This might be the coolest 🦕 taphonomy paper yet! Hornung et al report on fragmentary probable titanosaur remains (dorsal centrum & manual phalanx) - and other fossils - that weathered & were later fluvially transported & deposited IN A CAVE!
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A Pokemon who is extinct in the wild; it has been seen under the ownership of Trainers as a result of being revived from Claw Fossils.

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Auroralumina attenboroughii- Dunn, Kenchington, Parry, Clark, Kendall & Wilby, 2022
This fossil of the earliest known predator was found in Charnwood Forest, where Sir David Attenborough grew up looking for fossils, and was named in his honour.

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Title: 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚
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Speculative biology is always going to be a facet of paleomedia. Just comes with the territory trying to fill in the blanks on what the fossils can't tell. What's some of your favorite speculative biology in paleomedia? Stuff that we can't know for sure, but has some fun to it.

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This is the first major scientifically-based pictorial representation of prehistoric life. Based on fossils found by Mary Anning, it depicts prehistoric Dorset, as imagined in watercolour by geologist Henry De la Beche in 1830, At R, later revised lithograph by George Scharf

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For one of the most complicated fossils I had to scan in my career: this on top of the hill in the "field exhibition" at the ! Climbing more than 2 meters above the other skeletons was such an experience! But it was worth it!

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Title: 𝙀𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏
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Among my favourite animals are - the 'fish lizards' - and it's always a joy to look at their fossils (we have many of them in the UK). So I _loved_ compiling current thinking on them for my new book Ancient Sea Reptiles, out now from and

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March 14, 1835, Charles sets off on an expedition into the Andes, where he collects and sketches ✏️
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Collecting and finding fossils brings me joy, but in terms of creating it's seeing my characters realised both in prose and visual. I've become increasingly happier about how I depict Yara and the things she does https://t.co/tTexArLEoM

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Did you know that some fossils are also considered gemstones? For National Jewel Day, let's check out one of the most famous gem fossils: Ammolite. This iridescent opal-like gemstone is made of the fossilized shells of ammonites.

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The Strawberry Bank Lagerstätte not only preserves relatively complete, articulated fossils but preserves them with 3D preservation, offering valuable insight into the anatomy of the animals in the ecosystem.

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the fossils in the chasm remind me of the dessicated shell/drops from the consecrated beasts

i imagine those were similar creatures except they didn't evolve and instead were immortalised as fossils lol

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i’d love to see what you’d come up with! always wanted to give him some sort of weapon or ability (something related to amber fossils…) but have been completely stumped =_= he’s just a Dude

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My new book - Ancient Sea Reptiles - is out. It's a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive review of the ancient sea of the and and here's a discussion of what it includes... https://t.co/FJ5jm5ckCw

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What if the gen 8 fossils unfused!

Dracosaur, The Spikey Pokémon

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What if the gen 8 fossils unfused!

Dunklevish, The Jaw Pokémon

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