Corinne Mensforth
@corinnemensforth.bsky.social
Biobanker and PhD student in early vertebrate evolution
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Kaurna/Adelaide AUS (she/her)
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Kaurna/Adelaide AUS (she/her)
Have a great holiday break folks
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Have a great holiday break folks
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I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out.
nature.ca/en/visit-us/...
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Life onto Land: The Devonian - Canadian Museum of Nature
Special exhibition: visit Tiktaalik and other Devonian fossils of fishes from the Canadian Arctic, at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa.
nature.ca
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out.
nature.ca/en/visit-us/...
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nature.ca/en/visit-us/...
🧪
Reposted by Corinne Mensforth
I did a line drawing of the coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural history @amnh.org a few days ago. This morning I colored in that drawing with charcoal colored pencils. #SundayFishSketch #AMNH
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I did a line drawing of the coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural history @amnh.org a few days ago. This morning I colored in that drawing with charcoal colored pencils. #SundayFishSketch #AMNH
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If you've got a hankering for some coelacanth cookies (and with #Fishmas right around the corner, who doesn't?) then you're in luck
My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print
sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...
My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print
sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...
Coelacanth cookie cutter - Download Free 3D model by Paleontologizing
Coelacanths are a group of fossil fishes with strange, limb-like fins and an unusual diphycercal tail. Although well known to paleontologists, coelacanths disappear from the fossil record toward the ...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you've got a hankering for some coelacanth cookies (and with #Fishmas right around the corner, who doesn't?) then you're in luck
My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print
sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...
My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print
sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...
I’m having a blast catching up with everyone at CAVEPS, and stoked to share some fishy results
📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social
📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I’m having a blast catching up with everyone at CAVEPS, and stoked to share some fishy results
📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social
📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social
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Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS
It’s the first day of the CAVEPS Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, hosted by Flinders Uni on Kaurna Yerta 🎉
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It’s the first day of the CAVEPS Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, hosted by Flinders Uni on Kaurna Yerta 🎉
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The jacaranda is blooming and the CAVEPS beers are here 💜 Must be time for CAVEPS 2025 to begin! Can’t wait to see more than 180 delegates descend on Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide this week!
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The jacaranda is blooming and the CAVEPS beers are here 💜 Must be time for CAVEPS 2025 to begin! Can’t wait to see more than 180 delegates descend on Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide this week!
This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...
This Coelacanth's Got Quite a Story!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...
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From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.
How a song cycle led scientists to hidden dinosaur tracks
From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.
www.abc.net.au
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.
…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩
Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!
30hrs in Sydney/Gadigal country contained far more lobe-fins than I anticipated! pt. 1 at Sealife Aquarium
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
30hrs in Sydney/Gadigal country contained far more lobe-fins than I anticipated! pt. 1 at Sealife Aquarium
My mini mate G and I checking out some crocodilian skulls 🐊 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday gharial on the left, freshwater croc on the right.
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My mini mate G and I checking out some crocodilian skulls 🐊 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday gharial on the left, freshwater croc on the right.
Great evening out with local legend Dr. Mark Hutchinson speaking on two of the best subjects - herpetology and palaeontology 🦎🦴🐍 thanks heaps to the hosts Uni of Adelaide Palaeontologists
August 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Great evening out with local legend Dr. Mark Hutchinson speaking on two of the best subjects - herpetology and palaeontology 🦎🦴🐍 thanks heaps to the hosts Uni of Adelaide Palaeontologists
Stoked to spend some time with the 2nd year students in their Vertebrate Form and Function prac class on fish, amphibians and reptiles 🐟🦎
August 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Stoked to spend some time with the 2nd year students in their Vertebrate Form and Function prac class on fish, amphibians and reptiles 🐟🦎
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Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
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August 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
Reposted by Corinne Mensforth
Reposted by Corinne Mensforth
Flinders Uni “fishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟
August 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Flinders Uni “fishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟
I ❤️ visiting SA Museum’s Science Centre any chance I get, and today’s opportunity came via a tour for National Science Week.
August 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I ❤️ visiting SA Museum’s Science Centre any chance I get, and today’s opportunity came via a tour for National Science Week.
Big congrats to fellow palaeo student Cate Sexton on her very engaging 3MT presentation and progressing through to the Flinders Uni final. Cate spoke about the long history being uncovered at Warratyi rock shelter and partnering with the local Adnyamathanha community.
August 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Big congrats to fellow palaeo student Cate Sexton on her very engaging 3MT presentation and progressing through to the Flinders Uni final. Cate spoke about the long history being uncovered at Warratyi rock shelter and partnering with the local Adnyamathanha community.
Reposted by Corinne Mensforth
Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November?
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
CAVEPS: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics
CAVEPS 2025. You are invited to attend the 19th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS). It will be held from 24th - 30th of Nov 2025 on Kaurna Yarta at...
www.caveps.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November?
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
Meanwhile in Australia... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
'This takes the cake': Endangered handfish found in Hobart CBD street
The handfish looked as if it had just "flopped out of the water" when it was discovered by an office worker in central Hobart.
www.abc.net.au
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Meanwhile in Australia... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Nothing better than Friday knock offs at Science in the Pub while @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social regales us with tales of bird brains and lungs and predation and senses and courting and calling 🦜 🐦⬛🪿🦉🦅
July 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Nothing better than Friday knock offs at Science in the Pub while @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social regales us with tales of bird brains and lungs and predation and senses and courting and calling 🦜 🐦⬛🪿🦉🦅
For #FossilFriday here's a 3D object of the fossil fish slab containing tetrapodomorph fish #Canowindra #grossi, produced by the Australian Museum.
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
Canowindra Fossil Fish Slab F47L53
<p>This is the original slab found in 1955, collected by a road worker who was working approximately 10 km west of Canowindra. During this process he unearthed a large rock slab with unusual “fo...
austmus.pedestal3d.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
For #FossilFriday here's a 3D object of the fossil fish slab containing tetrapodomorph fish #Canowindra #grossi, produced by the Australian Museum.
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01