These are the petrified remains of 2000-year-old trees that likely died on January 26, 1700 in the last Cascadia subduction zone earthquake.
#NewSpecies!
New late jurassic fish from #germany just came in:
Thrissops ettlingensis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4EE2BDA1-4EE8-5723-904A-550F0BF7AB15
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.99.159055
#Zitteliana #ThrissopsEttlingensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #fossils #fossilfriday #paleo #paleontology #jurassic #thitonian
oh good, there's a new episode of Leaf it to Us out, by Dr Aly Baumgartner and Nora ... sorry I forget.
https://leafittouspod.podbean.com/e/episode-8-what-makes-fruit-ripe/
When Dinosaurs Invented Flowers
If I were going to pen such an article I would first learn that the fossils Mary Anning used to sell in order to survive were not, in fact, dinosaurs.
I would also have first learnt that just because this has happened in the past doesn't de facto mean it isn't wrong in the here and now.
@VQuaschning here some more #ridiculous #charts #turkey and #saudiarabia and #australia less #solar than #pakistan? The #fossilfuel #lobby did a great job soon we all are the #fossils #electricitymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmrow.electricitymap&hl=de
Dr. Caron will be presenting a public talk on the Burgess Shale at Telus Spark Science Centre on August 6, 2025 from 11:00am - 12:00pm. This is his only talk in Calgary during his visit this summer and should be fascinating. More details shortly.
For more information please email david@burgess-shale.bc.ca.
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins – podcast
Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums Reunited to Form New Species
Another wonderful vintage paleoart review is up at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs:
Gemma covers beautiful ancient ocean life murals by Marie Hubrecht
https://chasmosaurs.com/2025/07/17/vintage-dinosaur-art-hubrecht-at-the-lyceum-part-2/
Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil. Are dinosaurs next?
Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/science/ancient-protein-rhino-fossil
hooray! ants part 2 is out!
https://www.palaeocast.com/ants/
how ants evolved from wasps
new 113 million year old ant from the Crato Formatio of Brazil!
@futurebird
A teaser for our book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, written by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
A teaser for our THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, UNEARTHING THE REAL BEHAVIOURS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, by Dr Dean Lomax, illustrated in colour by me, & published by Columbia University Press.
Out September 2025. Pre-order now!
"It’s official: Minnesota’s state fossil is the giant beaver, an extinct creature the size of a small bear that roamed around the Twin Cities more than 10,000 years ago."
#weird #weirdnews #odd #nature #animals #ancient #fossils #midwest #Minnesota #MN
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bear-sized-giant-beaver-once-roamed-north-america-and-theyre-now-the-official-state-fossil-of-minnesota-180986937/
380-million-year-old fossil reveals what the first land animals ate.
About 400 million years ago, some intrepid fish became the first vertebrate animals to walk on land. Now a fossil jawbone found in northern Australia might help explain what these pioneering fish ate.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/lungfish-jawbone-fossil-land/ #fossils #globalmuseum
#Fossils of #Homoerectus and contemporary animal species collected from the #Java seabed. They help to re-create what a landscape now drowned by the sea once looked like.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/seafloor-clues-ancient-human-relatives