News about my research activities

Here I would like to provide some information about my research activities from 2017 (when I released the first version of this website) until today. Please visit Research for an overview of my current and past research projects, Publications to see my publication record and New taxa to see those that I established as lead or co-author. For more updates about my reserach activities you can also follow me on my Social Media accounts that are listed below. Selected media coverage of some of my studies is available in the Media section.

2025

  • Invited speaker at Charles University in Prague [more on Instagram]
  • We describe a new specimen of the plesiosaur Plesiopterys wildi in PeerJ and discuss possible endemism in plesiosaurs [more on Bluesky].
  • Our revision of the microcleidid plesiosaur Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris is published in The Anatomical Record [more on Facebook and Bluesky].
  • An important study co-authored by me on the first evidence for pigment cells (melanophores) in a plesiosaur is published in Current Biology. We also provide the first detailed analysis of plesiosaur scales [more on Bluesky]
  • Studying a new Pliensbachian plesiosaur from Blockley collected by Sönke Simonsen

Research visits and specimens studied as part of the Grant 2023/51/B/NZ8/00899

  • Urweltmuseum Hauff in Holzmaden (Germany): Microcleidid from Holzmaden, Hauffiosaurus zanoni
  • Palaeontological collection, University of Tübingen (Germany): Microcleidus brachypterygius, ‘Plesiosaurus’ posidoniae
  • Whitby Museum in Whitby (UK): Microcleidus homalospondylus [more on Instagram]
  • Museu Geológico in Lisbon (Portugal): Lusonectes sauvagei [more information]
  • Yorkshire Museum in York (UK): Microcleidus homalospondylus
  • Manchester Museum in Manchester (UK): Microcleidus homalospondylus [more on Instagram]

2024

Research visits and specimens studied as part of the Grant 2023/51/B/NZ8/00899

Plesiosaur specimens at the Marine Reptiles Gallery Natural History Museum London
Studying plesiosaurs in London
Franconiasaurus brevispinus life reconstruction by Joschua Knüppe
Franconiasaurus brevispinus life reconstruction by Joschua Knüppe
Sven Sachs is taking a photo of a plesiosaur from Holzmaden
Studying a plesiosaur from Holzmaden in Stuttgart
Daniel Madzia and Sven Sachs are studying Czech plesiosaur specimens in Prague
Daniel Madzia and I study Czech plesiosaur specimens in Prague

2023

Life reconstruction of Lorrainosaurus keileni by Joschua Knüppe
Life reconstruction of Lorrainosaurus keileni by Joschua Knüppe
Miguel Marx and Sven Sachs are studying a plesiosaur in the storage of the Naturkundemuseum Berlin
Miguel Marx and I are studying a plesiosaur in the storage of the Naturkundemuseum Berlin
Studying Styxosaurus browni at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
Studying Styxosaurus browni at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
Trematospondylus macrocephalus holotype vertebrae
Trematospondylus macrocephalus holotype vertebrae

2022

Dean Lomax and Sven Sachs study a huge Temnodontosaurus skull at Banz (Germany)
Dean Lomax and I study a huge Temnodontosaurus skull at Banz (Germany)
Holotype tooth of the pliosaurid Ischyrodon meriani
Holotype tooth of the pliosaurid Ischyrodon meriani
Composite ichthyosaur specimen containg parts of different taxa
Composite ichthyosaur specimen containg parts of different taxa
Me with our poster on ornithopod material from Germany at the SVP conference in Toronto
Me with our poster on ornithopod material from Germany at the SVP conference in Toronto

2021

Life reconstruction of an anhanguerian pterosaur from Germany by Markus Bühler
Life reconstruction of an anhanguerian pterosaur from Germany by Markus Bühler
Thalassomedon haningtoni skeleton at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Thalassomedon haningtoni skeleton at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Holotype of Cricosaurus albersdoerferi at Solnhofen
Holotype of Cricosaurus albersdoerferi at Solnhofen
Thalattosuchus superciliosus skeleton at the University of Tübingen
Thalattosuchus superciliosus skeleton at the University of Tübingen

2020

Sven Sachs is studying marine reptiles at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna (Austria)
Studying marine reptiles at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna (Austria)
Atlas-axis of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Enaliosuchus macrospondylus
Atlas-axis of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Enaliosuchus macrospondylus
Vertebrae of an unusual plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Unna (Germany)
Vertebrae of an unusual plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Unna (Germany)

2019

Sven Sachs studying a skeleton of Thalassiodracon at the Redpath Museum in Montreal
Me studying a skeleton of Thalassiodracon at the Redpath Museum in Montreal
Mystriosaurus laurillardi skull in lateral view. Natural History Museum London collection
Mystriosaurus laurillardi skull in lateral view. Natural History Museum London collection
Skull of Megacephalosaurus eulerti at the Sternberg Museum in Hays (USA)
Skull of Megacephalosaurus eulerti at the Sternberg Museum in Hays (USA)

2018

Studying the dinosaur Aerosteon riocoloradenis at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas “Juan C. Moyano” in Mendoza (Argentina)
Studying the dinosaur Aerosteon riocoloradenis at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas “Juan C. Moyano” in Mendoza (Argentina)
Reassembling the holotype of the aristonectine elasmosaurid Aristonectes quiriquinensis at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile in Santiago de Chile with Rodrigo Otero
Reassembling the holotype of the aristonectine elasmosaurid Aristonectes quiriquinensis at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile in Santiago de Chile with Rodrigo Otero
Mandible of the pliosaurid Simolestes keileni (now Lorrainosaurus keileni) from the Bajocian of Lorraine (France) at the Musée national d'histoire naturelle in Luxembourg
Mandible of the pliosaurid Simolestes keileni (now Lorrainosaurus keileni) from the Bajocian of Lorraine (France) at the Musée national d'histoire naturelle in Luxembourg

2017

Dean Lomax and Sven Sachs study a composite ichthyosaur at Reutlingen (Germany)
Dean Lomax and I study a composite ichthyosaur at Reutlingen (Germany)
Largest Ichthyosaurus skeleton at the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover (Germany)
Largest Ichthyosaurus skeleton at the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover (Germany)
Skull of the elasmosaurid Libonectes morgani. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart collection
Skull of the elasmosaurid Libonectes morgani. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart collection
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