Jennifer Botha

@NHMdinolab Finding anything interesting yet?

Main reason I’m in Zimbabwe is to work out if this ‘Massospondylus’ material (a selection of the tons they have) is really Massospondylus or something else. Sounds dull but has implications for dating & correlating rocks in Zim with those in South Africa & dino diversity 🦖🇿🇼🦕

@Kimi_Chap Well done Kimi! 👏

I'm so thrilled to have been invited to present my research in Spain in September! 🤩🦕🇿🇦⛏️ Thank you to the organisers for the opportunity. 🎉

@NeilShubin I couldn't agree with you more Neil, watching from outside the country it looks down right scary, I've also had collaborative projects put on hold, so it's affecting the whole world. We don't live in a vacuum, this is going to damage science globally

I find it fascinating that not a single critique of my post challenged the statement that "the country that loses science loses the future." Indeed, the irony is that the critical comments of my post were sent on an internet that was created with public funding.

Our new #OpenAccess paper on the smallest adult Jurassic sauropodomorph is out in @RSocPublishing ! 🇿🇦🦕 Although small, this little dinosaur tells us a mighty story about body mass evolution in the clade! Check it out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@SerpenIllus Hi I'm in South Africa and I've seen your beautiful Rhamphorynchus recon a few times, it's getting out there

Is this what happened? So my tweet is region locked here in the US? WTF?! Can somebody outside of the US tell me if they see my Rhamphorhynchus tweet from this morning?

Hi there, just wanted to share my news. I have recently moved to the University of the Witwatersrand @GenusPalaeo and am trying to distribute my new email as widely as possible. Jennifer.botha1@wits.ac.za please send along to anyone who may want to contact me, many thanks

@NHMdinolab @Cambridge_Uni @TrinCollCam @EarthSciCam Well done! You've earned it!

Not my usual garb, but I’ve just been admitted to the ScD (Doctor of Science) degree at my alma mater, @Cambridge_Uni @TrinCollCam @EarthSciCam, based on my contributions to science: very honoured to be following in the steps of my former teacher Jenny Clack, who also held one

@Kimi_Chap Classic!! I've heard this guy so many times and he never actually answers a question!!

😂😂 I laughed pretty hard. Also applies to conference presentations 🤣

@luke_norton Thanks Luke will take a look

@JenniferBotha9 Hi Jen, Fernando described something similar as a diplopod millipede. Also found in association with Galesaurus and Owenetta (jstor.org/stable/20173027)

Mystery fossil - help wanted. Can anybody shed light on this. It looks like a millipede-like carapace, but I am no invertebrate palaeontologist. Found next to a Lystrosaurus skeleton, Early Triassic, terrestrial setting

@semifossorial I'll have a look thanks

@semifossorial Unfortunately they don't seem to mention it anywhere in the text, only in the drawing, I'd like to know if I could narrow the ID down

@semifossorial That's true it looks exactly like that, thanks!

Here's more pics, and a loose piece of the other side - any way to narrow this down would be great!

It is lying right next to the Lystrosaurus tooth. Can you see the concentric rings along the tube?

Hi everyone, check out our latest work on Massospondylus #doi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">peerj.com/articles/13918…, Kimi Chapelle @Kimi_Chap did an amazing job at documenting the growth patterns of this sauropodomorph with a massive sample size

This was a really fun paper where we found that sauropod-like growth was present in the smaller 1-2 tonne sauropodiforms before they got really gigantic

Hi everybody, we've, as in Jonah, Roger and I, (@BensonLabOxford) just published a cool paper on sauropodiform growth. If you're interested here's the link!. Rapid growth preceded gigantism in sauropodomorph evolution cell.com/current-biolog…

Hi everyone we've just published new data on the ornithischian dinosaur... Check it out if you're interested.... Osteohistology and taphonomy support social aggregation in the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…