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I realize this streaming service is toxic but for those who partake here’s an hour+ of Hybrid Moments covers: open.spotify.com/playlist/40D...

Garden of Earthly Delights

Garden of Earthly Delights

Historical illustration depicting six numbered fossilized Jurassic plant specimens preserved in stone slabs. The fossils mainly show various fern-like leaves with detailed pinnate leaflets in dark shading against lighter stone backgrounds. Some slabs have cracks or breaks, adding to the aged appearance. Specimen 5a features multiple intricate branching fronds densely covered with small leaflets, while specimens 1, 2, 3, and 4 show single elongated leaves with symmetrical leaflets. Smaller fragments (5b and 6) display isolated leaf parts or sporangia. The image highlights fossil flora typical of the Jurassic period, emphasizing detailed botanical structure and preservation.

🦕 Flora fossilis formationis oolithicae =.
Padova: Tip. del Seminario, 1856/1868-1873/1885..

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A spooky fossil for Halloween!

The Carboniferous swamps of the north of England were full of creepy crawlies... This is one of them, a spider-like creature called Mesotarbus.

📍 Westhoughton
🏛️ Manchester Museum
📷 GB3D Fossils

#FossilFriday

Collage of 24 specimens of pelagic gastropods, including heteropods, gymnosome and thecosome pteropods, a pseudothecosome, and a nudibranch.

🐌 I guess National Snail Day is a good time to share the overwhelming diversity of •pelagic gastropods• we saw in the Gulf of California, Mexico, last month. We used scuba and trawls on the R/V Sally Ride, supported by NSF grants and expertise of Brad Seibel and Amy Maas. 🦑🧪

Delighted to see this new paper out on the Cretaceous turtle Rhinochelys from the Lebanese Lagerstätten in Nammoura (approx 100 mya).

This is the oldest direct evidence of sea turtle soft tissues, and shows that sea turtles lost their scales 4 independent times

doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution - Communications Biology The earliest appearance of mega-body size in sharks is pushed back by 15 million years with the discovery of new fossils from Northern Australia. Using a comprehensive dataset of living sharks to esti...

Bazzi, M., Siversson, M., Wintner, S. et al. Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution. Commun Biol 8, 1499 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s420...

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Oconto, WI

Stay Puft was framed

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion."

My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy.

www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

A wide slide with two photos and orange text reading Fossils at the Fort (Negley) 10am - 1pm. Photos are both of the grassy area near the fence with a table set up with evolution-y stuff and folks from evolutionary studies leading outreach activities.

If you're in #Nashville this weekend, come see us at Fossils at the Fort this Saturday at Fort Negley from 10am - 1pm! #Evolution

Historical illustration of a leafy sea dragon, a marine fish resembling a seahorse, with an elongated, curved body covered in a segmented, ridged armor. It has a long snout, a wide eye, and leaf-like appendages extending from its body and tail, aiding camouflage among seaweed. The background is a plain, aged parchment with text noting the title "SEA HORSE" and publication details from 1811. The artwork captures intricate details of the creature’s texture and unique form, emphasizing its resemblance to foliage and its naturalistic scientific representation from the early 19th century.

🦄 Arcana, or, The museum of natural history: .
London: Printed by George Smeeton for James Stratford, 1811..

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Replica of a beagle sized horse. In a mirror, we can see the fossil skeleton is mounted in relief on the opposite side

This Mesohippus memento mori seems seasonally appropriate #FossilFriday

Male Murray Crayfish (note position of gonadopores) caught in 2019 in Corowa NSW for haemolymph extraction and released

I’ve never seen the biggest freshwater crayfish in the world, but here’s me holding the second biggest (Euastacus armatus)!

Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology Large datasets of fossil occurrences, often downloaded from online community-maintained databases, are a vital resource for understanding broad-scale evolutionary patterns, such as how biodiversity h...

Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social

Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!

Evolution of the northern fur seal (Callorhinus) lineage over the last five million years. On the left is a series of diagrams showing the gradual fusion of the postcanine tooth roots, and on the right are photos of the actual fossils - the possibly ancestral Thalassoleon mexicanus through Callorhinus gilmorei, the early Pleistocene unnamed Callorhinus sp., and the modern Callorhinus ursinus.

#toothtuesday Fur seals and sea lions evolved from ancestors with double-rooted teeth - but evolved single rooted teeth over the past five million years. Shown here is the 'anagenetic' evolution of the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus. Read more here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

I wish I could believe this is what happened…

There's something so bleak about the phishing scam test sent out by the university being an appreciation gift from the university. You're the sucker who fails the test if you think the university would ever be so generous.

Toothless skull and jaw of the extinct ground sloth Paramylodon harlani, in articulation, seen from an oblique front angle, with a small scale bar in the lower left. The reddish-brown skull is set against a white background. Specimen number LACM 8110/164767.

Happy #InternationalSlothDay! To celebrate w/ a paleontology twist, here's a fossilized skull and lower jaw of the extinct Pleistocene (Ice Age) ground sloth Paramylodon harlani, discovered in 2018 during excavation for the LA subway's La Cienega Station. 🧪🦥 #WorldSlothDay #MylodontMonday

Illustration from "The Animal Kingdom" (London, 1827-1835) depicting four detailed drawings of different arachnids, specifically harvestmen. Each arachnid has a segmented body and long, thin legs, with variations in leg length and body shape. The species are labeled as 1. Pycnogonum grotesipes, 2. Pyc. littorale, 3. Pyc. sanguineum, and 4. Nymphon gracile. The drawings emphasize anatomical features such as jointed legs, claws, and body segments, reflecting an early 19th-century scientific study of arachnid morphology. The paper shows slight aging with minor spots.

🕸️ The animal kingdom
London: Printed for G.B. Whittaker, 1827-1835.

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Illustration of a crab-eating raccoon poised on a partly submerged log over water. The raccoon has reddish-brown fur with darker stripes on its bushy tail and distinct dark markings around its eyes. It is shown with its head lowered toward water plants, as if about to catch prey. The background is a simple, muted sky and water, highlighting the animal’s detailed texture and natural hunting posture. The image is a detailed, lifelike depiction from Audubon’s 1851-54 collection, emphasizing the raccoon’s aquatic foraging behavior in a North American habitat.

🦝 The quadrupeds of North America, .
New York, V.G. Audubon, 1851-54..

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5 students from the University of Florida do the "gator chomp" at Sunset Point Arizona during the 2025 field course.

The application window for GeoSPACE 2026 is now open! Join us online or in-person in Arizona for a two-week planetary geology field camp through @ufgeology.bsky.social. Open to geo-gators as well as visitors from other schools. If you are looking for an accessible field camp, check us out! ⚒️

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

@jonkimball.bsky.social

New Species of Ancient Hook-toothed Reptile Discovered | AMNH Jurassic fossil from Scotland has revealed new family of Jurassic reptile linked to evolution of lizards and snakes.

🚨Research alert! A recent study, led by Museum Macaulay Curator Roger Benson, details a new species of Jurassic reptile that has links to the origins of lizards and snakes: amnh.link/46MCY71

Filou the seal, wearing a mask, as a vortex ring approaches his whiskers. The vortex ring is visible thanks to uranine dye in the water. Yvonne Krüger is the researcher observing the experiment from above. Photo credit: Eckhard Krumpholz.

Seals' whiskers are incredibly sensitive to fish wakes & other water movements & now it turns out that seals can probably tell in which direction a fish is escaping by sensing the vortices sent spinning off by the fleeing fish with their whiskers

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Click the link to peruse the full set of illustrations, these are all absolutely STUNNING - I now have new wall art goals for my office!