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Seth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

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University of California | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

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Dr Susan Newell @sue-newell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Great to see Mary Anning’s finds signposted among the fantastic fossils #sedgwickmuseum Cambridge

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#fossilfriday An example of why the ANSP and its collections must be saved. Atlantochelys mortoni, a giant protostegid sea turtle - named in 1849 by Agassiz based on the proximal humerus fragment. In 2012, someone found a large distal humerus that FIT ONTO THE SAME BONE in ANSP collections. 1/ 🦖🧪

The reunited humerus of the gigantic sea turtle Atlantochelys, on display in a museum: you can clearly see the break that happened sometime prior to the 19th century.

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Haywain - Closed

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 16/09/2026

Twin Peaks: The roaring fireplace of Ben Horne’s office.

The roaring fireplace of Ben Horne’s office. Twin Peaks S02E07 - Lonely Souls.

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Minutemen Bot @minutemenbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maintaining their sanity

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Who Speaks for the Yeeted?" , a poem, You come here, On the day of my daught––

Photo of a spider crab, yes, being yeeted, from deep beneath the ocean. Original caption, which, for me, is just an amazing deployment of the English language: "Jason, the name of the machine, smoothly pulls the spider crab from his hiding place on top of the seismometer."

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/12/volcano-off-oregon-coast-may-provide-clues-to-predict-eruptions/

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Wave (1898) by W. T. Horton, from A Book of Images. Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive Available to buy as a print. pdimagearchive.org/images/24945a15-… #moon #night #buildings #crescents #bookillustration #art #publicdomain

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Herbie Hancock performing “Chameleon” on The Midnight Special (1975)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Finishing #InverteFest up with #MolluskMonday and #MineralMonday both on deck - a geodized clam! Here we have sparry calcite crystals nucleated on the valve interior, a product of early diagenesis in warm, carbonate saturated groundwater. 🧪⚒️🦪💎

$Calcite in clam shell, Okeechobee Co., Florida. A geodized clam, with sparry crystals nucleating on the interior surface, visible due to shell fracture.$

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Giant Queensland Time Lizard.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Even unassuming specimens have backstories. Here’s a good example for #FossilFriday: the Paleocene gastropod Turritella mortoni from near Fredericksburg, VA (UMMP IP 329).

Irregular brown rock with cone-shaped shells and a yellowed specimen label.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 16/08/2026

Today’s Exhibit of the Day is a blast from the past! Snapped in 1938, this archival image depicts Museum preparators sculpting a model Styracosaurus. This large ceratopsian dinosaur was related to Triceratops. Photo: Image no. 315713/© AMNH Library

A photo of a Museum preparator standing bedside a model Styracosaurus. The animal has a large sharp beak, a long nasal horn, and a spiked frill.

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Edible Mushrooms (1827) by A. Cornillon, from Atlas des Champignons. Source: Lloyd Library and Museum / Biodiversity Heritage Library pdimagearchive.org/images/f5faed1e-… #nature #food #botanical #mycology #mushrooms #bookillustration #lithography #art

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌴 The wild beasts of the world /. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1909?]. [Source]

Illustration of two manatees submerged in shallow water, showing their rounded bodies, paddle-like flippers, and whiskered faces. The background features a subtle tropical shoreline with palm trees and soft pastel sky hues, evoking a Caribbean coastal habitat. The image is a historical print from 1909, highlighting the manatees’ gentle appearance and aquatic environment. The artist’s signature, Louis A. Sargent, is visible, emphasizing the scientific and artistic nature of the work.

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#fossilfriday Kelp holdfasts from the early Oligocene (31 Ma) Makah Formation of Washington State, USA. These rare specimens occur in the same rocks as some of the oldest known fossil dolphins and the flightless diving plotopterid birds. From Kiel et al. 2024. 🦖🧪🦑

Masses of tangled kelp 'roots' or haptera that were ripped off of their substrate and sank into the deep sea, now preserved in rock slabs.

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Open source so you have not excuse for NOT reading this and there is an obvious soundtrack available to you (somewhat legally?), as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Ab...

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Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision (1998 / IndieHipHop / CA)

YouTube video by Rare & Unfamiliar Hip Hop Underground And Vintage

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Kelsey Jenkins, PhD @reptiliferous.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New research out today! Some animals have three eyes?! This eye isn't for "seeing" per se, but it's connected to a part of the brain responsible for regulating body temperature. So if you see a lizard basking out in the sun to get warm, oftentimes this eye plays a central role. But there's more...

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To show women in palaeoart are not a novelty, here's a historic artist, Alice B. Woodward (1862-1951)

Alice B. Woodward for the 1912 book Evolution in the Past "Flying lizards"

Alice B. Woodward for the 1905 book Nebula to Man

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. London, W. Pickering, 1840. [Source]

Black and white historical illustration from 1840 depicting six detailed fossilized bones and a long, narrow jaw fragment of ancient sea-dragons (Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri). The bones vary in size and shape, showing textured surfaces and cracks, suggesting age and fossilization. The illustration highlights the dragon-related theme by focusing on large, robust skeletal elements with some appearing curved or conical. The artwork is labeled as plate 26 and is rendered in fine lines to emphasize the intricate bone structures and natural wear.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

👹 Extinct monsters and creatures of other days London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. [Source]

Black-and-white historical illustration showing a large plaster-cast skeleton of a Diplodocus carnegiei, an extinct dinosaur over 80 feet long, displayed in the Gallery of Reptiles at the Natural History Museum in London. The skeletal model features a long neck and tail, massive ribcage, and sturdy legs, set within a spacious room with arched windows and stone walls. The dinosaur’s bones are mounted on a raised platform with support rods. Display cases and museum exhibits are visible in the background, emphasizing the scientific and educational setting of the image from 1910.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Recurrence-based identificationofPhanerozoicmega-climate states and
early-warning structure

Phanerozoic vulnerability across five mega-climate states

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🦎 This is an interstitial frog & lizard account now 🐸

Woodcut print by Abigail Rorer Gastric Brooding Frog, Extinct in 1983, Dedecus - Shame

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Cactusdan @cactusdan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I love the little lizard guy chilling above Medusa.

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BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Garden of Earthly Delights

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🦎 The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: . London: printed for C. Marsh [etc.]1754.. [Source]

Illustration from 1754 showing a brown iguana with textured skin and small spines along its back, perched on a branch of a fruit-bearing tree. The branch has large, green leaves with prominent veins and a single large, pear-shaped fruit hanging from it. The iguana grips the branch with sharp claws, and the image is rendered with fine detail and subtle shading, typical of natural history drawings from the era. The background is plain, emphasizing the animal and plant. Labels "Lacertus Ind." and "Anna" are visible near the bottom, indicating species names or classifications.

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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🦖🦑🧪🦈New blog post! I wrote about a paper my student Addie Miller published a few years ago, all about the concentration of juvenile giant shark teeth in the Oligocene (25 myo) Chandler Bridge Formation of South Carolina - a nursery for giant sharks. coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-nu...

A sample of juvenile, and a couple of adult teeth, of the giant shark Carcharocles angustidens. They are large, triangular, with large roots and cusplets.

A photo of Addie in white and me in blue in a museum holding up shark teeth

A photo of my wife sarah in a maroon shirt laying down in the mud, looking for shark teeth

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️

A female geologist has her hand on a low outcrop of quartzite, and that is overlain by ~2m of boulder breccia and then bedded sandstone.

Annotated photo showing A female geologist has her hand on a low outcrop of quartzite, and that is overlain by ~2m of boulder breccia and then bedded sandstone.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I feel really sorry on behalf of a 19th century lady. Self educated, doing free labour for her husband. For that husband to write entire preface, being embarrassed by her: "Engravings are the first performances of a lady but little skilled in the art (...) destitute of that neatness and uniformity"

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, Plate II (1742) by Charles Owen. Source: Ernst Mayer Library / Internet Archive Available to buy as a print. pdimagearchive.org/images/55de4dd0-… #serpentine #wings #hydras #creatures #dragons #art #publicdomain

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

OK, well mild spoilers here, but haven’t even gotten to the Lotus-eaters in my thread so you’re just gonna have to wait.

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some large productid brachiopods for #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪 While most brachiopods tend towards the small side for benthic invertebrates, often just a few mm to cm, late Paleozoic productids could get relatively large. There's a good case for the bizarre reef-forming taxa being photosymbiotic.

Chunks of limestone in a sample tray, including large productid brachiopods. Label:
"Phylum Brachiopoda
Class Articulata
Order Productacea
Genus Echinoconchus"

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reposting for the afternoon crowd. And if you think this thread was dead ... well much like Tiresias we have a lot more to say! This journey might take a decade to complete!

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#FossilFriday Sponge labelled Toulminia bullatus with stalk and roots in the NHMUK collections. Collected from the Late Cretaceous Chalk somewhere in southern England.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pam Gaible is probably the best natural history mountmaker there ever was. I've been admiring her work since I was a kid and it's been such a privilege to work with her. Wishing Pam a happy retirement this #FossilFriday!

Woman stands on latter to look a Diatryma skeleton in the eye in an unfinished exhibit.

Woman pulls a cart containing an upside down Daspletosaurus skull. Black and white photo.

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Muses! Tell me about the random fossils that are somehow connected to the #Odyssey in an overcomplicated stochastic fashion as we ravel a #FossilFriday thread... 🧵

Comical map of the eastern Mediterranean depicting Odysseus' journey from Shmoop.com https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/odyssey/chart-odysseus-odyssey.html

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Affirmation of the day: Just because you are extinct, doesn't mean you aren't cool anymore.

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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 30/07/2026

Newly described Australian fossils tell a wild story: an ichthyosaur ate a pterosaur, then was itself torn to pieces by a pliosaur. This is the first evidence of these three animals interacting within the same food web! 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Life reconstruction of the probable trophic interactions identified with the specimen KK F1435 featuring Platypterygius australis, pterosaur (Ornithocheiroidae indet) and Kronosaurus queenslandicus.

Credit: Peter Trusler

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances! Led by Dr Wei Wang at #IVPP in Beijing, it presents a complete skeleton of #Austronaga, the most marine of all archosauromorphs. To boot, this fossil preserves the oldest complete digestive tract of any reptile! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally Disney making some bold choices in their live-action remake of 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱 (1955). Well done @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social!

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's giving Horodyskia? I know age, and scale and sedimentology are all wrong ... but whatever it is, this is really weird!

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Neil Kelley @kelleypaleolab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This summer we’re all about, ROCK MUSIC, [spools up Come Out (1966) on the reel-2-reel]

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🦎 Reptiles and batrachians London, J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.: [1914] [Source]

Black and white historical photographs of two marbled newts (Molge marmorata) from 1914. The top image shows a male newt walking on small pebbles with a marbled striped pattern along its back. The bottom image depicts a female newt climbing on a rock surrounded by pebbles and foliage, with a smoother body texture. Both newts have elongated bodies, four legs, and visible heads facing left and right respectively. The images highlight sexual dimorphism in posture and environment.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🌷 Plantæ utiliores: . London: Whittaker & Co., 1842-1850.. [Source]

Historical botanical illustration titled "Anothera missourensis," depicting a tulip-related plant with two prominent bright yellow flowers displaying detailed petals and stamens. The flowers are attached to slender stems emerging from a purple, curved branch. Elongated green leaves with pointed tips and speckled patterns accompany the flowers. Several elongated green seed pods hang below the blossoms. The image combines fine linework and subtle color shading, emphasizing botanical accuracy typical of 19th-century plant illustrations. The background is plain off-white, focusing attention on the plant's structural details.

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#FossilFriday: The Coade Stone ammonite pavement at the entrance to Lyme Regis Museum in Dorset. A modern version of the artificial stone perfected by Exeter-born Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) at her factory in Lambeth. From 1784 she owned Belmont House in Lyme which she decorated with her products.

An artificial rock, 'Coade Stone', packed with casts of the spiral shells of ammonites.

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Juan Liu @liujuan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New fossil fish dropped! Meet Jianghanichthys huachongensis sp. nov. Despite fragile, swampy origins, exceptional preservation of its head sensory canals is shedding new light on Cypriniformes evolution! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Paleontology #Ichthyology #Fossil #NewSpecies #Evolution

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