#Paleontology

Lisa Lundgren, PhD

How do you pair ppls’ love of collecting fossils, esp. collecting in new-to-them locales w/ museum collection & curation? With @projectFOSSIL, we wanted to do just that w/ a PaleoBlitz

Nearly a year ago today we established an Editor Fund, donating $100 for each Editor publication in @thePeerJ, to be distributed by sections & go to academics to fund their

Cameron Muskelly

I'm up early and that's because it is #NationalFossilDay! I was introduced to my first set of fossils when I was in the 2nd grade. A 4th grade teacher invited

Megan Wyatt (she/her)

Many people don't understand why I study rodents in the fossil record. Don't get me wrong, when I started as a paleontologist, I had no idea I would fall in

As a paleontologist (who grew up in South Dakota during the 1990s), is it OK to have mixed feelings about the anniversary of the T. rex Sue's discovery? I sometimes

The Geekiest Dino

My name is Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. I am 95 million years old. My river is in the Northeast section of Egypt where the deltas are. I am not Sigilmassasaurus. I work

m, memer of dinosaurs

what's up with saurian now? you're getting mad that a small project is taking time to develop? not only that, but the artists are taking time to faithfully recreate an

Happy #FossilFriday! Time to geek out a little with #JurassicPark! Could dinosaurs like Velociraptor open doors? Assume you've supercharged the brain of a "raptor" and it knows the only thing

Hey! Did you know that you can sometimes tell what COLOR an animal was from a fossil?#FossilFriday #scicomm #paleontology Sam Ose @ Inner Mongolia Museum This is #Sinosauropteryx prima! It's

Nicole Cannarozzi

#BlackBirdersWeek! As a zooarchaeologist, my research lives at the intersection of anthropology and zoology. My fieldwork required monthly oyster collections on St. Catherines Island Georgia to establish a modern proxy

Jonathan Parkes Allen

Among other things, the Allen family has lately become very interested in fossils- (of which Cormac likes to remind us "Fossils tell us about earth's past!"). Here's Vera standing in

Michael E. Smith

Short thread: “the attitude of population geneticists to any paleontologist rash enough to offer a contribution to evolutionary theory has been to tell him to go away and find another

Yorkshire Fossil Festival

YorksFossilFest

It's Tuesday, it's trilobites, it's #TrilobiteTuesday at #Fossilympics20, it must be time for the #Triarthlon!Whether burrowing, crawling, or swimming is your strength, as long as you've got three lobes you're

Gautam Govitrikar DMD

#thread F.R.I.E.N.D.S is probably the biggest sitcom in the history of television! I personally love it. But there was one aspect of the show that had far reaching effects on

Why are the social sciences so bad at predicting and explaining phenomena? I often hear three answers to this question, and none of them are satisfactory.First, there is the appeal

Omar Regalado Fdez #BlackLivesMatter

Got removed from a Palaeontology Facebook group (Paleontology!) for denouncing casual racism at SVP in Albuquerque 2018 by the administrator of the group. Maybe a group of amateurs, but hey-ho...