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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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
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Fossil Fails: The tiny dino with a massive flaw

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 5d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 3d

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

Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 3d

"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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 3d

We need a constitutional amendment that individuals own their own !

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

#FossilFriday Tambatitanis skeleton at the Tamba Dinosaur Museum, Japan

Replica of the Tambatitanis, showing its preserved parts.

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Brandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 4d

#FossilFriday and the Peecook lab is out in the Pleistocene of Idaho making some new friends!
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Group selfie on an Idaho beach: wide sandy expanse and blue skies. Sloth vertebra in the foreground!

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 4d

It is about time, #FossilFriday that I promoted Christa Sadler's wonderful book on the globally unique Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah again. Someday, I hope it leads to a Dawn of the Cretaceous Fossil Beds Nat. Monu. managed like John Day Fossil Beds NM in Oregon. this-earth.com/dinosaur-fro...

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

Please support this volume. “Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea”
Here is the link:
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Terminal NA Jur. Extinction of Diplodocids? @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social

Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea

We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary relati...

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 5d

Sad...... Please share and go to the kutv2 news website and vote so that a Davis County senator isn't allowed to change a salt lake street name to Charlie Kirk Blvd

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Utah lawmaker proposes renaming Harvey Milk Boulevard after Charlie Kirk

Utah Rep. Trevor Lee, who represents District 16 in Utah which includes the Davis County area, is proposing to change the name of Harvey Milk Boulevard in Salt

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 6d

Modern sharks are truly a recent group following a series of mass extinctions in which the spectacular diversity of Paleozoic sharks was paired down. @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social

Charles J. Salcido, PhD @cjsalcidopaleo.bsky.social · 11d

#FossilFriday My newest PBS Eons episode on the Golden Age of Sharks is out! Big shout-out to Indiana University Paleontology Collection, Mammoth Cave National Park's recent discoveries, and Dr. John Long's The Secret History of Sharks for inspiration and information youtu.be/4ihYiTOIBT0?...

The Rise and Fall of the Weirdest Sharks

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 7d

A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico" — Read it on @ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

PDF | A new saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur, Ahshislesaurus wimani gen et sp. nov., from the lower Hunter Wash Member of the lower Kirtland Formation... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 7d

Got your book....sweet......

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 9d

I have always prided myself in organizing as inexpensive conferences as possible. Our 13th Int'l Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota Conference a couple of years ago was $280 at door and much cheaper for early birds. Color extended abstract v., t-shirt, & water bottle included.

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