Rescuing local palaeo heritage with @pborogeopalaeo | museum volunteer @PboroMuseum & Rutland County Museum | synergistically work with ⚒️Palaeontologists⚒️
#svpca After a year off in 2025 and a period of silence, organisers of recent SVPCA have met with other interested parties to discuss future symposia, including provisional plans for a meeting in late August or early September 2026. More details to follow very soon.
Want to discover how Chatteris Museum is bringing its hidden fossil collection into the spotlight this #FossilFriday? Read our new blog post by Amalia Robertson, volunteer at the museum 👇
https://t.co/vDVpxRNTRk
January 1, 1638 (Julian calendar), birthday of Danish physician Niels Steensen or latinized Nicolas Steno. He popularized the first stratigraphical principles and recognized the true origin of fossils studying "tongue-stones" - petrified shark teeth 🦈 ...
What a superbly comprehensive paper! My sincere congratulations to the authors. The projections on the lachrymal and prefrontal again indicate something very interesting going on function wise in the posterior naris area, don't you think?
Sea Monsters in Cornwall. Sunday 26th October 2025, I’ll be talking Sea Monsters Past and Present as part of the Dark Folklore Festival in Porthtowan, Cornwall. More info and tickets at... https://t.co/K50IM9NuvY
Mesozoic Art II - edited by @sharkbitesteve and myself and featuring the incredible work of 25 cutting-edge palaeoartists - is out in just a few days. The ultimate must-have book on modern #palaeoart / #paleoart. Buy yours now ... https://t.co/n5EdqT0M3h #books#dinosaurs
Congratulations, this couldn't be more true. As I've been very busy working with the @Northlincmuseum helping to
Pack up the #scunthorpepliosaur into new boxes purchased through the museums core collections budget. Ready to move to its permanent storage location.
⭐️ We are delighted to have received #Accreditation status! ⭐️
Museum Accreditation is a UK-wide industry standard that shows we care for our collections, make them accessible to audiences and safeguard our history and heritage for the future 🏺🖼️
@ace_national@ace_thenorth
And now 4 years ago today! More jaw dropping #ichthyosaur pics for you. Still safely tucked away in plaster jackets! To all those making the vital decisions for work to start. Please please can we speed things up 😭 edit: the ALT text should read 'The largest ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK' but hay I'm sure you can appreciate where I'm coming from.
9/9/2021 - was a day to apply a weak acetone paraloid solution to the exposed bone from this huge section of #rutlandichthyosaur I mean just look at it, absolutely jaw dropping.
New paper 🚨 on #coelacanths from my good friend @teeMightyQuinn and his team. 'Multiple new species of “living fossil” fish found hiding in plain sight after more than 150 years'. Press release today from @BristolUni 👇 congratulations to all those involved.
https://t.co/BXLlA8Tv5w
Our new paper on Coelacanths from the British Rhaetian. Many of these fossils are identified for the first time from museum collections, many of which had been misidentified as fossils of marine reptiles or other taxa for as long as 150 years.
The paper: https://t.co/0PJkkPnNLl