⛏Vertebrate Palaeontologist 📝 Assistant Professor @stonybrooku 🇿🇦Proudly South African 🦕Basal sauropodomorphs are my jam ✉ [email protected]
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Scientists are superheroes!
Thank you so much @SciSuperheroes for featuring my work and me! 🤩 I am lucky and proud to have a job in science that I love. 🦕
An amazing week for dinos🦕💕🦖& to share Dr @Kimi_Chap as Dinova! A vertebrate palaeontologist @ESI_FossilLab & @AMNH studying the embryos of Massospondylus who evolved to be the giants 🦕 emojis and TV is made of 200million yrs later.
Funds @GenusPalaeo🎨@Clydebeech @WryCritic
📢📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY
The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand is looking for a new director!
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Details below ⬇️
The ESI has one of the largest palaeontological collections in Africa, from hominins & faunas from the Cradle of Humankind, Palaeozoic & Mesozoic vertebrates from the Karoo Supergroup, & a palaeobotany herbarium
Job Details here: share.google/WZHs7Geeawwy0Fe…
Should you be interested, please contact Mrs Zandi Makasi directly at [email protected]. Please include a cover letter, a detailed CV, certified copies of all educational qualifications & ID, the names and email addresses of 3 referees, & a vision statement for the ESI.
New dino friend just dropped! 🇿🇼🦕🎉
Grateful to everyone involved in the paper, and in some of the most memorable fieldwork!
Introducing Musango matusadonaensis, a new unaysaurid sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic Pebbly Arkose Formation of Zimbabwe which we collected from the shores of Lake Kariba in 2018: thanks to @MarkWitton for this lovely reconstruction (1/3)
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From the archives, our low budget version of Walking with Dinosaurs back in fieldwork near Clarens, South Africa nearly a decade ago. You might recognise some of the people watching in bemusement as I pace out these tracks (thanks to @Kimi_Chap for sharing) … #FossilFriday
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Partial hand of an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph from the Forest Sandstone of Zimbabwe, at the NHM Zimbabwe, Bulawayo 🦕🇿🇼
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Congratulations to AMNH Postdoc alum Jonah Choiniere on his Carroll Award for Early to Mid-Career Research from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology!
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🎬 Big congrats to Fancy Horse Studios & @KarooOriginsTFC on winning the Lazendorf PaleoArt Prize for Digital Modelling and Animation — the first South African studio to win a global animation prize for bringing a prehistoric Karoo waterhole to life! 🐾🌍
This creative project blends palaeoscience and storytelling, allowing audiences to see how ancient ecosystems once thrived in the Karoo.
Read more 👇
🔗 dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
#OriginSciences 🔬 #FossilFriday 🦴 #AllFromOne #paleoart #Africa
Spent a wonderful few days in London, where I finally got to meet Fern (*swoon*) and the new baby, Enigmacursor 🤩🦕🌿
It was wonderful wandering around @NHM_London , and catching up with friends/colleagues. A massive thank you to @NHMdinolab for everything 🤗👏🇬🇧
A highly successful and enjoyable #2025SVP @SVP_vertpaleo in Birmingham! Had a wonderful time chatting about synchrotron scanning, catching up with friends/colleagues from back home and around the world, and finding out what cool fossil science people are up to! 🤩🦕👏🇿🇦🔬🩻🇬🇧
📢📢What's better than one tenure track position? TWO TENURE TRACK POSITIONS! See comments for descriptions. 🧠🦴💀🐁🦎🐍🐢🥳
BOTH have an application deadline of Nov 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Assistant Professor in the area of vertebrate evolutionary morphology. The ideal candidate would have a research program centered on specimen-based mammalian or synapsid vertebrate paleontology but other non-archosaur taxonomic foci will be considered: apply.interfolio.com/172517
Assistant Professor in the areas of evolutionary neuroanatomy, comparative neuroscience, brain evolution, and/or sensory adaptations in vertebrates: apply.interfolio.com/172502
📢📢WE ARE HIRING! 🥳🎉
Please share far and wide.
Tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the areas of evolutionary neuroanatomy, comparative neuroscience, brain evolution, and/or sensory adaptations in vertebrates.
apply.interfolio.com/172502
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I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
ALT Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto
A lovely new paper led by Jack! 🥳🇿🇲
Congratulations Jack and team, and thank you for the opportunity to learn more about this group of animals! It was a blast. 🦴🔬
New paper out today with @NHMdinolab @Kimi_Chap @_gondwannabe_ and Paul Upchurch. In it we describe a partial silesaur femur from Zambia!
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Was the key to bird flight 'all in the wrist'?
New research, published today in Nature, shows that important adaptations for flight in the wrists of modern birds were present in bird-like theropod dinosaurs .
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Illustration by @Paleoartologist
ALT PC: Henry S. Sharpe
That's a wrap on 2.5 weeks of fossil digging in one of our favourite places, Qhemegha, EC, SA. 🇿🇦⛏️🦕💚
A great crew, fantastic hosts, cooperative quarries, fabulous new fossils, and heeps of memories.
Thank you to everyone involved.
Until next time, I already can't wait! 🤩
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Don't miss our next exciting webinar: "Pseudosuchia: Masters of Survival and Diversification", presented by Drs. Holly Woodward, Mariana Valéria de Araújo Sena, and Jorge Cubo on Monday May 5 at 12pm EDT. Free registration here:
anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meetings…
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[WATCH] World-Renowned Wits Sterkfontein Caves Reopen
Step into the depths of time at the newly reopened, world-famous Wits Sterkfontein Caves, home to some of the oldest and most significant hominin fossils ever discovered. This UNESCO World Heritage Site stands at the forefront of paleoanthropological research, where iconic finds like Mrs Ples and Little Foot continue to shape our understanding of human evolution.
Link: youtu.be/93aFHPwAEWI
#WitsForGood #WitsSterkfonteinCaves