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Diplomystus dentatus, a predatory clupeomorph fish known from Eocene deposits. Fossils occasionally show this fish with large prey protruding from it's mouth, presumably choking to death and becoming fossilized.

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2021-02-18

Just published in - New research of the from China with one nearly complete skeleton referred to the dicynodontoid genus Turfanodon as a
Read the full article https://t.co/w1sKncVarr

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2021-02-17

138 - Omanyte
Type: Rock/Water

In prehistoric times, it swam on the sea floor, eating plankton. Its fossils are sometimes found.

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2021-02-17

Here are my Fossil for my fan region. My Fossils are based on the stories of Real Fossils being mistaken for Mythological creatures. Left is a Fairy/Ground Type inspired by Pixies and Elementals and Right is a Fairy/Fighting Type inspired by Cyclops.

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2021-02-16

The tall rami of the SK 23 mandible match the tall faces of other fossils attributed to its species, Paranthropus robustus. Isotopic evidence suggests it ate the same range of foods as the smaller-toothed members of our own genus, Homo.

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2021-02-14

This week’s coincides with Charles Darwin’s birthday! He was born in 1809. Augustus Earle depicted Darwin in the below caricature, which shows the naturalist surrounded by on the deck of HMS Beagle at Bahía Blanca,

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2021-02-13

The "robust" lineage shows some differences between earlier and later P. boisei fossils from the East African Rift Valley. Omo 57-41 at 2.36 million years old is near the critical transition time. Maybe it's P. aethiopicus, or maybe not?

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2021-02-12

I have drawn two new fossils. Based on Paralititan stromeri!

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2021-02-12

Fossil remains are often distorted when we find them, by natural weathering, moisture, or the weight of sediments that build above them. Sterkfontein, South Africa, has a complex array of depositional environments that left their mark on the fossils.

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2021-02-10

proto holographic apple dragon fossils

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2021-02-04

in 1790 birthday of Gideon A. Mantell. Remembered for his palaeontological work, but also his contributions to were important. His Tilgate Forest beds & fossils of plants found in them proved to be the first non-marine environment to be known from past

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2021-02-04

The fossil hominins from Zhoukoudian, China, are among the best known Homo erectus samples. Approximately the same age as fossils from Spain attributed to H. antecessor, the connection between these populations is currently unknown.

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2021-02-01

Every Sunday I sit down to look at what's coming up for tweets—and this is easily one of the most exciting weeks of the entire year. Buckle up, friends! So many fossils, so much history...

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2021-02-01

Rocks! Fossils! I love them!💎
Will probably make this my icon for abit

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2021-01-31

Fuelled by imagination! ✨ We wouldn't like to be chased by this one... fabulous illustration from one of our young artists inspired by 's fossils collection.

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2021-01-30

thanks to early Spanish colonists in the 1500s, we know of Aztec, Inca, and other ancient oral traditions about discoveries & interpretations of large vertebrate fossils
How to this?
Drawn by Ed Heck colored by Michele Angel for of the First Americans

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2021-01-30

In probably the most wholesome video we will ever make, I show off my little fossil museum in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The fossils in this game are really well done, and there's some surprisingly obscure specimens!

https://t.co/87e5H82wxP

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2021-01-27

World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions.
The more stuff you own, and the more you travel, the more fossils fuels are burned, and the more greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere.

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2021-01-27

I remember reading Michael Crichton Jurassic Park: The Lost World. He describes the baby Tyrannosaurus rex as looking like a turkey.

He wasn't wrong. Nice post about baby T. rex fossils. (Art Julius Csotonyi)

https://t.co/GOk0K3hVSx

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2021-01-26