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🌊 Artistic reconstruction of Prosqualodon australis with its calf, in the Early Miocene Patagonian coast of the south-western Atlantic Ocean 🐋 🎨 Art by Diego Barletta 📝 Published in JSP by Gaetan et al.: buff.ly/4Aam0fW

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Nature: on what to do upon unpaid labor request in science, e.g. review articles, invited talks/seminars, media asking for expertise, etc. Okay, fair enough -but how could this come from Nature, considering they don't pay their reviewers? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Coronodon #sciart #paleoart

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🚨The proposed 2026 budget is a disgrace. The cuts to science and health research are unconscionable. But it is NOT LAW YET. Now is the time to write your senators and congressional reps. I sent this letter to our reps in Illinois @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @budzinski.house.gov

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if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

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Humans may have been making tools from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago, according to evidence presented in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4kePeD6 🏺 🧪

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"Thus, neither the composition of the pre-extinction [bivalve] biota nor the set of taxa that survived the [K-Pg] extinction fully accounts for the functional and phylogenetic structure of today’s biota." www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology #Geology

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Starting to get how Pompeii happened

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Epic auroras in Maine last night!

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Day 36 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Bringing some more color to #molluskMonday, our fossil is a thin section of Colposigma euthenia from the Eocene of Antarctica, our host is H. sapiens #savePRI

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#Aurora, the star Capella and a hint of #noctilucent clouds. 11:30 pm from just south of Hanna, #Alberta. #astronomy #nlc

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"I question if their buyers know that what they’re selling is lumps of plaster and plastic they're calling a dinosaur” EXCELLENT reporting on the shady world of fossil auctions (and FREE to read!) cowboystatedaily.com/2024/12/14/w...

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#MolluscMonday Nautilus big and small, Eocene and modern, photographed during 2007 at the Priabona museum in northern Italy.

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Llanocetus! #sciart

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“It’s a lot easier to destroy a thing than to build a thing.”

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At the screening last night Tony Gilroy spoke about why a lot of people in creative fields are progressive. I forget his exact phrasing but basically it’s because you have to have empathy in order to make something that speaks to people. Refreshing to hear empathy talked about as a positive.

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#金曜日だから化石貼る #FossilFriday 福井県立恐竜博物館より、ハボロフォシーナHaborophocoena toyoshimai。北海道羽幌市から産出した、前期鮮新世のネズミイルカ科の1種。当時の北海道は大部分が海の下で、現在よりもネズミイルカ科が栄えていた。歯は非常に小さく、獲物を吸い込んで捕食していたようだ。

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The carnivore Inostrancevia went extinct during the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which is the largest known extinction event. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪

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Smile like Megalochelys atlas because it’s #FossilFriday! This species was one of the largest known land turtles & lived during the Late Pliocene ~2 million years ago.

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Mammuthus columbi, photographed 2015 at the Field Museum in Chicago. This skeleton is a composite of roughly four individuals. #paleontology #FossilFriday #PaleorenjiPhoto

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Wanna meet a weird AF fossil arachnid order for #FossilFriday? Below are phalangiotarbids - now extinct, they roamed the earth betweem 395 and 250 million years ago. Their body, like most arachnids, was segmented, but a bunch of the segments are concentrated towards their middle. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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A fossilized crocodilian osteoderm, possibly Thecachampsa sericodon from the Ocala Limestone in the Haile Quarry (Haile Sites) of Alachua County, Florida, USA. This specimen was originally found in multiple pieces. #FossilFriday #crocodylomorph #crocodilian #fossil #paleontology #thecachampsa

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Started prepping this crinoid plate for @cambriancam.bsky.social last night. I believe it's from the Cincinnati area (Kope Fm. maybe?), but Cam can share more details. #FossilFriday

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The most complete Bush Elephant molar from one of the sites I'll be working on in Turkana this summer! So excited to be back soon #FossilFriday

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New paper out online in Geology @geosociety.bsky.social for #FossilFriday with @bigfacecats.bsky.social, @thomashegna.bsky.social and Ron Meyer. We describe an unusual horseshoe crab from the Ordovician of Michigan which preserves the ovaries with developing eggs! 🧪⚒️ 🧵[1/7] doi.org/10.1130/G533...

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Don't know how many more of these I've got in me, but I have ambitions that involve photo documentation of the whole damn collection. So, for today's #FossilFriday I bring you a mammoth tooth collected from a nearby cement quarry, one of a variety of Ice Age mammals we once had on display.

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#FossilFriday foram! Vaginulinopsis verruculosa, Eocene Lodo Fm. of California. The Lodo records the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum when global average temp. rose more than 5 C, lasting ~200,00 years! A time of big biotic change. #paleontology #foraminifera @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/rBMU4y

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Meet "Black Beauty" (RTMP 81.6.1)—one of the most iconic Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered! #FossilFriday

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#FossilFriday: Stygimoloch spinifer, a pachycephalosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous of Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming. Another pachycephalosaur from the same region, dubbed Dracorex hogwortsia, may be a juvenile Stygimoloch.

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A break from the usual vertebrates for this beautiful ammonite fossil. #FossilFriday

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Can’t get enough Cretaceous Arctic baby birds? ❄️🐣 Me neither! Check out the talk I gave at the Royal Tyrrell Museum! I not only get into what types of birds were living in northern Alaska 73 million years ago, but also the crazy Arctic fieldwork we do to actually find the fossils! #FossilFriday

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#fossilfriday some mososaur stomach contents!

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when the AI bubble pops and corporations stop forcing AI down our throats i'll miss stuff like this

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Happy #FossilFriday! #Plesiosaurs, unlike many other #marinereptiles, swam through the water using 4 large flippers. This required massive muscles, and big shoulder and hip bones for those muscles. These bones are visible on #MOR995, the partial skeleton of a plesiosaur.

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Trying to come up with an SVP abstract title is really hard work! Happy #FossilFriday from this vertical Protosphyraena snout that I found in 2020 after it lawn-darted itself into the sediments of the Niobrara 86-87 million years ago. This is one of the few specimens I've seen with both fangs

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#fossilfriday Mom: "we have ammonite fossils at home." Several beautiful northern CA ammonites (including a ?Crioceratites) from the Cretaceous of Northern California, on display at the California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social

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31 million year old Alligator prenasalis from South Dakota. 🐊 #fossilfriday

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The Goddess of Creation Nebula bathes the cosmos in celestial light, her luminous petals cradling newborn stars in an eternal dance of birth and wonder.

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Postdoc position with Erin Saupe at Oxford on whales past and present my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Erin’s great! And who doesn’t like whales? 🐋🐳

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A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.

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sketching at the museum

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NGC 7635 - The Bubble Nebula Last summer, @coastalpaleo.bsky.social and I went to a bortle 1 sky - those are the darkest skies possible, with no light pollution. The skies were so perfect, you could see SO MANY stars, it was really difficult to make out constellations!

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#vss365 At low tide, the buckets came out to play. Carried by eager young hands they built castles and dived in rock pools. A violet leaf with bright tips floated into a blue bucket, and swam back out when it realised. A mother's voice identified it as a #nudibranch and pondered this stunning world.

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New #megalodon study uses zinc isotopes to reconstruct Miocene marine food webs; finding that megalodon (+ O. chubutensis) were not just supercarnivores, but opportunistic too - i.e., ate whatever they want & not just whales. Fascinating read. Congrats to the authors! 🦈 doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

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If stealing is a core part of that industry, please kill it right now.

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Thylacines. A3 private commission. A pair of Tasmanian wolves chase a pademelon (a sort of Tasmanian wallaby) My first time doing a thylacine. Definitely my first time going a pademelon.

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About Cretaceous Rudist reefs...👀 I don't seem to find many restorations of these guys. Do we know how they these reefs looked in life? would their shells be exposed? completely buried? any idea of how their soft bodies would apear? #rudists #paleoart #askingforafriend #paleotwitterwhereyouat

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