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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's been a very successful first day at the Second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology here in Luxembourg. I can't wait for the talks to kick off tomorrow!

A large lifesized model reconstruction of a Pliosaur head with the lower jaw of the fossil Pliosaur it's based on beneath it

A gathering of many palaeontologists stood around a table laughing and drinking wine

A wide shot of a group of people stood around tables discussing Toarian palaeobiology

The very long and slender snout of the Luxembourg specimen of Plagiophthalmosuchus gracilirostris (A Toarcian crocodile)

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

There are just a few days left to register for the Second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology in Luxembourg from 15th – 18th June 2026. Registration closes 1st June. More information and final registrations can be made at www.geocurator.org/toarcian. Book now to avoid disappointment! 🐊🪸🐙🐚🌲🥒🦕

A poster for the Symposium of Toarcian Palaeobiology featuring an ichthyosaur and a school of fish. The text reads 2nd Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology. Luxembourg, 15-18 June 2026. Registration closes 1st June. Register now at www.geocollections.org/toarcian

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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🚨 Brilliant news - The deadline for abstract submission for the second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology has now been extended until 30th April! Register now at www.geocollections.org/events/189-s... and submit your abstract any time up until the deadline!🐬

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The deadline for abstract submission for the second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology has now been extended until 30th April 🎉 Register now at www.geocollections.org/toarcian and submit your abstract any time up until the deadline 🦖🐬🌲🐚🐊🪸🐙

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Geological Collections Group (GCG) @originalgcg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It is our pleasure to announce the Call for Abstracts, for the Marine Reptile Conference 2026, in collaboration with Oxford University Museum of Natural History! For further details or to submit your abstract for a presentation or poster, please visit: www.geocollections.org/events/190-m...

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I’m pleased to announce that registration for the second Symposium on Toarcian Palaeobiology is now open! Visit www.geocollections.org/toarcian for more information and to register. Book early to avoid disappointment!

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merychippus everyone 🎄🐎

Screenshot of the wikipedia page for Merychippus, a proto-horse that lived in North America 15.97-5.33 million years ago. It had three toes on each foot.

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Prof Alex Dunhill @profalexdunhill.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Want to do a PhD linking palaeontology, ecological modelling and polar ecosystems? Look no further than this NERC GW4+ DLTP funded project with @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social at @bas.ac.uk & @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social and others (inc me). www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 14/03/2025

trent reznor update: he came back. he's lost a sainsburys bag for life with two heat-up chicago town pizzas and thought he might have put it down when he was browsing but we can't find it. anyone in bloomsbury, please be on the lookout for a sainsburys bag for life with two chicago town pizzas

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

TOARCIAN THYLACOCEPHANS New Early Jurassic thylacocephalan assemblage from the Western Carpathians in Slovakia Dollocaris toarcica sp. nov. and Zazrivacaris jodorowskyi gen. et sp. nov. www.app.pan.pl/article/item...

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Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre @charmouthhcc.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A phenomenal end to August with a late walk yesterday! The beach certainly didn't disappoint with loads of finds including a beast of a belemnite, a beautiful pair of mussel shells and possibly one of the smallest finds all Summer with this gastropod!

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Palaeoverse @palaeoverse.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️28th August 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by @sauropodlets.bsky.social from the University of Leeds, on “Modelling ancient food webs: ecosystem changes across the Pliocene marine megafaunal extinction” 🦈 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Enormous thank you to @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social for inviting me, to stand among best of the best in the industry. What a diverse portfolio of people, talents and styles. 💜

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Miles 🩻 @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Very busy

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The fossil, and the reconstruction, smaller than a sparrow, fully flight capable

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Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Jurassic Park 1994 spawned a generation of kids who wanted to study to become palaeontologists. I pointed out the credits at the end which of course ran for ages, with just one palaeontologist. He didn’t complete his degree but is very highly regarded. As Natalia says, it’s what you do that counts.

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I was on BBC Points West tonight talking about discovering the cave lion jaw 🦁💗🦣 (Only available for 24 hours) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Points West - Evening News: 10/08/2025

The latest news, sport, weather and features from the West of England.

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Some of the most successful palaeontologists I've met, especially over the past week, have absolutely no formal qualifications outside of high school whatsoever. They're in it for the love. Palaeontology really is what you do and what you make of it, not what a piece of paper says about you

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Palaeontology is what you do and not who you are. If you take time to broaden our understanding of natural history, via citizen science projects, fossil collecting, doing own research etc. you are a palaeontologist. You can finish a PhD in palaeontology, and leave the field entirely, many people do.

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Does anyone have any recommendations for any UK based tattooists who do good fossil pieces? After a week at Cerney Wick I think it's finally time to invest in some pieces. I've been putting it off long enough.

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I was on BBC Points West tonight talking about discovering the cave lion jaw 🦁💗🦣 (Only available for 24 hours) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Points West - Evening News: 10/08/2025

The latest news, sport, weather and features from the West of England.

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

For #InternationalCatDay and #FossilFriday here is an in-situ cave lion found today at the Hills Quary products, Mammoth Graveyard. #TuskForce #CaveLion #IceAge

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The news is out! On Wednesday I found this unsuspecting looking bone under a nodule. We thought it was a baby mammoth scapula. This morning we realised it was the jaw of a cave lion. An incredible team effort to expose, identify, and conserve this incredibly rare specimen 😍🦣🦁💗 #TuskForce

A cave lion jaw with two exposed teeth still in the ground

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

For anyone wondering, this is where I've been since Sunday! I'm having an incredible time. On Wednesday I found a baby mammoth tusk, as well as something really exciting that I can't talk about yet 🤐🦣👀

A picture of me lying next to a baby mammoth tusk partially covered in septarian nodules.

The baby mammoth tusk fully exposed. All the nodules have been removed.

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Nature @nature.com · 31/07/2025

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Putting Bandcamp Friday on payday is so heinous like... the pay check literally only just dropped in my account and it has to last five weeks with a festival in the middle but also I've gotten into a billion new bands in the past few months and it is.... BANDCAMP FRIDAY 🙃🙃🙃

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's true, #PrehistoricPlanet Ice Age is coming to #AppleTV for November 2025. These images show how good our animals are, but... believe me, this barely scratches the surface!! It has been a massive thrill and privilege to help bring this series together... you're in for an incredible treat.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two homotheres interacting in a snowy landscape.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing two Woolly rhino, a calf and old adult.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a glyptodont.

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age image showing a mother sloth climbing up a rocky surface, baby on her back.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It was great fun working as a consultant for Apple TV+/BBC Studios' Prehistoric Planet 3: Ice Age -- reconstructing Ice Age worlds down to the tiniest detail is what really floats my boat, and I cannot wait to see how it has turned out! Streaming from 26th November: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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Apple TV+ announces “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”

Today, Apple TV+ announced “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” narrated by Tom Hiddleston.

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Every single time I tell a bassist friend I've got really tiny hands they're like "oh same" and then we compare hand size and Every. Single. Time. their fingers are always 1-2cm longer than mine 😭

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Funded PhD claxon!! Bill Sellers at University of Manchester is advertising a fully-funded PhD position on the evolution of quadrupedal gaits. Exact focus is open and *could* include fossils. Deets here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The biomechanics and evolution of quadrupedal gaits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

AND ANOTHER Early Jurassic Chinese Sauropodormorph Because there aren´t enought A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia Wudingloong wui gen. et sp. nov. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I've written almost 4000 words for my WIP manuscript in the past 30ish hours my brain is fried 😭

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Emily Thomas 🦤🏳️‍🌈 @zhejiang0pterus.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

While we're talking about Temnodontosaurus's hunting strategies, apparently its preferred prey were belemnites and the babies of other ichthyosaurs, based on regurgitated boluses and this guy's gut contents. As described by Serafini et al. 2025: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

SMNS 50000, a fossil of a Temnodontosaurus (a large macropredatory ichthyosaur). The fossil is preserved in ventral view, head to the right and tail to the left. The top image is the whole thing, and the bottom image shows a close-up of its stomach region, which is filled with belemnite hooks and 200 vertebrae of juvenile Stenopterygius. Scale bar equals 30 cm. From Serafini et al. 2025

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I have decided to use it to get into the show that The Band™️ are putting on on Sunday. I think it'll be ~£15 on doors so I'll just be like "you suck you lose you get only ten pounds and the privilege of seeing my face"

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Sven Sachs @dinosven.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Big news! Our study, just out in Nature, is a game-changer for giant ichthyosaurs! We describe the first Temnodontosaurus flipper with fossilized soft tissue, giving us a unique look at how these massive creatures used stealth while hunting in darkness. 1/7 #science #news #scicomm

Temnodontosaurus skeleton, close-up of the soft-tissue, and flipper illustration with 'chondroderms'

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Oh BOY! Story time! All the way back in 2016, on our way back from Munich for a EAVP meeting, @dinosven.bsky.social‬ got a mail by Georg Göltz, attached were some first images of an incredible specimen. That evening we went over the material again and again...

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Someone is going to need to palaeoart the new ichthyosaur paper asap because I'm having trouble visualising what it would've looked like on a 3D animal and the paper itself doesn't provide any reconstructions!

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Among my favourite marine reptiles are the temnodontosaurs, mostly big, predatory #ichthyosaurs, mostly from the European Early #Jurassic. WHAT were they doing, how were they making a living? An extraordinary new #OA paper in Nature provides some answers... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur - Nature

Analysis of a fossilized front flipper of the Jurassic ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus that preserves details of soft tissue indicates the presence of a serrated trailing edge that would have reduced noi...

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Good morning to the soggy £10 note I found on the walk to the bus stop this morning

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Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer) @peterjwagner3.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Hey Paleo folks! I strongly encourage paleos to boycott this year’s GSA. Texas is not a safe state for, well, anyone really, but particularly not for women, POC, LGBQT, etc. The state government is funded by sales taxes, so anything you buy funds Abbott & Klan. Attend PalAss or something else!

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Love how your ancestor predicted the evolution of berries 75+ million years before they evolved 🍓🔍🐁

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Workplace fire alarms as an adult are fun it really is just everybody looking around the room for several minutes going "well is anyone gonna answer that?" before deciding to move

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Oh btw band update I didn't get it

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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 07/07/2025

"For the first time, scientists from Utrecht, the UK and the US have been able to determine how sea levels must have varied on thousand-year timescales during the last 540 million years." 🧪⚒️🌊 Paper:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X25003243

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Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ti...

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I was having a really terrible day in my brain and all it took to fix me was listen to two Oingo Boingo albums... huh... everyone say thank you Danny Elfman

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Meghan Jenkinson @palaeo-meghan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's too warm on my way to my audition 😖😖😖

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