Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My next attempt at going digital, here is Leedsichthys problematicus, a giant, filter-feeding bony fish from the Upper Jurassic, seen here doing its best impression of a basking shark. 000
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 03/01/2026My last piece of 2025 was one of my first ever forays into digital art. Drawn on my iPhone, here is the bizarre possible-lamniform shark Aquilolamna milarcae from the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico. 010
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Freshwater sandstones from the Tonbridge Wells Sand Formation exposed in an old quarry near Fairlight, Sussex. #wealdenwednesday 020
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I did a Plateosaurus this afternoon. I think I’m increasingly getting to grips with depicting dinosaur anatomy, though admittedly I still find drawing scales this way to be a little tedious. 050
Reposted by Harry BridgerChester Zoo Science @chesterzoosci.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The first speed talk session covered jellyfish lightning, wild dog visitor effects (with Bayesian stats!), baboon contraception and cassowary calls. A great showcase of the variety of research that goes on in BIAZA Zoos #BIAZARC2025 042
Reposted by Harry BridgerRichard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Have 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! 22510
Reposted by Harry BridgerThomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Conspiracy believers tend to overrate their cognitive abilities and think most others agree with them www.psypost.org/conspiracy-b...psypost.orgConspiracy believers tend to overrate their cognitive abilities and think most others agree with themPeople who believe in conspiracy theories tend to overestimate their own abilities and wrongly assume that others share their views, according to a new study. The findings highlight overconfidence as ... 106216
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 16/06/2025What a wonderful weekend at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival! 031
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025After a lot of work, I’ve finally finished my shield! I’ll be using it for medieval battle reenactment, though most of the action it’ll see will be during training. It’s an Angevin-style flat-topped kite shield. The design comes from the personal heraldry of Sir John de Radynden (1274-1350). 020
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025It was lovely getting to see the painted dogs again at Chester Zoo with @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social now that they’re back on display in the Heart of Africa area. #wilddogwednesday 021
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025For #fossilfriday, here’s an older piece I did a couple of years back, a speculative study of the head of Pendraig milnerae, alongside some sketches of it’s described material. 142
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A little late to #fossilfriday, but this week I finally managed to get up to the Manchester Museum, and what a museum it is! The fossil galleries were, of course, a highlight, but the other areas on living species, Asian cultures and the ‘Wild’ temporary exhibition were all incredible as well. 0143
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Can Colossal get any more shameful? Trying to shed doubt on one of the world’s most well-respected science communicators when he correctly points out that switching a handful of genes doesn’t resurrect an extinct species is, quite frankly, embarrassing. 000
Reposted by Harry BridgerEleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Happy Easter - please enjoy this selection of reptile photos from some recent visits to Dudley Zoo (the link with Easter was meant to be that they lay eggs, but it turns out that prehensile tailed skinks are viviparous) 011
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I always try and do a spot of fossil hunting in the Hastings Beds (lower Wealden Group) down at Rock-A-Nore, Hastings, whenever I’m back down south. Not much from this trip, and I’m not yet sure exactly what I’ve found, but lovely nonetheless. #fossilfriday 052
Reposted by Harry BridgerPaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Looks like all 6 episodes of Walking With Dinosaurs will air 7- 9 PM Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, June 16-18, on PBS in the US as 2 episodes a night so buckle up for a 3 day dino marathon. Betting our Utah episode is on June 16! issuu.com/nine_magazin... @paleontologizing.bsky.social 13913
Reposted by Harry BridgerPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/04/2025Close-up of an outcrop. Nothing particularly notable. Except this outcrop is on another planet. 620031
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 28/03/2025For this #fossilfriday, here is a partial humerus of a crocodyliform, collected from the Lulworth Formation of Dorset. It probably belongs to the small-bodied Theriosuchus, first described by Prof. Richard Owen in 1879. 131
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 21/03/2025For this #fossilfriday, well… my undergraduate dissertation has been submitted! After a year of working on this project, it’s such a relief to see it finished, and hopefully it adds a little something to our understanding of palaeoenvironmental change in southern England. 070
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 13/03/2025A very exciting discovery this is, and surprising to think pterosaurs simply weren’t known from the Portland limestones until now. 010
Reposted by Harry BridgerDr Stephan Lautenschlager @palaeostephan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This project has started a long time ago, but in a galaxy not too far away… Happy to share this new study with @taphonomist.bsky.social looking at the functional morphology and biomechanics of the Rancor. Warning! Nerdy sci fi, palaeo & biomechanics thread following! jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...jgeekstudies.orgIs a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? Estimating the bite force of an intergalactic mega-predatorStephan Lautenschlager1,2 & Thomas Clements3 1School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 2The Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, UK. 3… 37129
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Some shots from a visit to West Midlands Safari Park yesterday. I’d like to think that, despite my camera getting on a bit, I’m starting to take some better photographs. 010
Reposted by Harry BridgerEleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Happy #worldwildlifeday. To quote Sir David Attenborough, “The natural world is the greatest source of excitement, the greatest source of visual beauty, the greatest source of intellectual interest”. I hope today you get to go out and experience the magic of nature and, in return, act to protect it. 061
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025For my own sanity, I feel like I need to watch #prehistoricplanet again. 030
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Many insect microfossils are known from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset - here’s what appears to be the carapace of one of them, collected on my most recent trip to Dorset and soon to be written-up into my dissertation. Happy #fossilfriday! 061
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I’ve finally got my own hand axe! (And behind it, a shield that should be getting painted soon) 010
Reposted by Harry BridgerNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It's International Day of Women in Science! A Celebrating with palaeontologists that defined the field, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), pioneer of early mammalian evolution, the leader of Polish-Mongolian expeditions that led to discoveries of Deinocheirus, Gallimimus and fighting Velociraptor. 3358109
Reposted by Harry BridgerNatural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 11/02/2025📢 We're opening a new permanent gallery! 🌍 Fixing Our Broken Planet combines scientific research, climate advice and practical ideas to find your role in fixing the planet. It’s free to visit from Thursday 3 April – we hope to see you there! 🌱 07618
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Today marks the 200th anniversary of the naming of Iguanodon! Happy #iguanodon200 everyone 🎉 000
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025How is it that I’m already disappointed by a film who’s trailer has scarcely been out 15 minutes? #jurassicworldrebirth 000
Reposted by Harry BridgerEleanor Pinkney @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I’ve decided that #wilddogwednesday needs to become a thing. I’m kicking things off this week with a video of the pack in the drive through enclosure at West Midlands Safari Park. 021
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A spot of petrology to accompany my sediment descriptions. Thankfully the thin sections line up very nicely with my field descriptions 😅. 020
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 15/01/2025For #museumselfieday, here’s me at work in the Lapworth Museum of Geology. 160
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The Digging for Britain episode on the Dewars Farm Quarry tracksite airs at 20:00 tonight on BBC Two, and is already up on BBC iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 010
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 04/01/2025A humpback whale was spotted breaching just off Hastings today! It goes without saying this isn’t something you see every day, and I’m super disappointed to have missed it - hopefully this won’t be the last time. Original video by Ricky Martin: www.dailymotion.com/video/x9bquikdailymotion.comPossible whale sighting near Hastings in East SussexDailymotion video by SussexWorld 110
Reposted by Harry BridgerScience News @scinews.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Writing a scientific article: A step-by-step guide for beginners Main sections that an average article should contain; elements that should appear in these sections, and some pointers for making the overall result attractive and acceptable for publication. halfonlab.ccr.buffalo.edu/other_docs/s... 27623
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Very excited to finally talk about the dinosaur footprints at Dewars Farm Quarry! These were laid down on a tropical coast in the Middle Jurassic (~166 Ma) by several sauropods and a large theropod which may have been Megalosaurus bucklandii. 130
Reposted by Harry BridgerMark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/01/2025New #paleoart for some big #dinosaur news! The UK's largest dinosaur tracksite has just been unveiled – tracks made by a Middle Jurassic theropod and multiple sauropods stretch for hundreds of metres across an Oxfordshire quarry. Short thread on the #sciart I made for this remarkable site... 12467122
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 30/12/2024The ancient wing itself, Archaeopteryx lithographica. Depicted in fineliner on A5 notebook paper (like most of my work). 010
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 24/12/2024As a special Christmas present to all you wonderful readers of @devilledtoads.bsky.social, our first ever guest blog is out! 000
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Definitely too late for #fossilfriday this week, but the picture was taken on a Friday so I say it counts! Pictured below is the Eocene wading bird Messelornis cristata, currently on-display in the @nhm-london.bsky.social and originally from Germany’s famous Messel Pit fossil site. 052
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I finally got to see Fern at the @nhm-london.bsky.social! 000
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Went round the Oxford Museum of Natural History on the weekend, and of course I had a great time. 010
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Now this is very exciting paper! New Wealden dinosaurs are always very exciting, but what’s more is that the Ashdown Brickworks quarry, where a bunch of the teeth described in the study come from, is so near where I grew up in Hastings. Such an exciting time to be a fan of Wealden dinosaurs. 0112
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Now it’s December, I can start on this very cool advent calendar by the NHM. 010
Reposted by Harry BridgerDevilled Toads @devilledtoads.bsky.social · 21/11/2024In our newest installment of 'The Zoo Review', we talk about the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, a tiny hidden gem of a zoo in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Read it here: sites.google.com/view/deville...sites.google.comDevilled Toads - The Zoo Review: Birmingham Wildlife Conservation ParkThe UK is, for the most part, lacking for good city zoos. London rather famously has the ZSL London Zoo, the oldest scientific zoo in the world, and there are excellent zoos in Edinburgh and Belfast a... 042
Harry Bridger @harrybridger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Snowy trip to Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park. 010
Reposted by Harry BridgerDevilled Toads @devilledtoads.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Welcome to Devilled Toads! We are a blog about the natural world, covering everything from conservation to palaeontology, animal biology to our famous zoo reviews. sites.google.com/view/deville... 042