ESI

The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of Witwatersrand. We investigate all aspects of the evolution of life on earth.

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

Congratulations to @MarcVanDenBran1 on his PhD! Well earned and we hope you are celebrating!!

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

@Viktorsaurus submitted his MSc on Nqwebasaurus yesterday! Well done!!!

[GENUS @GenusPalaeo]

Reminder on this #FossilFriday that we are giving away a Taung Child cast!

To enter please fill out our #scicomm survey: https://t.co/KSgOCqPLR0…

Leave your name and email address to be entered into the draw!

@NRF_News @NRF_SAASTA @Qafzeh

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

Something from our collections for #fossilfriday identified as Labisosaurus, a reptile from the permian

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

looking for volunteers!

[CentroPaleo @Centropaleo]

@MostlyMammoths @evodevoeco Enormous Crocodylomorph from the CIP-Colombia is now posted on Mostly Mammoths blog. Read it here https://t.co/t7GWFedLxc @mcgillu @RedpathMuseum @Centropaleo @diapophysis

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

Well done to @katpalaeo for submitting her PhD dissertation on the Early Jurassic crocs of Southern Africa!

[NHMdinolab @NHMdinolab]

Many congratulations to @katpalaeo of @ESI_FossilLab for submitting her PhD today - go Kathleen! 🐊🐊🐊

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

Fresh off the press! New publication out on phytosaurs found in Zimbabwe! The age of the Tashinga Formation (Karoo Supergroup) in the Mid-Zambez... https://t.co/gEsVcdCsAs

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

A few days @Iziko_Museums looking and look at who I find for #fossilfriday holding just a bit of a titanosuchid! https://t.co/2zd05iKAaT

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

Prof Ron Clark unveiling Little Foot to an excited crowd in Oxford on Monday #littlefoot #paleoanthropologyhumanorigins #oxford https://t.co/33gs4cckmh

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

@Viktorsaurus teaching paleo accelerator students here at the ESI. Inspiring the next gen of potential palaeontologists!

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

#FossilFriday one of our students Kathleen is at @NHMdinolab and took a pic of Sophie. We have a relative of Sophie in South Africa, Paranthodon which was found in 1840s from a locality called Iguanodon hoek, how sweet!

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

@jonahchoiniere @Viktorsaurus and Priyanka spent a few days out in the field filming a documentary about mass extinctions. Priyanka looking proud as she is holding some fancy camera gear!

[SAYAS @SAYAS_SA]

Call for Nominations of Young Scientists as Members of the South African Young Academy of Science 2019. We are requesting for nominations of outstanding young scientists @UniMpumalanga @iThemba_LABS @CSIR @NRF_News @HSRCza @Univenofficial @FreeStateU @theNWU

[Archaeology African @ArchAfrican]

SciFest 2019 6-12 March in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. From Dinosaurs to Dust. Impressive display by @ESI_FossilLab @CoE_Palaeo @Albany_Museum

[Pia Viglietti @Piazoic]

If you can, please help Bruce Rubidge @CoE_Palaeo & Michael Day @NHM_London with their kickstarter to fund important fieldwork that is unravelling the effects of the end-Guadalupian extinction in the Karoo 🇿🇦🏜 https://t.co/xIpiS8rCCR

[ESI @ESI_FossilLab]

@NHMdinolab @Piazoic @NHM_London Well done team!

[NHMdinolab @NHMdinolab]

Our paper on the stratigraphy of the Vulcandon type locality by @Piazoic @ESI_FossilLab, me and others has received the AE Phaup Award for best contribution to Zimbabwean geology in 2018. Many thanks to the Geol Soc of Zimbabwe and go team! #nhmdino

[Archaeology African @ArchAfrican]

SciFest 2019 6-12 March in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. From Dinosaurs to Dust. Impressive display by @ESI_FossilLab @CoE_Palaeo @Albany_Museum