Whew! Another symposium has come and gone, and Paleo 2025 was a huge success! Over 150 people attended seven lectures, viewed one of 20 posters, visited vendors and association tables, joined our Sunday fossil scanning workshop, or simply mingled with fellow palaeontology enthusiasts!
Stay tuned for more posts about this fantastic event!
A big thanks to all the volunteers who made it happen!
Mary’s back on the design wall! There was a bobble with her background fabric but I’m happy to working on this one again
This was originally going to be 16 on-point blocks, but I resolved to make smaller quilts this year, so I’m going with 9 instead
Next up - setting squares with ammonite centers 
Funisia, a #fossil that is thought to be one of the earliest known organisms to use sexual reproduction. It’s from Australian deposits from Ediacaran Period, over 600 million years ago. Part of a new #exhibit at Western Science Center in cooperation with the Droser Lab at #UCRiverside. Opens tomorrow! #FossilFriday #paleontology #scicomm
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.
#Minnesota #FossilFriday 
A beautiful horse upper molar recently discovered by a friend near New Ulm, MN. Based on its preservation, it may date back to the Pleistocene. This find has been donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study.
#NewUlm #Pleistocene #LostBones #Equus #Horse #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience
For the incredible story of Columbian mammoth specimens found near New Ulm, check out Lost Bones #3 here: https://linktr.ee/lostbones.
The Substation Quarry dig by the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is going swimmingly! Great finds are popping up, and it's incredible how the community has come together to help with such a unique site.
#paleontology
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "Primeval Clevedon Bay" painting (2022), depicting fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods in an Early Carboniferous shallow sea. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a second painting of the Severn Estuary, this time during the Early Carboniferous. Called "Primeval Clevedon Bay," it features fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.
My favorite non-fiction book is Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson. I reread it often, but it is wildly out of date
I’d like to find a similar, popular science-y book that will bring me up to speed on what’s happened in the paleoanthropology field recently - any recommendations?
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms into my "The Salt Lake Severn" painting (2022) of the Severn Estuary during the Middle Triassic, featuring Thecodontosaurus, cycads, and ferns. Commissioned by the Clevedon Pier Trust.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here are some photos of my large Western Interior Seaway mural 2 (2021) for Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA. Featured are Archelon, Hesperornis, Elasmosaurus, Pachyrhizodus, and a school of Apsopelix.
Gutted to read that palaeontologist #RichardFortey has passed away. I really enjoyed both his book Trilobite! and his memoir and have his recent book on fungi lined up. He will be sorely missed.
NEW PTEROSAUR!
Infernodrakon hastacollis is the first ever #pterosaur named from the Hell Creek Formation! (This guy coexisted with #Tyrannosaurus and #Triceratops!) 
The only piece known from it is a single, squished, but mostly complete neck bone, and it has possibly the longest length to width ratio of any other neck bone!! 
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's Tusoteuthis with and without bioluminescence, from my Western Interior Seaway mural 3, painted in 2021 for the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA.
Only six days until Paleo 2025!
The last talk of the day will be by the inestimable Dr. Emily Bamforth of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum about Canadian T. Rexes!
Did you know that this event will also be held online? If you're an APS member you will get the Zoom code about a week beforehand. If you're not a member but would like to attend, just send us a message!
Last week I had the opportunity to study the plesiosaur Lusonectes sauvagei at the Museu Geológico in Lisbon, and I just wrote this little contribution about the fossil: https://www.sachspal.de/lusonectes
#fossil #paleontology #research #plesiosaur #portugal
New review: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being "merely" good popular science by also addressing professional palaeontologists.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #AnimalBehavior #Ethology #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @serpenillus @bookstodon
Mark your calendars - one week until Paleo 2025!
The penultimate talk of the day will be by Dr. Maddin of Carlton University, discussing new insights into amphibian anatomy, evolution, and ecology from the Paleozoic of Atlantic Canada.
Did you know that this event will also be held online? If you're an APS member you will get the Zoom code about a week beforehand. If you're not a member but would like to attend, just send us a message!
Eight more days until Paleo 2025!
Our next talk is by Dr. Pigg about the Eocene flora of Republic, Washington. Rumour has it that there may be a field trip there later this year!
Did you know that this event will also be held online? If you're an APS member you will get the Zoom code about a week beforehand. If you're not a member but would like to attend, just send us a message!
waiting for summer 
