Phanerozoic Eon

Globe-trotting ancient 'sea-salamander' fossils rediscovered from Australia's dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over...

Globe-trotting ancient 'sea-salamander' fossils rediscovered from Australia's dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs

A POV shot of a Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) grabbing a divers arm and camera. Two arms are raised up and curling back, two are grabbing the camera or are about to, and the other arms are out of the shot. The squid is quite large, and its mantle is pointing away from the camera. Some fish are in the background. The whole image has a green tint.

Cephalopods are nothing to be afraid of. They don't see humans as prey, so they probably wouldn't hurt you

But Humboldt squids (Dosidicus gigas) are big squids with a reputation for being aggressive, so I would be pretty scared if one grabbed by like this

🦑📷ferleys (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

This fossilized vomit is older than the dinosaurs Vomit is gross—but 290-million-year-old vomit is a scientific marvel

Please come on this journey with me, the journey of the 290-million-year-old barf, I promise we'll have fun: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Rare fossil at Montana State’s Museum of the Rockies records Tyrannosaurus attack An edmontosaurus skull in the museum's collection was the subject of a new scientific paper published Feb. 17.

www.montana.edu/news/25112/r...

Biocrusts: Earth’s history, but from the ground perspective
digital paintings, 2014
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Space dust reveals rapid evolution after dino-killing asteroid New data detail how tiny forms of life rebounded much more quickly than previously believed

Scientists just found that a curious group of plankton began to flourish rapidly after the dino-killing asteroid—a key sign life was on the mend.

They made their discovery by measuring the slow accumulation of space dust after the impact.

#Paleontology #PlankticForams

New for @science.org 🧪🏺

Salp chain. I fell asleep but saw they collected a Hyaloteuthis before the end of dive! Way to go SOI on 900 dives with ROV SuBastian! This makes about 600 that I've tuned in for. Keep them coming. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 900 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

A rock with some mixed fossils, that appear to be plants of some form. The poster is unaware.

Found during a walk in the woods.

A watercolor painting depicting forest floor full of layered leaves and mushrooms. A butterfly, Eastern Comma emerging from them along with early spring ephemerals. Enjoy! 😊

Forest floor full of layered leaves.. .
Eastern Comma emerging . .
Along with early spring ephemerals. .
Life thrives together. .
In harmony. .
In interdependence. .
Watercolor in progress ©️Heeyoung Kim 2026

#botanicalart #naturalhistoryart #natureart

work in progress 🐦✍️

Skeleton of the slender reptile Eudibamus in a reddish siltstone

#FossilFriday The Permian long-legged stem-reptile Eudibamus cursoris at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Photo of a dozen or so tiny, bronze coloured slime mold sporangia that look kinda like tiny cups on short stalks…the cups have covers. The slime mold is on a green, leafy lichen.

Slime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

trace fossil in a smooth limestone rock

the fossil record shows that creatures have been writhing for eons

A random assortment of pterosaur skulls 🐊

Some of these fossils from the Huayuan assemblage ("the Chinese Burgess Shale") are amazingly detailed. Over half a billion years old. This is Allonnia, a Cambrian sponge-like animal

“Oreodonts” ... On the left the somewhat hippopotamus-like Promerycochoerus, on the right the tapir-like Brachycrus.

Absolutely thrilled to have seen the new Chicago Archaeopteryx exhibit. This specimen never ceases to amaze me. Featuring my fanart of said dead bird.

#chicagoarchaeopteryx #fieldmuseum

A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction - Nature The Huayuan biota exhibits extraordinary biodiversity, illuminating the impact of the Phanerozoic mass extinction around 513 million years ago and offering critical insights into the transformation of...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hallucigenia, one of the strangest animals of all time Alamy

Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate.

Deep-sea sponge appreciation post: Bolosoma is a glass sponge that builds vertical structure in the deep sea, creating habitat for a whole host of life. IN 2025 on dives in Papahānaumokuākea, some had heads nearly a meter wide.

📷 NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue

#FossilFriday Fine specimen of the problematical fossil Dickinsonia costata from the Ediacaran. On display at the South Australia Museum, Adelaide.

Periphylla on descent. Target depth for the dive today is 2550m. @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 887 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

A large collection of Cambrian aged fossils

On the 11th day of fossils, my true love gave to me...

11 Cambrian fossils from the Great Basin.

The Great Basin is a large area of Utah and Nevada that was under water 500 million years ago. Life was experimenting and there's lots of strange creatures found here.

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#12DaysofFossils

Macrauchenia wasn’t the only one walking around with a weird face in Pleistocene South America. Hippidion was a horse that appears to have possessed a prehensile upper lip like a black rhinoceros.

Art and figure from Bernardes et al. (2013)

My black coral taxonomist fried said this one looks like Schizopathes affinis. Thanks Jeremy! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 883 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

Siphonophore. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 882 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

“Bones Almost on Top of Each Other” – Extraordinary Dinosaur Fossil Site Discovered in the Hațeg Basin Researchers at the newly discovered site reported finding more than one hundred vertebrate fossils per square meter, making it one of the densest fossil deposits known. The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania...

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Out now: latest addition to the Grande volume! Guang-Hui Xu reevaluates Guizhoubrachysomus from the Middle Triassic of southern China. Interpreted as a "luganoiid" in the past, this work argues Guizhoubrachysomus is instead an early dapediid, a group most famous from Jurassic deposits of Europe.