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Had a #podcast chat with the illustrious Michael Mills of The HeapsGood Guy and talked #fossil #kangaroos, have a listen here!

As a #kangaroo #palaeontologist and comic artist it is very cool and fun to see our research and @zieglertn 's beaut new Sthen skeleton show up in a comic by Firstdog Onthemoon . What a frickin great day. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

He’s finally here (and straight into μCT scanning a juvenile #Gogo #lungfish!) Big welcome to new Flinders Palaeontology PhD candidate M. Ramon Fritzen & partner Carol who arrived from Brazil just last week…

45,000-year-old Aussie 'giga-goose' detailed in new study by Dr Phoebe McInerney Jacob C. Blokland🦴 Its giant skull fossil reveals it: ⚖Weighed 230kg 🌱Ate soft plants & fruits 🦜Had jaws similar to parrots but shaped like geese tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Flinders University Newsroom Flinders Palaeontology

Dr Phoebe McInerney Jacob C. Blokland Flinders University Newsroom Flinders Palaeontology Great coverage of this study which has just gone live. Check out this fab piece in New Scientist, who state that the paper shows strong evidence that the Dromornithidae, an extinct group of Australian flightless birds, were related to geese and ducks🦆 newscientist.com/article/243370…

Dr Phoebe McInerney Jacob C. Blokland Flinders University Newsroom Flinders Palaeontology New Scientist .Science Magazine unpicks the dig itself⛏️ Rodrigo Pérez Ortega interviews Blokland, who explains how they trekked back to where G. newtoni was first found in fragments, in 1913, on a mission to uncover more. Luckily, they discovered an almost complete skull☠️ science.org/content/articl…

Skull morphology of the giant flightless fowl Genyornis: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Lots of interesting details to digest here, notably renewed support for a close relationship to the weird South American screamers. Congrats to Dr Phoebe McInerney and Jacob C. Blokland! #birds #dinosaurs

Introducing the updated look of Genyornis newtoni, a giant, extinct bird from Australia, based on new fossil discoveries published today. Incredible artwork by Jacob C. Blokland 1/2 🧵 url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/T2HpC1WLVOuO…

Check out this ABC News article about Flinders University PhD student and #palaeoartist Jacob C. Blokland's reconstruction of the giant extinct bird 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪. abc.net.au/news/science/2… #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology #art #ornithology #bird #fossil Flinders University Newsroom

Visiting Minyirr (Gantheaume Point) Broome, Western Australia, to see the dinosaur trackway fossils revealed at low tide 🦖🦕👣 Flinders Palaeontology @LongJohnfossil @DGarciaBellido @conservbytes Marcos Ramon Fritzen

Exploring the Frasnian and Famennian reef around Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge), WA Flinders Palaeontology #geology #palaeontology #Devonian

Flinders palaeo at Alcoota fossil beds in the Northern Territory.

Flinders palaeontology researchers and others abroad have discovered a new #coelacanth fossil, called Ngamugawi wirngarri, discovered in the Gogo Formation in Gooniyandi Country. This has revealed new exciting insights into its evolution 🔗 bit.ly/3ZlFY8D @Flinderspalaeo

Want to know more about how plate tectonic activity has driven more than 400 million years of #coelacanth #evolution? Read our The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand article here: theconversation.com/exceptional-ne… 🐟 🌏 #Ngamugawi Flinders Palaeontology

It's #FISH #FOSSIL #FRIDAY! Introducing the latest described fossil #coelacanth fish *Ngamugawi wirngarri* from the #Devonian #GogoFormation on #Gooniyandi Country in #Australia, published today in Nature Communications Flinders Palaeontology 🐟 link.springer.com/article/10.103…

We are SO excited to be hosting #CAVEPS2025! Can't wait to see Australia's vertebrate #palaeontology community back together again and see the amazing array of research being undertaken.

CAVEPS 2025 logo competition! * $500 prize! * must feature South Australian vertebrate fossils  * no use of generative AI permitted * incorporate text "CAVEPS 2025" into your design  Submissions due: email them by 5pm ACST on Friday 31st January 2025.

New research by Samuel Arman, Grant Gully and Gavin Prideaux out today! What can dental microwear tell us about the extinction of short-faced kangaroos? Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Flinders University #extinction #pleistocene

New paper drop! Kiana Cliff: a new fossil vertebrate site of probable last interglacial age from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia: tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…