Imran Rahman

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. We look forward to welcoming you to London in July!

Lastly, we will be running a mid-conference field trip to Lyme Regis and Charmouth, where you will have the chance to see both living and fossil echindoderms. www.euroechino.net/field-trip

As part of the conference, we are pleased to offer participants the opportunity to publish their research in a Special Collection of articles in @journalsystpal.bsky.social and @nhmsystbiodiv.bsky.social. See the following page for more details: www.euroechino.net/special-arti...

For information on visiting the @nhm-london.bsky.social collections of living and fossil echinoderms, including the chance to join an informal pre-conference collections mixer, see the following page: www.euroechino.net/visiting-the...

We are pleased to be able to offer travel grants to support the attendance of students and other early-career researchers. To apply for these, please complete the application form at the following link: www.euroechino.net/travel-grants

Please join us for the 12th European Conference on Echinoderms, which will be held at University College London from Monday 13th July to Friday 17th July 2026. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Monday 2nd February 2026. www.euroechino.net

This weekend I very briefly presented some of my research on hydrodynamics of bone beds at PalAss 2025. Big thanks to the host committee and @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @imranrahman.bsky.social for all the help with the project!

Thank you @thepalass.bsky.social for a great conference and awarding me a prize for my poster on the results of the first chapter of my PhD! And congrats to @harrysavage.bsky.social and the other three recipients of poster prizes for their amazing work #PalAss25

We are excited for the #PalAss meeting in Portsmouth this weekend

Some of the team will be there, including our EiC Dr Imran Rahman, so when you see our table, come and find out about the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.. See you there!

@imranrahman.bsky.social #PalAss2025 #PaleoSky

Come chat to us about publishing in @journalsystpal.bsky.social this weekend at #PalAss2025

JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology Explore the article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

Delighted to share our special ‪collection of 24 landmark papers in vertebrate palaeontology published in @journalsystpal.bsky.social in the last 15 years, assembled to coincide with #SVP2025 #2025SVP. All these papers are free to access now and through November: www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjs...

JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology Explore the article collection: JSP Landmark Papers in Vertebrate Palaeontology. Published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

In honour of #2025SVP #SVP2025 in the UK, @journalsystpal.bsky.social has a special collection of landmark papers in vertebrate palaeontology. These papers have revolutionised our understanding of the systematics of major vertebrare groups, and are open access for Nov: share.google/1DIgZYMyjXUH...

An Interview with Imran Rahman & Susannah Maidment, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Join Imran Rahman and Susannah Maidment, Co-Editors of the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, as they discuss the Natural History Museum's mission, cutting-edge research published in their journal,…

Listen to our Co-Editors-in-Chief, Imran Rahman and Susannah Maidment discuss the NHM's mission, cutting-edge research published in JSP, areas for future coverage—and, of course, their favourite dinosaurs. buff.ly/RbPLT3b @tweetisaurus.bsky.social @imranrahman.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

New dinosaur species found in Portugal A new 125-million-year-old iguanodon species has been revealed by palaeontologists, with the publication of the study on the discovery in the international Journal of Systematic Paleontology.

A new 125-million-year-old iguanodon species has been discovered: 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙞 🦖 a new basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal

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Read the full study by Bertozzo et al. in JSP: buff.ly/FMnyy1m

#Dinosaurs #PaleoSky #NaturalHistory #NHM #JSP #Fossils

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New Paper by Parry et al., reinterpreting the oldest diverse #jellyfish fauna as sessile polypoid dinomischids 🪼

These findings significantly expand the temporal and geographical range of dinomischids, elucidating their morphological and taphonomic variation.

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#PaleoSky #Fossils

A new paper by Bertozzo et al. describes 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙞, a basal hadrosauroid from the Lower Cretaceous of Portugal 🦖 The most complete iguanodontian skull specimen found in Portugal, offers insights into cranial development and anatomy during hadrosauroid evolution: buff.ly/FMnyy1m #PaleoSky

Today new publication has been released in @journalsystpal.bsky.social
We are proud to present you Cariocecus bocagei, a new hadrosauroid from the Papo Seco Formation (Barremian, Early K) of Portugal.
Come with me in this post series to learn more about it! 1/x

Did you know we are one of two journals produced by the Natural History Museum London. We champion the importance of collections-based systematics and our papers cover fossil species from across the tree of life, substantially contributing to the systematics of extinct taxa. So, why publish with us?

Salps, a clear, gelatinous ocean animal, use jet propulsion to glide through the water without leaving insight into how they move.

With harmless green dye, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Sutherland was able to study salp locomotion at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama.

Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data Understanding the evolution and phylogenetic distribution of morphologic traits is fundamental to macroevolutionary research. Despite decades of major advances and key insights from molecular systemat...

New updated preprint! Many thanks to reviewers for their suggestions and helpful advice for improving our manuscript. Check it out if you're interested in fossils, phylogenies, and modeling morphologic evolution! 🧪

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🚨 Hiring! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in computational fluid dynamics and structural simulations to investigate biomechanics and mechanosensory feedback in insect flight.

Extreme agility ✔️
Morphological computing ✔️
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New paper out in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 🦖 Investigating the phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria) by M. Motta et al. (2025)

Read the full study here: buff.ly/0ytggCG

#Dinosaurs #Fossil #NHM #NaturalHistory #Biodiversity

Did you know.. Molluscs are the second most diverse phylum and possibly the most disparate! 🐚🦪🐌🐙🦑

A recent study by Karapunar et al. (2024) documents the phylogeny of Pleurotomariidae, the longest-living gastropod group, comparing different shell characters: buff.ly/2pEof6e @spissatella.bsky.social

Its #FossilFriday - check out the snout (lateral view) of 𝙋𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙙𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙪𝙨 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙞, from the Los Colorados Formation (Norian), Argentina. This is the only specimen of one of the best known early non-crocodyliform crocodylomorphs.

Read more: buff.ly/h42ORcw #MindBlown #Fossils

Hi all, me, @richardjbutler.bsky.social and the amazing UK-US-Moroccan team are delighted to announce that.. we have a new specimen of Spicomellus AND IT'S WAY WEIRDER AND WAY COOLER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!

That’s a wrap on my two months @thepalass.bsky.social research internship at the NHM 🦖! Spent two months working on some awesome techniques (bet you can’t guess by the photos 😂) with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @imranrahman.bsky.social! Grateful for the staff involved in making this happen.

#FossilFriday 🦎 The right forelimb of 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙗𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙞 - a fossil lizard from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation Brazil.

This specimen replaces the original 𝘊. 𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘪 holotype, which was lost in 2018 when a fire destroyed the National Museum of Brazil collections.

Read more: buff.ly/BCtn152

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Katie Collins is a molluscan palaeobiologist 🐚 specializing in bivalve macroevolution and the morphometrics of conchiferan molluscs.. and is a general measurement nerd!
Read more about her research: buff.ly/GDH0Obv

@spissatella.bsky.social #NHM

For #FossilFriday - the #skull of *Prosqualodon australis*, an #extinct relative of toothed whales like dolphins and porpoises, which was recovered from the Miocene of Argentina 🦴

Read the full article by Gaetán et al. (2025) in JSP: buff.ly/FkwovSK

#Dinosaurs #NaturalHistory #Systematics #NHM

Around this time in 1811, 12-year-old Mary Anning began excavating the first correctly identified ichthyosaur. Her brother found the skull and she uncovered the skeleton, later named a 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘯𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴

Read about the phylogeny of ichthyosaurs by B.C. Moon (2017): buff.ly/4IC8Cz8
#NaturalHistory