GA Southern Museum

The official twitter account of the Georgia Southern Museum, exploring the natural and cultural history of the Coastal Plain (and beyond).

[Ashley Hall (Taylor's Version) @LadyNaturalist]

Hey, everyone! I'm Ashley Hall and I'm a museum educator 🏛, paleontologist ⛏️, children's book author 📚, and naturalist.

I am open to educational consulting involving paleontology education, writing children's books and scientific articles, and more. Get in contact with me! 💕

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️Job Alert‼️ Collection Manager (Invertebrate Paleontology) in the Department of Museum Research and Collections at the University of Alabama. 😀 @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS. Please share widely and feel free to get in touch if interested. #fossil #paleontology #museum

[Dr. Win @Paleowin]

Pros of older geology collections: really cool rocks!
Cons of older geology collections: zero information about where it’s from, who collected it, what it is… parts look like petrified wood, parts just look like chert. Cool colors!

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

For #FossilFriday, here is a 2024 find of a mosasaur vertebra embedded in the Campanian-aged Mooreville Chalk of Harrell Station Paleontological Site (https://t.co/CaXwy7h5CL). For next month, a trip for the Alabama Paleontological Society to here is scheduled. @UAMNH @uamuseums.

[The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord]

🐘Of tusks and trunks! A new review article explores the evolution of elephant craniofacial anatomy, from tusk morphology to feeding behavior, highlighting key changes in proboscidean history.
By Ali Nabavizadeh (@Vert_Anatomist): https://t.co/bb0rGRATK2

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

‼️For the Fall 2025 semester, I am looking for a PhD student to study predator-prey interactions in fossil and modern mollusks from the Isthmus of Panama as part of a collaborative @NSF-funded project. Please share widely, and get in touch if interested. @UAMNH @uamuseums @UA_AS

[Dr. Win @Paleowin]

Talk was a big success! The idea of an interactive way to represent deep time or cross sections appealed to a lot of folks! #GSA2024 @geosociety

[Tori Herridge @ToriHerridge]

Opportunity to come and do a PhD on islands and allometry with me & Gavin Thomas at @EEB_Sheffield and @nhcooper123 at the Natural History Museum!

🗓️start date: January 2025
🛑Deadline: 28th October 2024
🛂 funding for UK only, sadly

https://t.co/5hPzsuTteH

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

The Laetoli Footprints were discovered #OnThisDay in 1976, during a playful exchange of team members hurling elephant dung at each other. The 3.6 million-year-old trace fossils were probably left by Australopithecines. https://t.co/fwbUWzjhQ8

[Dr. Adiel Klompmaker @paleoadiel.bsky.social @paleoadiel]

Article alert‼️ What do fossil decapod crustaceans look like? A new, open access Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology chapter describes and illustrates the morphology of adult decapods. 🦀 Short news story: https://t.co/Tgx3WdhVfM. #FossilFriday @uamuseums @UAMNH #paleontology

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Did you know? This massive block of vibrant blue azurite & green malachite is also known as the Singing Stone. Its nickname refers to high-pitched sounds it made when the humidity changed with the weather & seasons when it was first displayed at the Museum!

[Anna Ruefer @annaruefer]

Found the resting place of famous geologist James Hutton in the spookiest part of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. He lies across from his friend Joseph Black, who conceptualized latent heat. #bestiesfortheresties

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Meet the raccoon dog. This chonky canid can weigh up to 22 lbs (10 kg). Its omnivorous diet includes insects, fruit, & crustaceans. In some areas, this species hibernates through the Winter, and individuals gorge themselves to prepare—gaining up to half their body weight!

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

July 24, 1969, #Apollo11 returns to Earth - Buzz Aldrin's (unofficial) #customs form for rocks & dust from the Moon "imported" to the US/Earth 🌕>🪨>🌎
https://t.co/gCJ1luu3RP

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Welcome back to Trilobite Tuesday! Check out this large 6.7-in- (17-cm-) long Ectinaspis. Notice the coral branch on the upper-left corner? Such specimens provide insight into the marine environments which trilobites, like this one, inhabited during the Paleozoic Era.

[Beneski Museum of Natural History @BeneskiMuseum]

This Columbian Mammoth is the inspiration for the @AmherstCollege mascot, Bebu the Mammoth. It was found in 1923, in Florida, when a teenager named C. P. Singleton accidentally stumbled upon the bones on his family’s farm! #TBT

[Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) @TomHoltzPaleo]

Effect of the habitat and tusks on trunk grasping techniques in African savannah elephants - Costes - 2024 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/CHmdsS679B

[Jan Freedman @JanFreedman]

Wiwaxia is one of my favourite weird prehistoric animals! It is found during the 'Cambrian Explosion'. Around 540 million years ago, we find a massive variety of life suddenly in the fossil record. #FossilFriday
(Photo: Martin Smith; Art: Andrew Kerr)