Love you lots and lots and lots 🫶🏻🩵

So lucky to be able to be able to take part in so many cool opportunities here in Edinburgh! Adam absolutely smashed it and we had a bunch of fun 😎

Yesterday I accidentally said ‘WWE’ instead of ‘WWF’ to my tutor group of undergrads and didn’t notice until someone starting humming the John Cena entrance theme :) and they all laughed at me :)

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Otter anatomy zoobooks page

My love of body horror comes from the Zoobooks page where live, moving animals were gradually stripped of their flesh

Still quite a few things to finish before submitting the manuscript but hopefully I can share it at some point in the new year! 😊😊

We’ve had some major revelations throughout this project and I’ve loved every minute. I’m so grateful to my coauthors Dr Caleb Brown and Dr Phil Bell for all of their hard work and for being such wonderful supervisors throughout 🌟

I’m so excited to share that I am the co-lead author, alongside Dr Brian Pickles, on our new paper describing a stunning pachycephalosaur specimen from the Dinosaur Park Fm!! 🪖🏞️

Hi Bluesky! I'm Chris, a palaeontologist whose research focuses on the taxonomy, systematics, diversity and neuroanatomy of British theropod dinosaurs, with a keen interest in #spinosaurs. All my technical papers are OA and can be found at scholar.google.com/citations?us.... (Art: Anthony Hutchings)

Louis Parsons working on Scolosaurus: Illustrated London News, 16 February 1924, p. 263 (Natural History Museum Archives TCC-ARC-1734a from Professional fossil preparators at the British Museum (Natural History), 1843–1990)

From Skeletal and dermal armor reconstruction of Euoplocephalus tutus (Ornithischia: Ankylosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta. Scolosaurus cutleri" showing the topology of the anterior armor. Courtesy of the British Museum (Natural History) .

Picture in colour

Gorgosaurus and Scolosaurus, Zdenek Burian, 1964

The mummy of an ankylosaurid dinosaur, Scolosaurus, described by the queer Hungarian icon, Franz Nopcsa, in 1928. The holotype with amazingly preserved "carpace" of osteoderms, scutes and skin impressions is on display at the Natural History Museum London. 🪖

Someone give the MERL’s social team a raise this is outstanding

Contrast the rich ground flora of a native rainforest, and the barren grasses that replace it with sheep grazing.

Society MUST start offering farmers a viable income option from rewilding.

Until that happens, we are all to blame for the ongoing death of Irish nature. 🌏

Research proposal presentation for my MScR project is complete!! I love yapping about dinosaurs and brains! 😊

Lots of presentation practise this week, last Friday I chatted to our palaeo lab about my pachycephalosaur work & had some great questions.

Next step: start segmenting some brains 🧠 👂🏼👃🏼

Sharks after every mass extinction

Hi!! I’m Issy, a palaeontologist and current masters student at Edinburgh studying ankylosaur brains and ecology. I’m a freelance field tech interested in conservation/prep, and am also working on the evolution of dinosaur skin and pachycephalosaurs!