PalaeoPoemsさんのイラストまとめ

Happy #FossilFriday! How do you picture a monster? T.C. Weston imagined slimy
dinosaurs! Although we now know it's unlikely dinosaurs were slimy, it was a somewhat
sensible belief considering that many dinosaurs lived in moist environments and slimy places.
Art by @KatrinEmery

People have been writing palaeontology-themed poetry for at least 200 years! This awesome timeline by @KatrinEmery shows what topics people have written about in the poems we've featured. #FossilFriday

Today seems like the kind of day where you just want to lament into the abyss, like the geologist in Edward Hitchcock's PalaeoPoem. Artwork by @Zooophagous.

We presented the PalaeoPoems project at @CanSVP 2021, and talked about how poems can be used for science communication! This graphic is a timeline showing the topics of all the poems we have featured so far, and is by @KatrinEmery.

Read our latest blog post now! "Gingko Fossil Tea" by @susieoftraken & @RobinLamboll is about how palaeobotanical research is done in the lab, and what plant fossils from the past can tell us about climate change in the present. Artwork by Madison Foran. (Thread)

Palaeontology is about more than just dinosaurs, and so are PalaeoPoems! We've found poems on all sorts of palaeo topics dating back to 1822, and we find more every week! Timeline by @KatrinEmery.

Poetry is a way for people to talk about fossils in evocative ways. Timothy Conrad called a trilobite "large-eyed mummy of the ancient rocks." Not a scientific description, but one that makes the fossils seem ancient and important. Artwork by @johnjmeszaros.

Katrin is the amazing artist behind some of our most memorable PalaeoPoems! If you're not already following them, you should be! https://t.co/0VABsnrYb7

Frond-ly reminder: your worth is not determined by your productivity!

As Mary Bolles Branch wrote in "The Petrified Fern," the fruits of your labour may take a while to make themselves apparent. Art by Fatema.

Did you know? The first poem we ever featured was about palaeobotany! The Carboniferous comes alive through the poetic words of Marion Delf-Smith, and this illustration by @johnjmeszaros!