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Pyrite disease claims a tray full of French ammonites
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
@noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social check this ctenophore out! Lovely images. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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smmnh.bsky.social
This fossil is an example of what is called a "mortality plate" as it contains the remains of several animals that all died around the same time. Trilobites were some of the first animals to evolve an exoskeleton, and as a result fossilize very well compared to other Cambrian creatures.
This fossil is an example of what is called a "mortality plate" as it contains the remains of several animals that all died around the same time. Trilobites were some of the first animals to evolve an exoskeleton, and as a result fossilize very well compared to other Cambrian creatures.
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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yutytyrant.bsky.social
🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Protocyon troglodytes

From Late Pleistocene South America and Mexico, "before dog" was a 25kg canid that filled a similar niche to the African wild dog or Asian dholes while being related to maned wolfs and other South American canids
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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anatrecord.bsky.social
🦎✨ New research delivers the 1st full 3D anatomical atlases of the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)! Open-access atlases + lesson plans offer powerful new tools for studying reptile evolution and teaching comparative anatomy.
Leavey et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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ferwen.bsky.social
#FossilFriday
Victorian Christmas cards: "Ideal impression of a future creation discovered by professors Ichthyosaurus, Megalosaurus and Co." printed by Thomas De la Rue for the Natural History Museum of London 🎄🧪⚒️

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November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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paleobyliam.bsky.social
Matonia pectinata is a beautifully-shaped fern, and the family it belongs to can be traced back to the Late Triassic. When researching I often make reference sheets like this of the most useful figures, photos & illustrations I can find. Most pics from iNaturalist or Flickr. #paleobotany #botany
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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daverodland.bsky.social
When #FossilFriday is also Black Friday, one looks for black fossils ... bonus points if they were apparently purchased from a science supplier like Wards. This on is a large specimen of Maclurites, an Ordovician taxon generally believed to be sedentary, suspension feeding gastropods.
A large black gastropod fossil shaped like the classic logarithmic spiral, except that the ventral surface (the one it would lie on) is flattened and there is no sign of chambers. Label: "Maclurites sp. Chazy limestone, Ordovician Plattsburg, New York "
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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ksepkalab.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for Centuriavis lioae, a 10 million year old fossil relative of turkeys. It was a lot of fun describing this stunning specimen with Catherine Early, Kate Dzikiewicz, and Amy Balanoff. The fossil is named after our amazing museum colleague Suzanne Lio.
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
Thankful for biodiversity and the joy of natural history
Image of various cartoon echinoderms (starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc) with text that says "I am thankful for echinoderms"
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
Leotia viscosa aka Chicken Lips. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #hiking
Photo of a fungus with a green cap and bright yellow stem.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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aineurolab.bsky.social
A rare sea slug who dares to make food from sunlight found in waters near a beach not too far from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Really interesting adaptation. If only we could do this trick…
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News
Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Benthodytes, slime star, isopod, carnivorous sponge? That last one has a weird top, I can't make out what it is. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Rawr. Synaphobranchid. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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paleontologizing.bsky.social
If you're fond of telling your fellow Thanksgiving diners that the turkey is indeed a dinosaur, then I've got an infographic for you

From the hips to the wishbone to the wrist joint, a turkey features SCADS of dinosaurian traits visible right there on your Thanksgiving table. Print and share!
"YOUR TURKEY IS A DINOSAUR" printable infographic sheet, featuring a comparison between a turkey and Velociraptor skeleton, with numbered decriptions of the dinosaur features visible in your Thanksgiving bird
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Who needs the upside down when we have #StrangerThings right here in our world. 💚
Close up of two Amazon river dolphins under murky water. They curiously look into the lens; their mouths look long and prominent. The light shines down from the surface in the dark water, giving an orange-red glow. Close up image of a deep sea cirrate octopod. The background is black and the octopod is a warm orange and red colour. Late larval stage of starfish, deep sea Atlantic ocean. In the bottom middle of the image is a small yellow starfish, white whisps which look smoke like tail off around it. The background is completely black. Close up of a spectacled flying fox’s face. It looks directly into the camera, lit by the camera flash. The background is completely black.
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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peterlipman.bsky.social
‘Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research theconversation.com/forever-chem...
‘Forever chemicals’ contaminate more dolphins and whales than we thought – new research
The sex and age of an animal turn out to be stronger predictors than habitat for higher PFAS levels, suggesting they accumulate over a lifetime.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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jelenawoehr.bsky.social
ever been so hungover you puke up a pterosaur previously unknown to science
Fossil vomit contains new species of pterosaur from Brazil
Filter-feeding flying reptile was likely devoured by a dinosaur during the early Cretaceous
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Now that's a cool squid. I'm not sure of the ID for it. Psst, it waved. Parasites on it? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age promo card, Woolly mammoths. Giant kangaroo Procoptodon from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age. Homotherium serum from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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witmerlab.bsky.social
Happy to be a part of this big project led by Mario Bronzati & Matteo Fabbri—out today #OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social
bit.ly/3M5weun —on the brain endocast of a close pterosaur cousin & what it means for pterosaur brain evolution...maybe different from bird brain evolution. 1/2
Life restoration by Matheus Fernandes showing a Triassic scene with the lagerpetid non-pterosaurian pterosauromorph Ixalerpeton with early pterosaurs flying overhead. The publication is here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01467-8 Life restorations and labeled cranial (brain) endocasts of the lagerpetid Ixalerpeton and the pterosaur Allkaruen.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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firehorse249791.bsky.social
[Australia] ‘Unprecedented’ heatwave kills nearly two-thirds of corals at UNESCO-listed Ningaloo Reef www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #MarineHeatwave #Ningaloo #Coral #Reefs #Australia
‘Unprecedented’ heatwave kills nearly two-thirds of corals at UNESCO-listed Ningaloo Reef
A severe marine heatwave has devastated nearly 70% of Ningaloo Reef's corals, with mortality rates exceeding 60% in some areas. Scientists warn of unprecedented ecological stress as global ocean tempe...
www.downtoearth.org.in
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils With Soft Tissues So Intact, They're Blowing Paleontologists' Minds

dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/500-...

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500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils With Soft Tissues So Intact, They're Blowing Paleontologists' Minds
A prehistoric discovery in Morocco is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s most iconic sea creature. Hidden beneath volcanic ash for over 500 million years, these fossils reveal ...
dailygalaxy.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Happy #FossilFriday! This tooth plate is from a giant fossil lungfish called Ceratodus. This specimen is thought to be from the Mesozoic Era and is estimated to be up to 13 feet long! Lungfish have been around for nearly 400 million years, and are one of the closest living relatives to tetrapods!🦎
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM