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Move over, Jurassic Park. Manitoba was home to newly discovered 390-million-year-old extinct fish | CBC News A research team from the University of Manitoba has discovered a new genus of placoderm fish, named Elmosteus lundarensis, one of the earliest fish to develop bones, a jaw and teeth.

Fun day trip this week! On a warm, sunny July day, paleontologist Melina Jobbins and her team search an old rock quarry near Lundar, Man., for 390-million-year-old fossils of an extinct fish that swam in what was once a vast inland sea. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @umanitoba.bsky.social

Top, an unpainted model of a shark-like fish. Below, the same model now painted with browns and yellows.

Upper (labeled A to C) and lower (D and E) portions of a blade-like Elmosteus jaw. Certain features like cusps of the teeth are labeled.

New publication alert! Meet ‘Elmosteus lundarensis’, a large, armoured fish that lived in the Devonian Period. Dr. Joe Moysiuk (cambrojoe.bsky.social), worked with researchers from umanitoba.bsky.social on this study, which includes new fossils!

Read the publication here: doi.org/10.1080/1477...

Move over, Jurassic Park. Manitoba was home to newly discovered 390-million-year-old extinct fish | CBC News A research team from the University of Manitoba has discovered a new genus of placoderm fish, named Elmosteus lundarensis, one of the earliest fish to develop bones, a jaw and teeth.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Best day in the field ever? Quite possibly. It’s not every day you find the oldest known muscular animal in the world. Mamsetia manunis - an #Ediacaran fossil at @discoverygeoparknl.bsky.social - before and after cleaning on the day it was discovered. #FossilFriday

Welcome back to another #fossilfriday

Here is the crinoid Onychocrinus distensus. This specimen comes from the Lower Carboniferous (Upper Carboniferous) Upper Monteagle Limestone Formation from one mile east of Huntsville, Alabama.

Edrioasteroids are a strange echinoderm. I always think of them as a starfish/barnacle combination. They tend to attach to hard ground or encrust on brachiopods.

This is Belochthus orthokolus from the Ordovician Verulam Fm. near Brechin, Ontario.

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The Wonder of Life on Earth by Henry Gee Find out more about The Wonder of Life on Earth by Henry Gee

Just signed off proofs of 'The Wonder of Life on Earth'. They're gorgeous! It's a shorter version of 'A (Very) Short Version of Life on Earth' re-written for pre-teens, illustrated by Raxenne Maniquiz. It's out in February but available for preorder www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...

Redescription of a Middle Devonian placoderm from Manitoba and comments on the polyphyly of Eastmanosteus (Arthrodira: Eubrachythoraci) Arthrodires are the most common and diverse placoderms, an extinct group of early jawed vertebrates. Although commonly found, numerous taxa remain poorly known, thereby complicating the establishme...

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Siccar Point viewed from the south-west. Berwickshire.

In 1788, Hutton discovered almost vertical layers of sedimentary rock at Siccar Point. This allowed him to explain key geological processes like deposition, folding and erosion, which shape today's landscapes.

View more geological photos via our archive: bgs.assetbank.app

Richard Bambach will always be remembered as a champion of functional-ecological way of thinking in macroevolution. Way before the modern trend in analyzing functional diversity.
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio

✨NEW INTERVIEW✨
THE SEA MOTH - Secrets of the Cambrian ~ with DR JOSEPH MOYSIUK @cambrojoe.bsky.social
#evolutionsoup #evolution #cambrian #science #fossils
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YouTube video by Evolution Soup THE SEA MOTH - Secrets of the Cambrian ~ with DR JOSEPH MOYSIUK

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Codex Eurypterida: A Revised Taxonomy Based on Concordant Parsimony and Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses Eurypterids, also known as sea scorpions, were aquatic chelicerate arthropods that were important components of Paleozoic marine and freshwater ecosystems from the Ordovician to the Permian. The group...

It's finally out! 200 years since the description of Eurypterus remipes, the first eurypterid named in the scientific literature, I present a summary of the history of eurypterid research and an updated taxonomy of every known species.🧪⚒️

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New species of ancient Cambrian predator named after Mothra | Natural History Museum Discovered in Canada, Mosura fentoni is more than half a billion years old.

A startling 'sea moth' has been uncovered in Canada!

Named in honour of a Japanese film icon, Mosura fentoni would have been a finger-sized hunter living over half a billion years ago!

Find out about the life of this petite predator 👇
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YouTube video by Manitoba Museum Introducing a NEW Fossil!

There's a new fossil in town! Meet "Mosura fentoni". It was discovered by Curator of Palaeontology & Geology Dr. Joe Moysiuk, alongside colleagues from the @romtoronto.bsky.social.

Get to know this bizarre-looking little predator in this video with Dr. Moysiuk: youtu.be/NiJFzNCbl98 #Fossil

Fossil discovery reveals a new genus from the Burgess Shale Mosura fentoni fossil reveals a new genus from the Burgess Shale

In his office piled high with papers, behind a desk strewn with specimens, Joe Moysiuk, curator of paleontology and geology at the Manitoba Museum, turns a fossil over in his hands.

Manitoba Museum Curator of Palaeontology and Geology, Dr. Joe Moysiuk, wearing sunglasses, a hard hat, and ear protectors, posing next to an uncovered fossil in a piece of rock.

Found at the Burgess Shale, a site renowned for its quality of preservation, some specimens show traces of the nervous system, gut, and circulatory system! The study was led by our Curator of Palaeontology and Geology, Dr. Joe Moysiuk (@cambrojoe.bsky.social).

Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Two photos of a fossil specimen with different light conditions. On the left, the general shape of Mosura is seen in darker shades than the surrounding rock. On the right, the circulatory and nervous systems of the creature are visible as reflective patches.

New fossil species alert! Meet Mosura fentoni, a 506-million-year-old predator. This creature was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny, jointed claws, and a body with swimming flaps along its sides. It was part of an extinct group known as the radiodonts. #FossilFriday

Artwork by Danielle Dufault © ROM

Artwork by Danielle Dufault © ROM

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Introducing Mosura fentoni, a new radiodont from the #BurgessShale.
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…
This #fossil species has 3 eyes, spiny claws, wing-shaped swimming flaps, and a unique abdomen-like body region.

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Some big #BurgessShale news coming next week...🤓🦋
#FossilFriday #Cambrian #arthropod

🧪🦖Science folks! I'm working on a piece for Scientific American about how fossil species are defined, and why that question's important for understanding biodiversity in the past and present. If that's your field, I'd love to talk to you!

(Email me at aelbein at gmail!)

Turns out cycling around London with a seven foot Christmas tree on the back is a very good way to stop aggressive overtaking by drivers.