https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/113399451816952253 globalmuseum@mastodon.online - In 2021, an Argentine farmer named Juan de Dios Sota stumbled upon an incredible discovery while working in his field near Rincón de Valle. He found four gigantic Glyptodon shells, which are these amazing armored shells that belonged to prehistoric critters that looked a lot like oversized armadillos. These fossils had been sitting underground for over 10,000 years, dating back to the last Ice Age.
[my ‘minor’ in my MSc Geology at the University of Auckland, NZ was in palæontology, and I have had an interest ever since; total aside – is what I call my temp/junk/working files, anyone else?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #NewZealand #fossil #fossils #database #opendata #FRED #palæontology #paleontology #palaeontology #onlineportal #standards #records #publicrecords #geology #stratigraphy #sedimentology #scientifichistory #fossilrecord #samples #sampling
@gnsscience
Galerie de Paléontologie
a wonderful museum in Paris
Photo of the Day
from my daily photo blog
#Architecture #Photography #museum #Animals #Fossils #Skeleton #History #Paleontology #Science
Ein Hobby-Paläontologe hat am Strand bei Schönberg eine seltene Entdeckung gemacht. Eine Röntgenuntersuchung am Mittwoch bestätigte seine Hypothese: Es ist ein gänzlich im Stein eingeschlossener Seestern.
Wow was für ein Fund!
Warning: From the land of X. (Twitter, not porn)
From a few million years before & after T-Rex and #dinosaurs.
#seashells #fossils #utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Downtown. I live on the bottom of a large, ancient, dried up lake. Lake Bonneville. While walking, I have found seashell fossils. They are precious to me. On the inside of one of them, it is iridescent, like mother of pearl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bonneville
I'm guessing they had really smelly feet.
#Biology #Zoology #Evolution #Palaeontology #Zoology #Dinosaurs
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”
— Isaac Asimov
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate
So-called "fossil fuels" aren't made from #fossils. If they were, they wouldn't be able to be extracted below the fossil layer & Saturn's moon #Titan wouldn't have vast amounts of #oil inside it.
"Petroleum" is from the ancient #Greek petra + oleum which means rock + oil. Oil, or #petroleum comes from the Earth's geological processes, not fossils. "Fossil fuels" are more accurately called "hydrocarbons."
We've been conned by #BigOil, the #Rockefellers & #marketing agencies in order to create a false #perception of #scarcity to control #population & #economic development via artificial #energy scarcity & #price fixing.
#fossilfuels #hydrocarbons #gasoline #petrol #linguistics #usa #etymology #rockefeller #uk #artificialscarcity #geology #saturn #cartel #conspiracy
525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-million-year-old-fossil-defies-textbook-explanation.html
Not a Republican
Intestinal preservation in a birdlike dinosaur supports conservatism in digestive canal evolution among theropods
#Science #Biology #Evolution #Anthropology #Primates #Palaeontology
#paleontology #fossils #cynodonts #TessellatiaBonapartei An article published in the journal "Scientific Reports" reports the identification of a new species of cynodont that lived about 220 million years ago, in the #Triassic period, in today's Argentina. A team of researchers named it Tessellatia bonapartei after examining a partial skull using an unusual neutron tomography technique.
#paleontology #fossils #evolution #Devonian #QikiqtaniaWakei #TiktaalikRoseae An article published in the journal "Nature" reports the identification of a precursor of the #tetrapods that lived on today's Ellesmere Island, in Canada, in the Devonian period, about 375 million years ago. A team of researchers named it #Qikiqtania wakei and illustrated similarities and differences with #Tiktaalik roseae.
