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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

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Just a small personal collection of Fool's Gold Ammonites collected from Lyme Regis & Charmouth. Some have bite marks and worm tubes on them.

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Only that one thing is worth it…..

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It's the #CrabAZ that @franzanth.bsky.social has been waiting for: V is for Velolambrus... or DORITO CRAB!!! It's not "the" species he called a dorito, but I think these are even more dorito shaped. They are cryptic under rocks, mud, or seagrasses. 🦀🧪🦑

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First new painting in a while — Leptonectes tenuirostris (foreground) and Leptonectes solei (background) hunt cephalopods as dusk

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Star trails from last night! A bit more cropped on the right. 250 min, Canon SL3 + intervalometer. The brightest one just slightly off center is Polaris.

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Excellent new paper by Maximilian Gaetan et al. - a reevaluation of the early short-snouted shark-toothed dolphin Prosqualodon australis from Argentina. Dozens of new specimens, including many new skulls, are described! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‼️early #FossilFriday. Remarkable specimen of the rudist bivalve 𝐷𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑚𝑎, found in Pickens County, Alabama. Mooreville Chalk, Cretaceous (~ 82 Ma). 😍 Specimen used by Zimmerman et al. (2023: J Paleo @paleosoc.bsky.social). Specimen @almnh.bsky.social (ALMNH:Paleo:12696). #paleontology #fossil

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It’s Prosqualodon! Important new paper by Maxi Gaetan and colleagues on this enigmatic austral fossil odontocete #FossilFriday aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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A Euceratherium skull covered in mineralization when it was found in Muskox Cave at Carlsbad Caverns National Park (left) and the same skull after preparation (right). #FossilFriday

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A fantastic example of a group of birds that is mostly completely unknown to the public: the Plotopteridae! These are giant, flightless penguin-like cormorant/anhinga relatives that lived in the North Pacific during the mid-Cenozoic; they swam alongside the earliest dolphins & baleen whales.

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#金曜日だから化石貼る #FossilFriday もうすぐ終わるので、特別展「鳥〜ゲノム解析が解き明かす新しい鳥類の系統〜」より、コペプテリクスCopepteryx hexeris。翼はペンギンのようなフリッパーになっている一方で、頭骨はウなどに似ている。こんな鳥がかつての日本にいたというのが興味深い。

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Happy #FossilFriday, take a look at the skull of Teratophoneus! This tyrannosaur made southern Utah its stomping grounds roughly 76 million years ago, and it may have used those massive teeth to prey upon hadrosaurs such as Gryposaurus and Parasaurolophus. (1/2) #paleontology

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For #FossilFriday, a probable Early Cretaceous (~125 mya) crustacean burrow system preserved in a fluvial (freshwater river) sandstone in Victoria, Australia, ichnogenus Thalassinoides. What kind of crustacean made it? Probably crayfish. #ichnology

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#fossilfriday when I last went to go see @pinuppaleontology.bsky.social I was working on early parts of the scutosaur painting and asked if there were any scutosaur scutes around I could shoot ref of. There were ✨👀✨! so greatful <3 I learned so much. #permian #scutosarus #paleontology #fossil

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This #fossilfriday , I've been doing some investigation & learned that there is a stem-tetrapod bearing, carboniferous fossil site just a five minute walk from my mother-in-law's house. Or at least there was, until it was built over for houses & a school playground. My disappointment is immeasurable

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#fossilfriday a partial skull of Styracosaurus. On display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Canada #royaltyrrellmuseum #alberta #canada #prehistoriccanada #dinosaur #mesozoic #cretaceous

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An assortment of late Cretaceous spatangoid urchins collected from the Haslam Formation of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Part of an ongoing project to organize and document fossils in my collection. #FossilFriday #PaleoSky #FossilCollecting #Fossils #Cretaceous #NanaimoGroup

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This #FossilFriday is brought yo you by the Hell Creek gar that I found in 2012. Fun field fact: Were were stuck at camp for so long due to rain that I got to read @theauthorguy.bsky.social 's hilarious book "Lamb" for the first time. I've been hooked ever since. rmdrc.blogspot.com/2025/02/hell...

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The Koala Lemur, Megaladapis edwardsi. This adorably goofy squatty body was by far the largest lemur to ever exist. They were likely driven to extinction a mere 500 years ago on a rapidly changing Madagascar. On display at the Paris Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy. #FossilFriday

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Happy #FossilFriday! The fossil in this stone (bottom) looks like a lizard’s lower jaw, but it's actually the spine of a #hybodont #shark (#MOR362). These freshwater sharks had imposing spines on their backs and went extinct with the non-avian #dinosaurs at the end of the #Cretaceous

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This is one of the most stunning crinoids in my collection. Gennaeocrinus mourantae is a Devonian crinoid from the Arkona Formation of Ontario. Most of the Gennaeocrinus from this location where found in a single pocket decades ago. They are very rare. #FossilFriday

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Me: Oooo. Leidy's holotype of PANTHERA ATROX!!! P. atrox:... Me, whispering in awe: (you're so awesome...) At Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia. Happy #fossilfriday.

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A post disputed basal mammalimorph Morganucadon in No Am. So, as the co-discoverer of the only known NA tooth with Will Downs of this taxon and 1st E Jur "mammal" from 1 of 4 sacks of matrix hiked out of the Gold Springs Site, Kayenta Fm, Northern AZ. My photo July, 1981. #FossilFriday. Science 1983

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It's #FunFactFriday! Did you know that Norwegian Killer Whales can be observed feeding on large bait balls of Atlantic herring? Killer whales will work together to bring herring to the surface and herd them into a ball.

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#FossilFriday: the nimravid Pogonodon. Nimravids resemble cats, but they are a distinct (and extinct) family of carnivores. Like cats, nimravids had retractile claws, and many developed enlarged saber like canines, similar to true cats such as the sabertoothed Smilodon.

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#FossilFriday & I suppose I must do a vertebrate sometime. So here is Euzaphleges longurio, a mackerel-type beast from the late Miocene of California. Paleo-saba? #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social flic.kr/p/7v6AoW

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#ICYMI Florida fossil collectors Robert Sinibaldi and Joseph Branin discovered remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ground sloths, and an odd-looking tapir. #FossilFriday Full story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/unde...

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@science.org just published this article about the Paleontological Research Institution and its importance in this time of financial crisis for the institution. Please share widely as donations in any amount can make a real difference in the short-medium term. ⚒️🧪🦑 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Imagine a rodent the size of a bear 🦫 While cataloguing fossils found near Old Crow, Elizabeth from Yukon Palaeontology identified something exciting. The two bones on the left belong to a giant beaver! These fossils are caudal vertebrae, part of its tail. #FossilFriday #Palaeontology

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On this #FossilFriday in 1822, a significant event in the history of UK palaeontology occurred! William Buckland presented his study on fossils from Kirkdale Cave, providing evidence that hyenas once lived there rather than their bones being washed by a great flood. 🏛️ @leedsmuseums.bsky.social

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tfw you're an evolutionary biologist and you hear chemists discussing "species" & "speciation"

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The wholesale capitulation of universities to Trump's fascist agenda is disgusting but not surprising.

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Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) has some thoughts that feel very relevant today:

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I love #FishyFeb so, so, so much and today for #deepsea I‘ll show you something very special for me #Nautilus They can live in a depth of 700 meters #watercolor #deepseaanimals #aquarelle #animalpainting

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#fossilfriday One of the first fossils I ever worked on - a pair of associated mandibles of the extinct fur seal Callorhinus gilmorei (presumed ancestor of the northern fur seal, C. ursinus), from the Rio Dell Formation of Humboldt Co., CA (latest Pliocene). Published in JVP in 2011.

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My office right now. I wanted to do a #FossilFriday post with Deanna's current prep project, but it's not finished yet (watch this space). In the meantime... this is gonna be a special piece for our exhibit. #dinosaur #dinosaurs #museum #museumlife #fossil #scicomm #tyrannosaur

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Fresh out of the oven, some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: mother Coelodonta antiquitatis hurries along her offspring, Bort, who spent too long looking for a personalised novelty licence plate on the mammoth steppe. "Come along, Bort!", she says. #fossil #Iceage #paleontology

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This #paleoart shows 3 views of the Devonian brachiopod fossil Paraspirifer bownockeri; one is reconstructed w/ some epifauna and boreholes. These are fun to find; they're an impressive size (for brachiopods). I had an excellent specimen to use as a reference for this painting. #FossilFriday #sciart

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More Brandt's cormorants (Urile penicillatus): the quick flick of the nictating membrane over the eye - this is the "third eyelid". If you look closely, on the right, you can still make out the iris! Still surprised I managed to get this shot, it happens so fast. 🦑 #socal #birds #birding

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Trilobites, Acadoparadoxides briareus, that are over 500 million years old!! Their exoskeletons tend to be well preserved. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪🦖

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🚨 New plesiosaur paper 🚨 After 12 years of work, our paper about Seeleyosaurus was published today. Seeleyosaurus was the first complete plesiosaur found in Germany. The holotype at the NHM Berlin is almost complete, articulated and even has fossilised skin. 1/6 #FossilFriday #Science #Germany

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