#fossilfriday — Public Fediverse posts
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Eremotherium for #FossilFriday.
This towering giant ground sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi, stands in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Remounted on a custom steel armature during the 2019 renovation of the Hall of Fossils–Deep Time, its external support structure is a piece of engineering artwork in its own right.The animal reportedly contains more than 80% genuine fossil bone and stands 13 feet tall.
#pleistocene #paleontology #iceage #groundsloth #citizenscience
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Eremotherium for #FossilFriday.
This towering giant ground sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi, stands in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Remounted on a custom steel armature during the 2019 renovation of the Hall of Fossils–Deep Time, its external support structure is a piece of engineering artwork in its own right.The animal reportedly contains more than 80% genuine fossil bone and stands 13 feet tall.
#pleistocene #paleontology #iceage #groundsloth #citizenscience
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Anchiceratops
In 1912, a Barnum Brown lead expedition found the first fossils along the Red Deer River in Alberta Canada.
In 1924, Charles M. Sternberg at Morrin found a more complete skull
In 1929, Charles M. Sternberg at Morrin formally described and named the new species Anchiceratops longirostris.
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Anchiceratops
In 1912, a Barnum Brown lead expedition found the first fossils along the Red Deer River in Alberta Canada.
In 1924, Charles M. Sternberg at Morrin found a more complete skull
In 1929, Charles M. Sternberg at Morrin formally described and named the new species Anchiceratops longirostris.
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🐻 For #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 a new #LostBones article is out on Substack! This one is a deep-deep dive into brown bear (Ursus arctos) and giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) in the Midwest and Surrounding areas.
Please share to get out the word!
See it thru the link in my bio or here: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-6-bears-repeating
#Ursusarctos #Arctodussimus #Bears #GiantShortFacedBears #pleistocene #holocene #paleontology #iceage #fossil #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
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🐻 For #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 a new #LostBones article is out on Substack! This one is a deep-deep dive into brown bear (Ursus arctos) and giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) in the Midwest and Surrounding areas.
Please share to get out the word!
See it thru the link in my bio or here: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-6-bears-repeating
#Ursusarctos #Arctodussimus #Bears #GiantShortFacedBears #pleistocene #holocene #paleontology #iceage #fossil #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
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@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
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@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
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@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
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@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
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@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
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This #FossilFriday, behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite. Over millions of years, high temperatures & pressures turned its shell to a gemstone called ammolite. Along with amber & pearl, this gem is one of only a few made by living organisms.
@AMNH #globalmuseum #museums #ammonites -
This #FossilFriday, behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite. Over millions of years, high temperatures & pressures turned its shell to a gemstone called ammolite. Along with amber & pearl, this gem is one of only a few made by living organisms.
@AMNH #globalmuseum #museums #ammonites -
It's been a while since I posted something for #FossilFriday !
This time I present Ordosoceras sphaeriforme from the #Ordovician of China, an actinoceratid #cephalopod with one of the strangest siphuncles I know. Compare this to modern #Nautilus !
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It's been a while since I posted something for #FossilFriday !
This time I present Ordosoceras sphaeriforme from the #Ordovician of China, an actinoceratid #cephalopod with one of the strangest siphuncles I know. Compare this to modern #Nautilus !
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It's been a while since I posted something for #FossilFriday !
This time I present Ordosoceras sphaeriforme from the #Ordovician of China, an actinoceratid #cephalopod with one of the strangest siphuncles I know. Compare this to modern #Nautilus !
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It's been a while since I posted something for #FossilFriday !
This time I present Ordosoceras sphaeriforme from the #Ordovician of China, an actinoceratid #cephalopod with one of the strangest siphuncles I know. Compare this to modern #Nautilus !
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It's been a while since I posted something for #FossilFriday !
This time I present Ordosoceras sphaeriforme from the #Ordovician of China, an actinoceratid #cephalopod with one of the strangest siphuncles I know. Compare this to modern #Nautilus !
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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.
It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday
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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.
It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday
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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.
It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday
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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.
It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday
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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Late Cretaceous sea star from Alberta (APS 1987.038). It was found in the Cardium Formation, which formed along the shallow margin of the Western Interior Seaway. This seaway bisected North America, connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This sea star would have lived in the warm, shallow waters along that margin.
It was found by Harvey Negrich and Don Sabo. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #seastar #fossilfriday
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Today is Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday! So, I'm thinking back to 2008 when he visited Trinity College Dublin and I got to reveal a cast of his namesake plesiosaur, Attenborosaurus, which I had prepared in anticipation of his visit. He talked passionately and eloquently about the Jurassic Coast. I should've smartened up for the occasion though! The specimen is now on display in the TCD geological museum.
#Attenborosaurus #Attenborough #FossilFriday #TCD #plesiosaur
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Today is Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday! So, I'm thinking back to 2008 when he visited Trinity College Dublin and I got to reveal a cast of his namesake plesiosaur, Attenborosaurus, which I had prepared in anticipation of his visit. He talked passionately and eloquently about the Jurassic Coast. I should've smartened up for the occasion though! The specimen is now on display in the TCD geological museum.
#Attenborosaurus #Attenborough #FossilFriday #TCD #plesiosaur
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#FotoVorschlag "Verbindung", #52wochenfotochallenge #Bäume & #fossilfriday
Dass ich einen kompletten, 320 Millionen Jahre alten #Baum aus den Kohlesümpfen als #Versteinerung in meiner #Sammlung habe, glauben mir die Leute oft nicht. Tatsächlich sind es auch nur Einzelteile, die erst in #Verbindung miteinander das Bild des kompletten Schuppenbaums #Lepidodendron ergeben, einem bis zu 30 Meter großen #Bärlapp - die 4 Stücke lassen sich klar Wurzel, Stamm, Blättern und Samen zuordnen 🌳
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#FotoVorschlag "Verbindung", #52wochenfotochallenge #Bäume & #fossilfriday
Dass ich einen kompletten, 320 Millionen Jahre alten #Baum aus den Kohlesümpfen als #Versteinerung in meiner #Sammlung habe, glauben mir die Leute oft nicht. Tatsächlich sind es auch nur Einzelteile, die erst in #Verbindung miteinander das Bild des kompletten Schuppenbaums #Lepidodendron ergeben, einem bis zu 30 Meter großen #Bärlapp - die 4 Stücke lassen sich klar Wurzel, Stamm, Blättern und Samen zuordnen 🌳
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New blog post! We find mammoths all kinds of places, even in the desert!
https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/mammoths-in-the-desert/
If you like these posts, please leave a tip or become a subscriber. All proceeds support research and education at the Western Science Center.
#FossilFriday #Palaeontology #paleontology #fossil #mammoth #scicomm
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#fossilfriday & #Fensterfreitag & #FotoVorschlag "Im Rahmen"
Das besondere #Fossil von einem urzeitlichen #Tintenfisch aus der Verwandtschaft der #Belemniten mit Modelltier 🦑 - natürlich im Fensterrahmen 😁 Besonders schön sind bei dieser #Versteinerung aus dem #Jura die Weichteile samt schimmerndem Tintensack erhalten 🤩
Ausgewählt hab ich es wegen eines neuen Papers über einen gewaltigen #Oktopus aus der #Kreidezeit - evtl. bis zu 19 Meter lang! 😱🐙
Hier das Paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285 -
#fossilfriday & #Fensterfreitag & #FotoVorschlag "Im Rahmen"
Das besondere #Fossil von einem urzeitlichen #Tintenfisch aus der Verwandtschaft der #Belemniten mit Modelltier 🦑 - natürlich im Fensterrahmen 😁 Besonders schön sind bei dieser #Versteinerung aus dem #Jura die Weichteile samt schimmerndem Tintensack erhalten 🤩
Ausgewählt hab ich es wegen eines neuen Papers über einen gewaltigen #Oktopus aus der #Kreidezeit - evtl. bis zu 19 Meter lang! 😱🐙
Hier das Paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285 -
Fossilized whale skulls reveal feeding secrets of sharks 5 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2026-03-fossilized-whale-skulls-reveal-secrets.html 🐋 #Sirenia #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Manatees #Science #FossilFriday
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Fossilized whale skulls reveal feeding secrets of sharks 5 million years ago https://phys.org/news/2026-03-fossilized-whale-skulls-reveal-secrets.html 🐋 #Sirenia #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Manatees #Science #FossilFriday
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#fossilfriday & #52wochenfotochallenge "Linien und Formen" & Nachtrag zum #FotoVorschlag "Umrisse":
An besonderen Orten kann man #Fossilien finden, die zunächst unmöglich scheinen - wie dieser Abdruck einer #Qualle 🪼 aus der #Lagerstätte #Eichstätt in #Franken 🍻 Quallen sind uralt und spätestens bei der Kambrischen Explosion vor über 500 Millionen Jahren entstanden. Allerdings bleiben von ihnen durch ihren wässrigen Körper nur sehr selten Überreste #fossil erhalten.
Erkennt ihr die Qualle? 🪼🤓
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#fossilfriday & #52wochenfotochallenge "Linien und Formen" & Nachtrag zum #FotoVorschlag "Umrisse":
An besonderen Orten kann man #Fossilien finden, die zunächst unmöglich scheinen - wie dieser Abdruck einer #Qualle 🪼 aus der #Lagerstätte #Eichstätt in #Franken 🍻 Quallen sind uralt und spätestens bei der Kambrischen Explosion vor über 500 Millionen Jahren entstanden. Allerdings bleiben von ihnen durch ihren wässrigen Körper nur sehr selten Überreste #fossil erhalten.
Erkennt ihr die Qualle? 🪼🤓
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NEW ARTWORK for #FossilFriday
Here's "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum & the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of #Thrissops, #Grendelius & #Nannopterygius ichthyosaurs, diving #Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs, #Caturus, #Gyrodus, and #Pachycormus fishes, a #Dakosaurus croc, & 3 #Kimmerosaurus.#SciArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Ichthyosaurs #Pterosaurs #Crocodiles #Plesiosaurs #Alt4Me
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Eine schwere #mysterybox ist pünktlich zum #fossilfriday bei mir eingetroffen - Zeit für ein #unboxing der besonderen Art! 📦✂️ Was für eine #Versteinerung sich da wohl verbirgt? 🤓 Und woran kann man eigentlich einen echten versteinerten #Knochen erkennen?
SPOILER:
Das #Fossil ist der Oberarmknochen von einem #Krokodil 🐊 aus der mittleren #Kreidezeit von #Marokko, bestellt bei Felix Fossils, von dem ich schon öfter hochwertige #Fossilien gekauft habe 🦴🦷 Kein #Dino also, aber trotzdem cool! 🤩 -
Eine schwere #mysterybox ist pünktlich zum #fossilfriday bei mir eingetroffen - Zeit für ein #unboxing der besonderen Art! 📦✂️ Was für eine #Versteinerung sich da wohl verbirgt? 🤓 Und woran kann man eigentlich einen echten versteinerten #Knochen erkennen?
SPOILER:
Das #Fossil ist der Oberarmknochen von einem #Krokodil 🐊 aus der mittleren #Kreidezeit von #Marokko, bestellt bei Felix Fossils, von dem ich schon öfter hochwertige #Fossilien gekauft habe 🦴🦷 Kein #Dino also, aber trotzdem cool! 🤩 -
@TheDinosaurDave
great interview with the lead author of the description, from back in 2019: https://www.palaeocast.com/ferrodraco/ -
@TheDinosaurDave
great interview with the lead author of the description, from back in 2019: https://www.palaeocast.com/ferrodraco/ -
It's #FossilFriday!
Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The #SeaRex" (probably #Pliosaurus), #Hybodus, #Hypsocormus, #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus, and lots of #Allothrissops
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology
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It's #FossilFriday!
Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The #SeaRex" (probably #Pliosaurus), #Hybodus, #Hypsocormus, #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus, and lots of #Allothrissops
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology
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It's #FossilFriday!
Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The #SeaRex" (probably #Pliosaurus), #Hybodus, #Hypsocormus, #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus, and lots of #Allothrissops.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Pliosaur #Jurassic #JurassicWorld
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It's #FossilFriday!
Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The #SeaRex" (probably #Pliosaurus), #Hybodus, #Hypsocormus, #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus, and lots of #Allothrissops.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Pliosaur #Jurassic #JurassicWorld
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New review fresh in for #FossilFriday: Bringing to life two palaeontological expeditions and excelling at explaining scientific concepts, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt goes deeper into the tragic history behind Spinosaurus and resurrects the forgotten Ernst Stromer.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/19/book-review-the-lost-dinosaurs-of-egypt/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Theropods #Spinosaurs #Spinosaurus #Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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#FossilFriday - #LostBones #5 on Substack: "In April 1967, Burgess Construction employee Ivan Brouwer, a dragline operator working along a creek during the construction of Minnesota’s Interstate 94 (I-94) just east of the city of Melrose Minnesota, uncovered a mass of jumbled bones in a peat deposit approximately 15 feet below the original ground surface..."
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-5-from-the-ashes-a-fire
Share to support my volunteer effort!
#Writing #HistoricalNonFiction #CitizenScience
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#FossilFriday - #LostBones #5 on Substack: "In April 1967, Burgess Construction employee Ivan Brouwer, a dragline operator working along a creek during the construction of Minnesota’s Interstate 94 (I-94) just east of the city of Melrose Minnesota, uncovered a mass of jumbled bones in a peat deposit approximately 15 feet below the original ground surface..."
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-5-from-the-ashes-a-fire
Share to support my volunteer effort!
#Writing #HistoricalNonFiction #CitizenScience
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Fossils reveal sea cows have engineered Arabian Gulf's seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossils-reveal-sea-cows-arabian.html 🐋 #Sirenia #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dugong #Science #FossilFriday
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Fossils reveal sea cows have engineered Arabian Gulf's seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossils-reveal-sea-cows-arabian.html 🐋 #Sirenia #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dugong #Science #FossilFriday
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A very accessible fossil! This bivalve (right) and gastropod shell impression (left) were found in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, just outside of Cochrane, AB.
These were found in a sandstone boulder from the Paskapoo Formation, dating from the early Palaeocene (right after the extinction of most of the dinosaurs).
#fossilfriday #palaeontology #paleontology #bivalve #gastropod #cochrane #ab
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Gorgosaurus
In 1856 Joseph Leidy described two tyrannosaurid premaxillary teeth from Montana. Leidy gave them the name Deinodon
In 1913 Charles M Sternberg found a nearly complete skeleton of a tyrannosaurid in the Dinosaur Park Formation Canada. It was the first know tyrannosaurid fossil with a hand
In 1914 Lawrence Lambe described and named the fossil Gorgosaurus libratus
In 1917 William Diller Matthew and Barnum Brown suggested Deinodon was Gorgosaurus