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

RT @JoschuaKnuppe: There is no tomorrow for Moa kind. In this result of yesterdays #paleostream we explore the Holocene of New Zealand, a….

RT @NatureIndex: Bot-made art undermines research and public trust in science, say illustrators frustrated by inaccurate and outlandish dep….

RT @albertonykus: Yearly roundup time for new research in maniraptoran paleontology, anatomy, and evolution! What were everyone's favorite….

RT @DrAliceClement: CONGRATS & Merry Fishy Xmas to Austin Fitzpatrick for his paper published today in @PeerJLife U….

RT @joana_meier: My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 t….

RT @CAVEPS_Palaeo: SAVE THE DATE!.Calling all Australasian Vertebrate Evolutionary Biologists, Palaeontologists and Systematists!. The 19th….

RT @michael_s_y_lee: SA Museum controversial restructure vetoed, as head of board resigns. via @ABCaustralia.

RT @DrAliceClement: Want to know more about how plate tectonic activity has driven more than 400 million years of #coelacanth #evolution? R….

RT @abcnews: Palaeontologists working near Alice Springs uncover for the first time a set of articulated bones and partial skeleton of Ilba….

RT @FlindersPalaeo: Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.

RT @Phoebyornis: Thanks to the long-running relationship between @FlindersPalaeo and the team at Megafauna Central, Alice Springs. This has….

RT @Phoebyornis: @Blokoweka and I were lucky to spend time excavating fossils at the Alcoota Scientific Reserve with the amazing @MAG_NT te….

RT @FlindersPalaeo: Check out this @abcnews article about @Flinders PhD student and #palaeoartist @Blokoweka's reconstruction of the giant….

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!.

RT @RoyalSocSA: Come join us from 6pm Thursday the 11th of July for the RSSA meeting to see guest speaker Dr Aidan Couzens from @FlindersPa….

RT @PaleontologieFr: On ne connaissait qu'un #crâne depuis 1913. La découverte d'un 2nd crâne de #Genyornis a enfin levé le voile sur cet a….

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:.

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.

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.