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! 💕
‼️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
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!
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.
🐘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
‼️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
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
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
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
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!
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
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!
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
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.
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
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
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)