Darren Withers

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Darren Withers

Darren Withers

@outfossiling

Rescuing local palaeo heritage with @pborogeopalaeo | museum volunteer @PboroMuseum & Rutland County Museum | synergistically work with ⚒️Palaeontologists⚒️

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Darren Withers
Darren Withers@outfossiling·
Thank you for the update Nigel, that's great to hear.
Nigel Larkin@MrIchthyosaurus

#svpca After a year off in 2025 and a period of silence, organisers of recent SVPCA have met with other interested parties to discuss future symposia, including provisional plans for a meeting in late August or early September 2026. More details to follow very soon.

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Paul de la Salle
Paul de la Salle@PauldelaSalle·
This is the first known supraoccipital of the pliosaur Simolestes from the Oxford Clay. Skillfully extracted from a block by Steve Etches, @TEC_Kimmeridge
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History_of_Geology@Geology_History·
January 1, 1638 (Julian calendar), birthday of Danish physician Niels Steensen or latinized Nicolas Steno. He popularized the first stratigraphical principles and recognized the true origin of fossils studying "tongue-stones" - petrified shark teeth 🦈 ...
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Ron Tykoski
Ron Tykoski@Paleo_Tykoski·
Here is a nice fossil for showing the arrangement of diamond-shaped armored scales on a gar. This small, beautiful, 48-53 million year old fish skeleton was found in the Green River Fm near Provo, Utah. #FossilFriday @PerotMuseum
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Paul de la Salle@PauldelaSalle·
What a superbly comprehensive paper! My sincere congratulations to the authors. The projections on the lachrymal and prefrontal again indicate something very interesting going on function wise in the posterior naris area, don't you think?
Dr Dean Lomax@Dean_R_Lomax

Meet the Sword Dragon of Dorset, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, an awesome new ichthyosaur we describe today! #fossilfriday The world’s most complete Pliensbachian marine reptile. Study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sp…

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Darren Naish@TetZoo·
Sea Monsters in Cornwall. Sunday 26th October 2025, I’ll be talking Sea Monsters Past and Present as part of the Dark Folklore Festival in Porthtowan, Cornwall. More info and tickets at... darkcornwall.com/event-details/…
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Dr Dean Lomax@Dean_R_Lomax·
Today is THE day. “The SECRET LIVES of DINOSAURS” has arrived! 🦖 Holding this in my hands for the very first time. Honestly, I have so many emotions. It looks absolutely stunning. In full colour! I cannot wait for you to read this. Illustrated by @BobNichollsArt OUT NOW!
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Darren Withers@outfossiling·
Congratulations, this couldn't be more true. As I've been very busy working with the @Northlincmuseum helping to Pack up the #scunthorpepliosaur into new boxes purchased through the museums core collections budget. Ready to move to its permanent storage location.
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North Lincolnshire Museum@Northlincmuseum

⭐️ We are delighted to have received #Accreditation status! ⭐️ Museum Accreditation is a UK-wide industry standard that shows we care for our collections, make them accessible to audiences and safeguard our history and heritage for the future 🏺🖼️ @ace_national @ace_thenorth

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Darren Withers@outfossiling·
And now 4 years ago today! More jaw dropping #ichthyosaur pics for you. Still safely tucked away in plaster jackets! To all those making the vital decisions for work to start. Please please can we speed things up 😭 edit: the ALT text should read 'The largest ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK' but hay I'm sure you can appreciate where I'm coming from.
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Darren Withers@outfossiling

9/9/2021 - was a day to apply a weak acetone paraloid solution to the exposed bone from this huge section of #rutlandichthyosaur I mean just look at it, absolutely jaw dropping.

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Darren Withers@outfossiling·
New paper 🚨 on #coelacanths from my good friend @teeMightyQuinn and his team. 'Multiple new species of “living fossil” fish found hiding in plain sight after more than 150 years'. Press release today from @BristolUni 👇 congratulations to all those involved. bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/augu…
Jacob Quinn@teeMightyQuinn

Our new paper on Coelacanths from the British Rhaetian. Many of these fossils are identified for the first time from museum collections, many of which had been misidentified as fossils of marine reptiles or other taxa for as long as 150 years. The paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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@PauldelaSalle @TEC_Kimmeridge @Paleo_Tykoski @PerotMuseum @Dean_R_Lomax @BobNichollsArt @sharkbitesteve @Northlincmuseum