Illustration from "The Royal Natural History" (1893-1896) depicting two soft river tortoises in a calm freshwater habitat. One tortoise is submerged, showing a detailed, textured dark shell with light spots and scaled limbs, while the other tortoise is closer to the bank, partially out of the water with a similarly patterned head and shell. The background includes grassy vegetation along the riverbank and a bird with a distinctive crest perched on a branch over the water. The scene highlights the tortoises' natural aquatic environment and characteristic shell markings.

🐢 The royal natural history
London: F. Warne, 1893-1896.

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Well done to our students who presented their amazing research at the 'Youth in #Palaeontology' XIV Conference in Gdynia, #Poland last week! Many thanks to the organisers for their commitment and for the invitation ☺️🦖🦴🧬

Members of our #palaeobiology group explored the World of the #Witcher in an Easter board game evening 🎲⚔️🐺

Congratulations to our Master's student Jakub Zalewski on winning the competition for Best Poster at the Młodzi w Paleontologii XIV Conference! 🎉🥳

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The Evolution and Development of Molar Size Among Exudate‐Feeding Lorises and Bushbabies Objectives A challenge for linking evolution and development is to find proxies for developmental processes that can be studied from the types of material preserved in the fossil record (i.e., teeth...

🚨Paper Alert!🚨 @keeganselig.bsky.social, @sergilopeztorres.bsky.social, @chrislaw.bsky.social, AM Burrows & @marytsilcox.bsky.social explore 'The evolution & development of molar size among exudate-feeding #lorises & #bushbabies' American Journal of Biological Anthropology 🦷🐵 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Dinosaur Desert Book

A Polish lady doing graffiti of P in war torn Warsaw

From the Dinosaur book, reflections of Soviet inaction in Warsaw Uprising

I was campaigning to highlight achievements of Polish Women in Palaeontology. And bang, here's a children's book about this very topic. 🧵

Rarely you come across books covering both, turbulent Polish history.

Jonatan Audycki standing in front of the title slide of his presentation titled "Exploring the supposed freshwater Mesozoic xiphosurids"

A month ago I had a great time in Portsmouth presenting my research and networking at #PalAss25! Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors, and to @ncn.gov.pl for funding my work. Also thanks @darjadankina.bsky.social for taking the picture!
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What a better way to start the New Year than with a new publication ? I am very glad to introduce the first paper linked with my current post-doc at @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social. We describe the first trionychid remains from the Middle Miocene of Poland, in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social.

Present and past members of the Silcox Lab

@marytsilcox.bsky.social, the lineage is strong! You were missed!

The Warsaw Team in the Awards Banquet

Dr Anderson with her poster

Dr Pochat-Cottilloux with his poster

Dr López-Torres during his talk

Great #SVP2025 in #Birmingham 🇬🇧! As always, an excellent chance to collect feedback and reconnect with collaborators! #WarsawTeam

@sergilopeztorres.bsky.social presenting his research on an expectionally well preserved maxilla of Komba walkeri (Galagidae, #primates) from the Early #Miocene of #Rusinga island, #Kenya at #2025SVP

@yohanpochatcot.bsky.social presenting his research on the first occurrence of #Trionychidae (Testudines, Cryptodira) from the #Miocene of #Poland expanding the biogeographic range of the family at #2025SVP

Dr Mateusz Tałanda presents his research on the early development of #aetosaurs (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) - a key to their success in the Late #Triassic ecosystems at #2025SVP

FIGURE 2. Petroglyphs, PMA/MR/2656, on a slab of Zagaje Formation sandstone from Kontrewers, Poland.

Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

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Picture of graveyard with lanterns

Lit up graveyard from sky

Happy Wszystkich Świętych, All Hallows Day, celebrated in Poland. One of my favourite celebrations, remembering these who have passed by decorating graves and lighting up znicze (a glass lantern)

Our mascot Geno enjoyed a little pumpkin treat for #Halloween today 🎃

Happy #Halloween! The perfect day to feed my #flesh eating #dermestids their first fresh meat.... 🍖 #taphonomy

Happy #Halloween from all of us here at IBE - where we like to celebrate spooky #skeletons all year round! 💀🦴

Warm congratulations to Ks Dr Marcin Uhlik on successfully defending his PhD! Marcin's hard work and resilience have truly paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder 🎉🥳

Wishing Dr Andrej Čerňanský a fond farewell today, as he completes his research visit and returns to Comenius University Bratislava - come back soon! 👋

Dr Aleksandra Skawina took advantage of the beautiful Autumn weather to conduct excavations in southern #Poland this month, digging for #Triassic #fossils! 🦴

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Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Skawina and Dr Debora Baumann Di Lábio on being awarded their IDUB microgrant to conduct actualistic #taphonomy studies on freshwater #bivalves 🥳

My research with Dr Dom Suraprasit of Chulalongkorn University on ' #Taphonomic Insights into #Fossil Preservation and Accumulation in Tham Khao Phak Kut #cave, Peninsular #Thailand ', has been accepted for a Standard talk at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳

Our research, “Exploring interrelationships between #fossil and extant #lorisids (Strepsirrhini, #Primates) and the question of their biogeographic origins”, has been accepted for a Poster at the @thepalass.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 🥳 Palaeoart credit: Jakub Zalewski