Get ready! Eight episodes. Not just dinosaurs, but the entire history of life on Earth. Extinctions, cataclysms, upheavals, survival.
Coming in June on NBC.
Oh yeah, and this one, I did work on 😉
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Join us next month on the 19th March at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Professor Michael Benton.
How has the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline? New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted...
Its a boy! This week's #fossilfriday, a #Coccosteus from #Cromarty, #Scotland
Unfortunately the head did not stay attached but there are two claspers.
#Devonian #fossil #fossilpreparation
Curling, not sure of any others.
So @fossilrob.bsky.social has posted me something and told me I'm not allowed to open it until we record the next Fossil Files podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social. I have concerns. Find out what it is by listening in wherever you get your podcasts... new episodes every other Tuesday
Finished this awesome mid-devonian Pterichthyodes "Ptessa" recently.
#achanarras #Scotland #fossilfish #notadinosaur #fossilfriday #Devonian #fossil #fossilpreparation
He will be greatly missed by so many!
A huge loss to the whole community.
These are amazing!
After we published the new specimen of #Spicomellus a few weeks ago, we were contacted by George Blasing, who said he'd bought some on the commercial market, and wanted to return it to Morocco. It arrived last week. Thanks George for doing the right thing in the name of science!
Is there a video of someone saying this?
AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...
Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP
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Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...
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Such a lovely piece about the the behind the scenes written by James Ashworth
#spicomellus #fossil #fossilpreparation #dinosaur
More on Spicomellus, the weird wacky spiky punk-rock porcupine of a dinosaur, from the mad minds of @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & @richardjbutler.bsky.social
Crazier than any of those hybrids we had in Jurassic World: Rebirth?
My thoughts for @nbcnews.com
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A journalist asked me yesterday how we worked out where all the Spicomellus armour went & truth is it was a challenge & what we present is a hypothesis. We had fun laying out all the armour & trying to figure out what the hell was going on! Fortunately @tweetisaurus.bsky.social is a talented artist.
Professor Susannah Maidment, dressed in a check shirt, holds a spiked rib bone from Spicomellus in her hands in front of a stone wall.
Have you ever heard of #Spicomellus?
It’s one of the world’s strangest dinosaurs. Its rib bone has spikes fused to it - something unheard of in any other animal!
But now, more of the skeleton has been uncovered - and it's even stranger than anyone imagined... (1/4) 🧵
A reconstruction of Spicomellus, a four-legged armoured dinosaur with large spikes running along its back and sides. It has a spiked end to its tail and a large collar of spikes around its neck.
It's finally here!
Meet Spicomellus - one of the world's strangest dinosaurs! After being named in 2021, many questions remained about what this ankylosaur looked like.
So, in 2023, I was part of an NHM content contingent who followed @tweetisaurus.bsky.social up into the Atlas Mountains...
When @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social came up with the name 'Spicomellus', meaning 'spikey collar' back in 2021 based on a single partial rib, we never could have guessed how accurate he was!
If you don't have access to Nature, but would like to read our paper on the new specimen of #Spicomellus, you can read it online at this link with no subscription: rdcu.be/eCJK3
My friend Susie, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, who I have known since I was 13, discovered a new dinosaur. Pretty amazeballs if you ask me. news.sky.com/story/crazy-...
Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:
And the artwork is by the fabulous @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social of course
So privileged to have worked with the team on this amazing dinosaur.
Welcome to a new member of the Isle of Wight iggy family! Congratulations @valdosaurus.bsky.social!
