Polished limestone from @morethanadodo.bsky.social mineral collections for #MineralMonday

From Crimea, Ukraine 🇺🇦

Beautiful but deadly. A stunning piece of chrysotile (aka white asbestos) for #MineralMonday from @morethanadodo.bsky.social

We’re thinking about a new fluorescent mineral display at @morethanadodo.bsky.social

What would you put in it?

#MineralMonday

You’re absolutely right. These were all part of a display of UK mineral heritage, including lots from the Pennines and Cumbria, as well as classic localities in the Midlands, Wales and the southwest.

A day late for #MineralMonday but we've been busy...👀

The answer to the question, what does a @morethanadodo.bsky.social mineral display look like on the inside 🤔

Feeling like spring can’t come fast enough 🥶? Here’s some trees* 🌳 to brighten up this chilly #MineralMonday

*Ok. You got me. Manganese oxide and goethite dendrites 🤭

Image from @morethanadodo.bsky.social

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.

The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.

We’re changing some of our permanent displays at @morethanadodo.bsky.social which means a chance to get up close to some display specimens like this stunning azurite on malachite with chrysocolla #MineralMonday

Fossil brachiopod

Fossil brachiopod

Check out the 🚨insane🚨 level of preservation in this spiriferid brachiopod 😱

On display at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Nürnberg, Germany

MIND BLOWING (even to a vertebrate palaeontologist 🤣)

#FossilFriday

This week’s #MineralMonday spotted on the early morning dog walk 🐕‍🦺

One of the most abundant minerals at Earth’s surface. ❄️🧊🥶

Digging for Britain continues tonight on BBC Two. Join us again as we go walking with dinosaurs - as well as serving up another lovely platter of archaeological fare!
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I can't keep up with the brilliant @nadwgab.bsky.social and #365Minerals BUT I'm aiming for every #MineralMonday 🤞

To kick off 2025, here's a stunning Cornish torbernite from
@morethanadodo.bsky.social

Incredible site. If you want to see the length of these trackways, and a little walk through of some of the Sauropod tracks, I've uploaded a 4k60p video to YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyH...

Behind the scenes at Oxfordshire's dinosaur highway Come behind the scenes at the longest dinosaur trackway in the UK, where a new set of footprints has been discovered!

Want to know what it was like uncovering the ‘dinosaur highway’? 🦖🦕🐾

Caroline Wood @ox.ac.uk has the behind the scenes scoop

oxford.shorthandstories.com/behind-the-s...

Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’

oumnh.ox.ac.uk/britains-din... 🦖🦕🐾 @morethanadodo.bsky.social

2024 truly wad the year of the Megalosaur. Not only did we celebrate 200 years since the first scientifically described dinosaur, the megalosaurus, was announced but our team along with researchers from @unibirmingham.bsky.social uncovered megalosaur and sauropod trackways in Oxfordshire!

Four people wearing high visibility vests and hard hats

A fossilised dinosaur footprint

Finally, we can talk about this awesome dinosaur excavation!!
🦖🦕😍⛏️🪣🙌

My super colleagues
@djemurdock.bsky.social
@kirstymedgar.bsky.social
@richardjbutler.bsky.social
& I led a team of 100 people, over 7 days, to excavate 200+ prints of Megalosaurus 🦖 & Cetiosaurus 🦕

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dinosaur tracking across time YouTube video by University of Oxford

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UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed About 200 footprints made by dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been unearthed in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

🦖🦕👣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A very exciting project I've been working on with @dremmanicholls.bsky.social @richardjbutler.bsky.social & @kirstymedgar.bsky.social

Today marks eight years for me working at the amazing @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Here's four of the more memorable days from 2024