Dr David Gelsthorpe

[Dr David Gelsthorpe @paleomanchester]

Exciting to be shortlisted for @artfund #MuseumoftheYear 2024 @McrMuseum 😀

[Cardiff Curator @CardiffCurator]

Photo from our archives of flat as a #pancake trilobite Ogygiocarella, inspiration for original ID of these fossils as flatfish! #PancakeDay 🥞#TrilobiteTuesday

[Disaster News @Top_Disaster]

Huge eruption of Etna Volcano in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 (12.02.2025)

[Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum]

Hear more about this discovery made by researchers from @UniofOxford and Birmingham incl. Professor in Micropalaentology @KirstyMEdgar, also the Chair of the Lapworth Museum Management Group, and Professor of Palaeobiology Richard Butler, previous Academic Keeper at the Museum 👇

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Prof Alice Roberts talking about recently discovered dinosaur footprints is the story I need to hear having watched three different Jurassic Park movies over Christmas and the New Year 😬

Can't wait to see the episode of Digging for Britain with @theAliceRoberts on BBC 2 iplayer from Wednesday 8th of January - dino footprints!👣

[Geologists' Assoc @GeolAssoc]

Fantastic dinosaur trackway in Oxfordshire soon to be featured on ⁦⁦@theAliceRoberts⁩ Digging For Britain on 8th Jan https://t.co/vJTNKVvu3X

[Sandra King @S_KingWild]

Wonderful footage of beavers reinforcing their dam. As ecosystem engineers they excel at building and maintaining dams. When water levels rise or damage occurs, they instinctively repair them within 24–48 hours, keeping habitats resilient and functional.
All at no cost to humans.

[Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam]

Not the most obscure, but there are fossils of jewel beetles from Messel (Eocene Germany) that still shine 🪲✨

[jasonloxton.bsky.social @jason_loxton]

Trilobites with antennae are as unnerving to me as dinosaurs with feathers. What an amazing fossil!

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

[Dr. Rod Taylor @FossilRod]

This #TrilobiteTuesday, one of my favorite Middle Cambrian #trilobites from Manuels River, #Newfoundland: the very rare Anopolenus henrici. Almost complete, but the genal spines (projecting back from the sides of the head) have come off; one of them is lying across the thorax.

[Ron Tykoski @Paleo_Tykoski]

I didn't realize how big the roots of #pliosaur teeth were. This one is from the Britton Fm (Eagle Ford Group) on the grounds of DFW airport. What a chunker of a #plesiosaur tooth! #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossils #Cretaceous @PerotMuseum

[Craig Bennett @CraigBennett3]

It's really quite simple;

If we had more #beavers in our landscape, we'd have fewer flooded homes and flooded businesses...

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

This morning’s view of the new eruption in Iceland. Stunning 🤩

Link to livestream below

#Iceland #IcelandVolcano

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Video showing the lava taking over the Blue Lagoon car park....

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Incredible helicopter view of the new eruption in Iceland 😍

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies.

Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, + that rewilding reverses nature loss.
https://t.co/7HySGO2Gfx

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

I’ve come to Creswell Crags, where the story of British art started, some 12,000 years ago…

[Dr. Rod Taylor @FossilRod]

Yes, I've shared this image before - and I'll share it again! Easily the most majestic #trilobite I've ever held in my own hands, this remarkable 34 cm long Paradoxides davidis comes from Middle #Cambrian rocks at Manuels River, #Newfoundland, #Canada.

#TrilobiteTuesday

[Dr David Gelsthorpe @paleomanchester]

@flygirlNHM was it you @flygirlNHM 😂

[Buxton Museum @BuxtonMuseum]

#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMystery

Have you heard the tale of "The Sheldon Duck"?🦆

In 1601 a duck flew into an Ash tree and never left! Sometime later the "duck tree" was chopped down due to rot at the bottom and this fascinating imprint the size of a real duck was exposed.🌳🪓