Darren Withers
@outfossiling
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Rescuing local palaeo heritage with @pborogeopalaeo | museum volunteer @PboroMuseum & Rutland County Museum | synergistically work with ⚒️Palaeontologists⚒️
UK
Joined October 2015
Great to be involved with the #RutlandSeaDragon learnt so much over the three weeks from @Dean_R_Lomax @MrIchthyosaurus @MarkoPalaeo @Dr_EmmaNicholls @EmilyJSwaby @PauldelaSalle @stevendey + plus many others involved. Still chuckle with "calculate excavated soil expansion 🤣"
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I introduced @MaxMiechowski to my good friend Richard Forrest. I think we can agree the resulting collaboration is beautifully portrayed below in the #YouTube video below #picoftheday #serene.#fossilhunter @guardian.
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Beautifully preserved tusk there Sally, expertly plinthed.
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Back at the @Northlincmuseum for #fossilfriday making notes with photographs of the epifauna attached to elements of the Scunthorpe #pliosaur. Lots of #bivalve spat in various stages of life. Probably all Deltoideum delta (W. Smith). Their occurrence on more than one facet of the
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Peterborough Oxford Clay dinos & marine critters, definitely sounds like a lot of fun @BdfJjl.
Sadly, this year I won't make it to @EAVPalaeo #EAVP2025. Sprout II is too little & I'm too freshly postpartum to travel, do conference things! BUT am generously invited to send a poster, so now with @BdfJjl writing on Peterborough Oxford Clay dinos & marine critters (much fun)😊.
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RT @femke_holwerda: Sadly, this year I won't make it to @EAVPalaeo #EAVP2025. Sprout II is too little & I'm too freshly postpartum to trave….
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Good on you Dean, dedicated to the cause. Thank you for bringing us up-to-date, I've added your latest announcement to my #rutlandseadragon blog below 👇 .
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PLANS to transform Rutland County Museum into a state-of-the-art cultural and civic centre have taken a step forward, following approval from cabinet. At a recent cabinet meeting, members voted to …
Very excited to present a short film for the @BBCTheOneShow about the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’. Be sure to tune in this Wednesday! . Consider this a little taster of where we’re up to and what’s to come. I hope you enjoy this little film. 🎥
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RT @Northlincmuseum: This week is #museumsweek .7 Days, 7 themes.Today's theme is Together in Motion so we are sharing this traction engine….
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Well done Hady, you certainly came to the right place.
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks studying Neosteneosaurus, a relative of crocodilians that once lived in the seas of the Middle Jurassic, and is now on display at the Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery.#FossilFriday
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This sounds exciting.
#behindthescenes.Our volunteers and Collections team are working hard to build the new exhibition, Stories from the Stores. The exhibition opens THIS Saturday, 17 May. #Exhibition #Museum #Collection
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RT @PauldelaSalle: The rest of the skeleton is eroding out of the cliff fast and falling into the sea! We are running out of time to rescue….
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Exciting discoveries can present themselves on the odd occasion while looking through historical museum collections. On one such occasion I was at the Rutland County Museum with @MrIchthyosaurus Richard Forrest and @MarkoPalaeo Continuing with our conditioning checks on the
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I've followed the team @ThinkSee3D for a number of years now, their work is invaluable.
@outfossiling @ThinkSee3D thanks Darren. I had estimated the gap previously but the model confirmed my measurements.
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RT @Dean_R_Lomax: Enormously excited to reveal my new book, beautifully illustrated in FULL COLOUR by the brilliant @BobNichollsArt. Comin….
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Bositra buchii for #molluscmonday @keithduff21 proposed that it was bysally attached to floating organic matter (driftwood, algal fronds) the so-called "pendant" life habit. An abundant #bivalve species at many horizons within the Oxford Clay.
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Here's one of many videos ( link below ) brilliantly produced by @Palaeocast palaeontology podcasts. Featuring my good friend Richard Forrest at the Cerney Wick #excavation in 2024. I recorded Richard using my drone, digging a stratigraphic test pit. I filmed many hours of.
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Picked up another aesthetic crushed shell in shale Kosmo eras #ammonite from the Callovian ( Middle Jurassic ) for #molluscmonday with bositra buchi #bivalves nestled beside it.
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RT @Palaeocast: Ep163: Ecosystem Engineers. What happens when the presence of a single species impacts everything i….
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