The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre are not on #Mastodon yet, but they just posted somewhere else🤓 , featuring my book #ThePlesiosaursNeck and @TetZoo's new book Ancient Sea Reptiles:

"We’ve had some awesome new toys in to go along side our books! These make a perfect souvenir after visiting our Attenborough #seadragon and Raffle the Plesiosaur!"

Well worth a visit this summer and you might even find some fossils on the beach!

#plesiosaurs #ichthyosaurs #Dorset #Charmouth

New review: A data-dense book full of outstanding skeletal reconstructions, The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles completes the informal trilogy.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/05/03/book-review-the-princeton-field-guide-to-mesozoic-sea-reptiles/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Ichthyosaurs #Plesiosaurs #Mosasaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @bookstodon @TetZoo

New review: A beautifully illustrated book, Ancient Sea Reptiles hits the sweet spot when it comes to scientific content, offering a thorough introduction to the biology and especially taxonomy of these extinct creatures.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/04/28/book-review-ancient-sea-reptiles-plesiosaurs-ichthyosaurs-mosasaurs-more/

#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #FossilFriday #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #AncientSeaReptiles #Ichthyosaurs #Plesiosaurs #Mosasaurs #Scicomm @TetZoo @bookstodon

Up next: sea reptiles vs. sea reptiles!

@TetZoo @princetonupress #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Mosasaurs #Plesiosaurs #Ichthyosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon

🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Come and work with me on #whales and #ichthyosaurs 🐬🐬 For my project ECHO at the Natural History Museum in Oslo we are now hiring a 2.5 year #postdoc fully paid. Deadline April 30. I am happy to answer questions! #paleontology #paleobiology

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/241550/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-palaeobiology

Just learnt thar our #PeerJ paper on #ichthyosaurs from #Solnhofen with soft tissue is one of the top 5 most viewed papers in its category in 2022! So much fun to know people enjoy these wonderful #fossils just like we did 🥳 With Henrik Friis, Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Jørn Hurum. The paper: https://peerj.com/articles/13173/

Did #ichthyosaurs live in groups, migrating to breeding sites? Very interesting work on #Triassic Shonisaurus locality in Nevada yesterday in #currentbiology by Neil Kelley et al yesterday 🤩 I commented to Wired here:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-mystery-of-nevadas-ancient-reptilian-boneyard/

Fossil CSI: Giant extinct marine reptile graveyard was likely ancient birthing grounds -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221219123958.htm

#Ichthyosaurs #Fossils #Nevada

' “Finding these different spots with the same species spread across geologic time ... tells us that this was a preferred habitat that these large oceangoing predators returned to for generations,” said Pyenson. “This is a clear ecological signal, we argue, that this was a place that Shonisaurus used to give birth, very similar to today’s whales. Now we have evidence that this sort of behavior is 230 million years old.” '

#ichthyosaurs #fossils #paleontology #birth

https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/pal12192201.html?m=1

Evidence that these #ichthyosaurs died here in large numbers because they were #migrating to this area to give birth for many generations across hundreds of thousands of years
#Paleontology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/pal12192201.html

Evidence that these #ichthyosaurs died here in large numbers because they were #migrating to this area to give birth for many generations across hundreds of thousands of years
#Paleontology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/pal12192201.html

#Introduction!

I am a #palaeontologist interested in #marine vertebrates. PhD on #ichthyosaurs.

Currently, I am a researcher in the transdisciplinary project Collecting Norden at the University of Oslo where I study whales in Nordic museum collections and #collection bias.

From May 2023, I will have my own project ECHO at the Natural History Museum in Oslo, on convergent evolution in whales and ichthyosaurs.

One book on biodiversity loss in Norway, Brennmaneteffekten (2021).

#paleontology #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic An article published in the journal "PeerJ" describes the examination of the specimen of a marine reptile that lived during the Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago. https://english.netmassimo.com/2019/01/10/the-largest-specimen-of-protoichthyosaurus-prostaxalis-discovered-so-far-recognized-thanks-to-modern-technologies/