Palaeo UNEAustralia

Australian ankylosaurs! Exceedingly proud of @tfrauenf for getting his first PhD chapter published. Here he describes the second #ankylosaur skull from Australia ?Kunbarrasaurus. Thanks @Joseph_Bevitt @RussellBicknel1 & Tom Brougham for scanning the specimen @ANSTO @ausynchrotron

@palaeopittman et al. use modern imaging approaches to report that Haestasaurus becklesii was the owner of the first non-avian dinosaur skin. 🦕 @hku_science @Paleoworld101 @PalaeoScience nature.com/articles/s4200… [Credit: Michael Pittman]

Palaeontologists have discovered more than 100 dinosaur footprints in Canada, revealed as a riverbank eroded away, nicknaming it 'Tyrants Aisle'. @Paleoworld101 @PalaeoScience @UniNewEngland #Echobox=1645547276" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeo…

🚨🚨 The second time this week...for #DarwinDay, a new #paleontology paper out of @PalaeoScience in @tandfonline! This time, I document brilliant, Devonian-aged rocks from Russia with Serge Naugolnykh. Seeing as it is an understudied Lagerstatte, another 🧵is in order. 1/4

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! To the great women ichthyologists in my life, Sally Reader, Helen Larson @Eviota, Di Bray and Patricia Kailola, thank you. #WomenInSTEM #InternationalWomenAndGirlsInScienceDay

🚨🚨 New trilobite paper live from @PalaeoScience . An awesome collaboration between @DGarciaBellido, John Paterson, James Holmes, and Steve Pates that documents injured Emu Bay Shale trilobites. Figured as this has been around since my PhD...I would do 🧵 1/7

THE CROC THAT ATE A DINOSAUR! Our paper on the very cool Cretaceous Australian crocodylian Confractosuchus is out 🐊🎉. Using #neutronCT @ANSTO we serendipitously uncovered its last meal: a teeny ornithopod in its gut, partially digested w/ bite marks! 😋 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A huge congratulations to the teams at @AAOD_QLD, @PalaeoScience, @ANSTO & @ucmpberkeley for this extraordinary outcome. A massive and special thanks to Matt White for leading the charge on this project... and teasing every detail out of the TBs of CT data!

Interested in dinosaur skin? Our new paper highlights the evolution of goosebump-like skin textures in sauropod dinosaurs 🦕during the Early Jurassic, possibly tied to increased gigantism? Big thanks to @PalaeoPittman and other co-authors! @PalaeoScience nature.com/articles/s4200…

Palaeontologists have discovered more than 100 dinosaur footprints in Canada, revealed as a riverbank eroded away, nicknaming it 'Tyrants Aisle'. @Paleoworld101 @PalaeoScience @UniNewEngland #Echobox=1644207722" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeo…

Hot off the press! Our description of the Tyrants Aisle dinosaur tracksite near Grande Prairie, Alberta, is now published by @PLOSONE. Thanks to all my coauthors, including @PaleoNic @AncientAnatomy, and everyone else involved with #BADP! @PalaeoScience doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Exciting stuff is happening at the @MQBiology Palaeobiology Lab! Starting to pick Cambrian fossils from the #FlindersRanges, South Australia! Thanks to @200micron, @PalaeoScience, @SRStretton and @litholab_une for sending the rocks over! #CambrianExplosion #fossils #SSF

Tuning in to the The Science of Opal Formation Symposium hosted by the #australianopalcentre today! Great talk by @PalaeoScience's Dr Phil Bell about the age of opal. 👏

1⃣Cambrian #smallshellyfossils (SSF) are usually pieces of exoskeletons made by some of the first complex animals in the #fossil record. Many are ancient relatives of modern animals, but some remain “enigmatic”, their position on the #treeoflife still uncertain. #SSoS21

#SciCommSeptember 4: Avocados have a big seed because they evolved to be eaten whole and dispersed by megafauna like the extinct #giantgroundsloth. These guys loved avos, munching them down and spreading the seeds far and wide. They gave great hugs too. #labreatarpits

@UniNewEngland are currently offering PhD scholarships for international students! Get in touch if you're a keen budding palaeoscientist or geoscientist - we have LOTS of exciting projects available! @PalaeoScience @litholab_une #phdresearch #internationalscholarship

Radiodont eat me - 3D modelling, disparity and ecology of the first #Cambrian apex predators - #ProcB ow.ly/8lyc50FBvb4 @Xodroont @PalaeoStephan @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience #fossilfriday

Exceptional day 2 in southern Queensland with #SBMVP2021 with so many bones! Possible multitaxic bonebed! Here is @Paleoworld101 with one of the finds of the day, a possible sauropod cervical. Beautiful country, with nice modern dinos too, an apostle bird. Having fun @tfrauenf?

I always feel super lucky to have the #IkaraFlinders as my field site. Beautiful place with deep cultural heritage and world-class #Precambrian and #Cambrian geology. ⛰️🐚✨

Teaching in the field is my FAVE. Love seeing students having those "Ah-ha!" moments while putting theory into practice. #geoscienceteaching