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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · 9h

@serpenillus.bsky.social I see what you did there ;)… Your babies are indeed fantastic! 😊

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 22h

Really excited for everyone to see this next year. My baby looks so good! 😍😍😍 So happy and proud to have been one of the talented group of people who worked in this show!

Palaeoncryptozoologist Briton @raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social · 1d

WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · 22h

Surviving earth is going to be epic! Absolutely cant wait! Just posting this newly released still of two unnamed pliosaurs for no particular reason ;)…

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Fossil Record @fr.pensoft.net · 12d

A new Upper Franconian ichthyosaur species has been discovered from Mistelgau. Learn all about it on the @pensoft.net blog!

🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/26/n...

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Artwork: @olorotitan.bsky.social

New Jurassic ichthyosaur species discovered in Mistelgau

Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles, with dolphin-like bodies, that lived during the time of the dinosaurs.

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · 13d

Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis is interesting because it is quite a bit younger than all other known Eurhinosaurus species. It gives us vital information of these ichthyosaurs close to the Middle Jurassic faunal turnover. Art: Andrey Atuchin, used with permission from Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · 13d

A new ichthyosaur species is discovered! Welcome Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis! fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.

A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosauria) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany)

Eurhinosaurus is a European Lower Jurassic longirostrine ichthyosaur, characterized by its remarkable overbite. Despite the long history of the genus, the taxonomy of Eurhinosaurus is still under deba...

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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 13d

News @ Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (UMO) in Bayreuth: new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, named today after UMO's prime excavation site, the Jurassic clay pit Mistelgau. @olorotitan.bsky.social beautifully reconstructed the to-be fossil on a belemnite battleground typical for the locality.

Freshly deceased Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis on a Jurassic sea floor covered in Belemnite rostra (a "belemnite battleground"). Artwork by Andrey Atuchin.

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ichthyosaurs were fully pelagic five million years after the End Permian Mass Extinction - and we have fetal vertebrae from two Early Triassic taxa. That is the main findings in our @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports paper published just now🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vertebral microstructure marks the emergence of pelagic ichthyosaurs soon after the End Permian Mass Extinction - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Vertebral microstructure marks the emergence of pelagic ichthyosaurs soon after the End Permian Mass Extinction

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · Aug 5

First juvenile plesiosaur from Denmark! Congratulations to Zoe Kinzella who just published her bachelor🥳 I am impressed and a very proud co-author with @lauraminifera.bsky.social 🥳🧪 Early Jurassic plesiosaurs from Bornholm in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark doi.org/10.37570/bgs...

Bulletin Volume 74 – 2025

Contents Peel, J.S. 2025: Fauna of the Sæterdal Formation (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia). Surlyk, F. 2025: A cluster of the brachiopod Magas chitoniformis (von Schlothe…

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · Jun 24

Even though I think there is no extant fish with such a weird jaw, there is a placoderm just like this! Alienacanthus: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Extreme lower jaw elongation in a placoderm reflects high disparity and modularity in early vertebrate evolution | Royal Society Open Science

Jaws are a key vertebrate feature that arose early in our evolution. Placoderms are among the first jawed vertebrates; their fossils yield essential knowledge about the early diversification of gnatho...

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · Jun 17

It is an interesting thought; I do however wonder about potential genetic constraints on the archosaur (archelosaur even?) lineage in terms of potential reversal to viviparity as it is not confirmed in any archosauromorph lineage other than the tanysauria

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations to Petter Nordenhaug who just defended his MSc on mixosaurs here at NHM @uio.no 🥳🥳 I am very very impressed🤩 Now on his way to #ProgPal with the other paleo students.

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · Jun 13

Southerby's auctioning off an incredible juvenile Ceratosaurus formerly exhibited at the Museum of Ancient Life in Utah. Instead of buying this, why not fund paleo research in Utah. Support American science and get a dinosaur or two named for you or yours. #FossilFriday @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Jun 11

And that’s the fourth and final chapter of my PhD published! More wormholes in whale bones, including earliest cetacean occurrence with three ichnospecies.

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The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales | Royal Society Open Science

Borings of the extant bone-eating worm Osedax have previously been found in Cenozoic cetaceans and Cretaceous marine reptiles. The stratigraphically youngest Cretaceous example is from the Maastrichti...

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Gabriel S. Ferreira (he/his) @gsferreira.bsky.social · May 30

🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · May 28

We just listened to Nadia Ditta who presented her recently finished master thesis in mechanical engineering on ichthyosaur hyoids and it was so interesting! Congratulations! Thank you so much for this first part of our collaboration, with Parvez Alam at the University of Edinburgh 🤩

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Pascal Abel @abel-paleo.bsky.social · May 27

Temnodontosaurus, ein riesiger Fischsaurier, war im Unterjura einer der Spitzenprädatoren in den Meeren Europas. Jetzt wissen wir: Er hat wohl bevorzugt seine kleineren Verwandten Stenopterygius gefressen.
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#paleobio #ichthyosaurs #fossils 🧪

Temnodontosaurus bromalites from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy and prey preferences in a macropredatory ichthyosaur

Fossilized food items found in or passed through the digestive tract of an animal (bromalites) offer a window into the dietary habits and ecological role of the producer taxon. Bromalites have been d...

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · May 26

New paper out! You wouldnt want to be at the wrong end of a Temnodontosaurus! He would either swollow you hole, or rip you to pieces! Many congrats to Giovanni Serafini for leading this project! Very happy it's out!
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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · May 21

Paleontology oriented people please apply! Come work with us! Ask Lene about details ;)

Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · May 20

Great #postdoc opportunity at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Develop your own project to work here for three years🤩
I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.🧪

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · May 19

Tomorrow I am giving a talk about how data from modern animals can inform our knowledge about the past, and the other way around, at 1130 at the Naturmuseum in Kristiansand/University of Agder🐍🐬🧪

www.uia.no/naturmuseum/...

Fiskeøgler - lunsjforedrag - Naturmuseum og botanisk hage

Hva kan man bruke ryggvirvler fra døde slanger til? Bli med på lunsjforedrag på Naturmuseet og finn det ut!

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · May 15

This is quite something! Crown amniotes are potentially as old as the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary! I think we need to be a little bit cautious, the evidence being ichnofossils, but I am quite excited. We are older than we think, people! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature

Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · May 1

Great job opportunity for a vertebrate palaeontologist in Copenhagen: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

211-0238/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator of Paleontology

Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Paleontology Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Natural History Muse

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feikosaur.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social · Apr 16

Mosasaurus is coming back home!! :)

Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · Apr 16

We have passed the first objective of our campain to build a lifesize mosasaur in Liège! 🎉🎉🎉

Check the video and the link below to learn more about the project and make it come true!

Help the project: promethea.koalect.com/project/43722

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Les Dents de la Meuse : une sculpture monumentale à Liège !

YouTube video by Réjouisciences ULiège

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · Apr 16

We have passed the first objective of our campain to build a lifesize mosasaur in Liège! 🎉🎉🎉

Check the video and the link below to learn more about the project and make it come true!

Help the project: promethea.koalect.com/project/43722

@universitedeliege.bsky.social

Les Dents de la Meuse : une sculpture monumentale à Liège !

YouTube video by Réjouisciences ULiège

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Dr Sarah Jamison-Todd @plesiosarahs.bsky.social · Apr 6

Latest paper from the PhD research:
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Named a bunch of bone-eating worm ichnospecies and set up a timeline for their occurrence using nannofossil dating.

@marcehjones.bsky.social @jdwitts.bsky.social

The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom

The bone-eating worm Osedax is today a member of the highly adapted invertebrate assemblages associated with whale carcasses on the ocean floor. The worm has also been found in a variety of other vert...

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