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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid discovered in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MazonCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MazonCreek</a> locality <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-05-spiny-legged-million-year-arachnid.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-05-spiny-legged-million-year-arachnid.html</a> paper: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/remarkable-spiny-arachnid-from-the-pennsylvanian-mazon-creek-lagerstatte-illinois/0E1B32BAFCAEA067018EF9BF349F8B81" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/remarkable-spiny-arachnid-from-the-pennsylvanian-mazon-creek-lagerstatte-illinois/0E1B32BAFCAEA067018EF9BF349F8B81</a>"More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/arachnids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arachnids</a> crawled around the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carboniferous</a> coal <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forests</a> of North America and Europe. These included familiar ones... But there were also quite bizarre arachnids belonging to now <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinct</a> groups. Even among these strange species now lost to time, one might have stood out for its up-armored legs"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺310-million-year-old <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fossil</a> blobs might not be <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jellyfish</a> after all <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/310-million-year-old-fossil-jellyfish-anemone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/310-million-year-old-fossil-jellyfish-anemone</a>An abundant <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SeaAnemone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaAnemone</a> from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carboniferous</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MazonCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MazonCreek</a> Lagerstӓtte, USA <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1479" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1479</a>An ancient <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animal</a> called <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Essexella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Essexella</a> may have been a type of burrowing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sea</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anemone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anemone</a> with a barrel-shaped body, not a jellyfish as some <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientists</a> thought.

Jess Miller-Camp (they/them)We're making a dichotomous key to ID <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a> from a couple specific rock formations in the <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleo</a> collection. Very technical language. *nods*(This is just an initial outline. The final will actually be broadly usable by undergrads and include pictures.)<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MazonCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MazonCreek</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/StanleyCemetary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StanleyCemetary</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#botany</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleobotany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleobotany</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/ItsCorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ItsCorn</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Pennsylvanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pennsylvanian</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Carboniferous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carboniferous</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/lycopsid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lycopsid</a>

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