Dr Thomas Clements

The sea pangolin! Now you tell us...😳

Picture of a Trolly loaded with fossils and bones sat outside the entrance to a huge mall

Picture of one of our tables, full of mammal bones and dinosaur casts to talk about comparative anatomy. In the background is a a Caffè Nero

Our other table with fossils and a biomolecule activity on. We also have a cool new timeline and have been led a cute dinosaur friend

ICAL are ON TOUR!

We’re taking part in FunLabs at the Trafford Centre all weekend, chatting fossils, biomolecules and bones with anyone who comes by.

Big thanks to the @thepalass.bsky.social engagement grant for giving us the funds to improve our resources (and buy a trolly which is awesome!) 🙌

Amen

Appalling, boring, and utterly uninspiring rugby from England. Borthwick needs to be sacked - poor selection, terrible tactics, inexcusable indiscipline, and awful substitutions.

Congratulations Azzuri, a well deserved and historic win but bleak days as an England fan.
#6nations

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

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

YAY! Three random blokes were able to say no to Epstein - and in one case only 'cos mummy said he might be a bad man!

What a waste of words.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

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

An art installation by Maarten Inghels. The photo is a view of paving sets. Mist of these are grey, but the central set in the image is dark brown and engraved with the words ‘I used to be a mountain’.

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m...
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology

Whenever I see pseudoscientific conspiracy theories about ancient aliens or giant petrified trees or ice age satellites or whatever it drives me crazy because THE EARTH IS COOL ENOUGH JUST AS IT IS! WE DON’T NEED TO REACH FOR REASONS TO MAKE IT MORE INTERESTING! HAVE YOU SEEN A TULLY MONSTER??!!

Stellenausschreibung für eine Postdoc-Position (m/w/d) in Temnospondyl-Geochemie am Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart.

The Stuttgart Natural History Museum is offering a postdoc position (m/f/d) in Temnospondyl Geochemistry

E 13 TV-L, 100 %, 2 years

Application deadline: March 8th, 2026

➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/nwrfi

I keep thinking about this tweet.

An image showing 15 illustrations of birds paired with dinosaur skulls. Below each reads the words "Dinosaurs Survived!" with the geological formations and locations of each.

Dinosaurs Survived!

All 15 designs so far.

www.emmalerae.com/store.html

Imagine wearing a #jellyfish as a helmet!?!
Well, that’s exactly what this juvenile jack is doing! Mostly immune to its sting, the jack has taken the jellyfish prisoner.

Shot using #scuba, out over the deep abyss, drifting at night.
#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #scubadiving #gug

Nominations for Student Representative to the Paleontological Society (2026-2028) The deadline for consideration is March 1, 2026. The Role: Student Representatives serve as voices for student needs in the Society and play leading roles in student activities including organizing...

⚡Applications for Paleontological Society Student Representative (2026-2028) are open! ⚡ @paleosoc.bsky.social

It's a great way to be a part of the community and advocate for students! Applications due March 1.

forms.gle/6qg2BLWgEXVd...

Galway University are doing a cool study to see how well people can identify common plants in the UK and Ireland. Got ten minutes? Give it a go!
Plant identification survey: forms.office.com/e/nn7brd9T2p

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Scientists when asked to incorporate indigenous science: See, that is very anecdotal and it is not possible to extrapolate.

Scientists on scientists in the EF: I met the chap for 15 mins at a conference; he was very nice to me, I feel confident extrapolating that to say he is impeachable.

For local folk I'll be talking @carabidaeuk.bsky.social at Kintbury Wildlife Group tomorrow, 7:30pm 🪲https://kintburywildlife.co.uk/Current-programme.html. If I'm organised enough might have some specimens to look at...possibly live ones too!

👀👀👀👀 wtf

Panini's gorgeous PREHISTORIC ANIMALS sticker collection (1977) was a must for every dinosaur-obsessed kid. A real education, it featured beautiful artwork, and the Flesh-Eating Dinosaurs page didn't hold back!

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish.

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🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Want to know why some areas are full of fossils and some aren't? This video is a brilliant introduction to some really excellent taphonony work. Well worth a watch!

This is awesome! 👍🏼

When the Levee Breaks - Taphonomy in Action YouTube video by Earth Encompassed

The first chapter of my PhD is published! If you're interested in how bones can be buried in floods, check it out in Paleobiology! (doi:10.1017/pab.2025.10087) And if you want to see the full scale experiments we ran, I did a summary video featuring a cover of When the Levee Breaks! #Taphonomy

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

a close up of a worm with its mouth open and white eyes ALT: a close up of a worm with its mouth open and white eyes

Moar wormz

A model of an Ichthyostega that scores 11/10 on the good boy scale.

Was greeted by an absolute good boy called Kevin on my first day in the office. 10/10. No pets administered... yet.