Dr Suresh Singh
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
• Vertebrate Palaeontologist •📍The Open University, UK • Interested in understanding the links between morphology, ecology & evolution through deep time, with a focus on terrestrial tetrapods & ecosystems •
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Dr Suresh Singh
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
· Aug 16
For #FossilFriday, I thought I’d share my paper published earlier this year on the #macroevolution of carnivorous non-mammalian synapsids: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
May be of interest if you’re curious about the feeding morphology & ecology of Permian predators like Inostrancevia & Dimetrodon
May be of interest if you’re curious about the feeding morphology & ecology of Permian predators like Inostrancevia & Dimetrodon
Reposted by Dr Suresh Singh
Reposted by Dr Suresh Singh
Info day on the world-leading @ilesla.bsky.social #PhD programme on 26th Nov. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/open-day-2025 fantastic opportunity to do a PhD with us here at Open University and take full advantage of the ILESLA training at Oxford at the same time
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
Open Events 2025/26
iles.web.ox.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Info day on the world-leading @ilesla.bsky.social #PhD programme on 26th Nov. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/open-day-2025 fantastic opportunity to do a PhD with us here at Open University and take full advantage of the ILESLA training at Oxford at the same time
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
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Mark Norell (1957–2025): Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Mark Norell (1957–2025)
Pete Makovicky, Jim Clark and Steve Brusatte remember dinosaur paleontologist par
excellence and all-around cool dude Mark Norell.
www.cell.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Mark Norell (1957–2025): Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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📣Another exciting PhD available!
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
📣Another exciting PhD available!
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award.
We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores.
#evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD
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#DinoConUK is coming to #Birmingham! Join us in 2026 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on July 25th-26th for the second DinoConUK. Events have yet to be announced (and tickets are not yet on sale) but places can be booked at the hotel. Talks, shows, events, vendors and more :) Please share!
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#DinoConUK is coming to #Birmingham! Join us in 2026 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on July 25th-26th for the second DinoConUK. Events have yet to be announced (and tickets are not yet on sale) but places can be booked at the hotel. Talks, shows, events, vendors and more :) Please share!
Given the new paper yesterday, here’s the skull of a #Nanotyrannus for this #FossilFriday. Once widely thought to be a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus rex, this dinosaur is now recognised as a separate genus & not even a tyrannosaurid! 🦖
#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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October 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Given the new paper yesterday, here’s the skull of a #Nanotyrannus for this #FossilFriday. Once widely thought to be a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus rex, this dinosaur is now recognised as a separate genus & not even a tyrannosaurid! 🦖
#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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After lots of rumours of an impending #Nanotyrannus paper, here we are!
Zanno & Napoli support Nanotyrannus as a true genus & not a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖
Final paper still a little way off yet, but the manuscript is live ⬇️
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Zanno & Napoli support Nanotyrannus as a true genus & not a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖
Final paper still a little way off yet, but the manuscript is live ⬇️
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous - Nature
Nature - Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
After lots of rumours of an impending #Nanotyrannus paper, here we are!
Zanno & Napoli support Nanotyrannus as a true genus & not a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖
Final paper still a little way off yet, but the manuscript is live ⬇️
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Zanno & Napoli support Nanotyrannus as a true genus & not a juvenile #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖
Final paper still a little way off yet, but the manuscript is live ⬇️
#Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Dr Suresh Singh
Fraser, D., Rybczynski, N., Gilbert, M. et al. Mid-Cenozoic rhinocerotid dispersal via the North Atlantic. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Mid-Cenozoic rhinocerotid dispersal via the North Atlantic - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A new fossil species of rhinocerotid from the Canadian Arctic suggests that the North Atlantic Land Bridge, which facilitated cross-Atlantic dispersal of mammals during the Eocene, persisted into the ...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Fraser, D., Rybczynski, N., Gilbert, M. et al. Mid-Cenozoic rhinocerotid dispersal via the North Atlantic. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Central Asian radiation of modern large-mammal faunas in Miocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Central Asian radiation of modern large-mammal faunas in Miocene
Faunal phylogenetic contribution analysis of a mammal supertree shows Central Asia was the Neogene hub for modern megafauna.
www.science.org
October 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Central Asian radiation of modern large-mammal faunas in Miocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A side-on snapshot of the skull of Megacerops, a #brontothere (‘thunder beast’) from North America for this #FossilFriday. Sporting large bulbous horns, these large, ancient mammals looked a bit like rhinos 🦏 but are actually more closely related to horses 🐎.
#Paleontology #Science #Cenozoic
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#Paleontology #Science #Cenozoic
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October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A side-on snapshot of the skull of Megacerops, a #brontothere (‘thunder beast’) from North America for this #FossilFriday. Sporting large bulbous horns, these large, ancient mammals looked a bit like rhinos 🦏 but are actually more closely related to horses 🐎.
#Paleontology #Science #Cenozoic
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#Paleontology #Science #Cenozoic
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Nice thread below on new paper by Flynn et al. ⬇️
Great to have another end-Cretaceous fossil fauna from North America! Combined with new analytical methods & approaches, should help us understand what was going on with #dinosaur 🦖 diversity before the asteroid impact ☄️
#paleontology #science
Great to have another end-Cretaceous fossil fauna from North America! Combined with new analytical methods & approaches, should help us understand what was going on with #dinosaur 🦖 diversity before the asteroid impact ☄️
#paleontology #science
New paper today in @science.org: we date the Naashoibito Member (New Mexico) to 66.4–66.0 Ma, coeval with the Hell Creek, with important remarks on pre-extinction dinosaur diversity & regionalisation in North America 🦖🦕☄1/
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Art: @nataliajagielska.bsky.social
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Nice thread below on new paper by Flynn et al. ⬇️
Great to have another end-Cretaceous fossil fauna from North America! Combined with new analytical methods & approaches, should help us understand what was going on with #dinosaur 🦖 diversity before the asteroid impact ☄️
#paleontology #science
Great to have another end-Cretaceous fossil fauna from North America! Combined with new analytical methods & approaches, should help us understand what was going on with #dinosaur 🦖 diversity before the asteroid impact ☄️
#paleontology #science
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Reposted by Dr Suresh Singh
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature
The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New paper on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob & me!
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Biomechanical simulations of hindlimb function in Alligator provide insights into postural shifts and body size evolution
Locomotor simulations in alligators reveal that transitions to erect limb postures facilitate the evolution of larger body sizes.
www.science.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New paper on crocodylian locomotor evolution led by Masaya Iijima, w/Richard Blob & me!
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More erect hindlimb postures help extant gators support their weight (esp. at ankle), & how these mechanics constrained giant Deinosuchus to a slow walk at best!
The paper-- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Exciting new #PhD studentship available on flowering plant & insect #evolution in South America 🌺🐝 across the Cenozoic using biodiversity & #palaeoclimate modelling 🖥️
Join our growing #palaeobiology research group at @openuniversity.bsky.social!
See below for more project & application info ⬇️
Join our growing #palaeobiology research group at @openuniversity.bsky.social!
See below for more project & application info ⬇️
🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
2026-OU06 Co-evolution of insects and angiosperms – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Exciting new #PhD studentship available on flowering plant & insect #evolution in South America 🌺🐝 across the Cenozoic using biodiversity & #palaeoclimate modelling 🖥️
Join our growing #palaeobiology research group at @openuniversity.bsky.social!
See below for more project & application info ⬇️
Join our growing #palaeobiology research group at @openuniversity.bsky.social!
See below for more project & application info ⬇️
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N.G. McDonald et al. 2025 Triassic-Jurassic Lake-Shoreline Environments of the Hartford and Deerfield Basins: Fossils, Food Chains, and Facies-Linked Distribution of Dinosaur Tracks and Trackmakers. Bull. Peabody Museum of Natural History 66, 339-381, doi.org/10.3374/014....
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
N.G. McDonald et al. 2025 Triassic-Jurassic Lake-Shoreline Environments of the Hartford and Deerfield Basins: Fossils, Food Chains, and Facies-Linked Distribution of Dinosaur Tracks and Trackmakers. Bull. Peabody Museum of Natural History 66, 339-381, doi.org/10.3374/014....
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Reposted by Dr Suresh Singh
Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes - Nature
Discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Huayracursor jaguensis, a Carnian dinosaur from the Northern Precordillera Basin in northwestern Argentina provides evidence of increased body size and early...
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New paper by Martínez et al. describing a new basal theropod #dinosaur 🦖 from the Late #Triassic of Argentina 🇦🇷 alongside an analysis of faunal assemblages that helps clarify how early dinosaurs diversified & expanded their ecological roles ⬇️
#Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Ne...
www.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New paper by Martínez et al. describing a new basal theropod #dinosaur 🦖 from the Late #Triassic of Argentina 🇦🇷 alongside an analysis of faunal assemblages that helps clarify how early dinosaurs diversified & expanded their ecological roles ⬇️
#Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Paleontology #Science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this.
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Through fieldwork and innovative research, he transformed how scientists and the public perceive the prehistoric world.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
On this #fossilfriday, take a few moments to read this.
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A touching tribute to the life, career, and discoveries of Mark Norell, from his long-time friend and field companion, Mike Novacek. In @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A couple snapshots of an ancient apex predator for this #FossilFriday - presenting the fossil teeth & snout of an #Erythrosuchus africanus, the big-headed, hypercarnivorous archosauromorph from the Early-Mid #Triassic of South Africa 🇿🇦
#Paleontology #Science
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#Paleontology #Science
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October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A couple snapshots of an ancient apex predator for this #FossilFriday - presenting the fossil teeth & snout of an #Erythrosuchus africanus, the big-headed, hypercarnivorous archosauromorph from the Early-Mid #Triassic of South Africa 🇿🇦
#Paleontology #Science
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#Paleontology #Science
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Animated Scutellosaurus!! (Also Dilophosaurus, prosauropods, and dimorphodonts, but I think I've seen animations of all those before...)
youtu.be/BYCjeNQvISM?...
youtu.be/BYCjeNQvISM?...
"Hunted by Moonlight" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Teaser
YouTube video by Dead Sound
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Animated Scutellosaurus!! (Also Dilophosaurus, prosauropods, and dimorphodonts, but I think I've seen animations of all those before...)
youtu.be/BYCjeNQvISM?...
youtu.be/BYCjeNQvISM?...
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For #FossilFriday, in honor of the 120th naming of both species (tomorrow), the type specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex (at the Carnegie Museum) and Albertosaurus sarcophagus (@museumofnature)
October 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
For #FossilFriday, in honor of the 120th naming of both species (tomorrow), the type specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex (at the Carnegie Museum) and Albertosaurus sarcophagus (@museumofnature)
Here’s a snapshot of the basal tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes for this #FossilFriday. It lived ~80 Ma, making it a much older cousin of the famous, #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖- Discovered in Southern Utah 🇺🇸, its name means "gore king from the southwest."
#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Here’s a snapshot of the basal tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes for this #FossilFriday. It lived ~80 Ma, making it a much older cousin of the famous, #Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖- Discovered in Southern Utah 🇺🇸, its name means "gore king from the southwest."
#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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#Paleontology #Science #Dinosaurs
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New paper by Degrange et al. reports a new phorusrhacid (AKA #TerrorBird) from La Venta, Colombia 🇨🇴 - this is the 2nd terror bird from the site, suggesting perhaps some niche partitioning between these giant avian predators ⬇️
#Paleontology #Science
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
#Paleontology #Science
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New paper by Degrange et al. reports a new phorusrhacid (AKA #TerrorBird) from La Venta, Colombia 🇨🇴 - this is the 2nd terror bird from the site, suggesting perhaps some niche partitioning between these giant avian predators ⬇️
#Paleontology #Science
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...
#Paleontology #Science
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17...