@dalvarez-01.bsky.social
Curious by nature. Background in applied linguistics and genetics. Thinking about data protection and AI, while loving travel, anthropology, history, archaeology — plus a soft spot for dinosaurs. ---Email: dalvarez.bsky@gmail.com
Yes! 😍
Truly impressive. I hope I get a chance to visit it!
Great photos!
Better photo with proper light of the tiny trilobite I found in the Anti-Atlas.
It’s very small but beautifully preserved — I’m in love with this one.
#trilobite #fossil #paleontology #Morocco #AntiAtlas #Travel
@saltynoreaster.bsky.social These are two I found myself.
Thank you so much!
I was tempted, but I prefer to leave it like that. I fear damaging it.
Thank you!
It is easier than most people think. You just need the right locations. I found two myself in less than 3 hours. But not so spectacular ones.
Thank you!
I hope you do! It must be amazing to go trilobite hunting over there!
It was found in Morocco so probably none of them. Bumastus ans Isoteles are usually found in North America.
Alnif, Morocco. But I saw ir in a place it didn't relly belong to. It must have been moved.
After a long time planning this trip, seeing this sign in Aït Ouazik was an exciting moment.
The prehistoric rock carvings were finally close. In this region, petroglyphs are scattered across the landscape, left by pastoral cultures thousands of years ago when the Sahara was much wetter.
Mysterious petroglyph from Aït Ouazik (southern Morocco). This footprint / sandal-like symbol appears in rock art across North Africa and the Sahara, often dated to the Late Neolithic or Bronze Age. Its meaning is unknown — a mark of presence, territory, or ritual?
#RockArt #Sahara #Archaeology
Possible representation of the sun, time, or seasonal cycles.
Rock art at Aït Ouazik (Morocco), carved on desert rock and likely from the Libyco-Berber period, part of the wider Saharan pastoral tradition.
It kept me wondering what it meant and why they made it.
#Petroglyphs #Archaeology #Sahara
Thank you so much for the information and detailed explanation! I truly appreciate it.
They are absolutely amazing!
I didn't know anything about them.
Same fossil, different soil...
Thank you. Yes, it is indeed beautiful!
Great photos!
Great photo!
After posting the trilobite and the trackways, Gemini suggested this reconstruction of what those Ordovician traces might have looked like when they were made — trilobites walking across the sea floor ~450 million years ago.
I found this funny enough to share it.
#AI #Trilobite
An ichnofossil: Ordovician trilobite trackways, preserved as locomotion traces on the ancient sea floor.
Unlike body fossils, these are trace fossils recording behavior rather than anatomy.
#ichnofossil #Rusophycus #trilobite #ichnology #fossils #geology
An exceptionally well-preserved Ordovician trilobite I came across this week.
Not my find this time — but the level of detail is incredible, with the thoracic segments and cephalon almost perfectly intact.
#trilobite #paleontology #fossils #geology #travel
I have been playing to visit Pompey for over 30 years. I hope I make in 2026!
Great photo!
Nice photo!
That's amazing!
Thank you so much!
Alnif, Morocco.
Alnif, Morocco.