New review, just in time for your Easter #FossilFriday: Palaeontologist Gregory Paul updates his field guide to dinosaurs again, ensuring it remains the largest and most up-to-date collection of skeletal diagrams in print.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/04/18/book-review-the-princeton-field-guide-to-dinosaurs-third-edition/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Fossils #Evolution #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature @bookstodon

Happy #FossilFriday, check out these Lissodus teeth from the Substation Quarry! An array of blunt teeth would have helped these little sharks crush up crunchy crustaceans as they swam through a grand, ancient lake. These teeth almost certainly represent a new species! (1/2)
#paleontology

Palaeontologists Darren Withers @outfossiling (left) and Richard Forrest @richardforrest (right) visited us to see the ichthyosaur they donated now on display, and also to present some more bits of it to the museum! Bones from the skeleton continue to be discovered from the dig site. We'll add these to the display soon!

A 30,000-Year-Old Feather Is a First-of-Its-Kind Fossil - Eos #FossilFriday #paleontology #geology

https://eos.org/articles/a-30000-year-old-feather-is-a-first-of-its-kind-fossil

'Dispiriting and exasperating': The world's super rich are buying up T. rex fossils and it's hampering research. Only 11% of the commercially harvested T. rex fossils end up in public trusts. #dinosaurs #paleontology
https://buff.ly/Dca5wHK

Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/denisovans-taiwan-jaw-fossil-evidence

Carcharodontosaurus: The North African Nightmare #paleontology #wildlife #Nature #ecology #biodiversity #environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNi5v2AS0qc&t

#stem #science #biology #paleontology #fossils #insects #ant #cool #Dominicanrepublic #Caribbean

First Caribbean 'dirt ant' found in 16-million-year-old amber which is really pretty metal when you think about it \m/

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-caribbean-dirt-ant-million-year.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

Did you know you have a hole in your eye socket that comes out onto your face? Learn about it in today's blog post on Life..From a Certain Point of View! Available to paid subscribers today, and to everyone tomorrow. #anatomy #fossil #paleontology #FossilFriday

https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/tracing-holes-in-bones/

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "We Follow" shows a chain of migrating Ampyx trilobites.

Scientists found the first fossilized footprints of club-tailed armored dinosaurs. What they reveal might rewrite part of dinosaur history. #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #FossilFind

https://geekoo.news/the-hidden-footsteps-of-club-tailed-dinosaurs-finally-found/

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Bringing dinosaurs back to life for the upcoming documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs!

Article in the May/June 2025 issue of Nine PBS Magazine: https://issuu.com/nine_magazine/docs/nine_pbs_magazine_-_may_june_2025_issue/8

First Caribbean 'Dirt Ant' Found in 16-Million-Year-Old Amber.

Biologists at NJIT unearth a buried chapter in the evolution of dirt ants, uncovering first fossil evidence that one of Earth's stealthiest insects inhabited the Caribbean millions of years ago.

Read more: https://omniletters.com/caribbean-dirt-ant-found-in-16-million-year-old-amber/

Paleopedological record (Paleontology )

The paleopedological record is, essentially, the fossil record of soils. The paleopedological record consists chiefly of paleosols buried by flood sediments, or preserved at geological unconformities, especially plateau escarpments or sides of river valleys. Other fossil soils occur in areas where volcanic activity has covered the ancient soils.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleopedological_record

Rhamporhynchus Muensteri

Behind this barbaric name lies a small pterosaur... An adorable physiognomy that I have reconstructed in drawing from existing fossils!

It is neither a bird nor a dinosaur.
No feathers or scales, but a rather special coat of hair called pycnofibres
Membranous wings, supported by the 4th finger, which is particularly long

#paleontology #paleoanthropology #fossils #Denisovans #hominins #Penghu1

An article published in the journal "Science" reports the attribution of a fossil mandible discovered in Taiwan to a Denisovan. A team of researchers conducted an analysis of amino acids still present in the mandible and in the enamel of the teeth still present, detecting two variants that were part of proteins specific to the Denisovan species.

https://english.netmassimo.com/2025/04/16/a-fossil-mandible-discovered-in-taiwan-has-been-attributed-to-a-denisovan/

#goodnews #science #animals #paleontology #dinosaurs #Canada

First Confirmed Footprints of 3-Toed Ankylosaur Found Anywhere in the World Identified in Canada

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-confirmed-ankylosaur-footprints-found-anywhere-in-the-world-identified-in-canada/

Rhamporhynchus Muensteri

Derrière ce nom barbare se cache un petit ptérosaure, dont j'ai reconstitué en dessin le physique et l'adorable physionomie à partir des fossiles existants !
Ce n'est ni un oiseau, ni un dinosaure.
Ni plumes ni écailles donc, mais un pelage un peu spécial de poils appelés pycnofibres ! 
Des ailes membraneuses, notamment soutenues par le 4e doigt, particulièrement long