Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors!
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
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We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
See the following for more details:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Associate Editors for Historical Biology
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Historical Biology is hiring new associate editors!
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
See the following for more details:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
We are seeking associate editors in several areas including, but not limited to, terrestrial invertebrates, marine invertebrates, taphonomy, and ichnology.
See the following for more details:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
2 tracks in Hopeman Sandstone Formation, Elgin, Scotland. Small Permian reptile trackway overidden by larger reptile. Same day, same morning?, big animal chasing the smaller one?? #ichnology #permian
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
2 tracks in Hopeman Sandstone Formation, Elgin, Scotland. Small Permian reptile trackway overidden by larger reptile. Same day, same morning?, big animal chasing the smaller one?? #ichnology #permian
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
For #FossilFriday, walking with dinosaurs ~100 million years too late at the Davenport Ranch dinosaur tracksite (1st documented in 1940), near Bandera TX on a @geosociety.bsky.social pre-meeting field trip just 2 weeks ago. Tracks show evidence of herding sauropods & big theropods. 🧪🪨⚒️🦖🦕🐾 #ichnology
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For #FossilFriday, walking with dinosaurs ~100 million years too late at the Davenport Ranch dinosaur tracksite (1st documented in 1940), near Bandera TX on a @geosociety.bsky.social pre-meeting field trip just 2 weeks ago. Tracks show evidence of herding sauropods & big theropods. 🧪🪨⚒️🦖🦕🐾 #ichnology
Here's the research article reporting on the newly reinterpreted Mayan Dude Ranch sauropod trackway, which was published earlier in 2025. Kudos to "Jurassic Judy" for her discovery & for her well-deserved inclusion as a coauthor on the study. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🦕🐾🪨 #ichnology
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Here's the research article reporting on the newly reinterpreted Mayan Dude Ranch sauropod trackway, which was published earlier in 2025. Kudos to "Jurassic Judy" for her discovery & for her well-deserved inclusion as a coauthor on the study. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🦕🐾🪨 #ichnology
#nabibgeo LUCAS, S.G., HUNT, A.P. y KLEIN, H., 2022. Vertebrate ichnology : tetrapod tracks and trackways. Amsterdam. Elsevier. ISBN 9780443138379. cercabib.ub.edu/permalink/34...
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#nabibgeo LUCAS, S.G., HUNT, A.P. y KLEIN, H., 2022. Vertebrate ichnology : tetrapod tracks and trackways. Amsterdam. Elsevier. ISBN 9780443138379. cercabib.ub.edu/permalink/34...
Wow, that’s an incredible combo of specialties! Ichnology is such a fascinating lens into both the past and present—it’s like detective work written in stone (or sand!). Your work must offer some amazing insights into behavior and environments across time. Would love to hear more about your favorite
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wow, that’s an incredible combo of specialties! Ichnology is such a fascinating lens into both the past and present—it’s like detective work written in stone (or sand!). Your work must offer some amazing insights into behavior and environments across time. Would love to hear more about your favorite
Word of the Hour: Ichnological - Of or pertaining to ichnology. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Word of the Hour: Ichnological - Of or pertaining to ichnology. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
More news about an incredible a Middle Jurassic (~170 mya) dinosaur tracksite near Oxford (U.K.), which includes one of the longest continuous dinosaur trackways in the world, made by a big sauropod. 🧪🦕🐾🪨 #ichnology
Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
More news about an incredible a Middle Jurassic (~170 mya) dinosaur tracksite near Oxford (U.K.), which includes one of the longest continuous dinosaur trackways in the world, made by a big sauropod. 🧪🦕🐾🪨 #ichnology
Neste estudo mostramos alguns equinoides (ouriços-do-mar) fósseis da Formação Jandaíra (Cretáceo Superior, Bacia Potiguar) que foram perfurados por gastópodes (caramujos) durante ações de predação e até mesmo relações parasíticas ocorridas há cerca de 80 milhões de anos!
October 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Палеонтологи обнаружили след, оставленный волочившим зад даманом, в плейстоценовых отложениях ЮАР. Возраст отпечатка составил 126 тысяч лет
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
#главноезанеделю
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
#главноезанеделю
Даман волочил зад по песку 126 тысяч лет назад
N + 1 — главное издание о науке, технике и технологиях
nplus1.ru
October 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Палеонтологи обнаружили след, оставленный волочившим зад даманом, в плейстоценовых отложениях ЮАР. Возраст отпечатка составил 126 тысяч лет
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
#главноезанеделю
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
#главноезанеделю
Current Status: phys.org/news/2025-10...
October 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Current Status: phys.org/news/2025-10...
126,000 year-old rock-hydra post-defecation butt-drag trace fossil (in rock) FTW! Reason #1,257 why ichnology rules! 🧪🐾🪨💩
A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.
Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4
The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil
How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...
climateages.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
126,000 year-old rock-hydra post-defecation butt-drag trace fossil (in rock) FTW! Reason #1,257 why ichnology rules! 🧪🐾🪨💩
#FossilFriday: an ichnofossil - probably a crustacean burrow - from the Pliocene (the site is dated at 3.7-3.5 Ma) of the Cervo River "Canyon", Biella Province, Piedmont.
#ichnology #ichnofossil #tracefossil #invertebrate
#ichnology #ichnofossil #tracefossil #invertebrate
October 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#FossilFriday: an ichnofossil - probably a crustacean burrow - from the Pliocene (the site is dated at 3.7-3.5 Ma) of the Cervo River "Canyon", Biella Province, Piedmont.
#ichnology #ichnofossil #tracefossil #invertebrate
#ichnology #ichnofossil #tracefossil #invertebrate
A fringe benefits of following people on Bluesky who are not in my academic disciplines (ichnology, paleontology, taphonomy) is learning about unique modern animal-behavioral modes & traces: e.g., pigs using lumps of biscuit dough to construct dens for attracting avians & ambush predation. 🧪🐖🕳️🐦
I read about a pig farm that would get uncooked biscuit dough rejects from a Pillsbury factory, big lumps of dough. The pigs would chew dens in the dough, climb inside, and then wait for starlings.
October 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A fringe benefits of following people on Bluesky who are not in my academic disciplines (ichnology, paleontology, taphonomy) is learning about unique modern animal-behavioral modes & traces: e.g., pigs using lumps of biscuit dough to construct dens for attracting avians & ambush predation. 🧪🐖🕳️🐦
Палеонтологи обнаружили след, оставленный волочившим зад даманом, в плейстоценовых отложениях ЮАР. Возраст отпечатка составил 126 тысяч лет
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
Даман волочил зад по песку 126 тысяч лет назад
N + 1 — главное издание о науке, технике и технологиях
nplus1.ru
October 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Палеонтологи обнаружили след, оставленный волочившим зад даманом, в плейстоценовых отложениях ЮАР. Возраст отпечатка составил 126 тысяч лет
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/10/08/ichnology-rock-hyrax
📣Editor spotlight
Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊
Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📣Editor spotlight
Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊
Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊
WOW!! "The material examined comprised 5340 Coprinisphaera from nine formations in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Ecuador..." #ichnology
The origin and evolutionary history of necrophagy in Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): a comprehensive analysis of South American Coprinisphaera onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
WOW!! "The material examined comprised 5340 Coprinisphaera from nine formations in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Ecuador..." #ichnology
Here's an article in @theconversation.com about the extraordinary find of the oldest termite nest in Australia, which was also the largest wood nest from the Early Cretaceous AND the only such nest known from a formerly polar environment. theconversation.com/ancient-term... 🧪🪵🪨⚒️ #ichnology #insects
Ancient termite poo reveals 120 million-year-old secrets of Australia’s polar forests
One fossilised log from southern Australia has spilled the dirt on termites’ very cold and very ancient past.
theconversation.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Here's an article in @theconversation.com about the extraordinary find of the oldest termite nest in Australia, which was also the largest wood nest from the Early Cretaceous AND the only such nest known from a formerly polar environment. theconversation.com/ancient-term... 🧪🪵🪨⚒️ #ichnology #insects
For #FossilFriday, an ichnological 2-for-1 special in a body fossil: a termite nest packed with termite coprolites (feces) in an araucarian tree trunk, from the Early Cretaceous (~125 mya) of Victoria, Australia; oldest termite nest in Australia & largest wood nest from this time. 🧪🪵🪨⚒️ #ichnology
October 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For #FossilFriday, an ichnological 2-for-1 special in a body fossil: a termite nest packed with termite coprolites (feces) in an araucarian tree trunk, from the Early Cretaceous (~125 mya) of Victoria, Australia; oldest termite nest in Australia & largest wood nest from this time. 🧪🪵🪨⚒️ #ichnology
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Allen showed the miniature skull to David Varricchio, a professor of paleobiology, taphonomy and ichnology at Montana State University, who immediately understood the fossil's significance."
September 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"Allen showed the miniature skull to David Varricchio, a professor of paleobiology, taphonomy and ichnology at Montana State University, who immediately understood the fossil's significance."
IPC7 will host 29 themed symposia plus one open general symposium.
🌟Today we feature:
Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past
For participation or further details:
Miengah Abrahams — miengah.abrahams@uct.ac.za
Emese Bordy — emese.bordy@uct.ac.za
🌟Today we feature:
Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past
For participation or further details:
Miengah Abrahams — miengah.abrahams@uct.ac.za
Emese Bordy — emese.bordy@uct.ac.za
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
IPC7 will host 29 themed symposia plus one open general symposium.
🌟Today we feature:
Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past
For participation or further details:
Miengah Abrahams — miengah.abrahams@uct.ac.za
Emese Bordy — emese.bordy@uct.ac.za
🌟Today we feature:
Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past
For participation or further details:
Miengah Abrahams — miengah.abrahams@uct.ac.za
Emese Bordy — emese.bordy@uct.ac.za
I love seeing these examples of how the effects of ancient behaviors influence modern behaviors, especially when trace fossils from vastly different environments nudge them this way or that. 🧪🐾🦖 #ichnology #FossilFriday
Species interaction over millions of years. Limpets sheltering in a dinosaur footprint seen at the impressive Triassic track site at the Bendricks, Barri, Cymru. #FossilFriday
September 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I love seeing these examples of how the effects of ancient behaviors influence modern behaviors, especially when trace fossils from vastly different environments nudge them this way or that. 🧪🐾🦖 #ichnology #FossilFriday
Who out there knows their subcortical ichnology? Found these unusual galleries in a long-dead, barkless log in PA, could we be a lymexylid?
September 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Who out there knows their subcortical ichnology? Found these unusual galleries in a long-dead, barkless log in PA, could we be a lymexylid?