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No. 138: Omanyte
Spiral Pokémon
It was restored from an ancient fossil. Those Helix Fossils are excavated from areas that were once oceans long, long ago.
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)
In 'Dinosaurs', the world-leading palaeontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have changed the way we see dinosaurs forever. Grab your bookseller copy here 🦖
Fossil fuel subsidies: If we want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions we should not pay people to burn fossil-fuels https://t.co/0Pi9V8aIdj
#temnovember2021 day 1: Balanerpeton
For the first day of #temnovember, what better option than to start with one of the (if not the) oldest temnospondyls in the fossil record, #Balanerpeton, from the early #Carboniferous of Scotland
#paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl
#fossilfighters Dino and Dina wish you a Happy Halloween! Thank you all for helping me reach 100 followers 🙏
Pastel Paleotober Day 31: The Fighting Dinosaurs ⚔️
The Fighting Dinosaurs are a Velociraptor and Protoceratops from late Cretaceous Mongolia that were fossilized together. They were engaged in a fierce fight and were later buried together in a dune collapse.
#LagerstatteoftheWeek The sea spider, Palaeoisopus, found in the Devonian Hunsrück Slate
#Fossils
#OnThisDay in 1973 the first Australopithecus afarensis fossils (AL 128 & AL 129; age 3.3 million-year-old) were found by Donald Johanson and his team in Hadar, Ethiopia. Its functional morphology was interpreted as evidence of adaptations to bipedalism.
Governments can't subsidize the fossil fuel industry, set far away targets and also expect to be taken seriously.
#COP26 #cdnpoli #ClimateEmergency #StopTMX
For the final #FossilFriday of #Arachtober - and given it's nearly halloween - let's meet a fossil parasite! This beautiful tick was preserved in Eocene (~44–49 million year old) amber, and was reconstructed in 3D by using high resolution CT. Fossil left, digital render right.
Sharing some of my pterosaur-themed pieces for #PrehistoricFlyersWeek and #FossilFriday
Our new paper on tooth modeling (and model simplification) of extant and extinct reptiles is out. https://t.co/ANqWr4LAAX
#scicomm #3dmodeling #biomechanics #fossils
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Pastel Paleotober Day 27: Citipati 💙
Citipati lived in the late Cretaceous desert of Mongolia. One Citipati was fossilized with its arms spread over its nest, trying to protect its eggs from a collapsing sand dune and providing evidence of parenting behavior in non-avian dinos