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Dr Duncan Murdock
@djemurdock.bsky.social
Geologist and Collections Manager for all things Earth 🌍🪨💎☄️🐚🦣🦖 at @morethanadodo.bsky.social 🦤🏛 (he/him)
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Today marks eight years for me working at the amazing @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Here's four of the more memorable days from 2024
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The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.
How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire
The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Dr Duncan Murdock
Check out the 🚨insane🚨 level of preservation in this spiriferid brachiopod 😱

On display at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Nürnberg, Germany

MIND BLOWING (even to a vertebrate palaeontologist 🤣)

#FossilFriday
January 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reposted by Dr Duncan Murdock
Digging for Britain continues tonight on BBC Two. Join us again as we go walking with dinosaurs - as well as serving up another lovely platter of archaeological fare!
www.facebook.com/share/r/15sQ...
January 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I can't keep up with the brilliant @nadwgab.bsky.social and #365Minerals BUT I'm aiming for every #MineralMonday 🤞

To kick off 2025, here's a stunning Cornish torbernite from
@morethanadodo.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reposted by Dr Duncan Murdock
Incredible site. If you want to see the length of these trackways, and a little walk through of some of the Sauropod tracks, I've uploaded a 4k60p video to YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyH...
January 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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2024 truly wad the year of the Megalosaur. Not only did we celebrate 200 years since the first scientifically described dinosaur, the megalosaurus, was announced but our team along with researchers from @unibirmingham.bsky.social uncovered megalosaur and sauropod trackways in Oxfordshire!
January 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Finally, we can talk about this awesome dinosaur excavation!!
🦖🦕😍⛏️🪣🙌

My super colleagues
@djemurdock.bsky.social
@kirstymedgar.bsky.social
@richardjbutler.bsky.social
& I led a team of 100 people, over 7 days, to excavate 200+ prints of Megalosaurus 🦖 & Cetiosaurus 🦕

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Today marks eight years for me working at the amazing @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Here's four of the more memorable days from 2024
January 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM