#fossilfriday — Public Fediverse posts
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Gigantspinosaurus.
It was found in 1985 by Ouyang Hui near Jinquan, and reported as a Tuojiangosaurus in 1986 by Gao Ruiqi and colleagues.
It wasnt until 1992 when Gigantspinosaurus was described and named by Ouyang for an abstract lecture. But the name was generally considered a nomen nudum (not recognised as a species) in the west.
In 2006 it was disclosed that the abstract contained sufficient description to be recognised as its own species.
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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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This week’s Fossil Friday is the preserved cast of a late Cretaceous crayfish, Eryma ornatus, found in Southern Alberta.
It was found by Lawrence Halmrast and is APS 1990.011. Photo credit Howard Allen.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #crayfish #alberta #fossilfriday
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Ancient sea fossils indicate millipede and centipede ancestors evolved their legs while still underwater https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html 🐛 #MarineLife #MarineBiology #FossilFriday #Science
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me based on Kongzillas original designs.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me based on Kongzillas original designs.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me based on Kongzillas original designs.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me based on Kongzillas original designs.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as easy. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me based on Kongzillas original designs.
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🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃#mnmuseums #fossilfriday
The full bison build is officially taking shape at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History. The Cherney site’s bones are finally moving from crates into museum care. Vertebra by vertebra, limb by limb, a Pleistocene giant from Coon Rapids, is rising again in Blue Earth.
Huge thanks to Jim Pollard and Walter Varcoe for the interview and for letting me see part of the mounting process in action. 🦏
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Monolophosaurus
In 1981, Dong Zhiming found a nearly complete skeleton during a stratigraphic exploration funded by the oil industry
In 1984 the fossil was finally unearthered
In 1987, before being formally described, it was called Jiangjunmiaosaurus in the press. This is a nomen nudum (a name with inadequate description, thus its invalid).
In 1993/1994, Zhao Xijin and Philip John Currie named and described the type species Monolophosaurus jiangi
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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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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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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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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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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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This week’s Fossil Friday is a Saurornitholestes tooth from the Dinosaur Park Formation. Saurornitholestes was a small theropod, closely related to Velociraptor, that would have stood about 60 cm tall and measured roughly 1.5 m long in life.
The serrations on this tooth helped it cut more efficiently into the flesh of its prey. This specimen, APS 1986.003, was found west of Iddesleigh by Donald Sabo.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossilfriday #fossils #dinosaurs #alberta
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Fossil reveals 180 million-year-old sea monster that survived despite injuries https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/sea-monster-extreme-survival-fossil-b2966298.html 🐬 #MarineLife #MarineBiology #FossilFriday #Science
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Did you recognise this half a billion year old fossil worm? The answer to last week's #FossilFriday mystery object comes with a story of the distant past and a remarkable fossil deposit.
http://paoloviscardi.com/2026/05/01/friday-mystery-object-537-answer/
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by Almost Perfect.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by Almost Perfect.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by Almost Perfect.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by Almost Perfect.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This Chinese dinosaur is known from the Jurassic.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by Almost Perfect.
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#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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#MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #YellowMedicineCounty #CitizenScience #NotAI -
#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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#MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #YellowMedicineCounty #CitizenScience #NotAI -
#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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#MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #YellowMedicineCounty #CitizenScience #NotAI -
#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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#MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #YellowMedicineCounty #CitizenScience #NotAI -
This week’s Fossil Friday is a vertebral centrum from a Late Cretaceous crocodile. The centrum is the main body of a vertebra.
This specimen was found by Judith Aldama in Montana and is catalogued as APS 2013.11.
#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #fossilfriday #crocodile #alberta
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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Ferrodraco.
Discovered in April 2017 by a farmer spraying herbicide near Belmont Station, Queensland Australia. It was excavated soon there after by a team led by Adele H. Pentland.
It was named, Ferrodraco, meaning Iron (ferro) Dragon (draco), by Adele, et al in 2019. This is because it was found in ironstone.
It was later CT scanned in high resolution at the Australian Synchrotron and osteology described in detail.
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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:
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Two fossil-bearing stones from the Capitola Bluffs, east of Santa Cruz, California. #FossilFriday
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What better time than #FossilFriday to read The Cambrian Tales, an illustrated story about an adventuring party of Cambrian weirdos, loosely inspired by Chaucer? You'll find it in #InverteFestAnthology, which dropped today! Art by @[email protected], words by me saimihanma.com/wp-content/u...
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Salix (willow) leaf, Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah. Collections of Joe Webb Peoples Museum, Wesleyan University, CT. #FossilFriday
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Yes, of course I own a chess board set made out of Temperoceras limestone from Morocco! ⚒️ #fossils #geology #UrbanGeology #FossilFriday
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How about for #FossilFriday some SEM images of Early Pleistocene foraminifera from the Shimajiri Group, Somachi Formation from Kikaijima, Japan? The third foram has some nasty spikes. I don't know enough to say whether they are from the foram's growth or diagenesis. #Geology
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I have a #FossilFriday mystery object for you this week. Any idea what it is?
http://paoloviscardi.com/2026/04/24/friday-mystery-object-537/
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This flying reptile is known from Australia.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This flying reptile is known from Australia.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This flying reptile is known from Australia.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This flying reptile is known from Australia.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me.
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This flying reptile is known from Australia.
Hide your guesses behind a content warning, so others can guess without being spoilt. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by me.