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The Cambrian bivalved arthropods from my PhD at the at and .
Clockwise
Tuzoia burgessensis. Art Brittany Cheung
Fibulacaris nereidis, Art
Balhuticaris voltae, Art
Pakucaris apatis, Art

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2023-03-18

I've been getting a lot of Pokemon comments for and guess what? There's already one! The Pokemon Anorith and its evolution is based on the Burgess Shale apex-predator Anomalocaris. Now if they would only do Hallucigenia...

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2022-12-31

stylized watercolour painting of an anomalocaris!!

Idk what colour they were so I gave it countershading and bright colouration bc i think it suits them and would probably work to their advantage

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2022-10-28

It is a double-header! Another weird wonder from half a billion years ago, the largest bivalved arthropod Balhuticaris voltae! New research by and 's Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron 🌊
📖:https://t.co/f4B6GxQlSW
🖌️🎨: Hugo Salais

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2022-07-12

y el caso de "Ataque a los Titanes". explica qué papel tiene una criatura del en la trama de esta serie japonesa

▶️ https://t.co/eYHX57DQrb

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2022-03-01

Only 10 days left until the newest discovery takes flight. I promise it'll be out of this world... 🛸 Get in touch if you're interested in the story!

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2021-08-31

For I give you Peronopsis, a 506 million year old agnostinid from the complete with intricately-preserved branching tubes of its digestive tract!
https://t.co/dnMMULzvoy

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2020-04-03

In honour of Charles D. Walcott's birthday, here are a few photos from my trip to his famous quarry in 2017. Wishing I was back there now...

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2020-03-31

For I'm throwing back to our year-old paper on agnostids...you decide whether or not they qualify as https://t.co/LVRp8xRISl
Illustration by , one of many colleagues deserving of celebration on

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2020-02-11

Found these little creatures at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History - Wiwaxia (a bit squished after the transatlantic flight), Trilobite, Opabinia, and Marrella

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2020-01-18

Presenting (belatedly) the backstroke swimmer of the Cambrian seas, the ~0.5 billion years old Fibulacaris nereidis - new research by & 's Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron.
Reconstruction by
Read more: https://t.co/2OI9TbMop2

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2019-11-20

For here's Haplophrentis carinatus from Stanley Glacier (#BurgessShale) with feeding tentacles preserved. This was a key that provided a link between and and it may have a cameo in my upcoming NPGS talk...
https://t.co/85Hb9E961N

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2019-11-08

More evolutionary insights from the a new species of Mollisonia described by Aria and curator J-B. Caron. I remember seeing some of these specimens before they'd been prepared, absolutely unreal levels of appendage details revealed!

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2019-09-11

Awesome new paper by Joe Moysiuk and JB Caron describing the "spaceship" radiodontan from the I particularly like the discussion of feeding ecology, supported by beautiful plates of the appendages/mouth: https://t.co/g7hQl8rqFX

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2019-07-31

enjoying faking specimen photography with Blender. ^^ The mighty spiky Wiwaxia, early molusc from Burgess shale

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2019-06-06

"#BurgessShale fossils shed light on the agnostid problem" - new research by Joseph Moysiuk and 's Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron.
Illustration by .
Read more: https://t.co/hYjLpZ5Uho

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2019-01-17

Gotta shout out to ace palaeoartist on her latest recon, Completely awesome!

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2018-01-23