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A #FossilFriday retweet of our paper on deuterostome origins that came out this week. How can you link these monsters together in a single evolutionary framework? Short answer: with a lot of head scratching and whisky. Long answer: check out the paper. https://t.co/dRbaP9ZlO9
Great @nytimes coverage of @SarahLosso1 and @InvertebratePal's new @MCZpaleo paper on the licentious habits of trilobites. Choice passages: "shroud of mystery," "flexible fingerlike," "shriveled limbs," "spiny backside." Will the scandal never end?
https://t.co/mxVHLvi7W1
Forgot to add, the program goes live at 11am. If you want a teaser about some of the cool fossils we'll be talking about, check out this blog post I wrote a few years ago (art by @MesozoicMuse ):
https://t.co/73chPbWNyQ
The Burgess Shale is known for the exceptional preservation of half-a-billion year old invertebrates which give unique insights into early animal evolution. What can be harder to study are the whole communities in which those animals lived; these studies are time/effort intensive
More evolutionary insights from the #BurgessShale, a new species of Mollisonia described by Aria and @ROMtoronto curator J-B. Caron. I remember seeing some of these specimens before they'd been prepared, absolutely unreal levels of appendage details revealed! #DeepTime
A nice write up by @Laelaps on the new Burgess discovery by Joe Moysiuk and JB Caron @UofT_Palaeo @ROMtoronto. I like how the discovery of is put into the winder context of marine ecosystems during the Cambrian (underscored by @cambriancritter).
https://t.co/EOCcQlaKwt
Awesome new paper by Joe Moysiuk and JB Caron describing the "spaceship" radiodontan from the #BurgessShale. I particularly like the discussion of feeding ecology, supported by beautiful plates of the appendages/mouth: https://t.co/g7hQl8rqFX
#DeepTime @ROMtoronto @UofT_Palaeo
I love museum mounts where they peel away layers like this @NMNH one of a black caiman. I think it really helps put the skeleton in life-context more clearly for visitors, and its about as close as most people will ever get to dissecting some pretty awesome animals #museummonday
@danielledecarle Every vampire from Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the whole movie is gorgeous. @ashinonyx @Michael_Foisy
I had a great time at #sicb2018 over the last couple of days, and got to spend some time at the California Academy of Sciences. Incredible design for galleries and displays, I could have spent another whole day in the aquarium alone.