Here's a stunner for #FossilFriday, just look at that beetle's preserved wing case! It belongs to a group called frog-legged leaf beetles (so-named for their extra-juicy rear legs), paleontologists called its pattern "the most perfectly preserved pigment-based colouration known in fossil beetles" 🧪

This #FossilFriday morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, features the #mosasaur #Platecarpus...

Leaping Balaur bondoc #paleoart for #FossilFriday. This image follows the interpretation that Balaur was an omnivorous bird, not a "double-clawed" dromaeosaur. The skull is unknown, so the head is based on Sapeornis. Originally created for the first @palaeogames.bsky.social book. #sciart

Another bright mineral!! The element sulphur makes these beautiful crystals. Be careful, sometimes the warmth of your hand can cause these sensitive crystals to crack. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

🦖🐬🧪An incredible "fossil brain" of a fossil fur seal (Thalassoleon macnallyae) from the Pliocene Purisima Formation near Santa Cruz. This incredible specimen preserves a cranial endocast with exquisite detail. Read more about fossil fur seals on my blog: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Fossil Finders gets you a front row seat to paleontologists‘ personal fieldwork adventures! This new program is a collaboration between SVP and paleo-Twitch-streaming rockstar @paleontologizing.bsky.social!

You can find Danny’s channel at Twitch.tv/paleontologizing.

#TheFossilFinders

Kitty!*

(*Not actually a kitty)

Alt text for the video: a grey 3D model or a cat-like skull rotates on a screen. It starts showing the left side, rotating through the front. There are some cracks on the skull and one canine is missing but it is overall very complete.

Our new discovery, led by @shorouqalashqar.bsky.social , has unveiled a new 30-million-year-old species of apex predator, #Bastetodon, in Egypt’s Fayum Desert! Check out the study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. @matt-borths.bsky.social @erikseiffert.bsky.social #SallamLab #MUVP

Bonus blog posts a day late for #worldwhaleday - all about the early toothed baleen whale, Coronodon, from the Oligocene of South Carolina. In 2023, we published a monograph reporting new specimens of Coronodon - including new material of C. havensteini: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2023/04/new-...

Just hanging out here with the holotype of Dinobastis (=Homotherium) serum. No biggie. The ANSP collection is a wonderful time machine back to 19th century paleontology. I'm sure I'll get to 21st century eventually, but please let me wallow in the past for a bit longer.

Sharing our @floridamuseum.bsky.social shark rostral node research for #FossilFriday! This 'small' project with Mitchell Riegler, Sam Zbinden, & coauthors has become massive with Sam taking home the SVP 2024 Colbert Prize! Fossil node 3D model: tinyurl.com/2p8yknac

Happy #FossilFriday! This is a ~385-million-year-old horn coral from the Devonian Period, found at quarry Steltenberg in Hagen, Germany 🪸 ⚒️ #Fossil

I'm exhausted and this feels like the best option for #FossilFriday this week.

This is coprolite. What is coprolite, you ask? It's fossilized feces. It's mineralized, doesn't smell. It's important for science to find pollen or pieces of bone.

Also proves you can polish a turd.

#FossilFriday The Cretaceous Brazilian coelacanth Mawsonia at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum

For #FossilFriday, here's some #paleoart of a casual afternoon in the Early Cretaceous Wealden group, with iguanodonts, tyrannosauroids, polacanthids and sauropods making a mess of a watering hole. The mashed-up muds left by these animals can be found to this day in Wealden rocks. #dinosaurs #sciart

A single partial antler shed of an extinct Irish elk is larger than the entire skull plus antlers of a white-tailed deer. While @floridamuseum.bsky.social vert paleo mostly houses FL fossils, we also acquire donations, including this Megaloceros giganteus collected from the Netherlands #FossilFriday

Feb 20 🦣 'Cruisin' Deep Time' Talk and Book Signing

Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson will be sharing photographs, artwork, and enthralling tales from their travels fossil-hunting across the American West and North America’s Pacific Coast.

FREE event info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/event/cruisi...