First, first-author paper alert!

“Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social

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Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below!

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I’m spreading the word about a petition from some friends of mine in support of the paleontological research institution, a remarkable museum which is unfortunately in danger of closing forever soon. www.change.org/p/save-the-m...

New paper out! The northernmost uintathere ever found in North America

ResearchGate link: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Send me a message if you'd like the full text!

New paper describing a new fossil assemblage from 🇺🇸 with sauropodomorphs & silesaurids, which marks the oldest appearance of #dinosaurs in equatorial Pangaea. Interesting implications for early dinosaur dispersal & #evolution

#Paleontology #Biogeography #Triassic

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Job Posting:

Badlands National Park is hiring multiple seasonal Physical Science Technicians (Paleontology) - open to the first 50 Applicants! #paleontology #paleojobs #internship #npspaleo

www.usajobs.gov/job/826696000

This fossil is of a lobed-finned fish named Osteolepsis macrolepidotus and was found in Scotland. The Devonian Period (named after fossils first found in Devon, England), is known as "The age of fishes" and was fish transformed into three major groups: lobe-finned, ray-finned, and sharks.

Job posting:

SWCA Environmental Consultants is seeking a full-time Project-Level Paleontologists to support their Rocky Mountain/Plains region.

#paleontology #paleojobs

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Paleontologists…is it fair to say we mostly only have fossils of stuff that was…downstream?

So, you want to be a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life, but don't know where to start?

Maybe you worry you're not good enough? That you can't do field work? Or you can't afford it?

Let me take you through different options for making it in the field 👇(🧵)

Fun fact: Permian Cathaysia (now southern China) was the last bastion of Carboniferous-style "coal swamp" forests, including the iconic "scale trees" (D, E) that were extinct everywhere else. They made it all the way to the Great Dying!

Hi! I'm Kevin Mulcahy, a paleontologist at the University of Kansas. I study extinct mammals and the ways climate variability affected their evolution.

Learn more about me and my research here: www.kevin-mulcahy.com/current-rese...