Happy #FossilFriday!! 🪸 📌This Carboniferous-aged (~325 mya) colonial coral Siphonodendron is from Barns Ness in Scotland! 📸Thanks to Craig Mellon for submitting this fossil! Want to see your fossil featured? Submit photos here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid... #paleontology #fossil #Scotland

PaleoArt Highlight!🎨 This piece by Patrik Oberstar depicts a Triceratops in a misty forest!🌲 Want to see your favorite paleoart featured? Submit here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt #paleoart #dinosaur #paleontology

📣 Last call for IPC7 abstracts! 📣 Want more information? Visit their website: www.ipc7.site/index.html :link: Or IG page: @ipc7_2026 #IPC7 #Paleontology #Conference #Abstract #PaleoResearch

Happy Fossil Friday!🦴 This week our featured fossil is a tooth and section of jaw of Pleistocene-aged deer from Crete, Greece🦌 If you’d like to see your fossil featured in a future Fossil Friday, submit via this form: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid...

PaleoArt Highlight!🎨 🐟Here we have an illustration of the skull of Dunkleosteus, a predatory armored fish from the Devonian Period! Thanks to José Molina for submitting and creating this piece!🖌️📸 Submit your favourite paleoart here: tinyurl.com/PSPaleoArt%F...

This week's #FossilFriday brings us to Wyoming!🌵⛰️ 📌Here, we have a partial mandible from the early strepsirrhine, 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘴, found in the early Eocene Willwood Formation in the Bighorn Basin of Central Wyoming. Want your fossil finds featured? Submit your photos here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid...

PaleoArt Highlight!🦕🎨   🖌️This week we have a digital painting of the ankylosaur 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪.   Thank you to William Jugloff for submitting this awesome piece!   Submit your favourite paleoart to be featured in a future post: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...  🔗

Happy #FossilFriday 🌿 This week we have Gondwana plant fossils from the Talcher Basin in India!🪨⛏️ Thank you to Dr Mrutyunjaya Sahoo for sending this photo in!📸 Want your fossil finds featured in a future Fossil Friday post? Submit your photos here: tinyurl.com/PSfossilfrid...

🌊 Meet one of the research projects supported by the 2026 Norman Newell Early Career Research Grant! Dr. Paz will integrate ichnological, sedimentological, and stratigraphical data to unravel how bioturbating animals shaped ancient seafloor ecosystems 🦐🪨

🏆⚽ IT'S MATCH DAY! 🎙️ Representing the Netherlands 🇳🇱.... MOSASAURUS HOFFMANNII! 🎙️ And representing Sweden 🇸🇪... SPHAEROCORYPHE DENTATA! Power versus endurance. Who wins this opening Fossil Cup showdown and advances to the knockout stage? 👇 Vote below and defend your fossil!

Happy #FossilFriday from the Judith River Formation in Montana’s Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument! 🦪 #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Fossils #JudithRiverFormation #WesternInteriorSeaway #Montana #DeepTime

Dr. Formoso was one of the recipients of the 2026 Norman Newell Early Career Research Grant! Dr. Formoso will investigate why non-avian dinosaurs never evolved into secondarily aquatic forms despite 170 million years of dominance 🌊

This week we’re spotlighting Dr. B.P. Singh, whose research focuses on the Cambrian biostratigraphy and fossil record of the Lesser Himalaya, India ⛰️🦠 To support researchers like Dr. Singh, please consider donating to the Paleontological Society. #Cambrian #Biostratigraphy #Himalaya #Paleontology

⏰ IPC7 abstract submissions close in just 15 days! Submit your abstract before June 30th 🚀 Check their website for more information: www.ipc7.site/index.html Or their IG page: @ipc7_2026 #IPC7 #Paleontology #PaleoResearch

This week we’re at Mongolia’s legendary #FlamingCliffs Pictured here are two very excited students, Zach and Tian from the University of New England (Australia), jumping for joy as they take in this world-famous Cretaceous landscape Their enthusiasm is exactly what Fossil Friday is all about! 🔥

📢 Early Registration for GSA Connects 2026 is now OPEN Get the best registration rates today! Whether you're a student, early-career scientist, or seasoned professional, Connects offers cutting-edge technical sessions, innovative research presentations, field trips, and short courses for all

This week's PaleoArt Highlight showcases this beautifully handmade ceramic mug by Geophysicist and Paleo artist Elizabeth Ashley @elizabethashleydesigns 🎨🦕 📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6

🌈 Diversity makes our community stronger The Paleo Society appreciates each one of you who makes science richer and more welcoming. Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

This week's PaleoArt Highlight showcases this beautiful line cut, made by Matt Holmes from Eastern Washington University 🎨🦕 It represents how we as people are stronger in numbers when we are in places of stress. Parasaurolophus is Matt's favorite dinosaur 🤩 #Hadrosaurs #Dinosauria #PaleoArt

🦎 2026 Norman Newell Early Awardee Highlight! Dr. Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social will travel to Namibia to collect and describe early Permian vertebrates from the Huab Basin 🇳🇦 This project expands that picture to high-latitude Gondwana 🌍🔎 #Biogeography #Permian #NamibiaPaleontology #Tetrapods

This week's PaleoArt Highlight is this gorgeous painting of a sparassodontid by Juana Yañez Seoane from the Museum de La Plata (FCNyM, UNLP) 🎨🦕 The painting is a portrait of Thylacosmilus atrox, an extinct metatherian from South America's Miocene, in watercolors and pencils.

🪸 Showcasing one more research project supported by the 2026 Norman Newell Grant! Dr. Jordan-Burmeister will build comprehensive phylogenetic and morphometric analyses to unravel the final chapter of the last trilobites on Earth 🔍🦴

Happy #FossilFriday! This week we’re joining Sally Hurst and heading underground to Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. The only place on Earth where opalised dinosaur fossils have ever been found! ✨🌈 📷 Photo submitted by Sally Hurst @foundafossil on IG #OpalisedFossils #LightningRidge

PaleoArt Highlight: Invertebrate ATTACK!🎨 This beautiful crinoid on Anna Clement's arm was inspired by an illustration from Ernst Haeckel, created by @honestbird.bsky.social #Echinodermata #Crinoidea #MarineFossils

🦣 Meet one of the research projects supported by the 2026 Norman Newell Early Career Research Grant! Support for science like this is only possible because of the contributions of Paleontological Society members and donors🤝

🦠🌏 Happy #FossilFriday from one of the oldest records of life on Earth! These stunning structures are stromatolites from the ~3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, nestled in the North Pole Dome of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. #Stromatolites #PrecambrianLife

This Week's PaleoArt Highlight features Dolores, the Triceratops 🦖🎨 📸 Thanks to Michael Fruecht @freelancerioter for your submission! 📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6 #Triceratops #Paleontology #Dinosauria

📢 Calling ALL paleoartists! 👩‍🎨🧑‍🎨 All Paleontological Society members are encouraged to submit a design! 🎨 Your artwork may be featured on Society swag and used for marketing and promotions.

This week, we’re spotlighting Kayla Irizarry, a PhD student at Penn State whose research explores how oxygen shaped evolution during the Late Cambrian. With support from a PaleoSociety Student Research Grant, Kayla funded fieldwork in 2022 #CambrianFossils #CambrianResearch #CambrianPaleontology

Happy #FossilFriday! 🌈 This week we’re back in Mongolia’s #GobiDesert with Sally Hurst (Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia). Fieldwork is often unpredictable, with field crews in the Gobi Desert often face rapidly shifting weather, this time ending in a stunning rainbow over camp✨