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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

If you found this interesting, please let us know and we might make it a regular feature. Enjoy fossils!

thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

🦠 In a totally not petrifying story, a team in USA 'resurrected' and grew some 40k year old bacteria encased in Alaskan permafrost. Hey, its gonna melt soon anyway, best find out what will happen doi.org/10.1029/2025...

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

🪱 First body fossil of a leech discovered in Silurian of Wisconsin indicates hirudinidan origins about 200 million years (?!) before previous estimates peerj.com/articles/199...

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

🧽 A new source of evidence of Pre-Cambrian animals comes from molecular fossils. Steranes in Neoproterozoic rocks were likely produced by desmosponges, before the Cambrian explosion
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

🦎 A fossil squamate from the Jurassic of Scotland has a mix of snake and lizard like features which makes snake evolution even more complicated. Say hello to Breugnathair. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

💀 A Chinese team painfully reconstructed the smushed Yuxian 2 cranium and placed in the Homo longi clade (with Denisovans?) thus lots of ghost ranges and new time scale of human evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Time for a #FossilFriday round up: our selection of some recent research highlights. THREAD

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 4d

🚨New episode out today!

Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 4d

New episode @thefossilfiles.bsky.social ky.social out today "Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw". Available on YouTube or whereever you get your podcasts 2/2
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Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 4d

#Fossil Files podcast fans!! Today sees the release of Fossil Fails II: The tiny dinosaur with the massive flaw... Get our take on that whole Oculudentavis thing - available now on libsyn and wherever you get your podcasts! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com/fossil-fails...

The Fossil Files: Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw

Discovery of the smallest ever dinosaur acheived quite a splash when it was publised on the front cover of Nature in 2020. The new critter, Oculodentavis, was the size of a hummingbird and reconstruct...

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 8d

How do you select a name for a new dinosaur? Sneak peek on #FossilFriday of the next @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out on Tuesday with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/5Cbz9...

How do you choose a name for a new #dinosaur ? #thefossilfiles #taxonomy

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 18d

This episode was genuinely hilarious to make... listen in on all your favourite podcast platforms! @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 18d

In this week's episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, I complete loose control
I think you can even pinpoint the exact moment that @tweetisaurus.bsky.social makes me laugh so hard that I burp.
Tune in for 🦕🌔🐝
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 18d

Could there have been dinosaurs on the moon? 🦕🌝 No really.
🚨 New episode out today on notorious "Fossil Fails" in which Susie and Rob explore some odd examples of palaeontology gone wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 18d

In this week's episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, I complete loose control
I think you can even pinpoint the exact moment that @tweetisaurus.bsky.social makes me laugh so hard that I burp.
Tune in for 🦕🌔🐝
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 18d

Here is a link to the proper paper we discuss, a really interesting example of a palaeontological whoopsie. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stinging News: ‘Dickinsonia’ discovered in the Upper Vindhyan of India not worth the buzz

A recent report of Dickinsonia tenuis ‘hiding in plain sight’ at the Bhimbetka rock shelters in rocks of the Maihar sandstone (Upper Vindhyan) has imp…

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 18d

You can find the full episode on Spotfy, Apple, YouTube, or where ever you get your podcasts (links in bio)

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · 18d

Could there have been dinosaurs on the moon? 🦕🌝 No really.
🚨 New episode out today on notorious "Fossil Fails" in which Susie and Rob explore some odd examples of palaeontology gone wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI4...

Dinosaurs on the moon confirmed

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thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

Right? Cautiously huggable.

thefossilfiles.bsky.social @thefossilfiles.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our newest episode is one not to miss!
Susie spills the beans on the latest research on Spicomellus, a beautiful armored ankylosaur

If you ever wondered what goes in to studying dinosaurs it’s the perfect way to answer your questions!

Find us on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube etc. links in the bio

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...

The Fossil Files: The Spicomellus Special

Perhaps the weirdest dinosaur ever has just been described in Nature, by The Fossil Files' own Susie Maidment. In a worldwide EXCLUSIVE*, Susie gives as the unvarnshed truth about how this spikey Jura...

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Have a listen to our Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susie Maidment's podcast- This episode she talking about how her team found, excavated and studied the amazingly weird and spikey #Spicomellus specimen! 🦴

#Fossils #FossilFiles @tweetisaurus.bsky.social #Dinosaur #Nature #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP

Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Well Fossil Files fans, this week you have a special bonus episode our new dinosaur #Spicomellus the spikey ankylosaur. In this episode, I tell Rob all about the back story: how we found it, excavated it and studied it. And I throw some shade on fossil smugglers. fossils.libsyn.com/the-spicomel...

The Fossil Files: The Spicomellus Special

Perhaps the weirdest dinosaur ever has just been described in Nature, by The Fossil Files' own Susie Maidment. In a worldwide EXCLUSIVE*, Susie gives as the unvarnshed truth about how this spikey Jura...

fossils.libsyn.com

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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · Sep 8

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity?

Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info:

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You may self-nominate!!!

IDEA Award

The ASN/SSE/SSB Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award was created in 2019 by the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Creative use of autocorrelation in analyzing trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian explosion:
"..lack of temporal correlation in the studied Ediacaran trajectories and its presence in...Cambrian trajectories, indicating time-tuned behaviours.."
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02940
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

Sample movement path (thick grey line), subdivided into equidistant segments, with measures used in this study

Partial autocorrelation boxplots for the sampled Ediacaran specimens and Cambrian specimens

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · Sep 8

New paper showing that ichthyosaurs ate vampyromorph coleoids. Did they like it ? No idea 🤷‍♂️

@universitedeliege.bsky.social @naturmusee.bsky.social @just-fre.bsky.social
@peerj.bsky.social

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · Sep 8

Get the inside scoop on dinosaur weirdo Spicomellus from @tweetisaurus.bsky.social: behind the scenes, how the pandemic nearly killed it, where to put all those spikes, & dodgy fossil dealers
@thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Xb...

The Spicomellus Special

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