𝐴 𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎̄𝑜𝑟𝑖 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒, Williams, mentions "humuhumu, 2. n. A large red bird with small wings, said to be extinct". I'd like to think this name could have been in reference to adzebills. #FossilFriday

There is no tomorrow for Moa kind. In this result of yesterdays #paleostream we explore the Holocene of New Zealand, a world we largely lost not even 1000 years ago.

Yearly roundup time for new research in maniraptoran paleontology, anatomy, and evolution! What were everyone's favorite maniraptoran discoveries of 2024? https://t.co/g4KiLnAFPu (📷@ChiappeLuis et al., Stiller et al., @Blokoweka in @Phoebyornis et al., Goodman & Rasolonjatovo)

CONGRATS & Merry Fishy Xmas to Austin Fitzpatrick for his paper published today in @PeerJLife https://t.co/XMCgUjokFi Unique dental arrangement in a new species, #Groenlandaspis howittensis (#Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Middle #Devonian of Mount Howitt, Victoria 🦷 🐟 🦴

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result.

SAVE THE DATE! Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists! The 19th @CAVEPS_Palaeo meeting will be held on Kaurna Land, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, November 24th - 30th, 2025. More info soon... @FlindersPalaeo

SA Museum controversial restructure vetoed, as head of board resigns https://t.co/o0dpGwGslF via @ABCaustralia

Want to know more about how plate tectonic activity has driven more than 400 million years of #coelacanth #evolution? Read our @ConversationEDU article here: https://t.co/A2bSZpeqIG 🐟 🌏 #Ngamugawi @FlindersPalaeo

Palaeontologists working near Alice Springs uncover for the first time a set of articulated bones and partial skeleton of Ilbandornis woodburnei, a massive bird that once roamed an evolving continent 8 million years ago.

Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.

Thanks to the long-running relationship between @FlindersPalaeo and the team at Megafauna Central, Alice Springs. This has allowed many Flinders Palaeo Lab students to experience excavating fossils at Alcoota

@Blokoweka and I were lucky to spend time excavating fossils at the Alcoota Scientific Reserve with the amazing @MAG_NT team and volunteers. The site and new discoveries are beautifully summarised in this @abcnews article (which includes some of my videos)

Check out this @abcnews article about @Flinders PhD student and #palaeoartist @Blokoweka's reconstruction of the giant extinct bird 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪. https://t.co/18npUtbR2c #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology #art #ornithology #bird #fossil @FlindersUniNews

Thanks @IsaacARKerr ! Of course, we will never know how it looked. Starting with what we know and building up from there, I love the process of discovery. As we come to understand more, I am sure the picture will develop. Thanks @ABCscience for being so keen to hear my take!

Come join us from 6pm Thursday the 11th of July for the RSSA meeting to see guest speaker Dr Aidan Couzens from @FlindersPalaeo presenting on marsupial evolution. In-person and online options are available, register here:

On ne connaissait qu'un #crâne depuis 1913. La découverte d'un 2nd crâne de #Genyornis a enfin levé le voile sur cet animal. Cet #oiseau frutivore de 2m de haut vivait il y a 50 000 ans en Australie🇦🇺 ! #Pléistocène #Aves https://t.co/DiXH9tfmEF 📰 https://t.co/FHyZNfjTUS

We've also recently made some ground on understanding the skull of Genyornis newtoni, and interpreting aspects of its biology and evolutionary context. We wrote a summary @ConversationEDU article here, with a link to the paper within: https://t.co/WrbY3k4JYn

If you'd like to learn more about what @Phoebyornis was saying about bone pathologies as a potential contributor to local extirpation of #ThunderBirds at Lake Callabonna, you can check out her paper here:

@ABCEducationAU have also put together a heap of excellent and fun educational videos about some Australian #Megafauna. I was fortunate enough to have some of my own art featured. There are some informative interviews with more palaeos too https://t.co/M74yoj2O1w

A fantastic mini-doco series including great interviews several in-the-know-palaeos @Phoebyornis, @DiprotoRon, @aNATomy_Lab, @zieglertn, @LizReed_palaeo, @Aussiedinosaurs, @TheFatWombat, @TennysonAlan and others—have a look! #Megafauna #fossils