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From https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70150. FIGURE 10 Life reconstruction of the head of Triceratops prorsus with nasal soft tissues inferred in the present study shown. Soft tissues include the main narial nerves and blood vessels, nasal gland,  nasolacrimal duct, and respiratory turbinate. Note that the nasolacrimal duct and respiratory turbinate were inferred mainly in centrosaurines. Artwork by K. Sakane. n & bv, nerves and blood vessels; ng, nasal gland; nld, nasolacrimal duct; rt, respiratory turbinate.

From https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70150. FIGURE 10 Life reconstruction of the head of Triceratops prorsus with nasal soft tissues inferred in the present study shown. Soft tissues include the main narial nerves and blood vessels, nasal gland, nasolacrimal duct, and respiratory turbinate. Note that the nasolacrimal duct and respiratory turbinate were inferred mainly in centrosaurines. Artwork by K. Sakane. n & bv, nerves and blood vessels; ng, nasal gland; nld, nasolacrimal duct; rt, respiratory turbinate.

Excited to see this article led by @seishirotada.bsky.social out in @anatrecord.bsky.social. Triceratops and their ceratopsian kin are more than horns and frills! Check out their narial regions! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

2 months ago 93 25 0 2
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Thank you @thepalass.bsky.social for a great conference and awarding me a prize for my poster on the results of the first chapter of my PhD! And congrats to @harrysavage.bsky.social and the other three recipients of poster prizes for their amazing work #PalAss25

4 months ago 29 4 1 4
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I also presented my bachelors dissertation on some sabertooth FEA which I worked on with @palaeostephan.bsky.social! This was an amazing conference, super thankful for @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the host committee for letting me help out

4 months ago 3 1 0 0
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This weekend I very briefly presented some of my research on hydrodynamics of bone beds at PalAss 2025. Big thanks to the host committee and @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @imranrahman.bsky.social for all the help with the project!

4 months ago 17 5 1 0

Amazing second year at this site! These footprints are really something special.

6 months ago 10 5 0 0
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Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate - Nature Breugnathair elgolensis gen. et sp. nov., an early squamate identified from a newly discovered Middle Jurassic skeleton on the Isle of Skye, provides new evidence on the origins of snakes.

Nature research paper: Mosaic anatomy in an early fossil squamate

go.nature.com/46WNnNU

6 months ago 13 2 0 1
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It's fair to say that not everyone was convinced by our identification. But now we have a much more complete skeleton, excavated by our UK-Moroccan-US team. Not only does Spicomellus have spikes fused to its dorsal ribs, it has metre-long spikes extending from a cervical half ring

7 months ago 154 28 5 1
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Thatโ€™s a wrap on my two months @thepalass.bsky.social research internship at the NHM ๐Ÿฆ–! Spent two months working on some awesome techniques (bet you canโ€™t guess by the photos ๐Ÿ˜‚) with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @imranrahman.bsky.social! Grateful for the staff involved in making this happen.

8 months ago 11 2 0 0
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November canโ€™t come soon enough! So excited to share this research on evolutionary constraints of sabre teeth. ๐Ÿฏ

#SVP2025

8 months ago 2 1 0 0

Have you seen the Band of Brothers episode of Walking With Dinosaurs yet? Last year it was an absolute pleasure to dig at the site with our University of Birmingham undergraduates - thanks so much to @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social & @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social for an amazing experience!

10 months ago 25 10 2 0
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So glad to be able to share my opinions on the new series of Walking with Dinosaurs with BBCโ€™s Points of View. Great opportunity to talk about the show and its significance to the public.

10 months ago 2 0 0 0
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Exam period forces me to finally tackle palaeontologyโ€™s biggest question: Whatโ€™s the relationship of the random items in room G26?
Think this is definitely a future publication ๐Ÿ˜‚. Still no closer to understanding the field of phylogenetics!

11 months ago 3 0 0 0
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This bizarre new dinosaur has something in common with modern sloths Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand.

New therizinosaur fossils are always exciting. But this one is particularly weird/cool having only two fingers!

Some comments from me on this new find in National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

1 year ago 16 6 0 0
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Nothing like a spontaneous midweek trip to London to listen to @tweetisaurus.bsky.socialโ€™s amazing talk on stegosaurs. Great way to celebrate handing in a dissertation ๐Ÿฅณ

1 year ago 10 1 0 0

Got a sneaky peek at these results last month. Might be the best matching of academics and Sci-Fi I could imagine!

1 year ago 2 0 0 0
UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site discovered | BBC News
UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site discovered | BBC News YouTube video by BBC News

Hereโ€™s the BBC News channel coverage of our Oxfordshire dinosaur tracks from earlier today, including an interview with me at the end: youtu.be/mIEmgtpO3RU?...

1 year ago 26 6 1 0
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Super happy to finally be able to share this! These are some photos from the UKโ€™s biggest dinosaur trackway which was uncovered in Oxford over the summer. It was an amazing experience getting to help excavate and photograph these tracks. Thanks to all the staff involved.

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