Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade - Nature A skeleton of the alvarezsauroid Alnashetri cerropoliciensis—representing a highly complete alvarezsauroid skeleton from South America—provides evidence on the evolution of the peculiar anatomy and mi...

Makovicky, P.J., Mitchell, J.S., Meso, J.G. et al. Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Fossil Fish News! (with some dinosaur news on the side)

23. Squishy fishies and horned Hungarian dinosaurs: Fossils hidden in plain sight YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

This week we cover Fossil Files' own papers,
1st by @fossilyarns.bsky.social & @fossilrob.bsky.social,
2nd by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and others, out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriR...

Was the solution to palaeo mysteries hidden right in front of our faces? High powered X-ray analyses of Silurian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fossils reveals cryptic 👁️ & 🦴 of early vertebrates, whilst new discoveries in Cretaceous 🇭🇺 find the missing European ceratopsians. Find out more in this week's new episode!

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5. New exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediadaran and Cambrian of China and the origin of animals

4. Fossil mammal brain endocasts show the evolution of smell and correlate with genomes

3. Last in, first out: Shark evolutionary dynamics show extinction of young species

2. Why the long neck? Discovery of one of the earliest sauropodomorphs in Triassic Argentina

1. Mass extinctions trigger the radiation of jawless and jawed vertebrates in the Ordovician

What do you want to hear about? Every week we cover a new palaeo paper or discovery. This time, we are asking you to choose! Take a look at the options below and 'like' the title(s) you want @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @fossilrob.bsky.social to do next!

22. The dawn of dangerous seas in the Triassic YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

This week's paper is by @aubronectes.bsky.social all about complex Triassic seas from the high arctic publisehd in Science DOI: 10.1126/science.adx7390. Episode with @tweetisaurus.bsky.social available on YouTube or whether you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2I...

The end Permian nearly wiped out all life on earth.🌋🦈🐬🐍🐊🐸 Now new data shows that life bounced back much faster than expected with a big diversity of predators right at the beginning of the Triassic. Find out more in today's new episode

21. Lead Poisoned Apes and Our Human Origins YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

Available on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcaf... @fossilrob.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

Is it our ability to survive lead poisoning that made us human?☠️ 🦧 🧠 🦷 A new study combining data from gigant orangutan fossil teeth and artificially grown brains in jars paints a picture of distant human origins and language development. Episode out today!

Gigantopithecus was a massive fossil orangutan with a weird origin story. Sneak preview of next week's episode for #FossilFriday

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Thanks everybody for the support over the last year! 🥳 🎉 Here are the top 8 episodes for 2025- did your favourite make the list? Details of the episode and the artists of the images are on our YouTube channel and Libsyn pages

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🚨 New episode out today: "Back breaking and baby making, the disturbing bedroom habits of hadrosaurs",
🦕❤️🦕we take a lurid look at pathologies and behaviours of duck bill fossils. Out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts

How did dinosaurs do it? We plumb new depths for the next episode 🦕❤️🦕

The Fossil Files Podcast In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...

You can find details of the episodes and artists behind these images on our YouTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts @tweetisaurus.bsky.social youtube.com/@palaeo_sans...

Thanks everyone support over the last year! Here is a look back at top episodes of 2025 🥳🎉

The Fossil Files: 19. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte. part 2 Part 2: Around 66 million years ago an enormous asteroid barrelled into the earth and wiped out  ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs*. Debate has raged back and forth as to whether the dinosa...

On this cold cold January morning, warm your cockles by listening to the second part of our chat with the one-and-only @stevebrusatte.bsky.social here: fossils.libsyn.com/19-dinosaurs... or wherever you get your podcasts #FossilFiles @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

New microCT job! Come run our new Heritage Science lab at ManMet. 5 year post funded by AHRC. Responsible for the microCT plus terrestrial LiDAR, surface laser scanners and more! Happy to consider any disciplinary background manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Am really enjoying & learning lots from @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast, particularly that they include any type of fossil, from the Edicaruan to Neanderthals, as well as dinos. Loved this episode on fossil fails, when paleontology gets it, um, wrong. V. funny but also informative.

Aww thanks! We’re glad you’re enjoying it and hope you like what we have coming up soon!

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18. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte. part 1 YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

If you can endure the bad jokes and childish banter, check out my chat with Susie & Rob on the latest @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast!

What were dinosaurs up to right before the asteroid hit?

@tweetisaurus.bsky.social @fossilrob.bsky.social #fossilfriday

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Q6...