Our hyperactive @LaraSciscio was dangling from a rope all week to document dinosaur tracks in Oberbuchsiten 🇨🇭(canton Solothurn). Tracks ID uncertain (sauropod? stegosaur?) because of weathering, but stunning view 😲
[photos by Karl Stransky https://t.co/UmgY8wmi3J]
#FossilFriday
@newscientist@EmeseBordy@UCT_news “We’re pretty sure it’s not a bird, and it’s most likely a dinosaur, but what dinosaur I’m not really sure,” says Miengah Abrahams from the University of Cape Town (@UCT_news).
“We have nothing in our local fossil record that’s comparable.”
#FossilRecords#Archeology#Evolution
@newscientist Footprints preserved in stone in #Lesotho appear to have been made by animals with birdlike feet ~215 million yrs ago, long before the earliest known birds
The earliest #fossils recognised as ancestors of modern birds—incl the famous #Archaeopteryx—date back 150-160 million yrs.
Footprints preserved in stone in Lesotho appear to have been made by animals that walked on birdlike feet around 215 million years ago, long before the earliest known birds https://t.co/q2kPUX5Hip
Sand seas, ergs and Pangaea -find it all in 'Lake dynamics in an Early Jurassic desert: Evidence from the Clarens Formation in southern Africa'
Plus it's #OpenAccess
Find at: https://t.co/ewNddmOLtU
@EmeseBordy
Scientists are superheroes!
Thank you so much @SciSuperheroes for featuring my work and me! 🤩 I am lucky and proud to have a job in science that I love. 🦕
With an entrance fitting all palaeoscientists these days is Dr Miengah Abrahams - Trax. A lecturer @UCTgeology her #ichnology research focuses on three toed beauties like this Dracovenator & unstudied dino footprints in Lesotho.
🔥Art @Clydebeech🦖@hongli64 funds🙏 @GenusPalaeo
Huge congratulations to Marvel Makhubele, who has just completed his PhD with us. We are so happy for you!!
And congratulations to proud supervisor Emese Bordy. Marvel is the 50th graduate student she has supervised to completion. What a milestone 🥳🥳
An Early #Jurassic trackway from #southernAfrica reveals how a minute two-legged #dinosaur ran at ~12.5 km/h, either as a prey or a predator, across a wet, squidgy sediment layer ~190 million years ago: https://t.co/sB4YmJZ0rP
@EmeseBordy@UCTgeology#fossil
@EmeseBordy shares a little slice of the Paris-patak Valley as it was 13 million years ago in her new YouTube video! It's so peaceful & the music so uplifting.. take me there.. 🌿#Hungary#Miocene#reconstruction#paleoenvironment https://t.co/spGGIk6ZsJ
In line with the recent announcement from the VC, all geology courses are now suspended. We will be doing our best to minimise the impact on our students under these difficult circumstances, and will keep you updated as we receive more guidance from the university.
These 183-million-year-old footprints on a South African farm show that dinosaurs and other animals persisted in a region that was being swallowed by lava and fire. https://t.co/oZsLoZTWfj (feat. amazing insights from @EmeseBordy and @SteveBrusatte)