Flinders Palaeontology
@FlindersPalaeo
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Flinders University Palaeontology research group 🦴🐀🦘🐍🐟🦩 🔬on Kaurna land. 💥Tweets do not imply endorsement💥
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined July 2020
Follow Flinders #palaeontology crew in the twitterverse:.@AubreyKeirnan .@Blokoweka.@CLMensforth.@DiprotoRon.@DrAliceClement.@DrJackieNguyen.@Ellenaetus.@Gaylaeontology.@GroadoSwaggins.@HvyMetalPalaeo.@IsaacARKerr.@LoneRangifer.@LongJohnfossil.@michael_s_y_lee. 1/2.
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New paper drop!. Kiana Cliff: a new fossil vertebrate site of probable last interglacial age from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia: .
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New research by Samuel Arman, Grant Gully and Gavin Prideaux out today! . What can dental microwear tell us about the extinction of short-faced kangaroos?. @MAG_NT @Flinders #extinction #pleistocene.
Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth. Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos. Learn more in this week's issue:
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You can find out more about the @Flinders University Vertebrate Collection here: And learn more about the #CommunityHeritageGrants program here: . #CollectionsAreImportant
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RT @CAVEPS_Palaeo: CAVEPS 2025 logo competition!. * $500 prize!.* must feature South Australian vertebrate fossils .* no use of generative….
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We are SO excited to be hosting #CAVEPS2025! Can't wait to see Australia's vertebrate #palaeontology community back together again and see the amazing array of research being undertaken.
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
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RT @Flinders: Flinders palaeontology researchers and others abroad have discovered a new #coelacanth fossil, called Ngamugawi wirngarri, di….
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RT @DrAliceClement: Want to know more about how plate tectonic activity has driven more than 400 million years of #coelacanth #evolution? R….
theconversation.com
A new Australian coelacanth find has revealed a surprising force behind the slow evolution of these ‘living fossils’.
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RT @DrAliceClement: It's #FISH #FOSSIL #FRIDAY! Introducing the latest described fossil #coelacanth fish *Ngamugawi wirngarri* from the #De….
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RT @DrAliceClement: Exploring the Frasnian and Famennian reef around Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge), WA @FlindersPalaeo #geology #palaeontolog….
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RT @DrAliceClement: Visiting Minyirr (Gantheaume Point) Broome, Western Australia, to see the dinosaur trackway fossils revealed at low tid….
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Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.
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.
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Check out this @abcnews article about @Flinders PhD student and #palaeoartist @Blokoweka's reconstruction of the giant extinct bird 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪. #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology #art #ornithology #bird #fossil @FlindersUniNews.
abc.net.au
Ever wondered how artists create images of dinosaurs and other extinct animals? We go behind the scenes with a palaeoartist to find out how he brought an ancient "giga-goose" to life from a pile of...
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RT @Phoebyornis: Introducing the updated look of Genyornis newtoni, a giant, extinct bird from Australia, based on new fossil discoveries p….
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RT @albertonykus: Skull morphology of the giant flightless fowl Genyornis: Lots of interesting details to digest he….
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RT @tandfnewsroom: @Phoebyornis @Blokoweka @FlindersUniNews @FlindersPalaeo @newscientist .@ScienceMagazine unpicks the dig itself⛏️. @rpoc….
science.org
Newton’s thunder bird was heavy, aquatic, and flightless
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RT @tandfnewsroom: @Phoebyornis @Blokoweka @FlindersUniNews @FlindersPalaeo Great coverage of this study which has just gone live. Check o….
newscientist.com
A rare fossil skull provides strong evidence that the Dromornithidae, an extinct group of Australian flightless birds, were related to geese and ducks
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RT @tandfnewsroom: 45,000-year-old Aussie 'giga-goose' detailed in new study by @Phoebyornis @Blokoweka🦴 . Its giant skull fossil reveals i….
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RT @DrAliceClement: He’s finally here (and straight into μCT scanning a juvenile #Gogo #lungfish!) Big welcome to new @FlindersPalaeo PhD c….
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RT @IsaacARKerr: Had a #podcast chat with the illustrious Michael Mills of @Heapsgood and talked #fossil #kangaroos, have a listen here!.
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RT @IsaacARKerr: As a #kangaroo #palaeontologist and comic artist it is very cool and fun to see our research and @zieglertn 's beaut new S….
theguardian.com
Omg it is an almost complete fossil specimen of a juvenile sthenurine!
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