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Athena Vohs
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University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology | Master’s student | Denver Basin & condylarth enthusiast
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The first Serbian dinosaur fossils have been discovered! Delighted to have been invited by Serbian colleagues to contribute to this paper (available in early view) describing Late Cretaceous sauropod and theropod fossils www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo
Diverse and abundant continental vertebrate assemblages are known from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of several European countries. T…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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New specimen of Archaeopteryx described (the one housed at the Field Museum in Chicago), providing new info on the skull and soft tissue: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🪶🧪 (📷O'Connor et al.)
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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It's out! We describe probable reptile tracks from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia. This pushes the amniote record back by some 35-40 million years and implies that the tetrapod crown group originated deep in the Late Devonian. The paper is Open Access. 🧪
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...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Colorado Plateau field trip day 4!
May 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Colorado Plateau field trip day 3!
May 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Colorado Plateau field trip day 2!
May 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Colorado Plateau field trip day 1!
May 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Happy graduate student appreciation week from (just some) of my favorite fellow grads!!
April 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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We couldn’t end #WomensHistoryMonth without shining light on one of history’s most prominent palaeontologists, Mary Anning!

Let’s take a look at her incredible life and the discoveries she made, including some of the specimens you can see today in the Museum! 🔍 🦴
March 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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No fewer than 165 of my books and papers have been stolen by Meta, to train AI that will make them billions. I've been paid $0.00.

If you want to read my real words, avoid the AI-generated crap and check out my upcoming book on bird evolution next year.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Happy international women in STEM day!
February 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Two summers ago, I went to Craters of the Moon as part of my geology field camp. I stumbled across this photo and forgot how much I loved the birds!
February 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Feeling this so hard this semester! Ready for a good one though, I may or may not have a descriptive paper coming out this summer 🫢
January 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Merry Christmas Eve! 🦖🎅
December 24, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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If you’ll be at SICB in January, come see my talk titled “Hidden trophic diversity in early ray-finned fishes: evidence from the Carboniferous Sphaerolepis” on Sunday, Jan 4th, in the Morphology and Mechanics session.

Come chat to talk fish, paleontology, or science in general!
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Semester 1 officially comes to a close!
December 10, 2024 at 12:38 AM