arstechnica.com We finally know for sure what a trilobite ate
Tens of thousands of fossils later, we’ve found a trilobite with a full stomach.
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Paleontology @lemmy.ml Favrion @lemmy.world What animal was this?
Found in a wooded area in central Connecticut.
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Paleontology @lemmy.ml GlennMagusHarvey @mander.xyz FediFollows - paleontology accounts on Mastodon
social.growyourown.services FediFollows (@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services)#Palaeontology / #Paleontology / #Fossils picks of the day: ➡️ @Fossilbonanza@sciencemastodon.com - Well-preserved fossils, run by specialist from Kansas Geological Survey ➡️ @AltonDooley@mstdn.social (main) & @westernsciencecenter@mstdn.social (museum) - Exec Director at Western Science Center, C...
Just forwarding along a two-toot thread from @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services post with some Mastodon accounts related to paleontology. Copy-pasted and edited the relevant text here for y'all's convenience:
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@Fossilbonanza@sciencemastodon.com - Featuring lots of well-preserved fossils, run by Kansas Geological Survey
\ ➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@AltonDooley@mstdn.social (main) & https://scicomm.xyz/@westernsciencecenter@mstdn.social (museum) - Exec Director at Western Science Center, Calif. Expert on #mastodons
\ ➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@drmambobob@ecoevo.social - Evolutionary #palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in #zoology at Univ. of Lincoln, UK
\ ➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@Drdonnayates@archaeo.social - Archaeologist & criminologist at Maastricht Univ, studying #fossil smuggling
\ ➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@AdamStuartSmith@sauropods.win - #Palaeontologist & #plesiosaur expert, curator at Nottingham Natural History Museum in UK
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Paleontology @lemmy.ml Mike Taylor 🦕 @sauropods.win (https://lemmy.ml/c/paleontology) If anyone on this community is looking to move Mastodon instance, there are quite a few of us palaeontologists on sauropod.win, hosted by noted palaeoa
@paleontology If anyone on this community is looking to move Mastodon instance, there are quite a few of us palaeontologists on sauropod.win, hosted by noted palaeoartist John Conway.
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Paleontology @lemmy.ml zksmk @lemmy.ml Scientists find perfectly preserved fossil of a dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
www.theguardian.com Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a birdAt least 66m-year-old fossil discovered in southern China reveals posture previously unseen in dinosaurs
