 AM, Hall 8. My student Guilherme Hermanson talks just before me (8:15). 4 years of macroevolutionary research on turtles went into our talks, covering many unpublished results.
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Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Heads up that the Field Museum is hiring a vertebrate paleontology collections manager: www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/care...
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One of the largest temmnospondyls ever to exist: the gigantic Koolasuchus was also the last non-lissamphibian temnospondyl to exist. It survived into the Early Cretaceous of Australia when all other stereospondyls were long gone
#temnospondyls #paleoart
#temnospondyls #paleoart
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
One of the largest temmnospondyls ever to exist: the gigantic Koolasuchus was also the last non-lissamphibian temnospondyl to exist. It survived into the Early Cretaceous of Australia when all other stereospondyls were long gone
#temnospondyls #paleoart
#temnospondyls #paleoart
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Birmingham is best known for South Asian food and claims creation of the ‘balti’ style of curry so that would be the classic thing to eat in the city.
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Birmingham is best known for South Asian food and claims creation of the ‘balti’ style of curry so that would be the classic thing to eat in the city.
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
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
Just wow, it’s a stunner. And the exhibit is a beauty! 🪶 👀🤩
#FossilFriday
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
Just wow, it’s a stunner. And the exhibit is a beauty! 🪶 👀🤩
#FossilFriday
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Today's bombshell in @nature.com by Lindsay Zanno & James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social (bit.ly/4qBE6ng) shows that putative juvvy T. rex fossils actually are Nanotyrannus. I reviewed the manuscript, so Nature invited me to write the News & Views commentary. Free link: rdcu.be/eNv94 🦖
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Today's bombshell in @nature.com by Lindsay Zanno & James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social (bit.ly/4qBE6ng) shows that putative juvvy T. rex fossils actually are Nanotyrannus. I reviewed the manuscript, so Nature invited me to write the News & Views commentary. Free link: rdcu.be/eNv94 🦖
Been waiting for the Nanotyrannus news to drop; and checked my phone right when I was in the perfect company 🦖!
October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Been waiting for the Nanotyrannus news to drop; and checked my phone right when I was in the perfect company 🦖!
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Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.
I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Absolutely incredible work here. Just keep clicking back through the quotes.
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🚨Call for proposals for Collection Study Grants at the @burkemuseum.bsky.social!! Open to grad students and postdocs for collections-based research, including cross-disciplinary projects. Applications are due December 15, 2025. More information:
www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
Collections Study Grants
Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (UWBM).
www.burkemuseum.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🚨Call for proposals for Collection Study Grants at the @burkemuseum.bsky.social!! Open to grad students and postdocs for collections-based research, including cross-disciplinary projects. Applications are due December 15, 2025. More information:
www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...
True story, folks. Enjoy reading, but please refrain from posting about content until it is presented!
#SVP2025 #2025SVP
And even then, follow the presenters’ wishes on their slides/posters.
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
#SVP2025 #2025SVP
And even then, follow the presenters’ wishes on their slides/posters.
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
True story, folks. Enjoy reading, but please refrain from posting about content until it is presented!
#SVP2025 #2025SVP
And even then, follow the presenters’ wishes on their slides/posters.
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
#SVP2025 #2025SVP
And even then, follow the presenters’ wishes on their slides/posters.
@societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
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The wife put some work in cutting my remaining hairs before I went to Idaho to tackle the big dead cow. Here's exactly how big (and dead) Junior the Bison latifrons is!
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The wife put some work in cutting my remaining hairs before I went to Idaho to tackle the big dead cow. Here's exactly how big (and dead) Junior the Bison latifrons is!
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Thanks for the invite to come get plastered on Idaho! Junior's horns put most ceratopsians to shame.
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thanks for the invite to come get plastered on Idaho! Junior's horns put most ceratopsians to shame.