Harry Bridger
@harrybridger.bsky.social
He/him; University of Birmingham; undergraduate of palaeontology and geology; museum assistant; amateur palaeoartist; occasional science writer; enthusiast of past and present life
Autumn fieldwork 🍁
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Autumn fieldwork 🍁
Freshwater sandstones from the Tonbridge Wells Sand Formation exposed in an old quarry near Fairlight, Sussex.
#wealdenwednesday
#wealdenwednesday
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Freshwater sandstones from the Tonbridge Wells Sand Formation exposed in an old quarry near Fairlight, Sussex.
#wealdenwednesday
#wealdenwednesday
I did a Plateosaurus this afternoon.
I think I’m increasingly getting to grips with depicting dinosaur anatomy, though admittedly I still find drawing scales this way to be a little tedious.
I think I’m increasingly getting to grips with depicting dinosaur anatomy, though admittedly I still find drawing scales this way to be a little tedious.
July 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I did a Plateosaurus this afternoon.
I think I’m increasingly getting to grips with depicting dinosaur anatomy, though admittedly I still find drawing scales this way to be a little tedious.
I think I’m increasingly getting to grips with depicting dinosaur anatomy, though admittedly I still find drawing scales this way to be a little tedious.
What a wonderful weekend at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival!
June 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
What a wonderful weekend at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival!
After a lot of work, I’ve finally finished my shield! I’ll be using it for medieval battle reenactment, though most of the action it’ll see will be during training.
It’s an Angevin-style flat-topped kite shield. The design comes from the personal heraldry of Sir John de Radynden (1274-1350).
It’s an Angevin-style flat-topped kite shield. The design comes from the personal heraldry of Sir John de Radynden (1274-1350).
June 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
After a lot of work, I’ve finally finished my shield! I’ll be using it for medieval battle reenactment, though most of the action it’ll see will be during training.
It’s an Angevin-style flat-topped kite shield. The design comes from the personal heraldry of Sir John de Radynden (1274-1350).
It’s an Angevin-style flat-topped kite shield. The design comes from the personal heraldry of Sir John de Radynden (1274-1350).
It was lovely getting to see the painted dogs again at Chester Zoo with @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social now that they’re back on display in the Heart of Africa area.
#wilddogwednesday
#wilddogwednesday
June 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It was lovely getting to see the painted dogs again at Chester Zoo with @eleanorpinkney.bsky.social now that they’re back on display in the Heart of Africa area.
#wilddogwednesday
#wilddogwednesday
For #fossilfriday, here’s an older piece I did a couple of years back, a speculative study of the head of Pendraig milnerae, alongside some sketches of it’s described material.
May 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For #fossilfriday, here’s an older piece I did a couple of years back, a speculative study of the head of Pendraig milnerae, alongside some sketches of it’s described material.
A little late to #fossilfriday, but this week I finally managed to get up to the Manchester Museum, and what a museum it is! The fossil galleries were, of course, a highlight, but the other areas on living species, Asian cultures and the ‘Wild’ temporary exhibition were all incredible as well.
May 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A little late to #fossilfriday, but this week I finally managed to get up to the Manchester Museum, and what a museum it is! The fossil galleries were, of course, a highlight, but the other areas on living species, Asian cultures and the ‘Wild’ temporary exhibition were all incredible as well.
Can Colossal get any more shameful? Trying to shed doubt on one of the world’s most well-respected science communicators when he correctly points out that switching a handful of genes doesn’t resurrect an extinct species is, quite frankly, embarrassing.
April 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Can Colossal get any more shameful? Trying to shed doubt on one of the world’s most well-respected science communicators when he correctly points out that switching a handful of genes doesn’t resurrect an extinct species is, quite frankly, embarrassing.
I always try and do a spot of fossil hunting in the Hastings Beds (lower Wealden Group) down at Rock-A-Nore, Hastings, whenever I’m back down south. Not much from this trip, and I’m not yet sure exactly what I’ve found, but lovely nonetheless.
#fossilfriday
#fossilfriday
April 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I always try and do a spot of fossil hunting in the Hastings Beds (lower Wealden Group) down at Rock-A-Nore, Hastings, whenever I’m back down south. Not much from this trip, and I’m not yet sure exactly what I’ve found, but lovely nonetheless.
#fossilfriday
#fossilfriday
To give a sense of the animal, here it is portrayed by @markwitton.bsky.social.
March 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
To give a sense of the animal, here it is portrayed by @markwitton.bsky.social.
For this #fossilfriday, here is a partial humerus of a crocodyliform, collected from the Lulworth Formation of Dorset. It probably belongs to the small-bodied Theriosuchus, first described by Prof. Richard Owen in 1879.
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For this #fossilfriday, here is a partial humerus of a crocodyliform, collected from the Lulworth Formation of Dorset. It probably belongs to the small-bodied Theriosuchus, first described by Prof. Richard Owen in 1879.
For this #fossilfriday, well…
my undergraduate dissertation has been submitted!
After a year of working on this project, it’s such a relief to see it finished, and hopefully it adds a little something to our understanding of palaeoenvironmental change in southern England.
my undergraduate dissertation has been submitted!
After a year of working on this project, it’s such a relief to see it finished, and hopefully it adds a little something to our understanding of palaeoenvironmental change in southern England.
March 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
For this #fossilfriday, well…
my undergraduate dissertation has been submitted!
After a year of working on this project, it’s such a relief to see it finished, and hopefully it adds a little something to our understanding of palaeoenvironmental change in southern England.
my undergraduate dissertation has been submitted!
After a year of working on this project, it’s such a relief to see it finished, and hopefully it adds a little something to our understanding of palaeoenvironmental change in southern England.
Some shots from a visit to West Midlands Safari Park yesterday. I’d like to think that, despite my camera getting on a bit, I’m starting to take some better photographs.
March 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some shots from a visit to West Midlands Safari Park yesterday. I’d like to think that, despite my camera getting on a bit, I’m starting to take some better photographs.
For my own sanity, I feel like I need to watch #prehistoricplanet again.
March 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
For my own sanity, I feel like I need to watch #prehistoricplanet again.
Many insect microfossils are known from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset - here’s what appears to be the carapace of one of them, collected on my most recent trip to Dorset and soon to be written-up into my dissertation.
Happy #fossilfriday!
Happy #fossilfriday!
February 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Many insect microfossils are known from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset - here’s what appears to be the carapace of one of them, collected on my most recent trip to Dorset and soon to be written-up into my dissertation.
Happy #fossilfriday!
Happy #fossilfriday!
I’ve finally got my own hand axe!
(And behind it, a shield that should be getting painted soon)
(And behind it, a shield that should be getting painted soon)
February 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’ve finally got my own hand axe!
(And behind it, a shield that should be getting painted soon)
(And behind it, a shield that should be getting painted soon)
Shinji, get in the clock tower!
February 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Shinji, get in the clock tower!
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A spot of petrology to accompany my sediment descriptions. Thankfully the thin sections line up very nicely with my field descriptions 😅.
January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A spot of petrology to accompany my sediment descriptions. Thankfully the thin sections line up very nicely with my field descriptions 😅.
For #museumselfieday, here’s me at work in the Lapworth Museum of Geology.
January 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
For #museumselfieday, here’s me at work in the Lapworth Museum of Geology.
The Digging for Britain episode on the Dewars Farm Quarry tracksite airs at 20:00 tonight on BBC Two, and is already up on BBC iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
January 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Digging for Britain episode on the Dewars Farm Quarry tracksite airs at 20:00 tonight on BBC Two, and is already up on BBC iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The site is already making headlines as Britain’s largest ever dinosaur tracksite. Thank you so much to everyone from the University of Birmingham and @morethanadodo.bsky.social for organising everything and allowing all of us such an exciting opportunity.
January 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The site is already making headlines as Britain’s largest ever dinosaur tracksite. Thank you so much to everyone from the University of Birmingham and @morethanadodo.bsky.social for organising everything and allowing all of us such an exciting opportunity.
Very excited to finally talk about the dinosaur footprints at Dewars Farm Quarry! These were laid down on a tropical coast in the Middle Jurassic (~166 Ma) by several sauropods and a large theropod which may have been Megalosaurus bucklandii.
January 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very excited to finally talk about the dinosaur footprints at Dewars Farm Quarry! These were laid down on a tropical coast in the Middle Jurassic (~166 Ma) by several sauropods and a large theropod which may have been Megalosaurus bucklandii.
The ancient wing itself, Archaeopteryx lithographica. Depicted in fineliner on A5 notebook paper (like most of my work).
December 30, 2024 at 5:25 PM
The ancient wing itself, Archaeopteryx lithographica. Depicted in fineliner on A5 notebook paper (like most of my work).