Thanks so much Alexej! And thanks for all your help on the course; the paper wouldn’t have been possible without it!

That phrasing is absolutely perfect. I hope you enjoyed the paper!

Ahhhh I realised I’m an idiot and @sineadlyster.bsky.social is on here!

I'd also like to say a huge thanks to @tim-bird.bsky.social for producing a stunning piece of art to accompany the research. I've been a fan of Tim's graphic novels for many years now, so it was amazing to collaborate with him on this illustration! I love it so much.

I'd like to extend an enormous thanks to my coauthors: @macroecoevoale.bsky.social, Jeff Doser, Alex Farnsworth, @lewisajones.bsky.social, Sinéad Lyster, @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social, Paul Valdes, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and @pdmannion.bsky.social. I'm so lucky to get to work with these folks.

We also found that this appears to be unrelated to sampling intensity, i.e. how many dinosaur collections there are during the latest Cretaceous. This suggests that physical changes in environment and preservation are exerting a strong control on the terminal dinosaur fossil record!

📉 We found that the probability of detecting various dinosaur families decreases as we approach the K/Pg boundary, indicating that spatial and geological biases likely exert the largest control on their observable fossil record in North America 📉