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Aubrey Jane Roberts

@aubronectes.bsky.social
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Palaeontologist. Likes marine reptiles. Member of the Spitsbergen Mesozoic Research Group. Words = my own

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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"New exhibition, #JurassicOceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface & offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems." - www.theguardian.com/environment/... @nhm-london.bsky.social @theguardian.com 🌊
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Tentacles, pointy teeth and the T-rex of the sea: the Natural History Museum on beasts that once ruled the oceans
A new exhibition, Jurassic Oceans, showcases the fearsome creatures that lurked below the surface – and offers a stark warning about the impact of warming waters on marine ecosystems today
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Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It's now less than 24 hours until #JurassicOceans opens at the Natural History Museum London, UK, marking it's European debut. - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... Come see #ichthyosaurs #plesiosaurs #mosasaurs #Leedsichthys & many more wonderful marine fossil creatures. 🌊🐚🐟🦈 @nhm-london.bsky.social
The entrance to the Waterhouse Gallery from Birds showing the Jurassic Oceans signage.
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Aubrey Jane Roberts @aubronectes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Currently revisiting old haunts at the NHM in London - ready for the opening of Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep. An exhibition I contributed to a few years ago. Very excited!
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Aubrey Jane Roberts @aubronectes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We listened to the critics and completed improved dating on the world’s oldest ichthyosaur locality. New paper out today: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
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Age constraints confirm antiquity of the earliest Triassic oceanic reptile fossils | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
The geologically oldest sea-going reptile fossils occur in Lower Triassic (Smithian, ca. 250 Ma) strata of the Lusitaniadalen Member ([LM], Vikinghøgda
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The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This week's paper is by @aubronectes.bsky.social all about complex Triassic seas from the high arctic publisehd in Science DOI: 10.1126/science.adx7390. Episode with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social available on YouTube or whether you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2I...
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22. The dawn of dangerous seas in the Triassic
YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Out in @nature.com today, we shake up the ornithischian family tree. Remember those weird Late Cretaceous iguanodontians, the rhabdodontids? Well they're weird because they aren't iguanodontians. They're ceratopsians. Well, at least some of them are... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe - Nature
New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.
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Aubrey Jane Roberts @aubronectes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our first follow up from the Science paper: New paper on tooth morphology in the Grippia Bonebed - the oldest and most diverse Mesozoic marine tetrapod ecosystem. Paper open access here: njg.geologi.no/publications...
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Dental and Dietary Disparity Among Marine Vertebrates from the Early Triassic (Spathian) of Svalbard – Life Bites the Dust, or A New Hope? - Norwegian Journal of Geology
The Early Triassic saw the recovery of ecosystems after the most severe mass extinction event in Earth’s history. However, the ecosystems of the Early Triassic and their patterns of recovery after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction are poorly known due to a scarce fossil record. This study uses dental material to provide information on the taxonomic […]
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
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Save Geology at the University of Leicester
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Aubrey Jane Roberts @aubronectes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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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