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I am not a professional illustrator of extinct animals. When I was very small, I wanted to be a “scientist” and would use my Mum’s microscope to draw and catalogue what I saw in it. These days, I like to draw over fossils for a lark. These were for my Kid. #paleoart #illustration
i no longer thought of sun, moon, and stars, trees, houses, and towns, nor of any of those terrestrial superfluities which are necessaries of men who live upon the earth's surface. being fossils, we looked upon all those things as mere jokes.
#LagerstatteoftheWeek Juveniles of the ancient shark-relative, Bandringa, are found in the Mazon Creek concretions. The lack of adults and dominance of youngsters and egg cases suggest the area served as a nursery.
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Two exciting #MuseumsJobs are available at @SedgwickMuseum! Good museum jobs are as rare as hens' teeth, which the Sedgwick almost certainly has fossils of in their collections. 🐔🦷 #MuseumJob https://t.co/pzd6S3NB7p
More wips of the carce map! This time zoom ins on a few notable areas; the Sunken District, a casualty to rising sea levels a good decade ago ; Whalers Row, carved from giant fossils half embedded in the island & the Centrum, a main hub of operations for the prison & its Wardens.
Some of the most significant #hominin fossil collections are those that represent at least some of the anatomy of several individuals. Most scientists interpret the fossils from Ngandong, Indonesia, as Homo erectus individuals just before 100,000 years ago. #paleoanthropology
@tyrannoraptoran Albian-Cenomanian North Africa has some really bizarre and diverse lifeforms. There are many largely unexplored formations that bear fossils from and around this time period that can give insight in how this complex place and it's inhabitants evolved over millions of years.
The fossils from Caune de l'Arago, France, were interpreted as the European H. erectus -- in part because the Arago 44 hip bone has a similar form to OH 28. This idea of H. erectus pelvic morphology was bootstrapped without any fossils connected to heads.
[ #GymLeaderRedesign ] A take on Roark if he leaned more to the fossil/archaeology side of Oreburgh City! He'll still help out around the mines, but you'll more often than not find him in the Underground, looking for fossils to be revived!
A year ago I was playing a loooooot of Animal Crossing! Miss taking new fossils to show Blathers ❤️
Others, such as #Clioscaphites & the strait-shelled #Bacculites, spent most of their time in deep water - as indicated by isotopes in their shells. These, like many #ammonite groups ate plankton, as indicated by clumps of plankton found in the body cavities of some #fossils.
The travertine site at Bilzingsleben, Germany, has fossils from straight-tusked elephants, woolly rhinos, and macaques dating to an interglacial probably 400,000 years ago. The #hominin population left tools and remains of at least two individuals. #paleoanthropology
As the smallest mandible in the highly variable Sterkfontein Member 4 #hominin sample, Stw 404 has been a key fossil in understanding whether all these fossils represent Australopithecus africanus, or some of them may represent a second, larger species. #paleoanthropology
buried fossils last for millions of years, but fossils in museums tend not to persist past the building burning down or being swallowed by the ocean. this is why Derelictideusaurus, or "God's forsaken lizard", was pieced together in 2069 (nice) from fragmented digital archives.
The exhibit features over 40 pieces of original #paleoart inspired directly by the #fossils they're displayed along side, which explore the #Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway from its briny depths to the #dinosaur-patrolled beaches.
The Large, late Cretaceous Mosasaur; Taniwhasaurus oweni. Fossils of this genus have been found in New Zealand, Antarctica, and Japan.
Stw 183 is the left side of a young australopith face from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Although it has been likened to the type fossil of Paranthropus robustus (TM1517, green), virtually overlapping the fossils shows it lacks a classic "robust" face #FossilFriday