NSF GRFP awards just announced: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee....
Nice to see that the overall numbers are back up, but only one award in paleontology (7 honorable mentions). No awards, one honorable mention for sedimentary geology.

First Report of a Hollow Cranial Crest in an Early-Diverging Duck-Billed Dinosaur, with Implications for Convergent Evolution of Acoustic Signaling

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Join Utah Gelogical Survey Mapping Program in creationing Geological Maps in some of the most spectacular Geology in the world. utdgohcm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Job stability in these trying times. @agu.org @geosociety.bsky.social

Anatomy of a perinatal woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Niederweningen (Late Pleistocene), Switzerland Here we report on the anatomical re-investigation of a Late Pleistocene (Middle Würmian Interstadial, MIS 3, ca. 40–50 ka BP) perinatal woolly mammoth excavated in 1890-91 from Niederweningen, Switzer...

Anatomy of a perinatal woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Niederweningen (Late Pleistocene), Switzerland sjp.pensoft.net/articles.php...

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Musculoskeletal function of stem tetrapod limbs The tetrapod water–land transition has been studied for more than a century, but questions about the locomotor function of early tetrapod limbs still remain. The limb and girdle skeletons of stem tet...

Musculoskeletal function of stem tetrapod limbs - Molnar - 2026 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Massive wildfires followed oceanic anoxic events during the Late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction Wildfire was a consequence — not a cause — of widespread marine anoxia during the Late Devonian mass extinction.

Massive wildfires followed oceanic anoxic events during the Late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Top right: Sketch of a salamander illustrating the defined movements of the proximal (hip) and distal (elbow) limb joints measured in this study. Middle left: A muscle map for the giant salamander Dicamptodon, used as model comparator for the stem tetrapods. Lower row: left (blue rectangle) cover image for the journal Palaeontology; middle, musculoskeletal model in a mid-stance pose; right, plot of muscle moment arms.

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Dino talk in Rangely, Colorado by the Craig Community College branch campus' paleontologist Logan King. @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @drjmchugh.bsky.social @skeletoncrewpaleo.bsky.social @npr.org @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social

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A bite to the throat: A probable Xiphactinus attack on a Polycotylus from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, U.S.A. Fossil bite marks provide insights into trophic and agonistic behaviors, but they can be difficult to associate with a specific actor. Finding embedded teeth, while rare, removes this ambiguity. He...

🚨New Pub!🚨A bite to the throat: A probable Xiphactinus attack on a Polycotylus from the Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk of Alabama, U.S.A.🐟🦷by Drumheller et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Calling all young paleo-artists! Museum of the Rockies is thrilled to announce our Dinos and MOR! Festival Art Contest, a digital showcase for creators ages 0-18. Details at the bottom of the page at museumoftherockies.org/signature-ev...

Happy #FossilFriday!

Check out this Allosaurus dorsal rib next to the ribs of a Ceratosaurus.

There is definitely a size overlap in these Jurassic predators, but when it comes to body size (and abundance), Allosaurus takes the cake.

A belated #FossilFriday...

I spent Friday with Logan King (CNCC) and Lukas Trout (BLM) examining Uinta Formation sites for collection & student work.

Our shared paleo heritage serves many purposes. Museums, educators, & resource mgrs work together to make the most of every fossil!

A new titanosauriform with European affinities in the Early Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on Somphospondyli phylogeny, histology and biogeography A non-titanosaur Somphospondyli specimen unearthed from Early Cretaceous (Aptian) deposits of north-eastern Brazil allowed the establishment of a new taxon, Dasosaurus tocantinensis gen. et sp. nov...

A new titanosauriform with European affinities in the Early Cretaceous of Brazil: insights on Somphospondyli phylogeny, histology and biogeography: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: Vol 24 , No 1 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Concerned about the Point of No Return? Today we published a paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW49C~Iu...

Hmm...

My CMU student found it back in 2017. Published in the Foster et al., 2018 Mygatt-Moore tome.

Not everyone in the Jurassic Period was a giant.

This tiny jaw of teeth was collected from the Mygatt-Moore dinosaur bonebed. It belonged to no dino, but instead to a small, lizard-like animal called a rhynchocephalian. Today, this group is represented by the Tuataras of New Zealand.

#FossilFriday

Searching for dinosaur secrets in crocodile bones Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work.

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work. n.pr/4qTSIhz

Dinosaur Desert All about the life and discoveries of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska!

A children’s book about the life of Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska? Yes please! Learn more about the discoveries of the Polish-Mongolian Expeditions with “Dinosaur Desert”!
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Happy #FossilFriday! We got the good news that our abstract for WAVP was accepted for a talk.

Super excited to be part of the Wedel Pneumaticity Crew!

I'm hearing from multiple people that students who submitted ecology GRFP proposals are having those proposals rejected without review, despite ecology being listed as an eligible field. If this is a programmatic change, this is devastating. Ecology is the study of Earth's life support systems.

(PDF) INTER-SITE AND INTER-ANALYST VARIATION IN REPORTED FREQUENCIES OF MODIFIED BONE MATERIAL FROM THE UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION OF COLORADO AND WYOMING PDF | Bone surface modifications (BSMs) on vertebrate remains can provide critical data on taphonomic and paleoecologic activity. Here, we present the... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

First pub of the new year, with @drjmchugh.bsky.social

We're back on our bone surface modification nonsense, this time comparing bite marks and insect traces between two Jurassic sites and between our work on those sites and other teams' to see how comparable they all are.

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#MLK #Dream #MLKday

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A large rocket in an even larger building

Artemis II moving out of the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to the launch pad. Launch for the first trip to the Moon in more than 50 years is scheduled for February 6.
📸 NASA

Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene - Communications Earth & Environment The Arabian Sea and eastern tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zones were better oxygenated during the warm Miocene, but with regional complexities, according to analysis of trace elements and nitro...

🚨New paper out with @alexauderset.bsky.social! We show that the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) was better oxygenated during the warm Miocene Climate Optimum than today, but its path to full deoxygenation was slow and complex.
Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...