@ichnologist.bsky.social
Traces & trace fossils. Wrote 'Life Sculpted' (2023), 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014), 'The Evolution Underground' (2017), & more. Hubby, Trekkie, reading, cooking, craft-beer imbibing, childless cat dude, 🚫AI. 🧪🐾🦖🦕🪨⚒️🌍📚✍️ 🖖 https://ajmartinauthor.com
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Last day on San Salvador Island (The Bahamas 🇧🇸) for the ‘Modern & Ancient Tropical Environments Field Course,’ off to Nassau today & Atlanta GA tomorrow. Great bunch of students! We learned much together while here. 🧪⚒️🪨🏝️🌊 cc: @emorycollege.bsky.social
please read books
Every 2 years, The Ichnologist takes students to The Island to learn about its modern & ancient environments, where they experience the merging effects of these timelines. This preternatural state may emanate from The Lighthouse, their transport (Van X), or both. (cc: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social)
the ichnologist was on the idyllic seventh expedition
The Dixon Hill Lighthouse on San Salvador Island (The Bahamas 🇧🇸) is among a few lighthouses built in the 19th century that are still active in this part of the world, using a Fresnel lens, kerosene power, & human supervision.
Every 2 years, The Ichnologist takes students to The Island to learn about its modern & ancient environments, where they experience the merging effects of these timelines. This preternatural state may emanate from The Lighthouse, their transport (Van X), or both. (cc: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social)
The Jurassic but more purpler #FossilFriday
Thrilled to have been a scientific advisor for Netflix’s new show: #TheDinosaurs 🦖🦕
Grand to see it out & the positive reception - 💯% on Rotten Tomatoes shows the enduring appeal of dinosaurs & their ability to inspire interest in #Paleontology, #NaturalHistory & #Science.
#FossilFriday #SciComm
Last full day for the ‘Modern & Ancient Tropical Environments Field Course’ on San Salvador Island (The Bahamas 🇧🇸), with students continuing their independent field projects. Here are my @emorycollege.bsky.social students & me yesterday before Day 1 of their projects. Field work = fun!
One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one.
Remember when people used to be all “hard times creates great art” because no actually it’s just this.
A huge theropod dinosaur footcast from the Upper Jurassic Lastres Formation in the Museo del Jurásico de Asturias in Spain. It must be about half a metre long. #FossilFriday
Yes indeed, & hosted by the Gerace Research Centre. It’s a biannual course I’v taught or co-taught here since the late ‘90s, so it feels like a home away from home.
Day 7 of the 'Modern & Ancient Tropical Environments Field Course,' co-taught with Dr. Melissa Hage of Oxford College of Emory with students from both the Oxford & @emorycollege.bsky.social campuses. Lots of geological & ecological lessons from field experiences so far, with more on the way. 🧪🪨⚒️🌊🏝️
....And this gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite poems about the importance of books: "Library" by Alvy Carragher. She's a Dublin-based Irish poet, but her poem perfectly describes my troubled, library-loving young mother in New Jersey/Pennsylvania too.
Announcing: Coming to PBS on April 1!
LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman is a visually striking science-driven nature series that reveals Earth’s ecosystems through radical shifts in scale—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. 🧪🦠
Ellen was an undergrad student of mine & I am so proud of her for dropping this PoO, which I have to assume was research for her PhD (= Piled higher & Deeper).
Day 2 of the spring-break ‘Modern & Ancient Tropical Environments Field Course,’ with preceded yesterday by travel from Atlanta GA to Nassau, The Bahamas. Started my morning with a stroll to nearby outcrops on the beach; later today flying to San Salvador Island. 🇧🇸
For #FossilFriday, fossil ghost-shrimp burrows (ichnogenus Ophiomorpha) in Pleistocene limestone (125,000 years old), San Salvador Island, The Bahamas 🇧🇸. Co-leading a spring-break field course there with students from Emory & Oxford College of @emoryuniversity.bsky.social starting tomorrow. 🧪🪨⚒️🏝️🌊🐠🌿🦀
Skull of Triceratops horridus!! The not so horrible Triceratops genera was one of the last ceratopsians and went extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. #FossilFriday ⚒️🧪🦖
Not the easiest #FossilFriday as war rears its head again here in the Middle east...
A throwback from quieter times: The oldest known sea turtle, Desmatochelys padillai from Colombia. Despite their ancient appearance, turtles returned to the seas at a much later date than many other reptile groups
At #Patreon, I've been discussing my 2024 #paleoart murals for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History: www.patreon.com/markwitton. They include a life-size Allosaurus, Cambrian faunas, Yixian pterosaurs, birds and insects, Cleveland Shale strata and fishes...
#FossilFriday #sciart #paleontology
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Cannot tell you how depressing it is to read that people are simply refusing to read nonfiction after you’ve worked really hard to write a nonfiction book you believe in, in case anyone is wondering why I’m posting so much about my book which comes out in a few weeks #BookSky
During the Silurian period, over 400 million years ago, the West Midlands was covered by a shallow, tropical sea. Fossil evidence for this includes this Marsupiocrinus genus of extinct crinoid (sometimes called a sea lily), found in the Much Wenlock Formation in Dudley.
#LapworthRocks #FossilFriday
毎度おなじみ三越前駅ですが、もしかしたらblueskyでは出してなかったかもしれない
地下鉄・三越前駅の改札外はドイツ産ジュライエローの柱がずーーーっと並んでいて壮観です（誰か本数数えてください）
人目も少なくアンモナイト探し放題なのでアンモナイトロスの時などにご利用ください
（Tokyo, Japan）
#街の中で見つかるすごい石
#石材と街化石
#金曜日だから化石貼る
#FossilFriday Verbeekiella australis, among the last of the Palaeozoic ‘horn corals’ belonging to the class Rugosa, from the Permian of Timor. The function of the unusual axial structure is unclear according to my colleague Brian Rosen.
A #FridayFold I found in a drawer full of archived samples at the state geological survey. ⚒️
Volcanos & fossils🌋🌲🌳🍂
Woodcock & al in press | The #fossil localities of the Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest (Eocene, #Peru): a prospectus for research and conservation | Acta Palaeobotanica: acpa.botany.pl/The-fossil-l...
#FossilFriday :)