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#FossilFriday Colony of the Jurassic cyclostome bryozoan Entalophora cellarioides. This unusually intact colony was collected two hundred years ago at Ranville in Calvados, northern France.

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This #FossilFriday meet Bojophlebia - this cool ~309 million year old fossil insect was found in the Czech Republic. The scale bar on the image is 4cm, so we can estimate this animal had a wingspan of over 40cm. What it actually was though, has been subject to discussion. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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Looking forward to leafing through 🍃 this excellent new Phil Trans B special issue on phylogenetics, commemorating the 100th birthday of the Yule model 🌳 royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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Go home everyone, there is absolutely nothing happening here. .... 😍 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 (Photo by Andreas Kay)

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TODAY! Join us to discuss the PalAss Research Grants: Wednesday 19th February at 17:30 UTC Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is the Devonian-age phacopid trilobite Erbenochile erbeni. Not only does this Moroccan species feature towering 0.8-in (2-cm-) high eye stacks—each topped by a unique shading brim—but it also has a row of intimidating spines that run along its axial lobe.

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For #FossilFriday meet Dunbaria. Isn't this fossil gorgeous? It was found in ~285 million year old rocks in Elmo, USA. It's a member of an order called the Palaeodictyoptera. Those patches you can see on the wings represent the colouration of the wings in life, preserved in a fossil 🤯 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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Thanks to the more than 1100 members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Announcing the rather epic 'Glossary of tetrapod tracks' in Palaeontologia Electronica. Three years of work led by Jens Lallensack, and with Guiseppe Leonardi (author of the original '87 Glossary). We hope it will be useful for anyone working on tracks palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

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👤 Our first starter pack is a handy repository for all SSI Fellows on Bluesky. Connect with them at go.bsky.app/BaXzrAh and if we've missed missed anyone, please let us know!

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The graffiti artists of Berlin are pretty on the money. (Nie wieder ist jetzt == Never again is now)

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How do you connect disparate, disconnected student botanists? 🌱🌿🌳🧪🔬 In our new paper, we show how Botanical University Challenge - a quiz contest - is building an engaged community of plant-aware students, in the UK and beyond. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience

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I continue to learn important phrases in German 🫡 Er wollte ihre Großeltern in die USA besuchen, aber ein orangefarbener Scheißkerl Präsident ist. (FYI to any talented bilingual friends, I am very grateful for any corrections to errors / clunky word order in the above!)

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Spent time yesterday in a local woodland, looking for small animals under rocks & logs here's Megahexura fulva, a neat mygalomorph spider endemic to California three image stack, photographed in situ

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Our new paper led by @devinhoffman.bsky.social ([email protected], @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @rnf.bsky.social & Eryka Goldsmith) on the histology of the alligatoroid Diplocynodon indicates that growth strategy in alligators and caimans evolved early in the group: doi.org/10.1111/joa....

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I wish we still concluded papers like this. 🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (Source: www.nature.com/articles/023... - "The Influence of a Tuning-Fork on the Garden Spider" also, Nature papers have changed a lot since 1888 )

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For #FossilFriday meet something of a rarity - a fossil centipede. Like last week's fossil, this is a macerate - the remains of an animal dissolved out of a rock using strong acid. The fossil, called Devonobius, is from NY state, and is around 385 million years old. Isn't it cool? 🤩 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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🔍 Call for co-curators! Our exhibition team is looking for co-curators to bring in new perspectives on two collection depots with colonial holdings: antlers, horns and mammal skulls. 🇧🇮 🇨🇲 🇬🇭 🇫🇲 🇳🇦 🇵🇬 🇷🇼 🇼🇸 🇹🇿 🇹🇬 📅 Apply by 4 March 2025 🔗 More info: www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/call-co-c...

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‘Signal’ (Oil and acrylic on canvas) *Limited edition mounted prints available.

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I'm marking in the airport. This feels more like the dying of the light than the rage against it. ⚒️🧪

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Before everything I told @franzanth.bsky.social I would do a crab A-Z in Feb. Not sure if I still should, but: A is for Aegla, the only genus in its family and the only fully freshwater false crabs. Endemic to S America, males fight with the palmar crests on their claws 🦀🧪🦑 #CrabAZ

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On this #FossilFriday I am curating an enormous collection of harpetid trilobites from the Devonian of Morocco, as figured in the recent ZooTaxa monograph by Robert Johnson. Some absolutely gorgeous material we are very lucky to have acquired. www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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Oooh, I managed to find a photo of a larger specimen - courtesy of the GB3D type fossils collection. Amazing 😍 www.3d-fossils.ac.uk/fossilType.c...

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