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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

#ISELV18 was incredible, even the parts that weren't early vertebrates related! #morocco #fossils

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Got to see a second slow worm today! They may look like snakes, but limblessness has evolved many times in Squamates (the snake and lizard family), and this guy is a limbless lizard. Moved across the road after filming.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

What mammal has the longest neck? In terms of the number of vertebrae, it’s not the giraffe. They have 7 neck vertebrae, like us. Sloths, however, can have up to 10! Three toed sloths are the only mammal group that have more than 7. Who has the shortest neck? Also sloths! Two toeds can have 5!

A Three toed sloth on a branch extending its neck out.

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"It is by love alone that we understand anything" -The birth of Bran, James Stephens A new study comes from the questions you love to ask. My question "How do vertebral building blocks come together to make different anatomies?" inspired this project ❤️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Fossil(and more?) Friday. The Staruni Woolly Rhino was incredibly preserved with its skin in a condition good enough to be taxidermied. Her horns, hooves, hair, and guts were all that was lost, but you can see the individual follicles in her skin. #fossilfriday #EAVP2025 #MuzeumPrzyrodnicze

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

#FossilFriday I made a purely touristic visit to the Trachilos trackway site while in Crete a few weeks ago. The main tracks are covered, but it was still cool to get to see the location of this famous site in person, and the view from it is lovely! #ichnofossils #paleontology

Flare face of sedimentary rock near a beach surrounded by fencing

Sedimentary beds of rock dipping to the right on a beach with raised land of a peninsula in the background

Coarse sand made entirely of tiny seashells and she'll fragments in the palm of a left hand

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Uppsala University Vertebrate Palaeontology Group @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new Tomography Support Center, now available for all @uu.se employees and students. We welcome collaborations with anyone interested in using microCT and synchrotron scanning. Learn more here: www.uu.se/institution/...

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It is a very happy #fossilfriday as I sent back a revised manuscript last night, a years-in-the-making review that is the reason I find my phone full of pictures like this every time I've been to a museum: "Asiatosuchus" depressifrons anterior cervical vertebrae (sans proatlas)

Atlas, axis, and cervical vertebra 3 of a fossil crocodylian

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#fossilfriday on the road from Belgium today. Saw the awesome Iguanadon display in Brussels yesterday before heading north to give a guest lecture today.

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I never met Richard Fortey but his "Life" was what re-sparked an earlier interest in paleontology during my teenage years. This read got my dad to take me on a fossil-hunting trip with the rockounding club at my local library and steered me back towards science as a career. Thanks and RIP.

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience . It's an especially stressful time for many early career scientists as programs in the US are cut and hampered, but we deserve to be celebrated too. There are so many of us out in the world doing awesome work. Here's to all of you!

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Slightly late addition for #museumselfieday but right on time for #fossilfriday with a visit to the Smithsonian. Enjoy Greererpeton

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

How often do you see an ichthyosaur fossil from this perspective? They are so frequently preserved flattened that it is easy to forget how massive they must have been. This specimen is at in the Evolutionsmuseet in Uppsala #Fossilfriday

A mounted Ichthyosaur skeleton from the perspective of the tip of the nose.

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Dana Korneisel @danakorneisel.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! I am an early career vertebrate #paleontologist with a PhD on neck vertebrae currently studying early tetrapods in 🇸🇪. Pictured with a rhizodont scale found at Blue Beach last summer. #womeninscience

The poster holds up a small rock slab with a dark wedge of fossil on it with concentric ring pattern, a rhizodont scale, on a rainy beach

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