Picspam from SVPCA

Being the first in a series of "what I did on my holidays". I went up to Glasgow for the 55th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, which was great. Possibly the best conference ever (but having only been to two so far I can't really judge). Lots of people I'd known by reputation were there (Dougal Dixon, Darren Naish, Mike Benton), and several people I hadn't seen in ages (Bill Clemens, Emma-Lousie Nicholls) I'l stop name-dropping now. Its not an attractive trait. ;)

The topics were great, redescriptions of Neovenator, tooth replacement in Morganucodon, the difficulties of working out mode of life/habitat from turtle shells, a new filter-feeding pachycormid, and soft tissue preservation in Gogo Placoderms.

Anyway if you're really interested there's the SVPCA website with abstracts, photos (yes I'm in there), and information about previous years. Next stop Dublin '08.

But anyway it was awesome, apart from the breakfasts which was a muffin a day and a small carton of juice. Um. Not quite what we were expecting, but nevermind.

I didn't take nearly as many photos as I expected to, failing to achieve the innerbrat's target of taking more photos than Richard Forrest. But here's most of them-

 

( Photos under the cut... )

Photos of the actual people can be found at my Facebook site.