History_of_Geologyさんのイラストまとめ

"an animal of a truly singular and nouvel description was killed by dogs the 30 march on a hill immediately contiguous to the settlement at Yorkton Port Dalrymple"
The Sydney Gazette on the 1st Thylacine killed by Europeans in 1805, 131 years later species was extinct

March 12, 1784, birthday of Victorian theologian & geologist William Buckland, he described the 1st #dinosaur as Megalosaurus in 1824 based on a fragmentary preserved jaw.
Artwork by Paleontologists & their Prehistoric Pets https://t.co/vQ2MyCyG9e and the original fossil 🦖

March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller, the figure - from his travel account - shows the smoking volcano Klyuchevskoy, on the Kamchatka peninsula, highest active volcano of Eurasia 🌋

March 9, 1847, Mary Anning dies at the age of 47. Her discoveries were some of the most significant paleontological finds of all time.
https://t.co/X3GBFL5Vl0

March 6, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society ⚛️

March 5, 1512, birthday of mathematician & cartographer Gerardus Mercator 🌐 https://t.co/1BDTdfEwwj

February 24, 2014, a 4.4 billion-year-old crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the #earth's crust. The crystal was found in sedimentary rocks from Western Australia’s Jack Hills region 💎

Died February 22, 1875, Charles Lyell, the advocate of geology. His argument that the present geological forces can explain the past revolutionized #geology. He also popularized this young science & influenced generations of geologists, like Darwin https://t.co/ayl0PXt1lB

February 4, 1783, worst #earthquake in eight years kills some 50,000 in Calabria, Italy.
https://t.co/SlhQ64oiLp

February 3, 1790, birthday of British geologist Gideon Algernon Mantell who was puzzled by strange fossil bones he found https://t.co/KXxcqDT5pG Famous for the scientific description of the first herbivorous dinosaur - Iguanodon - a genus of this group was named after him