#cuvier — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/474886/ Giant Squid DNA Found in Deep Canyons off Australia #Architeuthis #ArchiteuthisDux #Australia #canyon #Cuvier’sBeakedWhale #DNA #edna #eel #Éire #FacelessCuskEel #Gene #Genome #GiantSquid #IE #Ireland #KogiaBreviceps #PygmySpermWhale #Rhadinesthes #RhadinesthesDecimus #Science #SleeperShark #SlenderSnaggletooth #Snaggletooth #Somniosus #SpermWhale #Squid #Typhlonus #TyphlonusNasus #whale #Wildlife #ZiphiusCavirostris

On the bicentenary of Mary Anning’s Plesiosaurus
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/on-the-bicentenary-of-mary-annings-plesiosaurus/ by @Ferwen

"On December 10, 1823, #MaryAnning discovered the first complete #Plesiosaur skeleton at the same cliff where she found the #Ichthyosaur. The new creature had a tiny head and a remarkable long neck... In May 1824, #Cuvier sent geologist Constant Prévost to England for an official geological trip... In June 1824 Prévost went to #LymeRegis and met Mary Anning. He bought a plesiosaur for £10 and sent it to #Paris."

These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy | PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYuvU2VZkE

#barnacle #darwin #cirripedes #Linnaeus #Cuvier #mollusc #crustacean #arthropod #genome #dna #natural_history #paleontology #biology #science #evolution #variation

"The mastodon of North #America having been the first to receive attention, to it #Cuvier added the specific term Giganteus, or “Gigantic Mastodon." The remains were found bordering on the Ohio, and on this account #Buffon called it the #Mastodon Ohioticus."

"When the bones of the #mastodon were first discovered in quantity they were supposed to belong to the same animal as the #fossil elephant of Siberia, and for a long time it was called the mammoth. It also received the name of “The Great American Incognitum.” Its present name was given to it by #Cuvier, who designated it by the form of the tooth-the word mastodon being derived from the two #Greek words, mastos, nipple, and odous, tooth, or nippletooth."
J. P. MacLean, Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man.