Leaves from the Palaeocene Konservat-Lagerstätte Menat (France) look like they could have fallen from a tree just days ago, despite being around 60 million years old. They were preserved in the sediments of a maar lake in the volcanic complex of the Massif Central 🍃

#FossilFriday #paleontology #paleobotany

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Devonian #FossilFriday #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Ichthyostega

🐴 #Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐂🐘🦥🐪🐟🍃 A beautiful horse upper molar recently discovered by a friend near New Ulm, MN. Based on its preservation, it may date back to the Pleistocene. This find has been donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study.

#NewUlm #Pleistocene #LostBones #Equus #Horse #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience

✨ For the incredible story of Columbian mammoth specimens found near New Ulm, check out Lost Bones #3 here: linktr.ee/lostbones.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Devonian #FossilFriday #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Ichthyostega

earth.com/news/where-did-dinos…

#science #paleontology #dinosaurs

Where did dinosaurs come from? Scientists say they figured it out - Earth.com

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in a hot climate.

^{Sanjana Gajbhiye (Earth.com)}

Paleontology (Earth sciences 🌍)

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the history of life in the geologic past. It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments. Paleontological observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC. The s...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleonto…

#Paleontology #Fossils #EarthSciences #HistoricalGeology #EvolutionaryBiology

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "Primeval Clevedon Bay" painting (2022), depicting fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods in an Early Carboniferous shallow sea. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Carboniferous #FossilFish #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a second painting of the Severn Estuary, this time during the Early Carboniferous. Called "Primeval Clevedon Bay," it features fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Carboniferous #FossilFish #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

My favorite non-fiction book is Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson. I reread it often, but it is wildly out of date

I’d like to find a similar, popular science-y book that will bring me up to speed on what’s happened in the paleoanthropology field recently - any recommendations?

#Paleontology #Anthropology #Science #Bookstodon

Did theropods sing at dusk?

#Dinosaurs #Paleontology 🦖

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain

#Paleontology #BoneFragments #ExtinctSpecies #FossilDiscovery #SpainArchaeology

theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain

Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say

^{Ian Sample (The Guardian)}

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "The Salt Lake Severn" painting (2022) of the Severn Estuary during the Middle Triassic, featuring Thecodontosaurus, cycads, and ferns. Commissioned by the Clevedon Pier Trust.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Thecodontosaurus #Cycads #Ferns #Triassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Into 2022 with a painting of the Severn Estuary during the Middle Triassic, called "The Salt Lake Severn," featuring Thecodontosaurus, cycads (Dioonitocarpidium), ferns (Thaumatopteris), and dust devils.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Thecodontosaurus #Cycads #Ferns #Triassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Last few pictures of my Western Interior Seaway paintings (2021) for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are Squalicorax, Tusoteuthis, and Apsopelix.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Squalicorax #Shark #Sharks #GiantSquid #Octopus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

Gutted to read that palaeontologist #RichardFortey has passed away. I really enjoyed both his book Trilobite! and his memoir and have his recent book on fungi lined up. He will be sorely missed.

thebookseller.com/obituaries/a…

#Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Trilobites #NaturalHistory #Mycology

Author, presenter and palaeontologist Richard Fortey dies aged 79

Author, television presenter and palaeontologist Richard Fortey died on Friday 7th March aged 79 following a short battle with cancer, his publisher William Collins has announced “with great sadness".

^{The Bookseller}

I wrote a little contribution about Microcleidus macropterus, a plesiosauroid plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Yorkshire (United Kingdom) The specimen is on display at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge. I had the pleasure to examine the fossil last year.
sachspal.de/microcleidus-macro…

#science #paleontology #fossil #jurassic #plesiosaur #museum #cambridge #england #yorkshire #uk

Sachs Vertebrate Palaeontology Research - Microcleidus macropterus, a plesiosaur from the Yorkshire Lias

Microcleidus macropterus is a plesiosauroid plesiosaur from the Lower Toarcian (Yorkshire Lias, Lower Jurassic) Alum Shale Member of the Whitby Mudstone Formation.

^{www.sachspal.de}

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here are some photos of my large Western Interior Seaway mural 2 (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are Archelon, Hesperornis, Elasmosaurus, Pachyrhizodus, and a school of Apsopelix.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Archelon #Hesperornis #Elasmosaurus #Pachyrhizodus #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

🚨 NEW PTEROSAUR! 🚨

Infernodrakon hastacollis is the first ever #pterosaur named from the Hell Creek Formation! (This guy coexisted with #Tyrannosaurus and #Triceratops!) 🦖
The only piece known from it is a single, squished, but mostly complete neck bone, and it has possibly the longest length to width ratio of any other neck bone ever!! 🦴🔥

#infernodrakon #infernodrakonhastacollis #newpterosaur #quetzalcoatlus #paleoart #paleontology #paleonews

Can a bone stop a Rancor’s massive jaws?🦴🦖
This new study estimates the #StarWars predator’s bite force at a bone-crushing 44,000 N!🔥⚔️

Read the full article at jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/is…

#geekstudies #scicomm #paleontology

Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? Estimating the bite force of an intergalactic mega-predator

Stephan Lautenschlager1,2 & Thomas Clements3 1School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 2The Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, UK. 3…

^{Journal of Geek Studies}

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's Tusoteuthis with and without bioluminescence, from my Western Interior Seaway mural 3, painted in 2021 for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #GiantSquid #Octopus #Tusoteuthis #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld

Extinct megalodon shark was even bigger than previously thought

#Extinction #Shark #ScienceNews #Paleontology #Megalodon

salon.com/2025/03/10/extinct-m…

Meet the megalodon, an ancient superpredator shark even more massive than once thought

New research reignites a paleontological debate over the length of this extinct behemoth

^Salon.com

Only six days until Paleo 2025!

The last talk of the day will be by the inestimable Dr. Emily Bamforth of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum about Canadian T. Rexes!

Did you know that this event will also be held online? If you're an APS member you will get the Zoom code about a week beforehand. If you're not a member but would like to attend, just send us a message!

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #tyrannosaurus #trex #fossils #paleo2025 #ab #alberta #calgary #yyc

Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet--But They Weren't Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests

#SharkSpecies #GreatWhiteShark #SizeEstimates #SharkResearch #Paleontology

gizmodo.com/some-megalodons-re…

Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet—But They Weren’t Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests

Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark species.

^{Margherita Bassi (Gizmodo)}

New review: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being "merely" good popular science by also addressing professional palaeontologists.

inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/…

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #AnimalBehavior #Ethology #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @serpenillus @bookstodon

Book review – Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know

Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being “merely” good popular science by also addressing professional palaeont…

^{The Inquisitive Biologist}

Mammoth femur. In this photo, prep work is pretty much complete, and we were making the cradle to protect the specimen.

#Paleontology #Fossil #NaturalHistory #Museum

Breakthrough after skeleton of ancient Neanderthal-and-human child found

#DatingThePast #InterdisciplinaryResearch #BreakthroughDiscovery #Archaeology #Paleontology

independent.co.uk/news/science…

Remains of Neanderthal-and-human ‘Lapedo child’ from Lagar Velho date back 28,000 years

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered to between 27,700 and 28,600 years ago

^{Adithi Ramakrishnan (The Independent)}

Eight more days until Paleo 2025!

Our next talk is by Dr. Pigg about the Eocene flora of Republic, Washington. Rumour has it that there may be a field trip there later this year!

Did you know that this event will also be held online? If you're an APS member you will get the Zoom code about a week beforehand. If you're not a member but would like to attend, just send us a message!

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #ab #alberta #yyc #plant #washington #paleo2025

This mystery mammoth molar was donated to the Pope County Historical Society in Glenwood, Minnesota, along with a large bison skullcap and another mammoth molar.

I am actively investigating its discovery location, along with several other donations. Check the link in my profile to uncover more stories of 'lost' Pleistocene specimens, where I’ve pieced together the details of their discovery and preservation.

popecountymuseum.com

#Pleistocene #Mammoth #Molar #Paleontology #CitizenScience

A beautiful skull of the Oxford Clay pliosaur Simolestes in the Natural History Museum, London.

#FossilFriday #plesiosaur #pliosaur #paleontology #skull

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some crops from my Western Interior Seaway mural 2, which I painted in 2021 for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are Archelon, Hesperornis, Elasmosaurus, Pachyrhizodus, and a school of Apsopelix.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Archelon #Hesperornis #Elasmosaurus #Pachyrhizodus #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's Western Interior Seaway mural 2, which I painted in 2021 for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are Archelon, Hesperornis, Elasmosaurus, Pachyrhizodus, and a school of Apsopelix.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Archelon #Hesperornis #Elasmosaurus #Pachyrhizodus #Dinosaurs #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #FossilFriday

Only 9 days until the Paleo 2025 symposium.

After lunch, crowd favourite Tako Koning will follow up last year's talk on the Messel Pit with another famous site - the Joggins Fossil Cliffs of Nova Scotia!

Did you know that this event will also be held online? If you're an APS member you will get the Zoom code about a week beforehand. If you're not a member but would like to attend, just send us a message!

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #yyc #ab #alberta #novascotia #joggins