Paleobytes

Diane Acker and I at Late Ordovician Sequatchie Formation in Ringgold, Georgia. We are looking at the Ordovician-Silrurian boundary as well as collecting ichnofossils. @ichnologist.bsky.social has an excellent blog post about this. Check it out!

www.georgialifetraces.com/tag/sequatch...

Tonight, Gov. Andy Beshear joined emergency management officials and first responders at Louisville Metro Hall to update Kentuckians on the UPS plane crash near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

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A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A picture of the Tully Monster. Artist rendition depicts it as yellow, two eyes on antenna like stalks, and a long mouth with a crab claw like jaw.

Paleo freak of the week is Tullimonstrum, colloquially known as the Tully monster. A creature of the Pennsylvanian subperiod

So far found only in sediments deposited in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, US. Its classification has been the subject of controversy.

#paleofreakoftheweek

Gar week 2025?
Party on, Wayne. Party on, GARth.

I’m also very excited because I am going on a field trip with the Geological Society of Kentucky this weekend! Should be fun to look at some nice road cuts. :)

Finally getting more into this book and it’s been really interesting.

Carboniferous Icons! This is the age of the bugs for sure, but also fun shaped aquatic critters!

Tully Monster💚, Meganeura💜, Arthropleura💙, Diplocaulus🦎

#paleontology

A chibi Tullimonstrum gregarium illustration made with pen and markers on marker paper.

Chibi Tully Monster!

#paleoart #chibi #tullymonster

These three show up at your door for candy, what's your move?
*happy Halloween! I miss the Tully Monster...*
#halloweenart #Halloween2025 #doodle

When trash stops being a treasure: pollution and its effects in Another Crab’s Treasure Abraham U. Morales-Primo Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hospital General de México, Mexico City, Mexico. E-mail: aump.puma (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Marine e…

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@aumpuma.bsky.social examines how
@aggrocrabgames.bsky.social's Another Crab’s Treasure reflects real-world ecological concerns through gameplay, from scavenged gear to toxic waters.

#geekstudies #marinebiology #pollution #environment #crabs

GAR WEEK 2025 is HERE!!!

Join @garlab.bsky.social as we celebrate these awesome living fossil fishes and freshwater biodiversity for #GarWeek!

We look forward to hearing from YOU with any gar pics, puns, stories, GARtwork and questions this week!

Ants biting the underside of leaves as a result of infection by O. unilateralis, photo credit David P. Hughes & Maj-Britt Pontoppidan. The top panel shows the whole leaf with the dense surrounding vegetation in the background and the lower panel shows a close up view of dead ant attached to a leaf vein. The stroma of the fungus emerges from the back of the ant's head. The photograph has been rotated 180 degrees to aid visualization. Fungus species: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Ant species: Camponotus leonardi. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004835.g001

Because #Halloween is for zombies and this year it falls on #FossilFriday, let's talk about fossil signs of zombification! Ophiocordyceps, the ant-zombifying fungus that inspired the last of us, compels an infected ant to leave its colony, climb a leaf and bite down, leaving distinctive marks 1/

So whimsical!

Boys club in a nutshell tbh.

Science fact: if you look at any tyrannosaur from far enough away it becomes a nanotyrannus

Sponge worthy

Oh god. I remember this. Suddenly I feel ancient.

Scientists thought this fossil was a teen T. rex. Turns out it's a new tyrannosaur A new look at the "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex was not the only tyrannosaur roaming the land.

www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...

Sad reality. Reason I became an engineer, other than being genuinely interested in it to an extent, was because I knew science and PhD jobs were very competitive and being an engineer would pay me well. I hope one day something changes.

Reminds me of the ongoing research that turtles might have more intelligence than we gave them credit for. Not in terms of tool use, but just that they’re “more aware” than we once thought.

T. rex the Tool Maker -- Testing Controversial Claims About Dinosaur Smarts — Tetrapod Zoology The intelligence of non-bird dinosaurs is one of the most-asked questions about their biology...

Go see this... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/4/...

The dinosaur cognition wars are (a) a thing and (b) very much continuing.

Twitch screenshot of me in my office, with the back wall featuring 3D-printed Diplodocus skulls (in honor of Cary's work) as well as an SVP logo, a framed photograph of Bob Harmon, and various other paleontological accoutrements

We're now starting our FIRST EPISODE of 'The Fossil Finders,' a new series with @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

and we're interviewing @doublebeam.bsky.social, sauropod & pachycephalosaur expert — and also an old friend of mine — about his fieldwork adventures!

Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing

a person is swimming in the ocean with the caption " pov : you 're hunting with anomalocaris " on the bottom Alt: Animation of the Cambrian animal Anomalocaris swimming above a herd of trilobites on a sea bottom, labeled with "POV (Point of View) : you 're hunting with Anomalocaris."

In my 'Evolution of the Earth' class today, we'll finish learning about the Proterozoic Eon: the end of "Snowball [or Slushy] Earth" & the first supercontinents (all hail Rodinia!), but then will jump into the Phanerozoic Eon, focusing on the ecological expansion of marine biota & environments. 🧪🪨⚒️🌊

Line drawing of a fragmented skull seen from the front

The skull from near Herto, Ethiopia, BOU-VP-16/1 represents a person who lived sometime between 162,000 and 147,000 years ago. The skull bears two cutmarks on the right parietal and temporal, suggesting that other individuals may have conducted mortuary practices upon his death. #inktober

Older post and article, but Prototaxites are forever amazing to me.

Good advice from Stavvy. www.vulture.com/article/stav...