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Hello everyone! I am Feiko, ichthyosaur expert! Some of my interests include reproducting and reconstructing animals on the basis of CT-data. Hope to have a funtime here!
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We are at #2025SVP and having a great first day! From the ECHO and EXPLAC projects in our group postdocs Mathieu Faure-Brac and @feikosaur.bsky.social. Our marine tetrapod presentation times below 👇
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We are at #2025SVP and having a great first day! From the ECHO and EXPLAC projects in our group postdocs Mathieu Faure-Brac and @feikosaur.bsky.social. Our marine tetrapod presentation times below 👇
For a belated fossil Friday, a sneak peek on a little side project in the works, any guesses? ;)
November 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
For a belated fossil Friday, a sneak peek on a little side project in the works, any guesses? ;)
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‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
‼️‼️Triassic Life just opened @smnstuttgart.bsky.social‼️‼️
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
For all #Triassic fans, lovers of strange reptiles and the Dawn of the Modern World, this is an absolute MUST!
It also couldn't be more timely with our recent publication @nature.com of the wonder reptile #Mirasaura, which is now on display!
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Special congratulations to our own MSc student Marthe who won one of the Best talk awards🥳🐍 @feikosaur.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Special congratulations to our own MSc student Marthe who won one of the Best talk awards🥳🐍 @feikosaur.bsky.social
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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!
WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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!
Surviving earth is going to be epic! Absolutely cant wait! Just posting this newly released still of two unnamed pliosaurs for no particular reason ;)…
October 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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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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...
@spichergael.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Artwork: @olorotitan.bsky.social
🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/26/n...
@spichergael.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
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.
blog.pensoft.net
September 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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...
@spichergael.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Artwork: @olorotitan.bsky.social
🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/26/n...
@spichergael.bsky.social @feikosaur.bsky.social @mfnberlin.bsky.social
Artwork: @olorotitan.bsky.social
A new ichthyosaur species is discovered! Welcome Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis! fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.
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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September 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A new ichthyosaur species is discovered! Welcome Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis! fr.pensoft.net/article/1542...
Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.
Huge congratulations to @spichergael.bsky.social for leading this project.
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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.
September 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
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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
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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...
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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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August 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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...
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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
June 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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🚨🚨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 😉
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 😉
May 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨🚨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 😉
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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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 🤩
May 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#paleobio #ichthyosaurs #fossils 🧪
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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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May 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#paleobio #ichthyosaurs #fossils 🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#paleobio #ichthyosaurs #fossils 🧪
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!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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May 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Paleontology oriented people please apply! Come work with us! Ask Lene about details ;)
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...
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
www.jobbnorge.no
May 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Paleontology oriented people please apply! Come work with us! Ask Lene about details ;)
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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/...
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!
www.uia.no
May 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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/...
www.uia.no/naturmuseum/...
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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May 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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...
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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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May 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Great job opportunity for a vertebrate palaeontologist in Copenhagen: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Mosasaurus is coming back home!! :)
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
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
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Mosasaurus is coming back home!! :)
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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
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
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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
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