Our new paper looks into the strength and function of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur skulls using FEA 🦖🦃🖥️ 🚨Oviraptorid crania were much stronger than those of other beaked herbivorous theropods with distinct stress patterns https://t.co/zN33CVC9Xw @CommsBio#OpenAccess
A shake-up of the dinosaur family tree! Rhabdodontids are not ornithopods. They are ceratopsians.
There were horned dinosaurs in Europe! As shown by a new fossil of Ajkaceratops from Hungary!
Check out our new study, led by Susie Maidment⤵️
New material of Ajkaceratops cements its identity as a ceratopsian, but adds a new wrinkle. It turns out that many european ornithischians previously classified as iguanodontians may actually be ceratopsians! New paper by Maidment et al., that I provided art for (link in reply).
Maidment, S.C.R., Butler, R.J., Brusatte, S.L. et al. A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe. Nature (2026). https://t.co/JZzbKqzeHL
Would you like to work with me on #MesozoicMammals from #Scotland? We're seeking a Research Assistant for an amazing @LeverhulmeTrust project, based in Birmingham with Prof Richard Butler. You'd join our team gaining new insights into mammal evolution! https://t.co/xDOQI7Tqli
Great job opportunity for someone interested in early mammal evolution and fieldwork in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, working with @gsciencelady@LukeEMeade and Richard Butler: https://t.co/UwYspl9Z26
These features of the jaw and teeth may indicate feeding or food processing in quite a different way to other procolophonids, perhaps a range of foods including plants and insects 🌱🐛🌲 🪲 @MorphoSource@ZoologyMuseum@NatSciNMS@NHM_Science
🦎Threordatoth chasmatos🦎 a new Late Triassic procolophonid out now in Papers in Palaeontology @ThePalAss with @ButlerLabBham @MarcEHJones@tanytrachelos showing unique features of the jaw and teeth 🦷🦷https://t.co/60UEdid3L4 Reconstruction by @MarkWitton 1/4 #FossilFriday
Many of the lower jaw bones have a weird toothless tip and featureless symphysis. Perhaps the halves of the jaw were connected flexibly to help jaw movements and aid close tooth-on-tooth contact during chewing or providing shock-absorption💀 3/4
Meet Threordatoth chasmatos! 🦎
It may have been small, but this ancient reptile was a big part of life in the Triassic.
Find out what its life was like 👇
https://t.co/QLNB2C0hoJ
📰 | Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, found at Cromhall Quarry, which is notable for its unusual teeth.
https://t.co/W2hkvSKkfz
@LES_UniBham@unibirmingham
PhD opportunity with @ButlerLabBham, @NaturalEngland & me on the nature, importance and protection of British vertebrate fossil track sites [image by @MarkWitton]. Field, desk & lab-based project. Potential funding through @CENTA_NERC - more info here https://t.co/4ZYmjlDn32
New Paper! Juvenile Jurassic mammaliaform from the Isle of Skye shows mammals grew more slowly in the time of dinosaurs. Our study in Nature uses synchrotron imaging of teeth to look at life history and growth. Thread 🧵 ... https://t.co/1UlGs6VGk3
Super proud that our review of the Cretaceous Lagerstätte of Lebanon is finally out! Read all about the different sites, the beautiful soft tissue fossils, the taphonomy, and also how colonialism impacts Lebanese palaeontology.
Link: https://t.co/h45sUrd8Ww