Robert Sansom
@fossilrob.bsky.social
Palaeobiologist in Manchester | Fossils, Parenting, Animal Evolution, Fish, Phylogeny, Existential Despair, Taphonomy, and occasionally Eurovision
This student feedback has me dead. Does it mean they want more or less worms?🐛 🪱
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
This student feedback has me dead. Does it mean they want more or less worms?🐛 🪱
Anomalocaris is my spirit animal
January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Anomalocaris is my spirit animal
🪨💥🌎🦖🦕 What were dinosaurs up to before the asteroid hit? In the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and I sit down with @stevebrusatte.bsky.social to talk about new insights from New Mexico, out now on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts youtu.be/l4Q6ifORvVY?...
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🪨💥🌎🦖🦕 What were dinosaurs up to before the asteroid hit? In the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and I sit down with @stevebrusatte.bsky.social to talk about new insights from New Mexico, out now on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts youtu.be/l4Q6ifORvVY?...
Will AI replace palaeontologists? Can we use AI to find, classify, and interpret fossils? 🤖🦖🐚 New episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social looks at just that for #FossilFriday
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Will AI replace palaeontologists? Can we use AI to find, classify, and interpret fossils? 🤖🦖🐚 New episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social looks at just that for #FossilFriday
👀 one of these “Landmarks Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology” looks familiar! #SVP2025 @systbiol.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
👀 one of these “Landmarks Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology” looks familiar! #SVP2025 @systbiol.bsky.social
Here’s a sneak peak where I feebly try to justify the 18 year gap between the genesis and completion of this project with @Emma. Can you beat this gap?
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Here’s a sneak peak where I feebly try to justify the 18 year gap between the genesis and completion of this project with @Emma. Can you beat this gap?
I’d prefer not to be making the final finessing touches to tomorrows talk whilst on the train to Birmingham for #SVP2025, but that is where we are
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’d prefer not to be making the final finessing touches to tomorrows talk whilst on the train to Birmingham for #SVP2025, but that is where we are
If you can’t beat them join them. My demon hunters inspired pumpkin for this year
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you can’t beat them join them. My demon hunters inspired pumpkin for this year
Well that is an alarming email to start one’s day.
🐿️ Half?!?!?!
🐿️ Half?!?!?!
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Well that is an alarming email to start one’s day.
🐿️ Half?!?!?!
🐿️ Half?!?!?!
How big are fossil whales? Convex hull mass estimation in cetaceans with @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
How big are fossil whales? Convex hull mass estimation in cetaceans with @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social
New Dinosaur trackways happening at #MorphUpNorth at Man Met with @peterfalkingham.com with lots of fancy rotating models
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New Dinosaur trackways happening at #MorphUpNorth at Man Met with @peterfalkingham.com with lots of fancy rotating models
The story of Oculudentavis is wild. It was named "eye-teeth-bird" but had neither the eyes nor teeth of a bird, and indeed it wasn't even a bird. And the fossil may have come from a war zone 1/2
October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The story of Oculudentavis is wild. It was named "eye-teeth-bird" but had neither the eyes nor teeth of a bird, and indeed it wasn't even a bird. And the fossil may have come from a war zone 1/2
I am glad I caught that typo
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am glad I caught that typo
Hey palaeontologists - what (if anything) has this guy on Reddit found in Kootenay national park BC?
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hey palaeontologists - what (if anything) has this guy on Reddit found in Kootenay national park BC?
Made it to the top
September 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Made it to the top
Apparently this sign does not mean the Stairs of Cirith Ungol to Mordor but the “easy” route
September 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Apparently this sign does not mean the Stairs of Cirith Ungol to Mordor but the “easy” route
Further unexpected fossil finds in Tbilisi: archaeopteryx street art
September 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Further unexpected fossil finds in Tbilisi: archaeopteryx street art
And whatever the hell is going on here
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
And whatever the hell is going on here
And lots and lots of wine and dumplings…
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
And lots and lots of wine and dumplings…
What to see in Georgia🇬🇪? @thefossilfiles.bsky.social is on tour. The Dmanisi cave fossils, some of earliest humans (?) outside of Africa, ~1.8 million years old, here in Tbilisi
September 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
What to see in Georgia🇬🇪? @thefossilfiles.bsky.social is on tour. The Dmanisi cave fossils, some of earliest humans (?) outside of Africa, ~1.8 million years old, here in Tbilisi