Dr Suresh Singh

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• Vertebrate Palaeontologist @ The Open University, UK • Studying the links between morphology, ecology & evolution across deep time, with a focus on terrestrial tetrapods & ecosystems • 🌿- 🦕- 🦖

Circular for new symposium on marine reptile palaeontology to be held at the Oxford Museum of Natural History between 7-8th October 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 1st June 2026.
The Brymbo Fossil Forest is offering students the chance to get involved in palaeontological excavations of a Carboniferous fossil forest in North Wales. QR code on image directs to further details.
The lateral view of a skull of the dicynodont, Ishigualastia jenseni, on display at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah. This skull was discovered in 1964 from the Ishigualasto Formation, Argentina.
A photo of Sophie the Stegosaurus on display within the Earth Hall, beneath a huge sculpture of the Earth that visitors can walk through. This hall marks the Exhibition Road entrance to the Natural History Museum UK in London.
Presenting my recent research with The Open University on South American crocodyliform macroevolution through the Cenozoic.
Advert for my talk tomorrow (Friday 14th 2025) at 10:45 am in Hall 8 on ecological and environmental controls on crocodyliform macroevolution in South America through the Cenozoic.
A cast of a Nanotyrannus skull on display at the T. rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The skull of a Megacerops brontothere on display at the Brigham Young University Palaeontology Museum in Provo, Utah, USA.
Isolated teeth of Erythrosuchus africanus from the collections of the Natural History Museum UK.
A mounted reconstructed skeleton of the tyrannosaurid, Lythronax argestes, and its skull on display at the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Figure 1 from the paper, showing the locality location and geology.
A skull reconstruction of Ceratosaurus nasicornis on display at the Brigham Young University Museum in Provo, Utah, USA. This skull was created using two fragmentary skulls in the museum’s fossil collections.
Ecological restoration map of the tritylodont, Polistodon chuannanensis. Artwork supplied by the researchers, artist unknown I’m afraid.
A photo of the front of the mounted skeleton of the pareiasaurus parareptile, Bradysaurus, on display at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. Shows the skull and front limbs.
An aetosaur osteoderm (armour plate) fossil with a large spike sticking out from the centre. Specimen from the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Abstract acceptance for an oral presentation at this year’s annual meeting of the society of vertebrate paleontology in Birmingham, UK.
Mounted skeleton of the Russian gorgonopsid, Inostrancevia alexandri on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
The skull of the dinocephalian, Mormosaurus seeleyi, housed in the fossil collections of the Natural History Museum UK in London, England.
A mounted skeleton of the dicynodont, Lystrosaurus, on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.
A mounted skeleton of a Moa on display at the Natural History Museum in London, UK. This giant, extinct flightless bird once lived in New Zealand but went extinct shortly after the islands were colonised by humans.
A mounted Dimetrodon skeleton on display at the Royal Ontario Museum of Natural History in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦. In the foreground, you can see a replica of the upper jaw fossils of Canada’s species of Dimetrodon, D. borealis.
Me handling the lower jaw of a Diadectes, while making notes & sketches on its anatomy. I got to examine this fossil back in 2019, when I visited the fossil collections of the Field Museum in Chicago, USA.
A view from the lower gallery of the museum, which features displays on megafauna, marsupials, afrotherian mammals, and specimens collected by Charles Darwin.
Allosaurus cranial & mandibular fossils in the collections of the Brigham Young University Museum of Palaeontology in Provo, Utah, USA. Both hemimandibles of the lower jaw and the nasals, premaxilla and maxilla of the skull present with some isolated teeth. Scale bar shows CM.
A letter from Mary Anning to Sir Henry Bunbury concerning her recent discovery of a plesiosaur marine reptile skeleton, with sketches of the specimen & its subsequent published scientific description.
The statue of Mary Anning on the seafront at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Her dog, Tray is also featured as he was a regular companion on her fossil hunting trips on the Jurassic Coast.
The fossilised skeletons of a Temnodontosaurus platydons (top) and a plesiosaurus dolichodeirus (bottom left) on display at the Lyme Regis Museum in Dorset, England.
The skull of Hyperodapedon sanjuanensis from the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina. These rhynchosaurs had particularly pronounced hooked, beak-like jaws.
Me standing beside a mounted skeleton of the loricatan pseudosuchian, Prestosuchus chiniquensis, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
A replica of a Bernissart Iguanodon skeleton on display at the University of Oxford Museum of Natural History.
The partial skeleton of the iguanodontian dinosaur, Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis. It was originally described as Iguanodon by Gideon Mantell in the 1830s. Portraits of Gideon Mantell & his wife, Mary can be seen in a reflection on the glass display case. They were the discoverers of the first Iguanodon fossils in 1822, which they described in 1825, making Iguanodon the second dinosaur ever named.
Fern the diplodocus dinosaur bronze skeleton on display in the new gardens of the Natural History Museum UK in London. The main entrance of the museum can be seen in the background.
Two mounted skeletons of the brontothere, Megacerops, on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.
Me kneeling next to a young Nile Crocodile resting against the glass.
The mounted skeleton of the phytosaur, Redondasaurus, with its open jaws facing the viewer. On display at the Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Scaled resin models of the skulls of an Allosaurus dinosaur (left) & an Inostrancevia therapsid (right) made by RuadhrÍ Brennan of Scaledbeast.com.
The open jaws of the giant crocodyliform, Sarcosuchus imperator. I am crouched behind the skull, giving some sense of the gigantic scale of this reptile. This photo was taken in 2019 during my visit to the University of Chicago, US.
The skull of Daemonosaurus chauliodus at the museum at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, USA. The snout of this basal theropod dinosaur is short and ends at the front with highly procumbent teeth.
A palaeoart scene showing the Triassic temnospondyl, Mastodonsaurus hunting in a freshwater lake. Artwork by Mark Witton
Exterior of the main building, Walton Hall at The Open University.
The skeleton of the temnospondyl amphibian, Anaschisma browni, on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A person sits behind the skeleton giving some sense of the large size of this ancient creature.
The skull of Dimetrodon on display at the Vienna Museum of Natural History .
The biodiversity gallery at the Manchester Museum. A lion skull in the glass display case on the left and whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling. Butterfly modes also suspended to create a swarm next to the whale.
The display at the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City. Six Allosaurs of varying age (juvenile to adult) surrounding one beleaguered Barosaurus at the ancient watering hole that was the Cleveland Lloyd quarry site in the Late Jurassic.
The mounted skeleton of a Megatherium americanum on display in the UK natural history museum in London. A person in the foreground provides some sense of the scale of these giant sloths.
Three skeletons mounted in a display at the Field Museum in Chicago, USA. This exhibition showcases the mammalian megafauna of the last ‘Ice Age’. Here you can see the skeleton of a cave lion on the left, short faced bear on the right, and mammoth behind them.
The mounted skeleton of Uintatherium anceps on display at the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
Graphical abstract showing functional optimality of puncture & stress resistance performance across the canines of mammalian carnivores. Extreme sabretooth forms cluster on the left of the morphospace in an high optimality hotspot.
The mounted skeleton of Patagotitan mayorum in the Waterhouse gallery. I’m also in the photo - standing in the foreground to the right.
Artistic life reconstruction of the new gorgonopsian walking beside small pond on an ancient floodplain.
A view from the upper floor of the Oxford Natural History Museum, looking out towards the displays on the ground floor. You can see whale skeletons suspended from the ceiling & a T. rex skeleton on the left.
The skeleton of Titus the T. rex on display at Wollaton Hall stately home & museum in Nottingham, England.
The view of the dinosaur hall from the main entrance to the hall. The Diplodocus skeleton dominates your view as you enter.