Marc Jones
@marcehjones
Curator, fossil reptiles and amphibians, at Natural History Museum London UK. Honorary positions at UCL and University of Adelaide. #tuatara 🦎 #Cymraeg He/Him Orcid: 0000-0002-0146-9623
The fridges in my local shop this morning couldn't deal with the heat. #DesignedForAClimateThatNoLongerExists #DFACTNLE #London
This specimen of #Ichthyosaurus is one of the many spectacular fossils you can see at #JurassicOceans from today until 3rd Jan 2027! - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... @nhm-london.bsky.social #FossilFriday 🌊
It's now less than 24 hours until #JurassicOceans opens at the Natural History Museum London, UK, marking it's European debut. - www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibi... Come see #ichthyosaurs #plesiosaurs #mosasaurs #Leedsichthys & many more wonderful marine fossil creatures. 🌊🐚🐟🦈 @nhm-london.bsky.social
*#GlobalWarming* and *#ClimateChange* are both valid terms that mean different things. 1/6
There are only a few days left to see this cast of a skull of #Protoceratops which is currently on display at #ColchesterCastle. The original specimen comes from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It belonged to a quadrupedal plant-eating dinosaur.
It has been said, the real villain in JAWS was the person in power who repeatedly resisted any meaningful action. But is that analogy fair? #ShowYourStripes #GlobalTemperature #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBrawl #JAWS50 @ed_hawkins 🧵
Urmi Chakraborty presenting on the ontogeny of #rhynchosaur braincases from the Late Triassic of India as part of the Reptile O'Rama session in Meeting Room Hall 4. 🧠🇮🇳 #2025SVP #SVP2025
You left without buying one @davehone.bsky.social ... but I stepped up. It's very very sweet! 🍒
If you're interested to know more about the fossil vertebrate collections @nhm-london.bsky.social come see poster B356 this afternoon in Hall 3. 🦴🐠🐡🦈🦕🦖🐸🦎🐍 🦅🦜🐊🦔🦡🦣🐋💩🐾 #2025SVP #SVP2025
Trophic interactions between microvertebrates from the Chinle Formation of Arizona, USA, presented by @dingo-fossils.bsky.social as part of the Triassic non-marine tetrapod community symposium. #2025SVP #SVP2025
An update on Triassic fossil material from Queensland, Australia, by @espenknutsen.bsky.social as part of the #Triassic non-marine tetrapod communities symposium. #2025SVP #SVP2025
Matthew Scipione on dating the #Triassic #RowanGrouo from the Bowen Basin, Australia: important work and implication for the #ArcadiaFormation. 🤔 #2025SVP #SVP2025
Emma Bernard presenting her research as part of @chalksea.bsky.social that samples chalk nannofossils fossils from over 1000 Cretaceous fossil fish specimens at @nhm-london.bsky.social to significantly clarify their stratigraphic context. Meeting Room Hall 4 #2025SVP #SVP2025
Gabi Sobral presenting her talk on #Prolacerta and scleral rings as part of the #Triassic Non-Marine Tetrapod Communities symposium in the Meeting Room Hall 1. B #2025SVP #SVP2025
Michael Day (Curator of non-mammalian tetrapods, NHMUK) presenting his research on stratigraphy of the Karoo Basin in Meeting Room Hall 8. @nhm-london.bsky.social #2025SVP #SVP2025
Joel Heath talking about #Dinosaur diversification in the Romer Prize session, Meeting Room Hall 1. @ucl.ac.uk @stsucl.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social #2025SVP #SVP2025
Emily Hillan talking about #Tiktaalik in the Romer Prize session, Meeting Room Hall 1. #2025SVP #SVP2025
This morning I also heard and then saw a #Goldcrest outside my hotel near Broad Street. 🥰 #Birmingham #Regulusregulus #2025SVP #SVP2025
Amelia Zietlow kicks off the Romer prize session in Meeting Room Hall 1 with a talk on #mosasaurs. #2025SVP #SVP2025
And below is some video of the badger. 🫠 #Melesmeles #2025SVP #SVP2025
The Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower of @unibirmingham.bsky.social is the tallest clock tower in the UK. #SVP2025 #2025SVP 🕥
On the way home from @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social and @unibirmingham.bsky.social I saw a badger! 🤯 #2025SVP #SVP2025
A presentation on Middle Jurassic fossils from the #Kilmaluag Fm of #Skye, Scotland by @richardjbutler.bsky.social. Many publications already + images of unpublished material prompted audible wows from the audience. Richard suggests it's time to recognize the deposit as a Lagerstätten. #2025SVP