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Happy #FossilFriday! Here is a baby of Gavialis on display in Tokyo. Not a fossil, but we will design a reptile exhibition, which includes fossil and extant reptiles later this year!

Happy #FossilFriday! Very nice to see the new publication, which describes Fucaia goedertorum in detail. We have been waiting for this publication for 30 years! The Fucaia lineage is critical, as it also includes the oldest mysticete from the Northern Hemisphere - Fucaia humilis.

The new semester is coming! Finished reading this new book, and ready to incorporate part of this book for the Introduction to Paleontology lecture.

Happy #FossilFriday! Here is Toyotamaphimeia machikanensis from the Pleistocene of Japan! We are now working on the reconstruction of Toyotamaphimeia taiwanicus from the Pleistocene of Taiwan to be on display soon - please stay tuned!

Happy #FossilFriday! A great paleo week - an acceptance letter and submitting a new manuscript for review! Working on another new species for submission in the near future - stay tuned for more fun paleo discoveries!

Happy #FossilFriday! So pleased that a student bought this book and said that what I wrote in this book answered her questions! Stay tuned for more of our paleo progress.

Happy #FossilFriday! Very happy to receive this book while preparing lectures. Also, we made some pretty good research progress this week - stay tuned for more prehistoric stories!

10 years! The day I submitted my PhD thesis - photo by the best advisor, Ewan!

Happy #FossilFriday! So happy to see the galley proof of our latest research, which will be published very soon! Please stay tuned for some very exciting paleo stuff!

Happy #FossilFriday! Designing a mid-term exam for my Introduction to Paleontology course, which has more than 200 students, is tough and time-consuming. I need more desserts from Kumiko!

Happy #WowWednesday! The fully reconstructed Toyotamaphimeia taiwanicus - a 7 m long crocodile from the Pleistocene of Taiwan - is on the way! Stay tuned for more of our paleo progress.

Super Happy #FossilFriday! So pleased to coauthor this Science paper - a male Denisovan in the Pleistocene of Taiwan! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Thanks to Takumi for leading this exciting project and all the brilliant coauthors! Stay tuned for more fun paleo progress ~

Happy #ScienceSaturday! Yesterday, we published a male Denisovan from Taiwan in Science. Then, very happy to see that Nature is very efficient in introducing our research, and includes Cheng-Han's illustration!

Happy #MaleMonday! Very pleased to coauthor this Science paper - we confirmed the occurrence of a male Denisovan from Taiwan. So proud to put the original publication in Science and a short piece by Nature on the outside wall of my lab.

Happy #FossilFriday! We are one step closer to reconstructing the giant crocodile from the Pleistocene of Taiwan - Toyotamaphimeia taiwanicus - stay tuned for more of our progress!

Happy #TurtleTuesday! Very pleased that Yi-Lu, the turtle lady and PhD candidate in my lab, submitted her second manuscript on fossil turtles today! Stay tuned for more fun paleo progress.

Happy #FossilFriday! Congratulations to Cheng-Han for her first paleo paper - discovering mammoths in Taiwan! Here is the publication, open-access: bioone.org/journals/mamma…

Happy #FossilFriday! Rediscovering mammoths in Taiwan - congratulations to Cheng-Han for her first paleo paper, and also thanks Yi-Yang and Yi-Lu for contributing to this fun project! Here is the publication: bioone.org/journals/mamma…

Happy #FossilFriday! While we reexamined the type specimens of Toyotamaphimeia taiwanicus, we realized that this tiny bone is a frontal instead of the parietal, as originally identified in 1972. More interestingly, it then belongs to a small individual - the skull reconstructed!

Happy #WhaleWednesday! SOS - a long-dead whale from the Miocene of Hiroshima is waiting! Let's dig it out for more in-depth research. We are now fund-raising this project: readyfor.jp/projects/shoba…