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Katy Evans @katyfevans.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Had a lot of fun chatting with @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social and @she-paleo.bsky.social for this, even if I did have to convince them I was not looking to set up my own side hustle... www.iflscience.com/how-to-fake-...

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How To Fake A Fossil: We Asked Palaeontologists How They'd Do It, And Yes, They Told Us

How to separate prehistoric fact from carefully crafted fiction.

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The Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🎉 Registration for PalAss 2026 is officially OPEN! 🦖🦴 We are delighted to announce that registration for the 70th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association is now open! 🎓✨ 📍 University of Oxford, UK 📅 8–11 December 2026 ⬇️ palass.org/annual-meeti...

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Lara @larasciscio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🤠Congratulations to our PhD student Vincenzo Gesualdi, lead author of new paper evaluating a superrrrrb theropod trackway from Plagne in the French Jura! An important milestone in the PhD journey. #ichnology #jurassic www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thanks to my coauthors for the fun we had on the shore of Lake Kariba: @larasciscio.bsky.social @jackl0vegr0ve.bsky.social @jenniferbotha.bsky.social Mike Zondo, Darlington Munyikwa, Ed Mbambo, Steve Edwards, Tim Broderick, Steve Tolan, Brandon Stuart, Kimi Chapelle, Kath Dollman, Jonah Choiniere

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Lara @larasciscio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Our new paper on an oddity from the Bolivian track record: a weird pit on a palaeosurface...digging sauropods? Read our paper to find out! fr.pensoft.net/article/1987... With the superb art work by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social 🫶

Artistic reconstruction of the Mullurina Mayu bowl-shaped depression during the Late Cretaceous, depicting the probable tracemakers responsible for the Calorckosauripus trackways and possibly the bowl-shaped depression. Illustration by Joshua Knüppe (commissioned 2025).

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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Welcoming Musango matusadonaensis, a new sauropodomorph dino from the Late Triassic of Zimbabwe found by our team back in 2018. Read about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and have a look at this lovely reconstruction by @markwitton.bsky.social (1/2)

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Lara @larasciscio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🇿🇼 New dino alert: Musango matusadonaensis. A Late Triassic sauropodomorph from Zimbabwe! Musango adds to growing evidence that Zimbabwe preserves its own distinctive dinosaur fauna, rather than simply an extension of the better-known RSA 🇿🇦record doi.org/10.1080/1477...

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A new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Pebbly Arkose Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Kariba, Zimbabwe

The Upper Triassic Pebbly Arkose Formation of the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe is yielding important evidence of a diverse terrestrial/freshwater biome. A partial, associated skeleton collected from...

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Verónica Díez Díaz, PhD @daniajinn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

📢I am very happy to finally share one of the most colossal works I have contributed to: the review of the classical and new titanosaur material from Romania, in which we also present the key sites, phylogenetic, diversity and biogeographical hypotheses 🦕 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography

The Hațeg Basin and surrounding areas in Transylvania, western Romania, have been a hotspot for research on vertebrate faunas of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago. One of the historically ea...

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