📌 Check our website for more information on how to apply:

www.paleosoc.org/the-paleonto...

🤔 Do you know someone who needs funding to support specimen curation/digitization, or who is developing a training workshop in collections? Share this opportunity with them!

This grant supports paleontological curatorial and digitization projects, addressing the backlog many collections face 💪

📌 Coming soon in Journal of Paleontology, stay tuned!

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦷🦘
Last week, a new branch was added to the Marsupialia phylogenetic tree!

A recent study by Churchill et al. described three species belonging to the newly recognized Order Keeunamorphia from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area.

📸 Phantasmodon travouilloni (pictured)

A pair of small dinosaur tracks, with a roundish smaller track (3 cm wide) in front of a larger three-toed track (8 cm long and 8 cm wide), preserved in a gray sandstone; my left index finger is pointing to the larger track and serving as scale (about 2 cm wide).

For #FossilFriday, a pair (front foot, rear foot) of wee little ornithopod tracks in the Dakota Formation (~100 mya) at Dinosaur Ridge near Morrison, CO. Dinosaur Ridge is one of the most popular dinosaur tracksites in the U.S. (cc: @dinoridge.bsky.social, @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social)

@paleosoc.bsky.social invites applications for its new Collections Grants program, which provides funding for members working in natural history collections to support paleontological/paleobiological curatorial and digitization projects, proposals due June 1st!
paleo.memberclicks.net/the-paleonto...

Notes from the artist: Dakotaraptor is being labeled as a chimera taxon because a turtle rib was mistaken for the wishbone (furcula) and put in with the skeleton. Yet, I think that the large foot claw proves that Dakotaraptor is still a valid taxon.

Today's #PaleoArt Highlight features Dakota Wraith by paleotufts_studios 🦖🎨
Four baby #T.rex wander from their nest into the #HellCreek forest at night. It seems fun… except they are not the top predators

They’re being hunted 👀 by a #Dakotaraptor

It just needs to find them first

a half dozen elongated fish specimens have light ribbing down their bodies and long, thin snouts, similar to seahorses that are laid out straight

a screenshot showing search criteria fields down the left side of a map of Florida with red pins clustered heavily around the coastlines

Museum Resource 🐟 Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida

Explore our state's freshwater fish species, including our collection records, photos and map.
Shown: Gulf Pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli), a marine invader to Florida's freshwaters
🔗 Info & browse:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...

📌 Have a fossil you’d like to see featured next? Submit your photos here: bit.ly/47U31vm

Happy #FossilFriday!

Today, we are traveling to the earliest known Neotropical rainforests from the Bogotá Formation (#Eocene), #Colombia
👀 See the tiny holes along the margin of the leaf?
Those are chewing marks made by insect herbivores feasting on this tasty leaf 🐛🤤

#Paleobotany #Ichnology

📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6

This week, we are starting our first #PaleoArt Highlight! 🎨

This tattoo was inspired by the elasmosaurid plesiosaur Nakonanectes 🐊

🌊 #Plesiosaurs lived during the Late #Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway

✨This gorgeous tattoo was brought to life by Tamara Pez @Pez.Tattooer

Have a fossil you’d like to see featured next? Submit your photos here:

bit.ly/47U31vm

Happy #FossilFriday! 🐟🦴

Meet the mighty Cooyoo australis: A large predatory #teleost that ruled the #Cretaceous Eromanga Sea of Australia.

With its bulldog-like skull and large conical teeth, it reached up to 3 meters in length, making it the largest known elopiform from these waters.⚡️

📢 Early Career Researchers, this one is for you

📌 Paleobiology is accepting proposals for special issues.

🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾

For more information: cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/call-for-proposals

🎨🦖 ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS: Paleo-art Highlight!

👉 We’re accepting submissions of tattoos, sculptures, drawings, paintings, and all paleo-inspired art.

📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6

📸 Sent by @macc_ench, tattoo artist @buddyclarke_tattoos

We agree with Davey's comment! And if you have a fossil specimen or fieldwork photo to share, we welcome new submissions through the form below:
bit.ly/47U31vm

Congrats to @gwynchil.bsky.social on her first first-author publication in @paleosoc.bsky.social Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - based on her undergrad thesis w/ me at Williams, Gwyn finds that tiny worm teeth(scolecodonts) get smaller across the Late Devonian extinction event

If you have a fossil specimen or fieldwork photo to share, we welcome new submissions through the form below:
bit.ly/47U31vm

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦖

This week we’re heading to Alberta, #Canada, where Sally Hurst (pictured) is hard at work digging for dinos in the world-famous UNESCO World Heritage Site #DinosaurProvincialPark 🦴

No, we didn't! But: Hi friend @ostratodd.bsky.social

there is a large brownish-green frog sitting in profile on a mossy log with grasses and leaves against a green bog in the distance

March 20 🐸 World Frog Day!

Learn to ID Florida's frogs by their calls with our online guide 🐸🎶 Florida Frog Calls:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-her...

Also:
March 24 📌 Science on Tap: Ribbit & Sip It
Frogs + beer + herpetologist Dave Blackburn! Info:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/scienc...

Happy #FossilFriday! The seaway that covered much of North America in the #Cretaceous was filled with giant carnivorous #reptiles. #Mosasaurus (#MOR006) and other mosasaurs had a second set of #teeth on the roof of the mouth that helped hold struggling prey.

Happy #FossilFriday!

Here’s a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a tiny but mighty ostracod🦀

📢 This image shows the trefoil-patterned left valve of an ostracod, a minuscule bivalved crustacean from the Eastern Coral Sea (Australia)

📸Thank you to Lalita Weerachai for your submission!

Happy #FossilFriday! from the #Cretaceous of #Antarctica 🐧

🐙 Here is an #ammonite of the subgenus Kossmaticeras (Natalites) from the Santa Marta Formation.

📸 Specimen no. MN 8688-I from the Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)📌 Photo taken before the fire of 2018.

Today, March 11, 2026, our longest active member (69 years!), Michael Arthur Murphy, turns 101!

Mike’s impact on paleontology is profound. Mike is receiving a PS Presidential Citation in recognition of his long-standing support of the field and membership in the PS.

Thank you, Mike!

Happy #FossilFriday from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia 🏜️🦴

The skeleton likely belonged to Sloanbaatar, a multituberculate #mammal from the L. Cretaceous Baruungoyot Fm, highlighting a glimpse into the diversity of Mesozoic mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs. 🦕🤝🐁

📸 Photo by Phil Bell (UNE)

Happy #FossilFriday! 🦴

This week we’re travelling to the wide, windswept exposures of Punta Peligro in Patagonia, Argentina, where researchers scour the Paleocene strata for fossil vertebrates.

📷 Thank you to Francisco Barrios for capturing this moment in the field!

#Patagonia #Argentina

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