Agaricocrinus is a common Mississippian crinoid, but very beautiful. This specimen is from the Edwardsville Fm of Indiana near Crawfordsville. Each arm has delicate pinnules that would filter water for food.
#FossilFriday
Happy #FossilFriday from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia ποΈπ¦΄
The skeleton likely belonged to Sloanbaatar, a multituberculate #mammal from the L. Cretaceous Baruungoyot Fm, highlighting a glimpse into the diversity of Mesozoic mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs. π¦π€π
πΈ Photo by Phil Bell (UNE)
Fossil of a sea turtle, on display with head turning to the left.
Not the easiest #FossilFriday as war rears its head again here in the Middle east...
A throwback from quieter times: The oldest known sea turtle, Desmatochelys padillai from Colombia. Despite their ancient appearance, turtles returned to the seas at a much later date than many other reptile groups
Ford shrugged.
A portrait page with a full restored branch onto the left. It has 6 palm like leaves at the end of one branch, hiding a cone, with a second mature cone below it. On the top right is a male floral organ, which is start shaped, and in the bottom right is a cut-way of the female cone showing its development.
I have another #paleobotany restoration guide for this #FossilFriday. This time, it's Kimuriella densifolia, a whole plant bennettitalean from the Late #Jurassic of Japan.
This plant is composed of three organ taxa: Williamsonia, Zamites, and Weltrichia.
#paleoart #sciart #botany
Densely packed fossil burrows in a gray limestone that look like pipes, some branching into "Y" shapes, and with knobby (pelleted) exteriors, with circular cross-sections.
For #FossilFriday, fossil ghost-shrimp burrows (ichnogenus Ophiomorpha) in Pleistocene limestone (125,000 years old), San Salvador Island, The Bahamas π§πΈ. Co-leading a spring-break field course there with students from Emory & Oxford College of @emoryuniversity.bsky.social starting tomorrow. π§ͺπͺ¨βοΈποΈππ πΏπ¦
A Triceratops skull mounted on a red plinth in a display case. It has a large frill. At the Royal Ontario Museum.
Skull of Triceratops horridus!! The not so horrible Triceratops genera was one of the last ceratopsians and went extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. #FossilFriday βοΈπ§ͺπ¦
The Portico hiring poster
π Weβre hiring
Passionate about connecting historic books and archives with communities, readers and researchers?...
The three ages of British nerd are 'that Top of the Pops set dressing has been in Doctor Who', 'on a rewatch, The Tomorrow People is shite', and 'oh God, I'm older than Richard Vernon was when he played Slartibartfast, which tbf is younger than you'd think'.
youtu.be/WjnmzljtREk?...
@michaelspicer.bsky.social , delighted to discover this courtesy @scientits.bsky.social
This absolutely nails the formulaic and ultimately soul-sucking trend of non-fiction telly today.
Novartis And Henrietta Lacksβ Family Reach A Settlement
π Great news: the UKβs emissions fell to their lowest level in 150 years last year, with coal use roughly halving.
π£ We also saw record-breaking generation from renewable sources, especially wind & solar.
π Read @carbonbrief.org's analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
Early tetrapod trackways on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
Evening plans mean no long threads for #FossilFriday... gotta unleash my inner stem-tetrapod, and make tracks! πΎπ§ͺβοΈ
These are so wonderfully composed and were an awesome surprise when I visited last year
Iβm looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. Iβd really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but Iβm trying to fix that)
Feel free to message
Find out more about how @bsbiscotland.bsky.social found 4 species of clubmoss in Dunbartonshire inc 1st Marsh Clubmoss spotted at this location since 1854!
Press release here: bsbi.org/about/news/p...
Blogpost with more details: bsbi.org/about/news/l...
Thanks @markavery.bsky.social for sharing!
an artistic depiction of the horned pareiasaur elginia
a photo of the skull of elginia mirabilis
happy #fossilfriday! this is elginia, a pareiasaur from late permian scotland and china. it was a small herbivore β about 60cm long β distinguished by the elaborate spines that ornamented its skull, presumably used for display
(art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social)
Fossil Friday #307: Euphoberia sp. From PitΒ 11
For today, we have a very nice Mazon Creek millipede. Euphoberia is an extinct genus of millipede found in both Europe and North America. The genus was erected by Β Fielding Bradford MeekΒ and Amos Henry Worthen when they described Euphoberia armigeraβ¦
The Butterbur are flowering along the canal now. Like the early Celandine and Primrose flowers they are a great source of nectar for bees when flowers are still scarce early in Spring. They flower before the huge leaves appear with their felt like upper surface.
During the Silurian period, over 400 million years ago, the West Midlands was covered by a shallow, tropical sea. Fossil evidence for this includes this Marsupiocrinus genus of extinct crinoid (sometimes called a sea lily), found in the Much Wenlock Formation in Dudley.
#LapworthRocks #FossilFriday
Itβs the Cambrian trilobite genus Olenellus from the Kinzer formation of Lancaster County, PA. Thereβs a surprising amount of Cambrian goodies from that formation but itβs hard to find outcrops. #fossilfriday
Just 20 accounts drive more than a third of the activity in Stephen Lennonβs (aka Tommy Robinsonβs) online network.
Our Data Desk analysed 13,000+ posts and 1,750 key interactions for State of Hate 2026 to map how his ecosystem works.
Hereβs what we found π
hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...
And yet here β he activated the Guide again β was his own entry on how you would set about having a good time in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, which he had always prided himself on as being one of the most baroque pieces of invention he had ever delivered.
A drawer full of ~3" long samples in low flat cardboard boxes. Sitting atop its box, and overlapping several others, is a slab of kinked, foliated rock.
A #FridayFold I found in a drawer full of archived samples at the state geological survey. βοΈ
We need taxonomists and real botanists πͺ΄π±
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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A Season 21 collage against a space background
A collage of Tegan and her friends and relatives against the TARDIS roundels
#DoctorWho Season 21 and Tegan Jovanka puzzles! Just dropped at #CrypticWho crypticwho.com
Amazing - thank you - did not know about this!
Volcanos & fossilsππ²π³π
Woodcock & al in press | The #fossil localities of the Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest (Eocene, #Peru): a prospectus for research and conservation | Acta Palaeobotanica: acpa.botany.pl/The-fossil-l...
#FossilFriday :)
A Yahama organ
My dad's was a Yamaha - this kind of thing
