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Congratulations to the #NSF #REU and #IRES students who presented today in our AMNH symposium!

Just in time for the weekend: this new skull fills a big gap in the formation of the bulldog-like🐶 rhynchosaur skull, which we also use as an excuse to review all of rhynchosaur skull evolution! Another Triassic weirdo off my bucket list✅ @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @unihohenheim.bsky.social @dfg.de

So, some news: www.popsci.com/science/pbs-... We made a tv show! 🎉 #scicomm #paleontology

Thanks to researchers at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, ISU, and their colleagues around the globe, we’ve got the answer to a question perplexing paleontologists for years: What exactly is a turtle? More at www.isu.edu/news/2026-sp.... @gondwannabe.bsky.social #idahostateucose #STEM

In honor of this week's paper providing new anatomical support for a sister-group relationship between archosaurs and turtles, here's the delightfully weird jaw of the Triassic archosauromorph Trilophosaurus (UMMP VP 26419) #FossilFriday

Turtles finally have a place in the tree of life: X-ray study of South African fossils was a decider theconversation.com/turtles-fina...

Here's some of what i was commissioned for this study! Skeletal reconstruction of Protorosaurus, a rather plesiomorphic archosauromorph (with completely unique caudal vertebrae though) And the bizarre, basal turtle relative: Pappochelys:

Don't forget to check the supplemental files! most of the beautiful figures are there

Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢 #Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution www.cell.com/current-biol...

We’re hiring a herpetology curator @nhm-london.bsky.social - come join us! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Besides touching grass, nothing makes you appreciate the story of life on Earth more than studying and illustrating it. Earth Day is everyday.