Fossillocator

Oh no! I didn’t know the company that made ecospheres closed!

I see a Martian meteorite sold for a lot of money and Niger wants it back… and Paul Sereno is the one pushing them to protect their cultural heritage…

You meant “does Wikipedia mean slave?”

One-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other

Ground into fertilizer

Was reading up on some of Jefferson’s fossil collection and…

Anyone know a lot about French Legion of Honor medals from 1814-1830?

Interesting little paleo artifact: an envelope addressed to O.C. Marsh sent from Medicine Bow, Wyoming during the height of the Bone Wars

This is becoming a new pet peeve for me: every time some natural event happens, all the meteorologists suddenly think they’re experts in it.

Meteor fall = meteorologists become meteoriticists

Earthquake / tsunami = meteorologists become geoscientists

They should stick to their lane.

Oh I forgot this one! Yes a very neat casing

Oh hey! Good to see you again

Hmm, I might have a few but they’re not pretty

Who wants to join me and mess with nature?

But a tree rotating with exactly three broken branches on each side?

Correction: A new enigmatic lacustrine trackway in the upper Miocene of the Sierra de las Cabras (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain) - Journal of Iberian Geology Journal of Iberian Geology -

We’re discussing it, I think they’re referring to the specimen that had the name previously, how do you read it? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Correction: A new enigmatic lacustrine trackway in the upper Miocene of the Sierra de las Cabras (Jumilla, Murcia, Spain) - Journal of Iberian Geology Journal of Iberian Geology -

Ok I’m reading the correction and I think they stand by their interpretation? Unless there’s another one link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ah did not see that

What about for that size for freshwater? From the first to third tread it’s 55 cm

Some spheres I recently picked up from the Kirkby collection:
1) Tiffany stone from Utah
2) Lepidolite from New Mexico
3) Rainbow obsidian from California
4) Sodalite from the Princess Sodalite mine of Canada

Monster and freshwater, that’s crazy

What the??? At a Miocene fossil track site there's a trackway from huge arthropod moving sideways (like a crab). If it was an insect it would've been 50-70 cm long based on estimates. It's freshwater/marshy deposit. No idea what made it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sigh. Sometimes I think I should’ve stayed out west and dug Dino’s and auctioned them for tens of millions like my friends are doing…

I’m doing ok but it’d be nice to have enough money to not worry about money.

Sometimes I see a signed book in an auction house and then I’ll go find a cheaper copy online. Here’s Jonas Salk

Looks like part of a stingray tooth plate though they usually don’t breaks that way. If it were big I’d say mammoth

Dang it, you’re right

Went to an open house and spotted my first pawpaw in the wild!

Time to clean out the AMERICA drawer

The Turin Papyrus Map, which is both the world's oldest topographic map and oldest geologic map. Made around 1150 BCE by Scribe-of-the-Tomb Amennakhte for Ramesses IV for quarrying purposes. Shows quarry locations, gold deposits, and different rock types.

Yes! This does happen if the print was a harder material. Get me a pic please

Nice amethyst spher- FOOLED YOU!

It’s a freaking purple calcite sphere from Joplin, Missouri that my buddy Justin has.

Two things:
1) when did you ever see a purple calcite
2) do you know how difficult it is to sphere something with a hardness of 3 that likes to cleave?

Tagging @drwendyrocks.bsky.social because I believe smaller version are formed by the San Andreas fault