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NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 4h

Great new paper by Mannion & Moore 2025 on diplodocoid sauropods for #FossilFriday I love their latest phylogeny as it certainly supports the mass extinction of sauropods at the end of the Jurassic that is so well documented in eastern Utah. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Dr Thomas Clements @taphonomist.bsky.social · 1d

Had the amazing privilege earlier in the year to watch a lithographic limestone plate be made by one last plate makers in Germany. Each plate is cut and then hammered by hand into shape - and after having a go it's very skilled work. Currently they have no apprentices, so a truly dying art.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 1d

DITTO!

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 1d

A newly minted name for Utah's largest dinosaur, Utetitan! Given the amount of time these latest Cret sauropods span, more than one taxon likely. I did not review this manuscript, so let the sauropod researchers weigh in.
giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph...
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Stratigraphic and anatomical evidence for multiple titanosaurid dinosaur taxa in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of southwestern North America | Geology of the Intermountain We...

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 2d

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking on "The End of the Real Jurassic Park in Eastern Utah" UFOP meeting on Thurs, Oct. 16, 2025, 7:00 PM MT, Utah DNR building, at 1594 W North Temple St, Salt Lake City. @utahgeological bookstore will be selling the latest paleo and geo books. Online meet.google.com/qpk-ngzh-xkn

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus) @mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

#FossilFriday
To see Dr. Zanno and her team posts and updates!
www.expeditionlive.org

Paleontology | Zanno Lab

Welcome to the Zanno Lab. Our scientists study the evolutionary history of dinosaurs and Mesozoic ecosystems.

www.expeditionlive.org

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 3d

The now Critically Endangered Manjuarí (Cuban gar, /Atractosteus tristoechus/) as painted in La Habana by Antonio Parra around 1787
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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 3d

New episode @thefossilfiles.bsky.social ky.social out today "Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw". Available on YouTube or whereever you get your podcasts 2/2
youtu.be/wioBaI8Tcl8?...

Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 4d

The fabulous SGDS is starting a weekend paleoprogram to supplement the great work they are doing in southwestern Utah. Fossil Discoveries offers the unique opportunity to learn, explore, and make real contributions to science. Running until mid Dec. utahdinosaurs.org/fossil-disco...

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

Actually Sphenoceramus; Utah's Platyceramus cycloides in the Blue Gat Shale might get nearly this big. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 7d

For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.

This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍

#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️

A shell of a bivalve mollusc that was found in 1952 in the valley Qilakitsoq on the Nuussuaq peninsula in western Greenland.

The scientific name of these bivalves is Inoceramus steenstrupi. They lived between 83 and 63 million years ago. These are the largest bivalves ever to exist. It is thought that they lived in an oxygen-poor environment and that they layed unattached on the sea floor filtering plankton and detritus from the water.

The shell is 178 cm (70 inch) long. The other half of the bivalve is in the Geological Museum of Copenhagen. ___

On display at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. Link to this new Institute filled with many hallway displays at www.natur.gl/ hey now, "moi" for scale and a line-up of 2014 Nuuk Geoscience Workshop geologists waiting for their turn with the mighty mollusk.

The Nuuk display is geotagged instead of the Cretaceous fossil-bearing rock formation on the opposite side of Greenland.

Photo by H. Steenkamp with permission for my photo-shop'd posting.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

Last I checked, Congress makes the laws, not the White House.

Image of an X post from @realDonaldTrump
(Donald J. Trump) at 7:26 PM on October 3, 2025, with 2.54K ReTruths and 8.83K Likes. The post reads: "To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 6d

Men Are Losing Faith in Science www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... @adamfrank4.bsky.social🙏

"Framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents..."

Manosphere BS "based on profound ignorance & a disinterest in even the most basic scientific principles..."

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

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Dana 🚫🌮👑▪️🚫🍸🪖▪️🪰🦤🍊 @dana-peaceandlove.bsky.social · 5d

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

Replace "the Cosmos" with "the History of the Earth and its Biological History." To specifically define how paleontologists must operate!

Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 5d

"We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing for @Rebecca Hunt-Foster; "Happy Establishment day Dinosaur National Monument! On this date in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson established the original 80-acre national monument to protect the Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry." @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @palaeontosoc.bsky.social

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

We need a constitutional amendment that individuals own their own personage!!

PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

We need a constitutional amendment that individuals own their own !

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 8d

Xing et al. proposed an interesting hypothesis of the club in Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis as a sensory apparatus, which makes sense to me considering the particular shape (thin, almost plate like) & the gigantic proportions of this animal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Structure, Orientation and Finite Element Analysis of the Tail Club of Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

The structure and orientation of the posterior extremity (tail club) of the caudal vertebrae of Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis Young and Chao, 1972 from the Upper Jurassic Shangshaximiao Formation has b...

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 6d

18th chapter by Lukeneder constrained #Ammonoid #Habitats and #Life History: rdcu.be/eJqnW

This remains tricky and only doable with a multi-proxy approaches combining #morphology, #geochemistry, #modelling and facies analysis:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Stable isotopes and predation marks shed new light on ammonoid habitat depth preferences - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Stable isotopes and predation marks shed new light on ammonoid habitat depth preferences

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Jeremy Lockwood @valdosaurus.bsky.social · 7d

For #FossilFriday a chance to shake hands with the #IsleofWight dinosaur Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 7d

For #FossilFriday, an ichnological 2-for-1 special in a body fossil: a termite nest packed with termite coprolites (feces) in an araucarian tree trunk, from the Early Cretaceous (~125 mya) of Victoria, Australia; oldest termite nest in Australia & largest wood nest from this time. 🧪🪵🪨⚒️ #ichnology

Gray to light brown fossilized (petrified) wood with interconnected spaces between the wood filled with sand-sized coprolites (fossil feces); the spaces are interpreted as a nest, and the coprolites are also attributed to termites. A few black spots on the surface are of modern marine mussels, with a marine snail and barnacle in the upper left, which were living there because the fossil tree was on a rocky marine platform on the coast of Victoria, Australia.

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 6d

Been to that site (ridiculous number of fossil frogs mixed in with that skeleton) and I have visited that museum in 2013. They have a Gastonia and a Falcarius mount. Nice facility.

JH @jhemiptera.bsky.social · 7d

#FossilFriday Tambatitanis skeleton at the Tamba Dinosaur Museum, Japan

Replica of the Tambatitanis, showing its preserved parts.

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