So many extinct Australasian taxa in the new Prehistoric Planet 3 trailer, including Thylacoleo as a 'dropbear'! Let the ambush predator arguments begin ⚒️🧪🦴
#palaeontology #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #fossils

Trying to focus on work and planning to film a video for the YouTube channel I’m part of, but Alfred is making me anxious:

"The Curator's Egg" - a book I found in a second-hand bookshop the other day - has some beautiful insights into the everpresent problems faced by museums.
In 1793, Jean-Jaques David said of the Louvre, "The museum is not supposed to be a vain assemblage of frivolous luxury objects (cont...)

For #FossilFriday, here’s something fun I found in the collection - GSQF13122, a little pyritised actinopterygian smack bang in the middle of a drill core sample through the Allaru Mudstone, from 615m underground! How lucky is that?

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Joining in - Introduce yourself with 4 video games. A blend of palaeontology, archaeology, ancient history and fantasy for me!
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I love that there are more people here now, so I’m gonna be more active here too!
So hi 👋 I’m a Collection Manager for the Geosciences collection at the Queensland Museum, and I look after the state’s treasure trove of fossils and minerals, including this tiny agnostid trilobite:

I’m often stalking but never posting on social media these days, but felt compelled to say what a great conference CAVEPS 2023 has been! A bunch of palaeontologists catching up and sharing their passion for their projects has been invigorating ⚒️🧪

The pic can’t do it justice, but this uvite + olenite on petanite really does look like raspberries and ice cream in person! ⚒️🧪

This Fossil Friday I’m celebrating my 1 year anniversary working at the Queensland Museum! So fortunate to have found a museum gig ⚒️ 🧪 🦖🦕

Having a great time out at Chinchilla doing a fossil dig! First travelled to the type section of the Chinchilla Sand, before heading off to our megafauna dig site for the next few days. ⚒️🧪