This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.

#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

New Fast-Moving Land-Dwelling Crocodile Relative Discovered in Triassic Britain

📰 Original title: This crocodile ran like a greyhound across prehistoric Britain 200 million years ago

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/new-fast-moving-land-dwelling-crocodile-relative-discovered-in-triassic-britain/?redirpost=2755384e-69be-4dc2-8174-c89f045bc6bb

#science #fossils #paleontology #crocodylomorph

Howler monkeys began eating leaves 13 million years ago, changing primate history

https://hub.jhu.edu/2026/03/13/howler-monkeys-ate-leaves-13-million-years-ago/

"In addition to providing key information about biodiversity, diet, and body size of these monkeys, the most recent discoveries may also reveal when the howler monkey acquired its eponymous 'howl,' giving it a claim as the loudest land mammal."

#anatomy #paleontology #evolution #primates

This week’s Fossil Friday was found by Hope Johnston award winner and longtime APS member Harvey Negrich. This is a Late Cretaceous scaphitoid ammonite embedded in ironstone from southern Alberta!

This specimen is APS 1984.03 and the scale bar is 1cm. Image credit Howard Allen.

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #alberta #ammonite

Congratulations to Harvey Negrich for winning this year's Hope Johnson Award! This award honours amateur paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field.

Among many accomplishments, he is a founding member of the APS and served many different positions on the board. From 1986-87 he served on the Alberta Palaeontological Advisory Committee and has donated thousands of fossils to museums in Alberta.

Truly a deserving recipient!

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #alberta