Science interpreter, palaeontologist, nature lover and music collector.
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Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
#Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old fossils indicate the Avalon biota persisted longer than previously believed, suggesting a more severe biodiversity loss during the Kotlin Crisis extinction event. @geosociety phys.org/news/2026-02-except…
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
Join Ph.D candidate @SydneyCollins23 at Mistaken Point Interpretation Center Oct 27, 3 PM for her scientific lecture titled "Conservation of Mistaken Point's Smallest and Largest Seabirds"!
Sydney specializes in behavioural ecology of seabirds at @MemorialU – don't miss it!
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
A researcher is murdered as he is about to present his findings, proving the existence of the elusive Wild Baloney. Can you unmask the culprit? Join us Oct. 25 for this fun and immersive murder mystery party experience.
Tickets: munbg.online.red61.ca/event/…
#ArentYouCurious
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
The rabbits are in the building! Join us Friday evening at 7:00pm for what promises to be a fascinating talk from artist Robert Hengeveld, "Advanced Robotics and the Redefining of Relationships"
Admission by donation. #ArentYouCurious
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
Never in a million years did I expect to find such a beautiful and diverse soft coral reef in our backyard right here in #Newfoundland- read about how it happened here:
gazette.mun.ca/research/a-ra…
@4DOceansLab @marineinstitute @MemorialU @MemorialUSci @KatleenRobert
ALT A habitat of soft corals, anemones and basket stars in Funk island Marine Refuge, in Newfoundland, Canada.
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
Congrats to @MemorialU researchers led by @DMcEdiacaran and @FossilRod of @MUN_EarthSci, who recently published a paper in Life documenting 565-million-year-old fossils containing the earliest evidence of an animal with muscles in detail!
Learn more here: gazette.mun.ca/research/earl…
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Say hello to the oldest animals in the fossil record - #Haootia quadriformis and INTRODUCING #Mamsetia manunis
These crown-group cnidarians were found within the @DiscoveryGEONL and are vital to the story of life on Earth
Read about them in our new paper mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/9/1096
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
📢📜 PAPER ALERT: Check out @munpaleobiology new paper on some of the oldest known eumetazoan macrofossils from @DiscoveryGEONL 🇨🇦! Let us present Mamsetia manunis, a new crown group staurozoan with preserved muscular tissues older than 500 million years! 💪.
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Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
How do you protect some of the most stunning fossils on the planet?
Through the painstaking monitoring of over 1,000 timelapse videos of course! 📸👀
Check out this brilliant article by @Brinno_Global on work conducted during my PhD to find out more!
brinno.com/blogs/time-lapse-…
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
telling all of my friends with small daughters that if they say "i wanna learn about dinosaurs and jump on a trampoline" this is in fact a perfectly fine career path
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Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
It's here! The 2nd Annual Science on the Street is happening today, Saturday, July 27, from 12:00noon-4:00pm on the Downtown Pedestrian Mall. You'll find us on the block in front of Atlantic Place. Come enjoy some interactive STEM learning fun for all ages! #ArentYouCurious
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
This #FossilFriday, I’m sharing an entire aquatic community that was buried together 506 million years ago! This slab, dating back to the Cambrian period, shows numerous Trilobites and Waptia fieldensis in close proximity. It was discovered in Yoho National Park, Canada.
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
Lucky to be involved in this study, revealing the soft tissue anatomy of early trilobites, led by Abder El Albani and John Paterson, with brilliant tomographic and anatomical work by @HarryBerks (who is looking for a PhD!) @BristolPalaeo @UoBEarthScience science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/…
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For #FossilFriday, Thanahita distos, a three-dimensionally preserved lobopodian from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England.
The nodule which contained the only known fossil was cut and ground away in thin sections, and photos of each slice were used to make a digital model.
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
🚨📰 PAPER ALERT: This #FossilFriday, I am delighted to announce @munpaleobiology new paper and the last chapter of my PhD thesis! In this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) paper we document hydrodynamic phenomena around highly detailed rangeomorphs!
cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
📢Want to read our new geoconservation/Ediacaran paper on "Protecting Newfoundland’s Palaeontological Geoheritage..." but don't have journal access?
📰@SpringerNature have kindly provided us with a free(‼️), view-only version that you can read here: rdcu.be/dGOR4
ALT Holotype of the rangeomorph Avalofractus abaculus, this specimen was damaged during its removal from the Upper Island Cove site in the mid-2000s. Since then the specimen has been repatriated to Newfoundland and is now housed in The Rooms, provincial museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. (scale bars = 1 cm)
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
Marching into a fossiliferous & delicious Christmas #FossilFriday
Love this cake by @aadineen! It reminds me of this conga line of queueing trilobites = Rare evidence of migratory group behaviour. Or, in the cake’s case, a migration into our mouths!
Merry Trexmass, all. 🎄🦖🎁
Dr. Rod Taylor retweeted
Yesterday with @DMcEdiacaran and today by myself out in the field exploring the #Ediacaran of Torbay and Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove. The weather was gorgeous with lots of great fossils and shiny pyrite cubes 🤩 #FieldWorkFriday @munpaleobiology @MUN_EarthSci @MemorialUSci
