Yesterday’s adventure was the #burgessshale! About a 7 hour steep hike with lots of security cameras and scary signs protecting the fossils from poachers… but totally worth to see how happy jr. was ❤️

If you’re lucky enough to do this hike I cannot recommend our guide, David Moore enough! At lunch we received a lecture of a lifetime what life in the Cambarian period was like, with gusto and humour while being so very encouraging and attentive to our young palaeontologist.

#fossils #cambarian

who could, say, compare processes happening today on land & those happening below water with what we see in the geological record. Likewise the Amphibious Being would be better able to identify #fossils, being familiar with life on land & sea. He wrote,

"It should, therefore, be remembered, that the task imposed on those who study the earth's history requires no ordinary share of discretion; for we are precluded from collating the corresponding parts of the system of things as it exists now, 🧵2

When and where did our ancestors first fashion footwear?

Ichnology, the study of fossil tracks and traces, can help to answer this unresolved question through a search for clear evidence of footprints made by humans who were shod – that is, wearing some kind of foot covering.

https://theconversation.com/ancient-shoes-tracks-on-a-south-african-beach-offer-oldest-evidence-yet-of-human-footwear-212712

#fossils
#shoes
#footwear

@rahmstorf

#Petroconsumism needs to be full stopped. Now! From production of #fossils to production of so called goods to consumption of those, including the waste.

And I'm afraid that won't happen unless #Capitalism is abolished.

#Profit kills #ClimateCatastrophe #Heat #StopOil

The ghostly impression of a fossilized Goniatite showing in this shoreworn shale pebble. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #fossils #irishfossils #Goniatite #shorefinds #lowtidetreasures #Ireland

#xkcd #fossils #boop

#Paleontology #Fossils

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-fossil-oldest-known-koala-unearthed-central.html

I've just realized I totally forgot to listen to @KateShaw 's most recent episode of strange animals podcast:
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2023/09/04/episode-344-psittacosaurus/

it was a very good episode about psittacosaurus.

#fossils
#dinosaurs
#psittacosaurus
#ceratopsian

The most recent Common Descent podcast is a good summary of herbivores:
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2023/09/02/episode-173-herbivores-plant-eaters/
Includes overview of early feeding traces, first on algal mats, then on plants, and the theory that herbivory was rare in the oceans prior to the Cretaceous. Followed by a nice overview of early amniote herbivores, and then the evolution of herbivory in Coelurosauria and (mammalian)
Carnivorans.

#fossils
#synapsids
#dinosaurs

imagine you've spent your whole life saying "well, actually, that animal isn't a dinosaur, it belongs in [some other group]"

now imagine new fossils provoke new phylogenies, and then [some other group] is found to be within dinosauria after all!

which group gets dragged into dinosauria by new phylogenies?

#dinosaurs
#fossils
#pterosaur

Disponible jusqu’au 14/06/2024 #Trafics #Fossils #Arte Arica a été construite sur un cimetière précolombien, on y voit les enfants du coin jouer avec des crânes, transformant leurs parents en pilleurs de tombes. La ville est devenue un rendez-vous d’archéologues autodidactes et d’acheteurs étrangers, aux intérêts parfois macabres. Deux des plus anciennes momies du monde ont été…

› https://feedbot.net/watch/JveOJINWSQI via @feedbot

#Fossils #Birds #China #Paleontology

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-fossils-ravens-early-humans-beijing.html

Our new paper is available online:

Neotropical bunodont litopterns and the systematics of Megadolodinae (Mammalia: Litopterna)
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/45/15

#paleontology #fossil #fossils #Litoptern #fossilmammals

Solitary Rugose Coral fossils from the Carboniferous period (over 300 million years ago), County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #Carboniferous #solitaryrugosecoral #rugosecoral #coral #fossilcoral #geology #irelandtravel #Ireland

3D-prints of a rare ankylosaur dinosaur osteoderm generated by Tom Hartman of the University of Nottingham. The original bone was recently discovered in the Oxford Clay and donated to the Nottingham Natural History Museum @GeorgeTheGorilla

I’ll be bringing these prints to #SVPCA2023 to help illustrate a lightning talk about the new fossil.

#NottNatHist #3Dprints #dinosaur #fossils

Assistant Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology Position at Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida. Great position for someone working in the Cenozoic: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/assistant-curator-of-vertebrate-paleontology/

#paleontology #paleobiology
#fossils #MuseumJob #curator #TenureTrack @ecoevojobs

An excellent CBC radio interview with my paleontologist brother Jason Loxton about exciting changes to come at the Cape Breton Fossil Centre!

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-24-information-morning-cape-breton/clip/16005814-new-features-coming-cape-breton-fossil-centre

#paleontology #fossils #capebreton #museum

Goniatite fossils - the fossilized shells of these ancient relatives of squid and octopus are scattered throughout the shale layers that make up the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossils #irishfossils #geology #Goniatite #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #cliffsofmoher #atlanticgeoparks #Ireland

#Fossils ‘Once in a lifetime find’

"Rare finds have included isolated baleen whale vertebrae, a broken sperm whale tooth, the spine of an extinct sawshark, dental plates of eagle rays and a number of great white shark teeth." - Auckland palaeontologist Bruce Hayward

https://theorkneynews.scot/2023/08/29/fossils-once-in-a-lifetime-find/

#Fossils of 10 unknown #species found by #sewage plant
https://www.popsci.com/science/fossils-unknown-species/
#NewZealand