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I almost forgot #fossilfriday! Must be the jet lag. I had a great first week getting myself set up at the @edinburghuniversity. In honour of the team switch, here’s a taeniodont mammal called Schowalteria. It’s a #Cretaceous representative of what’s a much more diverse group in the #Paleocene. They’re among the first #mammals to take over after the #dinosaurs, so I’ll be thin-sectioning them to understand their growth. Today I looked at a bunch of specimens available for sampling, which has me itching to set up the saw and get cutting! #postdoc #newton #royalsociety #fossil #paleontology #science

What an incredible decade... in the last ten years I’ve started and finished an undergrad, started a Masters, took a huge chunk out of the bucket list, gained a lot of weight, finished a PhD, found the love of my life and got engaged, became an uncle (on both sides), and now moved to Edinburgh to start the next decade off on the right foot. Lots of mistakes along the way, in hindsight, but I’d do it all over the same, seeing where it got me. Can’t wait for the next ten years. #newyears #happynewyear #2020 #tenyearchallenge

Repost: the paper is out now! Read it here at Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55038-5 We describe a new bonebed of avimimids from China, and did some histological analysis to see the process of tibiotarsal fusion. We were quite surprised when two specimens of similar size but with different degrees of tibiotarsal fusion were completely different ages. It’s a small sample but it suggests that fusion began quite early in life, and that avimimids grew more like birds (rapidly for a short period) than like other small dinosaurs (slower growth rates over longer periods). Read more in the paper! #dinosaur #fossil #science #paleontology #histology

#wildlifewednesday: #Australia is best known for its unusual #marsupial fauna, unlike any other continent on earth. #koala #kangaroo #wombat #wallaby #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

“When I gwow up, I want to be a paleontologist” - Me at age 4, probably

#wildlifewednesday: More from Australia — Reptiles! Unlike many modern ecosystems, Australasia lacks any truly large mammalian predators, so reptiles have filled that role instead. Today: an emerald tree boa; a Green Sea Turtle (not named for its colour), a Saltwater Crocodile; and the Komodo Dragon. #reptiles #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #snakes #lizards #crocodile #seaturtle

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