Corinne Mensforth
@corinnemensforth.bsky.social
Biobanker and PhD student in early vertebrate evolution
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Kaurna/Adelaide AUS (she/her)
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Kaurna/Adelaide AUS (she/her)
This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...
This Coelacanth's Got Quite a Story!
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...
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From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.
How a song cycle led scientists to hidden dinosaur tracks
From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.
www.abc.net.au
October 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.
…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩
Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!
30hrs in Sydney/Gadigal country contained far more lobe-fins than I anticipated! pt. 1 at Sealife Aquarium
October 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
30hrs in Sydney/Gadigal country contained far more lobe-fins than I anticipated! pt. 1 at Sealife Aquarium
My mini mate G and I checking out some crocodilian skulls 🐊 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday gharial on the left, freshwater croc on the right.
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
My mini mate G and I checking out some crocodilian skulls 🐊 #TBT #ThrowbackThursday gharial on the left, freshwater croc on the right.
Great evening out with local legend Dr. Mark Hutchinson speaking on two of the best subjects - herpetology and palaeontology 🦎🦴🐍 thanks heaps to the hosts Uni of Adelaide Palaeontologists
August 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Great evening out with local legend Dr. Mark Hutchinson speaking on two of the best subjects - herpetology and palaeontology 🦎🦴🐍 thanks heaps to the hosts Uni of Adelaide Palaeontologists
Stoked to spend some time with the 2nd year students in their Vertebrate Form and Function prac class on fish, amphibians and reptiles 🐟🦎
August 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Stoked to spend some time with the 2nd year students in their Vertebrate Form and Function prac class on fish, amphibians and reptiles 🐟🦎
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Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
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media.tenor.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Registration for @CAVEPS_Palaeo conference is now open, secure your place here: pay.flinders.edu.au/SAE039
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
Visit the website for more info: www.caveps.org
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Flinders Uni “fishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟
August 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Flinders Uni “fishy crew” catch up, extra special with John and Heather in town!!! 🦈🐟
I ❤️ visiting SA Museum’s Science Centre any chance I get, and today’s opportunity came via a tour for National Science Week.
August 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I ❤️ visiting SA Museum’s Science Centre any chance I get, and today’s opportunity came via a tour for National Science Week.
Big congrats to fellow palaeo student Cate Sexton on her very engaging 3MT presentation and progressing through to the Flinders Uni final. Cate spoke about the long history being uncovered at Warratyi rock shelter and partnering with the local Adnyamathanha community.
August 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Big congrats to fellow palaeo student Cate Sexton on her very engaging 3MT presentation and progressing through to the Flinders Uni final. Cate spoke about the long history being uncovered at Warratyi rock shelter and partnering with the local Adnyamathanha community.
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Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November?
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
CAVEPS: Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics
CAVEPS 2025. You are invited to attend the 19th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS). It will be held from 24th - 30th of Nov 2025 on Kaurna Yarta at...
www.caveps.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Want to present your work at the upcoming Conference of #Australasian #Vertebrate #Evolution, #Palaeontology and #Systematics (CAVEPS) 2025 in Adelaide (Australia) this November?
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
Make sure you submit your abstract by the end of this month! www.caveps.org
Meanwhile in Australia... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
'This takes the cake': Endangered handfish found in Hobart CBD street
The handfish looked as if it had just "flopped out of the water" when it was discovered by an office worker in central Hobart.
www.abc.net.au
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Meanwhile in Australia... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Nothing better than Friday knock offs at Science in the Pub while @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social regales us with tales of bird brains and lungs and predation and senses and courting and calling 🦜 🐦⬛🪿🦉🦅
July 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Nothing better than Friday knock offs at Science in the Pub while @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social regales us with tales of bird brains and lungs and predation and senses and courting and calling 🦜 🐦⬛🪿🦉🦅
For #FossilFriday here's a 3D object of the fossil fish slab containing tetrapodomorph fish #Canowindra #grossi, produced by the Australian Museum.
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
Canowindra Fossil Fish Slab F47L53
<p>This is the original slab found in 1955, collected by a road worker who was working approximately 10 km west of Canowindra. During this process he unearthed a large rock slab with unusual “fo...
austmus.pedestal3d.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
For #FossilFriday here's a 3D object of the fossil fish slab containing tetrapodomorph fish #Canowindra #grossi, produced by the Australian Museum.
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
austmus.pedestal3d.com/r/ALTWfgsv01
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🎉 Happy #FossilFriday! Episode #87 is here! 🎉
Explore fossil fish 🦈 and the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Chair of Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor at the University of Chicago.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...
Explore fossil fish 🦈 and the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Chair of Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor at the University of Chicago.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...
June 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🎉 Happy #FossilFriday! Episode #87 is here! 🎉
Explore fossil fish 🦈 and the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Chair of Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor at the University of Chicago.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...
Explore fossil fish 🦈 and the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist and Chair of Organismal Biology and Anatomy Professor at the University of Chicago.
🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/mich...
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Listening to and participating in the worldwide critical media commentary about the dire wolf 'de-extinction', one thing struck me. Indigenous voices, which have a vital role in this debate, were largely silent, leading me to co-write this theconversation.com/return-of-th...
Return of the huia? Why Māori worldviews must be part of the ‘de-extinction’ debate
There is nothing to stop de-extinction companies using specimens from museum collections, despite little Māori support for reviving lost native species.
theconversation.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Listening to and participating in the worldwide critical media commentary about the dire wolf 'de-extinction', one thing struck me. Indigenous voices, which have a vital role in this debate, were largely silent, leading me to co-write this theconversation.com/return-of-th...
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Thrilled to announce our latest paper, published today in @nature.com on the oldest fossil amniote trackways, from the earliest Carboniferous of southeastern Australia.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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 10:53 PM
Thrilled to announce our latest paper, published today in @nature.com on the oldest fossil amniote trackways, from the earliest Carboniferous of southeastern Australia.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
An interesting change from reconstructing dinosaurs and other terrestrial animals... My digital restoration and reconstruction of the cyathaspid heterostracan Anglaspis heintzi from our new paper (see below). #FossilFish #DigitalReconstruction #Palaeontology
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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are almost home 🚀 I’m looking forward to hearing their stories once they’re recovered and ready. Pic with Butch is from his lecture series a few years ago.
March 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are almost home 🚀 I’m looking forward to hearing their stories once they’re recovered and ready. Pic with Butch is from his lecture series a few years ago.
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In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained
Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant
Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant
People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress.
The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.
The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.
The damage will be far worse than just a 4-yr gap. Both I and the individual who has managed this site for most of the past 50 yrs are retiring within the next 2 years. With this closure, we will not be able to plan a transition.
March 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained
Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant
Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant
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March 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM