Palaeo Scene

A small chunk of woolly rhino meat was found inside the stomach of this 14,000 year old Ice Age wolf puppy 🤯 Read the paper below to learn how sequencing a genome from the puppy's last meal yielded novel insights into the woolly rhino's extinction: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/18…

Not so long ago, zooarchaeology was a male-dominated field, like many others. Among the few women entering this discipline was Dorothea Bate. Her Mediterranean fieldwork & discoveries of fossil dwarf species left a lasting legacy. #FossilFriday #paleontology #archaeologists

Happy #fossilfriday ! This lovely specimen is the stem of a Lepidodendron. This fossil was found during coal mining at Florence Colliery (Longton, Stoke on Trent). Lepidodendron sp. Westphalian D, Middle Carboniferous Photo taken at @potteriesmuseum #paleobotany #fossil #plants

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🦴✨Today, for #FossilFriday we highlight Orra White,one of the first scientific female illustrators. She created some of the earliest drawings of dinosaur footprints and played a key role in visualizing fossils and geology for teaching. #WomenInScience #Paleontology

Happy #Halloween #batweek and #fossilfriday! 2 amazing specimens of Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon Messel Pit, Eocene, Darmstadt, Germany 📸 Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt) I posted these back in 2021 but thought they should to be reposted #FossilFriday #Bats #Messel

Happy #fossilfriday everyone! Platysomus parvulus 📸 - @PotteriesMuseum ‘John Ward’ collection Knowles Ironstone Shale Westphalian (315-307 Ma), Upper Carboniferous Longton, Stoke on Trent #fossils #palaeontology #fish #carboniferous

Happy #fossilfriday ! This gorgeous specimen is the leaf scarring of Sigillaria sp. (where the leaves used to attach). Coal Measures (Upper Carboniferous) Found in Berry Hill Colliery, Stoke on Trent Photo taken at @potteriesmuseum

Happy #fossilfriday everyone! I was inspired by the news today about the new species of #ichthyosaur Xiphodracon, I had to go and see what ichthyosaur specimens we have in the collections here at @Potteriesmuseum Ichthyosaur sp. jaw fragment, Charmouth, Dorset, Lower Jurassic

Happy #fossilfriday ! This gorgeous specimen is Michelinia sp. (Look at that bituminous infilling 😍) A favosites tabulate coral Lower Carboniferous (Asbian substage, Visean ~330MYA), Waterhouses, Staffordshire Photo taken at @PotteriesMuseum

Happy #fossilfriday ! Staffordshire is probably best known for its extensive carboniferous coal measures. This gorgeous specimen in a borehole was found at a depth of 452m. Lepidodendron aff. ophiurus Middle Carboniferous, Beech, Staffordshire Photo taken @PotteriesMuseum

Happy #fossilfriday Elonichthys egertoni (potentially renamed) a carnivorous bony fish from the Middle Carboniferous (~300MYA) found in Fenton, Stoke on Trent 📸 @PotteriesMuseum Can you believe that this beautiful specimen was rescued from a skip?! #carboniferous #stokeontrent

#fossilfriday today is a little different! This week, I officially started my new role as a curator of natural science at @PotteriesMuseum It’s been an amazing first week exploring the museum’s incredible collections — from palaeontology and geology to zoology!

Happy #fossilfriday everyone! Here is one of my favourite fossils I’ve seen - the Berlin Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx Discovered 1874/75 Eichstätt, Germany Solenhofen Plattenkalk, Tithonian, Late Jurassic Photos taken at Naturkundemuseum Berlin (and stitched together)

So proud of you Dr Devine!!! Congratulations!🎉🥹❤️

Ep162: Cerney Wick (UPDATED) palaeocast.com/cerney-wick/ Following our introductory podcast to Cerney Wick, we were granted special access to record the excavations during the 2024 field season. #paleontology #paleo #fossils #mammoth #ammonite #fieldwork #evolution #multimedia

#FossilFriday today is this gorgeous mix of Brittlestars (Palaeocoma milleri) and Crinoids (Balanocrinus gracilis) from the Pliensbachian (Jurassic) of Dorset, England Photo taken at @NHM_London

Can’t stop thinking about that Homotherium cub woken up from its near 32,000 year old nap

This is not a drill, a mummified #sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. Paper is OA: nature.com/articles/s4159… ... cont...

Registration is now OPEN for #PalAss24! 🥳 Join us in Erlangen, Germany from 9th-13th December for the 68th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting (and the Christmas markets). See the website for details 👇 palass.org/meetings-event… #FossilFriday