⛏Vertebrate Palaeontologist 📝 Assistant Professor @stonybrooku 🇿🇦Proudly South African 🦕Basal sauropodomorphs are my jam ✉ [email protected]
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From the archives, our low budget version of Walking with Dinosaurs back in fieldwork near Clarens, South Africa nearly a decade ago. You might recognise some of the people watching in bemusement as I pace out these tracks (thanks to @Kimi_Chap for sharing) … #FossilFriday
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Partial hand of an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph from the Forest Sandstone of Zimbabwe, at the NHM Zimbabwe, Bulawayo 🦕🇿🇼
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Congratulations to AMNH Postdoc alum Jonah Choiniere on his Carroll Award for Early to Mid-Career Research from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology!
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🎬 Big congrats to Fancy Horse Studios & @KarooOriginsTFC on winning the Lazendorf PaleoArt Prize for Digital Modelling and Animation — the first South African studio to win a global animation prize for bringing a prehistoric Karoo waterhole to life! 🐾🌍
This creative project blends palaeoscience and storytelling, allowing audiences to see how ancient ecosystems once thrived in the Karoo.
Read more 👇
🔗 dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
#OriginSciences 🔬 #FossilFriday 🦴 #AllFromOne #paleoart #Africa
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I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
ALT Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto
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Was the key to bird flight 'all in the wrist'?
New research, published today in Nature, shows that important adaptations for flight in the wrists of modern birds were present in bird-like theropod dinosaurs .
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Illustration by @Paleoartologist
ALT PC: Henry S. Sharpe
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Don't miss our next exciting webinar: "Pseudosuchia: Masters of Survival and Diversification", presented by Drs. Holly Woodward, Mariana Valéria de Araújo Sena, and Jorge Cubo on Monday May 5 at 12pm EDT. Free registration here:
anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meetings…
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📢REMINDER!
The deadline to submit your talk title+co-author list is next Friday, March 14th!
You can register for the conference and submit your talk title+co-author list here. Please note that these are two separate processes:
web.cvent.com/.../74f8d88d-e…
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Finally took a trip on the ferry to hang out with the anatomy crew down at Stony Brook — thanks so much to @Kimi_Chap and Drew Moore for the invitation!!
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Finishing off my Zimbabwe themed posts with this model of Syntarsus on display in the NHMZ 🇿🇼🦖
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200 years ago, Iguanodon was introduced to the world! With thanks to the efforts of Mary and Gideon Mantell, after discovering fossil teeth in Sussex.
nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-disco…
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Travelled out to some historic Zim dino localities today, including the type locality for Syntarsus. Still bone in the ground but v hard to excavate. Some impressive living relatives nearby too 🦕🇿🇼🦖🇿🇼🐊
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For your viewing pleasure, the holotype sacrum of the Early Jurassic theropod Syntarsus, in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe 🦖🇿🇼
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DYK? Humans are closer to T. rex in the geological timeline than T. rex was to Stegosaurus. Learn more as Museum paleontologist Roger Benson explains what we’ve learned from fossils like the recently discovered Apex—the most complete Stegosaurus ever found ➡️ amnh.link/3CkGric
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Seven Australopithecus specimens uncovered at the Sterkfontein fossil site in South Africa were herbivorous hominins who did not eat substantial amounts of meat, according to a new study in Science that analyzed organic nitrogen and carbonate carbon isotopes extracted from tooth enamel.
📄: scim.ag/42mTla9
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Great job opportunity for someone interested in early mammal evolution and fieldwork in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, working with @gsciencelady @LukeEMeade and Richard Butler: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/resear…
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Excited that our newest beastie Fona herzogae made @SmithsonianMag top 10 #dinosaur discoveries of 2024! From the first bones in 2008 to last year's freshest finds, this little burrower keeps turning up. Shout out to the💯s of people who have helped collect Fona over the yrs!
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Ever wanted a closer look at the neotype of Massospondylus @ESI_FossilLab (affectionately known as Big Momma)? Now’s your chance! #FossilFriday
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There's a NEW dinosaur at the Museum! Meet Apex. Discovered in 2022 near Dinosaur, Colorado, this Stegosaurus is one of the largest ever found, measuring 11 ft (3.4 m) tall & 27 feet (8.2 m) long. You can see it at the Museum starting on Sunday, December 8!
ALT A photo of the Stegosaurus Apex on display in the Museum. The animal's fossilized skeleton is a dark gray color. It is quadrupedal, with large plates on its back, a spiked tail, and a small head.
