StuartSumida

Join me at WonderCon 2026 as ComicCon Museum Science on Screen screens the first “How to Train Your Dragon” with a follow-up on the physics and biology that went into it. Rm 207, Anaheim Convention Center, Friday 3/27; 2-5 PM. #svppresident #WonderCon2026 #helpingdragonsfly

Happy to announce I’ll be on a panel at WonderCon 2026 as we explore the “Science of Disneyland”. See us in room 208 of the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday March 28 at 4:30 PM. Hope to see science and Disneyland fans there! #svppresident #WonderCon2026 #scienceofdisneyland

@JVP_vertpaleo Very excited to see this come out! Lots of things considered "pathologies" may well not be!

🚨New Pub!🚨Analysis of pseudopathologies in Edmontosaurus annectens bones: taphonomic implications from biogenetic and diagenetic bone alterations from a Cretaceous bonebed in the Lance Formation, Wyoming🦴🩻by Siviero et al. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very excited to see ths come out!

Very exciting!

12/12/25 is the 10th anniversary of the San Bernardino terrorist shootings. 14 people lost their lives, including 5 Calif St Univ San Bernardino Alumni. Please do not give into hate and divisive rhetoric. Remember them by coming together as a community. Image: CSUSB Peace Garden.

SVP2025 begins in Birmingham, England in two days! The vertebrate paleontologists of the world are coming together at Birmingham's International Convention Centre. And the annual Christmas Market is going strong surrounding the Centre! #2025SVP #svppresident #svp #SVP2025

Our opinion piece on the importance of science and vertebrate paleontology in the United States was just published by Open Access Government: openaccessgovernment.org/the-importance… #svp #svppresident

I just finished a day near Georgenthal and Tambach-Dietharz, Thuringia, Germany where the locals are very proud of the Dimetrodon and other early Permian fossils we've excavated there over the years. They love our fossils, and we love the local bratwurst!

Happy #FossilFriday ! This image is to celebrate the (almost) 25th anniversary of when the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting was in Bozeman, MT in 2001. My (then) young son Darwin's first SVP, here posed under the foot of MOR 555, the T. rex "Big Mike".

An important new publication in The Conversation on the the importance of fossil specimens and "who owns science". (It should be all of us.) theconversation.com/fossils-are-sc…

🚨New Pub!🚨Mammutid proboscideans (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Mammutidae) from the Upper Miocene of Hayranli-Haliminhani, Sivas Basin, Türkiye🐘🇹🇷by Saarinen et al. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy Fossil Friday. Cast of the skull of Dimetrodon, possibly the most iconic of all synapsids! #svp #svppresident

A thoughtful new post from Canadian Family Offices: canadianfamilyoffices.com/wealth/fossi... Note their lead line: Researchers and museums are left behind as deep-pocketed collectors scoop up dinosaur skeletons and meteorites and add them to private collections

@CurtisJobling I thought I was gullible but then it turned black. Is that the color for anxious?

Morning!

Happy fossil Friday! Here - Seymouria sanjuanenesis from the Early Permian Bromacker locality of Germany. Easily the best specimen(s) of this genus ever found. #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP

Seen as I drive through SE Utah: he iconic Mexican Hat Rock - a Late Paleozoic rock formation where we've found bits of pelycosaurs - early members of the lineage leading to mammals. #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP

Happy fossil Friday everyone! Yesterday I got to visit with the staff at Petrified Forest National Park. PFNP is one of the great underrated gems of the US National Park system and the crew there is doing a remarkable job! #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #FossilFriday

Hi Everyone! Letting you know I'mm now on Instagram - @StuartSumida -talking about paleontology, animation, anatomy, and (as the current president of) the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! #StuartSumida #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #Paleontology #VertebratePaleontology

Hi All! Letting you know I'm now also on Bluesky - @StuartSumida spreading excitement for paleontology, animation, anatomy, (as current president of) the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! #StuartSumida #SocietyofVertebratePaleontology #SVP #Paleontology #VertebratePaleontology