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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Huge thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social & @palaeo-olly.bsky.social at Emanya Fossil Prep for setting up the new UoB fossil preparation lab today! Looking forward to running our first student training soon! Thanks also to Kate & Mihai at Zoic for all the support & UoB Alumni Fund for funding.

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Yorkshire Geological Society @yorkshire-geol-soc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us next month on the 19th March at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Professor Michael Benton. How has the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline? New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted...

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Yorkshire Geological Society @yorkshire-geol-soc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Join us next Wednesday (4th Feb) at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Dr. Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social In this talk we’ll look at whether very large eruptions can be treated as scaled up versions of moderate volume historical eruptions or whether they should be treated as fundamentally...

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Finished this awesome mid-devonian Pterichthyodes "Ptessa" recently. #achanarras #Scotland #fossilfish #notadinosaur #fossilfriday #Devonian #fossil #fossilpreparation

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just finished working on this lovely Ichthyosaur rostrum. #fossil #marinereptile

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Emily Rayfield @emilyrayfield.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thanks to everyone who helped deliver a great #PalAss2025. And big congrats to lab member @harryberks.bsky.social for winning one of the poster prizes for his study of mammalian jaw function and constraint 👏 🏆

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So privileged to have worked with the team on this amazing dinosaur.

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Finished this ichthyosaur paddle a little while back. Really enjoyed working on this. #ichthyosaur #fossil #fossilprep #notadinosaur #marinereptile

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Lunch at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with Mike Benton. Then new museum displays in Cirencester showcasing many of the finds from the Mammoth Graveyard site over the summer. A return dig has been confirmed for 2025. With @palaeo-olly.bsky.social @acsmillen.bsky.social #mammoth #tuskforce

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This has been an amazing week working with a fantastic team.

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Amazing successful day here in Morocco setting up a prep lab with our collaborators at USMBA. We even managed to start prepping some new Spicomellus material! Big, big thanks to @afossilpreparator.bsky.social and Kate @Zoic Palaeotech! Impossible without their hard work! @richardjbutler.bsky.social

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Pre-assembly for a new preparation lab, in Fes, Morocco on the hotel floor with Susie @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and Richard @richardjbutler.bsky.social #fossils #dinosaurs #fossilprep #zoicpalaeotech

One Richard Butler sitting on the left with an assortment of preparation tool and parts on a hotel carpet with Susie Maidment sitting on the right.

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! For the first post of the year here's an ichthyosaur found on the Jurassic coast, Uk by Ben Daly now completed and returned to them. Prep done using ZOIC PalaeoTech The Maia and The Balaur.

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Oliver Weeks @palaeo-olly.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Late #fossilfriday - take a look at this...interesting museum display I found a few months ago 10/10 for effort

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Alison Park @afossilpreparator.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This lovely #Coccosteus was a placoderm, or armoured fish, which lived in the seas of the Devonian (~400 million years ago). This one was found in the Caithness Flagstones at Achanarras - Scotland. #fossilfriday 106 hours of prep time.

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Oliver Weeks @palaeo-olly.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For #fossilfriday here's the most recent ammonite I've prepped - a Sigaloceras from Cerney Wick, found this summer next to a mammoth bone or two.

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