MorphoSource @MorphoSource
Place for researchers, curators, and everybody to find, download, and upload 3D scans of scientific specimens and cultural objects. linktr.ee/MorphoSource Durham, NC Joined July 2017-
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We are happy and grateful to announce that @NSF has awarded MorphoSource a sustainability grant (DBI-2149257). Over 5 years, it will allow us to continue serving our diverse user communities and to help support exciting new scholarship achieved through access to 3D data!
The origin of the phylum, Bryozoa, has long been debated by researchers, but a new analysis of a fossil from the Cambrian of Australia and South China pushes back its origin by 35 million years! Read more at tinyurl.com/Bryozoa and bit.ly/BryozoaScan
@MorphoSource Thanks for all the work done by the MorphoSource Team. Easily my most important data source and data repository by now. Transformative for the way we can share CT and 3D data!
New research from @UNED has identified what could be the largest terrestrial lizard fossil in Europe! An analysis of a fossil specimen suggests that a member of the Varanus genus was found in the Iberian Peninsula before previously expected. Read more at bit.ly/Hernandez2022
The MorphoSource team will be operating at reduced capacity over the upcoming end of year holiday period, until Friday, December 31. Happy holidays!
Calling all educators! MorphoSource is excited to release a holiday lesson plan activity for k-12 students. Students can explore festive 3D scans on MorphoSource and learn more about paleontology! Check it out at: bit.ly/MorphosourceHo…
Exciting new research finds that dolphins and whales evolved their large brains before echolocation! This find adds evidence to the idea that large brains are necessary to support complex cognition. Check out their paper and scans: bit.ly/McCurryetal bit.ly/dolphinscan
What did dinosaurs eat? Fossilized gastric pellets can answer this question! Researchers have used regurgitalites of the Troodon formosus to explore the dino diet and found evidence of mammal remains. Read more at bit.ly/dinodiet and bit.ly/Alphadon
How do the specimens you see in zoos differ from their wild counterparts? Researchers from @FieldMuseum measured the trunk vertebrae in xenarthran species to see how wild vs captive ecology impacts bone microstructure. Check out bit.ly/Zack2021 and bit.ly/XenarthranCT
First fluid-preserved turtle photogrammetry scan is up @Sketchfab and will be up on @MorphoSource soon! #oVertTCN skfb.ly/oqxLC
Do your tooth roots indicate your body size? Recent research from @NCState uses the tooth root surface area to predict the body size of primates, which also helps researchers make sense of incomplete fossils! Read more at bit.ly/Deutsch2021 and check out the CT scans below!
This month and every month, we are happy and proud to celebrate gender and sexual diversity and LGBTQIA+ people from all walks of life. Happy Pride!
Check out an impressive dataset of a carnivorous dinosaur's skull bones (morphosource.org/projects/00034…) shared by @DeepTimeScience today #FossilFriday #MadCretaceous

Professor John R. Hut... @JohnRHutchinson
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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. ... @TomHoltzPaleo
32K Followers 1K Following Tyrannocentric Dinosaur Paleobiologist; Univ. Maryland Principal Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology; Dir. Science & Global Change Program; Random House author
Kiersten Formoso, PhD... @Formorphology
12K Followers 1K Following Vertebrate Paleobiologist & Presidential Postdoc @RutgersU | PhD from @USC | Washed up Forbes 30 Under 30 | Was on that dino show | Musician | Avatar fan
Adam P. Summers @Fishguy_FHL
8K Followers 2K Following Biomechanist/biomaterials wonk, North of Seattle. Cutting edge gear at the water's edge. https://t.co/Slvm7b1QZC
WitmerLab @WitmerLab
7K Followers 1K Following 21st-century approaches to fleshing out the past! Mission: to use the structure of past & present animals to interpret evolutionary history...and to share it!
SICB DCB-DVM @SICB_DCB_DVM
2K Followers 802 Following Run by the SICB Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics + Vertebrate Morphology SPDAC reps. DCB = @SchulzScience_ , DVM = @alligator_arias
Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab
5K Followers 2K Following Vertebrate evolutionary biologist | Professor @MichiganEarth | Director & Curator @UMichPaleo | he/him/his
Narimane Chatar @NarimaneChatar
992 Followers 288 Following BAEF fellow @UCBerkeley | Crazy cat lady interested in fossil carnivorans🦁🐻🦦 | Biomechanics & morphometrics 🦾📊 | PhD'23 @UniversiteLiege | She/her🇧🇪🇲🇦
Emma R Schachner PhD @paleofox
986 Followers 660 Following Assistant prof at @UFVetMed | Evolutionary functional morphologist (LUNGS 🦉🐊🫁) | FLMNH affiliate curator | Dog servant | Military history enthusiast 📚
Dr Mark D. Scherz @MarkScherz
10K Followers 2K Following Curator of Herpetology & Associate Professor of Vertebrate Zoology @NHM_Denmark • Co-host @SquaMatesPod and @AnatomyInsights • He/Him
Alberta Claw @albertonykus
7K Followers 5K Following Research Fellow studying extant and fossil birds. Alternatively, North American alvarezsaurid described in 2009. They/them.
Casey Holliday @CrocHolliday
3K Followers 2K Following Anatomy, Paleontology, Heads, Crocophile, Dinosaurs, Biomechanics, Imaging, occasionally funny. Views are mine.
Serjoscha Evers @SirJoscha
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Dr. Jonathan Huie @jmhuiee
2K Followers 785 Following Functional morphologist & evolutionary biologist | PhD from @GWBiology l #NSFGRFP fellow | Full time ichthyologist 🐠 & part time herpetologist🦎| He/Him.
Gareth Fraser @garethjfraser
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Filippo Bertozzo, PhD @Paleofolk
3K Followers 1K Following Dinosaur paleontologist, expert on ornithopods and paleopathologies. Scicommer on Twitch as dicendinosaur. HPLovecraft obsessed, and RPG player/master.
Prof. Valentin Fische... @Val_Fisch
1K Followers 412 Following Professor of #palaeontology @UniversiteLiege. Director of the #EDDyLab. I study the biodiversity and extinctions of fossil marine predators
Pittman Palaeo Lab @PalaeoPittman
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Dr. Mary Silcox @Mary_T_Silcox
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Só Documentários @SDocumentarios
87 Followers 2K Following
Sebastian Cevasco @SebastianC84412
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Fraqen @Fraqen911
25 Followers 2K Following
Izzy @isabellepola
44 Followers 436 Following MSc Paleontology student @geohelsinkiuni studying marine mammals🐋🐬🦭🐻❄️💕 | surfer 🌊 | diver🤿 | nature enthusiast 🌿
Yquicarq @Yquicarq472050
28 Followers 1K Following
Maria Stela Marrelli ... @Marianycteris
303 Followers 399 Following Brazilian Mammalogist 🦇 🇧🇷 MSc @fiocruz 🦇🧬 | Bats | Taxonomy | Evolution | Dental Morphology | Vespertilionidae |
Ten Obsuklin @Tenthohe_ch
34 Followers 439 Following
ISM @ibansuamed
751 Followers 5K Following
Vert Pal Lab, IITR @PaleoVertIITR
14 Followers 189 Following Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory Dept of Earth Sciences @iitroorkee Lab head @sunilbajpai2012
Bran Lee @BranLeeRK
4 Followers 10 Following
zjbjhvg @zjbjhvg
81 Followers 2K Following reposts random (mostly paleo related) stuff 中文/english 17 🏳️🌈
Low fat sweaty cat �... @Silicon_alien
228 Followers 2K Following I like to dissect bugs. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
Jeighn @Jeighn458299
42 Followers 893 Following
Dr. Abhishek Pratap S... @apsgeo002
501 Followers 2K Following #PhD Paleontology @WIHG, I am currently working on Miocene mega and micro mammals
Aubrey J. Roberts @SeaMonsters2013
2K Followers 539 Following @NatGeo explorer. Likes marine reptiles. Member of the Spitsbergen Mesozoic Research Group. Words= my own
☮ Evol. Photonics L... @EvolPhotonics
100 Followers 403 Following CNRS CPJ Chair in biomimetics of biological photonics #colsci Google Scholar: https://t.co/tn54aT4m31 WoS: https://t.co/oWLZzY9pTY
McSaroo @McSarooXi6
18 Followers 759 Following
Meh @Profile2792
16 Followers 94 Following
Peacheserratica @Peacheserratica
288 Followers 914 Following Artist, Anthropologist/Archaeologist, Adorner of skulls, Inherently flawed mammal trying to figure out the world and have a few adventures along the way
Spinejackal @chriskesich
63 Followers 1K Following 🎮 Indie Game Dev · ✍️ Writer · 🎨 Artist | Dad Life 👨👧 | Dreamer & Worldbuilder ✨ | Dinosaur & Monster Fan 🦖👾 | Crafting original IP 💥
CZfan @AnyfandomFan
258 Followers 6K Following |16| I'm a Godzilla, Fnaf, Tf2, Twf, Alien, Dinosaurs, Md and others fan|MultiFandom+Shipper #justiceforNV
Evan Johnson-Ransom @EJR_Paleo_MSc
5K Followers 3K Following PhD candidate of the Ross Lab & Sereno Lab of @UChicago/@FieldMuseum | studying neck kinematics & feeding behavior of theropods | tyrannosaur enthusiast 🦖
Michael Devereux @Michaelgdx
1K Followers 3K Following Proud Dad | Irish 🇮🇪 | Generative Printmaker | Artist on #Bitcoin & #Eth | Gamma Partner | Artblocks | Plottables | MAYC #2934
Nirkairn @Nirkairnm72tkE
26 Followers 920 Following
Jonathan Chemla @jo_chemla
1K Followers 5K Following CTO @ Iconem Playing with city-scale 3d scans & maps, gis, real-time rendering, OSS/open-data ❤️ activating @[email protected] | @jochemla.bsky.social
david 🥚campo @dOcampo10
2K Followers 1K Following Ph.D. candidate, Stoddard Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @Princeton | 🐦🪺| 🇨🇴 ☕️@udea @uniandes | Producer @vencejofilms
Flávio S J de Souza @FSJSouza
447 Followers 4K Following Biologist interested in developmental biology, gene regulation and evolution. Researcher at @CONICETdialoga (Argentina). Also keen on art and history.
Clara 🇵🇸 @Clarasalvino
1K Followers 1K Following Biologist| Ph.D. in Animal Biology at UFPE| morphology| evolution| worm lizards 💚 Uma paraense em Recife.
Atheist Stellenbosch @ArtisticCape
177 Followers 307 Following Rational, humanist, secular, Goed sonder god👍
Dr Carmen Martín-Ram... @CMartinRamos
1K Followers 882 Following Teaching Fellow at @ArchAncHistLeic. Interested in lithics and human evolution. Progressively moving into Bluesky, follow me there! @cmramos.bsky.social
sayf @homosayfpiens
417 Followers 522 Following (they/she/he) biological anthropology and queer studies enthusiast.
Andoni Sergiou @AseSergiou
134 Followers 297 Following PhD student @uniexecornwall | Brain-Culture Coevolution | Evolutionary Anthropology | Friend of all cats | Future Foundation
Quentin Cosnefroy @Q_Cosnefroy
16 Followers 73 Following Paleoanthropogist. Post-doctoral researcher at UMR 5199 PACEA-Université de Bordeaux-Ministère de la Culture ANR NeHos: From Neanderthals to Homo sapiens
Corry York (they/he) @flatplants
59 Followers 731 Following 🇨🇦BIOL & ERTH Combined BScH || Accessible Science and Collections; Preserving Life 🪰🍄🐝🌾 || IG: corry_york || bsky: flatplants
oso-tee.bsky.social |... @OSO_Tee
5K Followers 3K Following Husband, Dad, Christian | PhDing plant anatomy, evolution & development @Yale | Alum @UniIbadan @CSIRNBRILKO | of @Scholarpreneurs @AfroInBio | Fan @ChelseaFC
Martín @mejillonla35716
373 Followers 3K Following Soy de biología de la ULe, me gusta la paleobiología y soy un zoólogo mediocre. 21st century (digital boy)
Walter H. Pierce @walterhpierce2
2K Followers 5K Following Geologist. The Study of Creativity is my Hobby. Other interests: Finding oil and gas, Earth History, Education, Quotes, Biography. No DMs.
Natural Science Depar... @natscience_OIT
29 Followers 437 Following We are the Bio-health and Environmental Science Programs at the Oregon Institute of Technology .
Dr. Côme Denechaud @Tartificiel
538 Followers 738 Following Wildlife photographer and marine ecologist | Fish ecology, climate change and otoliths @Havforskningen (🇳🇴) | Chair for #SIIECS and WGSMART @ICES_ASC.
Erick Arrashy Rudiant... @ErickRudianto
471 Followers 2K Following Invertebrate zoology enthusiast. Currently working with marine fish-Digenea. Natural history and history lover. PhD student at Universitas Diponegoro.
Eduardo Rössener @EduardoR0ssener
124 Followers 164 Following Figura paterna de muita gente, demonologista, ex-BBB, procurador de justiça, artista de circo. Conta antiga foi suspensa pois falei mal de lobisomem e saci.
Adam P. Summers @Fishguy_FHL
8K Followers 2K Following Biomechanist/biomaterials wonk, North of Seattle. Cutting edge gear at the water's edge. https://t.co/Slvm7b1QZC
Matt Friedman @Friedman_Lab
5K Followers 2K Following Vertebrate evolutionary biologist | Professor @MichiganEarth | Director & Curator @UMichPaleo | he/him/his
Serjoscha Evers @SirJoscha
2K Followers 990 Following Pal(a)eontologist with reptilian bias | @snsf_ch Ambizione fellow at Uni of Fribourg studying turtle evolution | former @BensonLabOxford member (he/him)
Dr. Mary Silcox @Mary_T_Silcox
869 Followers 578 Following Vertebrate palaeontologist interested in early primates and other Paleogene mammals. And cheesecake. Oh, and art. And theatre. She/her
Florida Museum @FloridaMuseum
13K Followers 1K Following The Florida Museum of Natural History inspires people to care about life on Earth. Located on the @UF campus, we are also the state museum.
Ashley Hammond @ashleyshammond
3K Followers 2K Following Associate Professor & Curator of Biological Anthropology @AMNH. #paleoanthropology, #morphology, #anatomy, #WomenInSTEM, #Kenya. Retweets not endorsements.
Carrie Mongle @CarrieMongle
708 Followers 630 Following Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University (she/her). I study human evolution & phylogenetics.
Paleontological Resea... @PRInstitution
3K Followers 452 Following The Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth and @cayuganature Center encourages critical thinking about life on Earth.
Fossils of L.A. @fossilsofLA
237 Followers 50 Following We're the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at @nhmla
Katy E-S @katyfossillady
161 Followers 483 Following Museum professional and enthusiast. Invertebrate paleontologist. Mother of cats, turtles, and snails. She/her.
GBIF @biodiversity.so... @GBIF
14K Followers 5K Following GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and biodiversity research infrastructure. 🌱
Deborah Paul @idbdeb
2K Followers 2K Following Enabling taxonomists, data standards, biocollections digitization, and community development. Love dancing, baking pies, pizza from scratch. Tweets my own.
Matthew Borths @MattBorths
912 Followers 675 Following Carnivore & primate paleontologist. Curator of Fossils @DukeLemurCenter Co-creator of @pasttimepaleo and #AyeAyePod https://t.co/1iK29W1uD8. Expect typos. he/him
CHES_RU @CHES_Rutgers
2K Followers 1K Following The Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers promotes & supports research grounded in evolutionary theory & explores what it means to be human.
Keegan Melstrom @gulosuchus
703 Followers 675 Following Paleontologist. Really likes finding and taking pictures of birds.| Postdoc @NHMLA studying dinosaurs, crocs, and lots of teeth. He/Him
Thomas Rydell @tjvr
471 Followers 882 Following CEO at @Interspectral. Tweets about 3D digitization, visualization, interaction design and emerging technology.
Tina Del Carpio 🍉 ... @TinaDelCarpio
532 Followers 1K Following Biology PhD | Genetics of Canids 🧬🐺🐕 | EDI | They/Them | 🌈🏳️⚧️♿️🇻🇪
McrMuseum Collection @MuseumInsight
1K Followers 2K Following Curatorial Assistants taking you behind the scenes at Manchester Museum. Tweets from Rachel Petts, Susan Martin and Diana Arzuza Buelvas.
Lynn Copes @lynnepithecus
597 Followers 2K Following I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about people, but I’m going to keep trying. she/her; faculty @QuinnipiacU Netter School of Medicine
Audrey Arner @arneraudrey
234 Followers 235 Following Vanderbilt PhD student in the Lea Lab! Anthropologist & biologist. NSF Graduate Research Fellow. @scholarsPSU cohort 4 alum. She/her.
Dr. Kirsten Brown @DrKirtyBrown
2K Followers 1K Following Associate Director, Teaching & Career Development, Frank N. Miller Distinguished Teaching Professor & Vice Chair for Education in A&CB #GWSMHS. #MedEd #anatomy
Dr. Anjali Kumar 🌈 @anjalikumar6
1K Followers 2K Following Biodiversity conservation in the Amazon. International development. Science without borders. #SciPol She/hers. #EncuentraTuParque Retweets not endorsements
Kleyton Cantalice @Cantalice_KM
217 Followers 1K Following Biologist working at Department of Paleontology of @InstGeolUNAM, @UNAM_MX. Interested in the diversification of fishes in America through the time.
Joseph Beaver, Misant... @JosephBeaver
204 Followers 144 Following Archaeologist, anthropologist, hack programmer, husband, father, recovering Navy brat. Asst. Prof. at University of Minnesota Morris. Opinions my own. He/him.
Dr. Heather F. Smith @heatherfsmith
1K Followers 1K Following Editor-in-Chief, The Anatomical Record @AnatRecord. Professor of Anatomy at Midwestern Univ. Evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and educator.
Shawn Zack @Galecyon
49 Followers 167 Following Paleontologist and anatomist in Phoenix, Arizona. Views my own. He/him.
Jonathan I. Bloch @jibloch
449 Followers 162 Following Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology @FloridaMuseum | Chair, Department of Natural History @UF | PI @BlochLab
iDigBio @iDigBio
6K Followers 718 Following iDigBio is coordinating a national effort to digitize biodiversity specimens and make them available online, funded by @NSF grants to @UF, @floridastate, @ASU.
Roberta Graboski @betagraboski
348 Followers 991 Following Postdoctoral at Tel Aviv University (@TelAvivUni) and SMNH. Evolutionary biologist, interested in molecular and phenotype evolution. she/her
Ryan Felice @rfelice
1K Followers 553 Following Evolutionary Biologist and Associate Professor at UCL (he/him)
Carlos Mauricio Pered... @CMPeredo
454 Followers 521 Following Senior Data Scientist. Paleontologist. Martial arts instructor. Dungeon Master. Senior Data Scientist—Equity Research Team @WGU
Molly Meagher @mollisaurus93
186 Followers 2K Following aspiring carnivore ecologist | prev. geometric morphometrics | BSc in Nat resource conversation | irish trad singer | labhair gaeilge liom!
Dr. Erin Kane @Diana_monkey
5K Followers 2K Following anthropology, ballet, birds, cats, conservation, cricket, ecology, guenons, lung cancer, ponds, primates, program managing, science. Black Lives Matter. she/her
Jaime Erdmann (they/�... @muddynat
857 Followers 3K Following Active on Mastodon at [email protected] Freegan. Frog aficionado. Equity, Ethology, Evolution, EDM 🤘🏼🏳️🌈🐸
Anna Hiller @AnnaHiller92
1K Followers 717 Following PhD candidate @LSU_MNS | @UCBerkeley @MVZUCB alum. Evolution. Speciation. Natural History Museums. #ornithology #womeninSTEM #collectionsareessential
Chris Widga @ChrisWidga
1K Followers 2K Following Paleontologist. Zooarchaeologist. Director, @psuems Museum & Art Gallery. Here for the furry animals, especially those that are extinct. Opinions are my own.
Roscoe 🌊🗽💙 @Realityshaken
8K Followers 9K Following Roscoe was a sweet, loving kitty. I loved him so much. #HeroesPersist #FriendsPersist #ClimateCrisis #ProChoice #AnimalLover #Persist #Vaccinated
David Baker @thedmbaker
1K Followers 613 Following coral ecologist, stable isotope wizard, low-vis diver
Mateusz Wosik 🇵�... @PolishPaleo
2K Followers 2K Following Polish-born Dinosaur Paleontologist | Anatomy Professor 🦴🦷 @MisericordiaU | Host of @FossilFREEstyle | #Edmontosaurus = best dinosaur🦕♥ | #DiversityMatters
Dr. Darcy Shapiro @darcy_shapiro
2K Followers 854 Following BioAnthro PhD. Miocene apes, hips, locomotion, trabecular bone. Editorial Director @EonsShow, @BizarreBeasts, @JourneyToMicro. #scicomm #museums #GoBlue she/her
George (PJ) Perry @grg_perry
3K Followers 808 Following Professor of Anthropology & Biology, Penn State University; Senior Editor, eLife; https://t.co/W0MFF3lM9a
Christian A. Sidor @ChristianSidor
3K Followers 678 Following Vertebrate Paleontologist • University of Washington • @BurkeMuseum • @UWBiology • Future Sonics Season Ticket Holder • Squash • HDJ80 repair club
Brett Butler @redgcko7
274 Followers 332 Following PhD candidate @UNAM_MX. Speciation is neat. so are reptiles and amphibians. especially geckos. 🧬🦎
Kayla Bazzana-Adams P... @sumouria
155 Followers 268 Following Evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, dancer, musician, and lover of everything science (and everything cats). She/her.
SICB @SICB_
7K Followers 558 Following The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology will now be found at @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Sean Harrington @sharr256
177 Followers 255 Following Postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History. Systematics, Morphology, and Herpetology
Camilo López Aguirre @cernestola
1K Followers 919 Following Biología evolutiva | Morfología funcional 🇨🇴 #CienciaCriolla
Transmitting Science ... @TransmitScience
4K Followers 3K Following Sharing the art of scientific learning! Courses, coaching & events connecting life & earth scientists to empower collaboration, equity & innovation. #TScourses
Dr. Alton Dooley 🇺... @AltonDooley
1K Followers 684 Following Executive Director of @WesternCenter, paleontologist, proud mastodon researcher. Opinions here are my own. he/him. Also on Mastodon: @[email protected].