Hady George

From El Hossny et al., 2020: Spathiurus, a Cretaceous relative of bowfins. This specimen is at a museum tied to the Lebanese University. One of the university’s campuses has been bombed, and the director of the Faculty of Science has been killed

You can support Lebanon here: gofund.me/40b24e072

Developmental biology of the Ediacaran Megaclonophycus from the Weng’an Biota Abstract. The Ediacaran Weng’an Biota of South China yields embryo-like microfossils preserved with sub-cellular fidelity, previously interpreted as the ol

Very excited to share that my first PhD paper is out now in Biology Letters!
We studied Megaclonophycus specimens and analysed how they develop, informing on their affinity.
Developmental biology of the Ediacaran Megaclonophycus from the Weng’an Biota url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

I should have quoted my previous post: bsky.app/profile/houd...

Almost 500 have been killed in Lebanon by the enemy, including a priest yesterday. Our fossil heritage is special in that it is connected to our Christian community. In this photo a fossil guitarfish is being gifted to the Vatican.

You can help those affected by the war here: gofund.me/f6fd46bfa

Congrats Dr!

Circular for new symposium on marine reptile palaeontology to be held at the Oxford Museum of Natural History between 7-8th October 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 1st June 2026.

🚨 Call for Abstracts 🚨
Abstract submission now open for a symposium meeting on #MarineReptile palaeontology hosted at @morethanadodo.bsky.social from 7-8th October 2026.
Abstract deadline: 1st June 2026

#Palaeontology #Science #SciComm

Photograph of a fossil fish skull in right lateral view. The bone is dark brown/black against a gray matrix.

Out now in Contributions from me and @gilespalaeo.bsky.social, a deep dive into an early member of the sturgeon and paddlefish lineage. Bear with me, but there’s a long backstory highlighting uncertainty about the anatomy of living species and how well-studied fossils can still yield new insights.

Generally, it’s super rare to get their soft parts. There are only a handful of sites globally where fossils of these guys can be found in such high quality. The gladius of cephalopods more regularly preserves though

Lisowicia mentioned!

A beautifully preserved Cretaceous octopus on display at the Mim Museum in Beirut. Lebanese fossils are some of the most important in the world for understanding cephalopod evolution

Beirut is currently under attack. You can donate to help through this link: gofund.me/f6fd46bfa

I’ll start to regularly post photos of Lebanese fossils alongside links to charities supporting the thousands displaced in this war. Even the smallest donations can save lives

Fossils on display at Memory of Time, Jbeil, and you can donate here: gofund.me/24a3cee49

Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters - Nature New findings from articulated head and trunk material of Megamastax amblyodus yield previously unseen morphological details of a Silurian stem osteichthyan.

Big fish news coming out in @nature.com today from the IVPP crew… first, more of the late Silurian osteichthyan #Megamastax from Yunnan, AND #Eosteus from the early Silurian of Chongqing, the world's earliest osteichthyan!

1. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re only in day 4 and there’s almost 1000 confirmed deaths so far, but I’ve yet to read about anything more heartbreaking

How if feels showing up to the lab group meeting after you’ve been away for a couple of weeks

Well I better start writing then😅

I recently pre-ordered a copy with the waterstones discount, super stoked for it

An exhausting week that’s ended with a satisfying #FossilFriday

-peer reviewed a paper on Lebanese fossils

-resubmitted a paper on dicynodonts (what I did today)

-managed to model tendons in an FEA

😮‍💨

Absolutely thrilled that this novel method is now published! It's been a long time coming, but this method is instrumental in my PhD work and I hope it will prove as useful to others' research!

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

Flattened fossils in a pale sandstone showing a long, catshark-shaped shark from the Jurassic. Below are grey silhouettes of these body shapes and a palaeoart reconstruction of the shark in life

Check out our new #OpenAccess paper in @commsbio.nature.com redescribing bewhiskered Jurassic shark Bavariscyllium, led by Sebastian Stumpf. Although relationships hard to pin down, its catshark-esque form shows sharks explored varied body shapes from the start. 🦈〰️

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Realised I messed up an FEA model I ran months ago

Banging my head against a wall trying to figure out how to post-process data

Can’t manage to run a script for more FEA models I need to run

Isn’t there something in baseball about 3 strikes and you’re out?

For my pals in the UK: @waterstones.bsky.social is running a fantastic pre-order promotion this month! You can order The Story of Birds and save 25%!

Just be sure to use the code FEB26 when ordering!

Thanks as always to Waterstones and my publisher @picadorbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder

The Brymbo Fossil Forest is offering students the chance to get involved in palaeontological excavations of a Carboniferous fossil forest in North Wales. QR code on image directs to further details.

🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨

Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - See below for more details ⬇️

#Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR

Meet Galahadosuchus jonesi, a new crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic of the UK, described by @es-ucl.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social PhD student Ewan Bodenham (with @stephanspiekman.bsky.social, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social & Paul Upchurch): anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Awesome to see this published👌

Thrilled to share that our new #OA paper is out in @anatrecord.bsky.social! You like horned dinosaurs including famous Triceratops? we provide the the first comprehensive hypothesis on their soft‐tissue anatomy, based on detailed comparisons with living reptiles! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

I had an absolutely amazing time at the @iselv18.bsky.social. It was great to meet so many brilliant scientists, and it felt fantastic to present alongside other early career researchers doing fascinating science

One of the funnest conferences I’ve been too, I’ll need to keep coming #ISELV

📢 Abstract submission for IPC7 is now open!

We invite researchers to submit their abstracts through our web

📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
🔗 Submit your abstract: www.ipc7.site

#IPC7 #Paleontology #AbstractSubmission #CapeTown

Congrats Dr!!

Skull of Scyllacerta, reconstructed based on scans of four nearly complete skulls.

Introducing a new Permian reptile: Scyllacerta creanae

With a tympanic fossa on the quadrate and no lower temporal bar, Scyllacerta challenges long-standing ideas about when-and-how hearing evolved in reptiles 🦎👂

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pala...