Alan Tennyson

Vertebrate Curator, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; birds, palaeontology, conservation & general natural history

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

T rex of the sea discovered in long-misidentified fossils https://t.co/wfwfeQWNb8

[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

Check out my latest article on moa de-extinction, which is out now in the Autumn issue of @Forest_and_Bird Magazine.

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

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[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

Want to do a PhD @otago on climate impacts on #NZ vertebrates w/ @michel_knapp, @Lubbe_P, @ElineLorenzen, @TennysonAlan & me? It comes w/ fully funded scholarship & will investigate climate extinction risks using genomics & niche modelling. Please RT. https://t.co/8167SiJHWq

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

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[Jeremy Carroll @jwacarrollNZ]

A palaeontologist studying fossil fragments in Central Otago has identified a previously unknown, but now extinct, bat.

Tiny extinct bat found in NZ fossil record https://t.co/w26aXU6914

[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

Nice to see the @odtnews covering our research on the St Bathans goose. You can read all about our research here in our @ConversationEDU article https://t.co/6bV3kXS40D

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a palm-sized possum with a bizarre, elongated finger

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[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

An earlier theory argued that the St Bathans goose represented the direct ancestors of the giant flightless Cnemiornis geese, implying this lineage had a very long history (at least 14 Mya) in NZ https://t.co/5BQ7bjV866 7/13

[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

While many species of birds have been arriving in NZ throughout geological history, the ancestors of some of our large birds have only arrived here surprisingly recently - in the past 4-5 Mya - including takahe, Eyles' harrier & Haast's eagle https://t.co/9R7VuBKXpE 6/13

[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

The St Bathans goose is not closely related to the recently-extinct giant flightless NZ geese (Cnemiornis species) or their Australian cousin, the Cape Barren goose. Artwork by Paul Martinson/Te Papa CC BY-NC-SA. 4/13

[Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz]

Welcome to the world Meterchen luti, the St Bathans goose that lived in subtropical New Zealand 14-19 Mya (https://t.co/5BQ7bjV866), making it ten waterfowl species that lived around the giant palaeolake Manuherikia. Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC BY-NC-SA. 1/13 🧵

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

Our new St Bathans Miocene 'goose' reveals a complex history of geese in Zealandia https://t.co/z08JAHK3cs

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

@jwacarrollNZ @SikotiHamiltonR She's in the Solomons now (& forever!)

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

It's so weird to see this - I once hitchhiked back from the subantarctic on this ship

[Jeremy Carroll @jwacarrollNZ]

@SikotiHamiltonR Or go to sea ...

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

The extremely dodgy past of Colossal's George Church... https://t.co/CmRU0r3BxQ via @schneiderleonid

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

One of the world's biggest funders of palaeontology is Epstein's buddy George Church (he founded the $10 billion USD "de-extinction" company Colossal). Many palaeontologists work for Church on: mammoth, dire wolf, dodo, thylacine, moa, etc.: https://t.co/fhIHt9384q

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

@Juanyudocus @Aidan99861331 @DinoConUK George Church is another

[Alan Tennyson @TennysonAlan]

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files Out of ‘Safety of Our Attendees’ https://t.co/Ldrax26wn4 via @@yahooNewsUK