September 9, 1794, birthday of William Lonsdale, based on his research on fossils in Devon (UK) in 1839 the Devonian was introduced into the chrono-stratigraphic column
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(These are all pretty jokey)
1: Where are all the flying crabs?
2: What if the originally "misinterpreted" tanystropheus fossils WERE of a flying animal?
3: What if the elephant shrew becomes the platybelodon shrew, or "shroop"?
4: What if pterosaurs undergo carcinization?

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it looks cool ????
that shit looks amazing

two of the fossils aren't even bad either

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September 6, 1802, birthday of French naturalist Alicide d'Orbigny, pioneer of the study of microfossils 🦠🔬
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paleontologists are baffled at how these two fossils remained beautiful for over a millennia

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Welcome to
This week John and had a new paper come out on a “barf” fossils from our late Jurassic plant site. This is the same site that produced 1/5🧵
Read: https://t.co/m3VExtktNe
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Other than the leviathan fossils,Hyrule is filled with other bones.While some could be hinox or molduga skeletons,the skulls that are found in lizalfos camps and the bottomless swamp are veery peculiar🤔

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are a pretty massive group of arthropods that spanned from the early Cambrian to the Permian.. They're so common that they make excellent index fossils, meaning they can be used to date other fossils within their strata. This one is based on the genus Paradoxides!

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Zhongli and Kaltsit, Rangers, Hellagur.

Team Fossils /j 😂

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Fossil pokemon that uses fossils as pokemon. If it’s holding a fossil, it throws it in battle to create a substitute. It has a signature move that changes type depending on the fossil it’s holding

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A small WIP preview of one of our thalattosaurs. This strange creature swam in the warm shallow seas of Switzerland ~240ish million years ago. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess...

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Fossils of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, from L to R: femur TM 266-01-063, skull TM 266-01-060-1 and ulnae TM 266-01-050 & TM 266-01-358.
➕info: Sahelanthropus, a biped 7 million years ago: What are the doubts? https://t.co/584ZUpdswc

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thinking about fossils is getting to me man i love them so much i love them

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Dow's Puffin wasn't the only bird breeding on the Channel Islands. The massive bonebeds of San Miguel Island also preserve fossils of the Ancient Murrelet, Cassin's Auklet and the flightless seaduck Chendytes lawi.

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New paper out with , , Niccolo Fioritti, & Torsten Scheyer. We created a new tool in to enable interactive 3D modelling of muscles, and also provide a user guide for reconstructing and retrodeforming fossils. https://t.co/1XuZSqAeKu

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Could little Susan Hendrickson ever have imagined she would find a T-rex one day??? Still crazy when I think about someone discovering actual dinosaur fossils 🤯

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Super cool! Lystrosaurus fossils preserving mummified skin! My choices for these Lystrosaurus for my book seem to hold well for what I see. If someone has a pdf of the paper and can send it to me I’d greatly appreciate it https://t.co/vhd4yX0rJL

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We have many fossils that show O. Megalodon was an active predator like todays sharks.

https://t.co/TKIxlhLA47

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