iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 30/04/2026

Birds evolved directly from Velociraptors and are the only true dinosaurs that still exist. From demon ducks to penguins the size of gorillas, paleontologist Steve Brusatte explores terrifying birds, past and present. Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@NewScientist

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WitmerLab at Ohio University @witmerlab.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Excited to see this article led by @seishirotada.bsky.social out in @anatrecord.bsky.social. Triceratops and their ceratopsian kin are more than horns and frills! Check out their narial regions! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

From https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70150. FIGURE 10 Life reconstruction of the head of Triceratops prorsus with nasal soft tissues inferred in the present study shown. Soft tissues include the main narial nerves and blood vessels, nasal gland, nasolacrimal duct, and respiratory turbinate. Note that the nasolacrimal duct and respiratory turbinate were inferred mainly in centrosaurines. Artwork by K. Sakane. n & bv, nerves and blood vessels; ng, nasal gland; nld, nasolacrimal duct; rt, respiratory turbinate.

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Lucy Jackson @lej-palaeo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thank you @thepalass.bsky.social for a great conference and awarding me a prize for my poster on the results of the first chapter of my PhD! And congrats to @harrysavage.bsky.social and the other three recipients of poster prizes for their amazing work #PalAss25

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I also presented my bachelors dissertation on some sabertooth FEA which I worked on with @palaeostephan.bsky.social! This was an amazing conference, super thankful for @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the host committee for letting me help out

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This weekend I very briefly presented some of my research on hydrodynamics of bone beds at PalAss 2025. Big thanks to the host committee and @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @imranrahman.bsky.social for all the help with the project!

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Amazing second year at this site! These footprints are really something special.

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's fair to say that not everyone was convinced by our identification. But now we have a much more complete skeleton, excavated by our UK-Moroccan-US team. Not only does Spicomellus have spikes fused to its dorsal ribs, it has metre-long spikes extending from a cervical half ring

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

That’s a wrap on my two months @thepalass.bsky.social research internship at the NHM 🦖! Spent two months working on some awesome techniques (bet you can’t guess by the photos 😂) with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @imranrahman.bsky.social! Grateful for the staff involved in making this happen.

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

November can’t come soon enough! So excited to share this research on evolutionary constraints of sabre teeth. 🐯 #SVP2025

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Have you seen the Band of Brothers episode of Walking With Dinosaurs yet? Last year it was an absolute pleasure to dig at the site with our University of Birmingham undergraduates - thanks so much to @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social & @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social for an amazing experience!

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

So glad to be able to share my opinions on the new series of Walking with Dinosaurs with BBC’s Points of View. Great opportunity to talk about the show and its significance to the public.

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Exam period forces me to finally tackle palaeontology’s biggest question: What’s the relationship of the random items in room G26? Think this is definitely a future publication 😂. Still no closer to understanding the field of phylogenetics!

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Dr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New therizinosaur fossils are always exciting. But this one is particularly weird/cool having only two fingers! Some comments from me on this new find in National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

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This bizarre new dinosaur has something in common with modern sloths

Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand.

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Nothing like a spontaneous midweek trip to London to listen to @tweetisaurus.bsky.social’s amazing talk on stegosaurs. Great way to celebrate handing in a dissertation 🥳

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Got a sneaky peek at these results last month. Might be the best matching of academics and Sci-Fi I could imagine!

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Here’s the BBC News channel coverage of our Oxfordshire dinosaur tracks from earlier today, including an interview with me at the end: youtu.be/mIEmgtpO3RU?...

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UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site discovered | BBC News

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Fraser Weston @fraserweston4.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Super happy to finally be able to share this! These are some photos from the UK’s biggest dinosaur trackway which was uncovered in Oxford over the summer. It was an amazing experience getting to help excavate and photograph these tracks. Thanks to all the staff involved.

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