Spent a great #FossilFriday at the Natural History Musem today. Here’s a croc braincase bone that was hiding amongst the plesiosaurs.

For those who struggle to read from graphics, here's the wording in plain text: "After a year off in 2025 and a period of silence, organisers of recent SVPCA have met with other interested parties to discuss future symposia, including provisional plans for a meeting in late August or early September 2026. More details to follow very soon."

News on #SVPCA, a (mostly) UK-based annual meeting devoted to vertebrate palaeontology. Things have been quiet about the meeting for the last 18 months, but a team of us are working to pick up where we left off. More details to follow ASAP, hopefully very soon.

#FossilFriday #paleontology #fossil

Join us online via Zoom on Fri 6th Feb at 19.00 GMT for our next free talk when @dremmanicholls.bsky.social of @morethanadodo.bsky.social will deliver 'Tales from a Geological Curator'

Members and non-members must register in advance: non-members email sarah@geologistsassociation.org.uk for details

Aerial view of a remote Antarctic research station surrounded by floating icebergs and snow-covered land.

A large blue industrial building under a dramatic purple and pink cloudy sky at dusk.

View of a colourful sunset over icy mountains and water, seen through open industrial doors of a building.

Cut the ribbon: the Discovery Building is open!

From 1976 to today, Rothera Research Station has been the UK’s Antarctic gateway for 50 years.

The new building will power polar science for decades to come - and understanding Antarctica means understanding our planet.

#PolarScience

Congratulations Paul!

Nice to see the fish!

I would expect nothing else!

Landing at Wolf's Fang, a staging camp on the Antarctic continent 🇦🇶

The team are on the way to Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf.

They were meant to get to Halley today, but weather on the rest of their route is causing delays. Not a bad view to wait with though, eh?

Superb! A new species of Charnia - found in Charnwood Forest - has been named after Prof Martin Brasier 😊

2009 sounds right. The new mount is much better btw. Great job though, looks v cool!

Nice to see the old Leicester Museum Cetiosaurus mount have a starring role.

Oxfordshire Dinosaur tracks - Falkingham Lab from Liverpool John Moores University YouTube video by Peter Falkingham

Oxford had a talented group make a video about the #dinosaur tracks in Oxfordshire this summer.
Birmingham also had a talented group make a video.

I made the video for our group. It is less professional. And has wildly inappropriate music:

youtu.be/6ULOHr7dkF0

Geopark and Partners Seeking to Recruit Two Researchers - Charnwood Forest Geopark We’re looking for two researchers to join exciting and innovative projects that will help shape the future of our work in Charnwood Forest. Do you know someone who might be interested? Working with pa...

Museum researcher Frankie Dunn has a funded research placement opportunity with @charnwoodforest.bsky.social ! Applications are now open!

The project is part time (14 hours per week) over 12 weeks and the researcher will be receive a stipend of £1,300

www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...

Bargain!

And yet still quite small compared to the largest extinct penguins.

Frank will be greatly missed, such a friend and inspiration to so many.

Lions, (sabre-toothed) tigers, and bears!

I still think it’s a giant conodont.

Congratulations!!

@fossiliam.bsky.social I guess you’ve seen this one in Chapter House Street, York?

For #FossilFriday, a cobble from the streets of York with corals, not sure of the precise taxon. Maybe Carboniferous?

Very sharp, all of you. Does Fern not have a dedicated account?

A spectacular red sky over a snow covered landscape of mountains and sea with some buildings and construction vehicles in land in the foreground.

A range of snow covered mountains next to the icy sea and a flat snow covered piece of ground with some containers on it and two long narrow buildings at the foreground.

A pointed snow capped mountain range in the distance with two large buildings on top of a snowy landscape at the front - one is a large bright blue building with an octagonal tower on top with large windows around it and the other building is green with red around the windows.

👋Bon voyage as the 2024/25 season ends in Rothera! ❄️

The new Discovery Building is now in use, powering and supplying the station as a new era of polar science begins.
Final works continue ahead of handover later this year.

Read more: www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/e...

#PolarScience #Sustainability

Here we go, day 1 of Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. Come and find us in the Jubilee Pavilion @bas.ac.uk #FossilFestival

See you there. We’ll be showing fossils from Antarctica.

I wrote up Colonel Birch’s caricatures last year in GeoHistories, message me for a pdf if interested.

Congratulations - great to have a favourite thesis chapter!

The Household Cavalry Museum and Shop A chinless wonder James Birch was certainly not! In the age of the purchase system (pre-1871) the regiments of the Household Cavalry were deemed incredibly ‘fashionable’, and were accordingly...

And here’s the man himself, back in his military days. Maybe not the heart-throb some have made him out to be, but so generous to the Anning family. www.facebook.com/HCavMuseum/p...

I can ask, she’s here for a research visit.

I’m hosting Vera next week at BAS, oddly enough.