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Historical Biology @historicalbiology.bsky.social · 1h

📣Editor spotlight

Diego Castanera is a Researcher at Deparment of Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). He specialises in vertebrate ichnology with emphasis on dinosaur, pterosaur, crocodylomorph, mammal and bird tracks 🦖 🐊

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 6h

Meet our brilliant team of Associate Editors!

Dr Richie Howard is the Curator of Fossil Arthropods at NHM UK 🦀 specialising in British fossil arthropods, the evolution and diversity of arachnids and early ecdysozoans 🕷️

Read his research here: buff.ly/vVQucPF @arthropoda-curator
#MeettheTeam #NHM

Dr Richie Howard

Curator of Fossil Arthropods at The Natural History Museum

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 13h

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Circled are two cranidia from the trilobite Tricopelta breviceps. They are less common than trilobites like Flexicalymene and Isotelus within the Cincinnatian Series. This specimen comes from the Upper Ordovician (Richmondian) Liberty Formation in Franklin county, Indiana.

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 2d

I had a fun time setting up at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences for their Fall and Fossil Fest. My friend and former science teacher Diane Akker helped as well. Over half a billion dollars was represented on 2 tables.

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Anthony Tackles Dead Cows @mosasaurologist.bsky.social · 4d

I finally put a human in for scale of the Deinosuchus

I'm not a good model but my bulk fills the maw of a giant fossil gator in one go

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus) @mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 4d

#FossilFriday
Teen Science Cafe: Paleontology with Dr. Jennifer Anné
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Teen Science Cafe: Paleontology with Dr. Jennifer Anné

YouTube video by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 4d

Is this the ones going to Tellus?

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 4d

This plate of crinoids is from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. has tremendous density and diversity. There are over 85 crinoid species found here, often tangled together.

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Three crinoids tangled together on a large plate

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 4d

Garnet & graphite together in a crenulated schist from the closet of my lab. (Not sure where it's from; I didn't collect it.) ⚒️

Three fingertips provide a sense of scale for a wrinkly shiny gray rock with cranberry colored/shaped garnets

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 4d

Ray Troll sent me this Paleo themed shirt with his art. So of course I had to model it. #Paleonerds

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus) @mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 5d

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Australia's most complete ichthyosaur | Into the field

YouTube video by Australian Age of Dinosaurs

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus) @mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 5d

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Meet a titan of the sea: "Kronosaurus" | Learning about the past

YouTube video by Australian Age of Dinosaurs

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Heather F. Smith. Ph.D. @heatherfsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Putting the finishing touches on my talk for PaleoConnected 2025! Excited to present a new Cenomanian turtle fossil jaw, including detailed microCT segmentation of its extensive neurovascular canals.

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 7d

The video I made on Biomineralization has finally been uploaded to Youtube. This is my first edited video with images put in. I hope you enjoy it and let me know how I can improve.
youtu.be/Gs8bXvgJ6NY?...

What are Biominerals?

YouTube video by Paleo 101

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 7d

Erika Martha von Hoyningen-Huene was born #OTD, 1905. She was one of the only two female vertebrate palaeontologists in the pre-World War II history of Germany. She completed her doctorate in 1933, the same year that Hitler came to power. ⚒️🧪

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Forgotten women of Paleontology: Erika von Hoyningen-Huene

Erika Martha von Hoyningen-Huene was born in Tübingen, Germany, on September 30, 1905. Descendant of a noble Baltic German family, Erika grew up in a deeply religious home. Her father, Professor …

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 7d

Been awhile since I've put anything up on my YouTube channel. The in the upcoming video we will going over Biomineralizaton and the organisms that use it to their advantage. Video drops tomorrow.

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WitmerLab at Ohio University @witmerlab.bsky.social · 8d

After spending so much time with smallest/youngest specimen of Tarbosaurus, I'm thrilled finally to be face to face with among the largest known Tarbosaurus specimens (MPC-D 107/2) at the stunning Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum in Japan.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 8d

Have you ever stood on an ancient seafloor bed?

This is the banded iron formation (BIF) of Hamersley Range, Australia.

Go big #hematite !

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Woman with a nonchalant pose is dwarfed by the background as she stands on a ridge of the folded red bands of rock of the Banded Iron Formation of Hamersley Range, Australia.
Photo: Masha Pastuhov, Dronesandstones

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 9d

#Geol104playlist Evolution, part I

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David Bowie - Changes [Official Lyric Video]

YouTube video by David Bowie

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 9d

This upcoming Saturday (Oct 4th) The Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences will be having their Fall and Fossil Fest. It will be from 10AM-4PM. I and many others will have tables in the museum full of fossils. If you want to learn more about Georgia's prehistoric past, recommend attending this event.

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome back to #FossilFriday!

Did someone order seafood on the menu? Here are the shells of the oyster Exogyra cancellata. These come from the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) Demopolis Formation in Tueplo, Mississippi. These oysters are so common that you fill your backseat with them.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 12d

For #FossilFriday, natural cast of a sauropod dinosaur track (arrow) in the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado (USA), & me trying to save that track & its underlying strata from the ravages of gravity. 🧪🦕🐾

Me, wearing dark-green long-sleeve shirt, light green shorts, black shoes, and a broad-brimmed Tilley hat, seemingly holding up sedimentary strata above my head in an effort to preemptively save the natural cast of a sauropod dinosaur track in the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado (USA).

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 12d

A kinked #FridayFold from the Piedmont province, exposed in the bed of the James River upstream of Hatton Ferry. ⚒️

Horizontally layered rock suddenly inflects upward in the middle of an outcrop, then inflects right back to its original orientation. Fingertips for scale.

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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 13d

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