#fossils — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fossils, aggregated by home.social.
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20-Aug-2026
Paleontologists spent 20 years #carbonDating thousands of marine #fossils, then used them to decode a process fundamental to #Earth’s history -
The Guardian view on the export of fossils: they deserve national treasure status | Editorial
By EditorialScientific specimens are being sold to foreign museums or snapped up by the super-rich. They should have the same legal protections as works of art
#Fossils #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Culture #Museums #JurassicPark #TheGuardian #Editorial
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Three varieties of 'vegan Dracula' lampreys found in unlikely places
By Jessica RossScientists are working to determine the full range of the ancient and elusive creatures that have lain hidden for 150 million-odd years.
#Fish #Biology #ScientificResearch #Fossils #MarineBiology #JessicaRoss
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There's a lot we can learn from dinosaur fossils, not only about the prehistoric giants themselves but history and evolution as a whole.
🔗 Read how their footprints are shedding insight into what could be the largest mammal from the dinosaur age: http://dlvr.it/TV63pM
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These #Animals Were Righties Long Before Hands Even Evolved
Scientists propose recently uncovered #fossils may be earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.
Researchers analyzed fossils of #Spriggina, an organism smaller than a thumb resembling a leech. They were surprised to find that many of these fossils were bent, providing evidence that Spriggina consistently favored turning to the right as it maneuvered along the seafloor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/fossils-earliest-handedness-righties.html
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The ultra rich are collecting fossils. And that’s bad for science - video
By Presented and produced Madeleine Finlay , with Nicola Davis . Video produced by Jacob Liebenberg , the executive producer was Ellie BuryOne of the UK’s best fossil collections has been sold overseas in what experts have called a loss to the nation. The collection, which is now on display at the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi, was gathered on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly large sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market, and in turn scientists are missing out on the opportunity to make new observations. To find out how fossils became big business and what it could mean for research, Madeleine Finlay hears from science correspondent Nicola Davis
#Science #Fossils #Dinosaurs #TheGuardian #Presented #producedMadeleineFinlay #withNicolaDavisVideoproducedbyJacobLiebenberg #theexecutiveproducerwasEllieBury
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The ultra rich are collecting fossils. And that’s bad for science - video https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/aug/18/the-ultra-rich-are-collecting-fossils-and-thats-bad-for-science #Science #Fossils #Dinosaurs
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The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science – podcast
By Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, with Nicola Davis, sound design by Joel Cox, the executive producer was Ellie BuryOne of the UK’s best fossil collections has been sold overseas in what experts have called a loss to the nation. The collection, which is now on display at the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi, was gathered on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly large sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market, and in turn scientists are missing out on the opportunity to make new observations. To find out how fossils became big business and what it could mean for research, Madeleine Finlay hears from science correspondent Nicola Davis
#Science #Fossils #Dinosaurs #UKnews #TheGuardian #Presented #producedbyMadeleineFinlay #withNicolaDavis #sounddesignbyJoelCox #theexecutiveproducerwasEllieBury
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The ultra rich are collecting fossils, and that’s bad for science – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/aug/18/ultra-rich-collecting-fossils-bad-for-science-podcast #Science #Fossils #Dinosaurs #UkNews
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They say everything is bigger in Texas, but dinosaur fossils are not usually the first thing to come to mind. It certainly wasn't on one person's radar during a routine fishing trip to their favorite spot.
🔗 Read about what they found that could make history: http://dlvr.it/TV3QRX
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A Baby Dinosaur Fossil in China Just Revealed a Body Feature No Dinosaur Was Known to Have.
A fossil found in China just revealed a dinosaur feature no scientist has ever documented before. What it was used for is still a mystery, but the leading theories are stranger than you'd expect.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/baby-dinosaur-fossil-new-body-feature/ #globalmuseum #dinosaurs #fossils -
August 23 - 24: Tumbler Ridge Trip @ Tumbler Ridge, BC (APS)
August 23, 6 - 8 pm: Hunting Giants: The Dinosaurs of Alberta @ Edmonton, AB (Frank's Lectures On Tap)
Monday, August 24 - Wednesday, August 26, 2026: 34th Canadian Palaeontology Conference (CPC 2026) @ University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan (Geological Association of Canada - Paleontology Division)
https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar
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Another exciting week of palaeo events!
Monday, August 17: Tyrant Lizard Kings and Queens, Eh? A Tale of Canadian T.rexes @ Calgary, AB (TELUS Spark)
Friday, August 21 - Saturday, August 22, : Night at the Museum @ Wembley, AB (Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum)
Saturday, August 22: Pipestone Creek Bonebed Tour and Excavation @ Wembley, AB (Alberta Palaeontological Society)
https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar
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Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/16/block-export-of-national-treasure-uk-fossils-says-mp #Fossils #Dinosaurs #Science #Dorset #UkNews #Archaeology #Museums #Culture #England #Heritage #NaturalHistoryMuseum
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Block export of ‘national treasure’ UK fossils, says MP
By Nicola Davis Science correspondentSale of one of UK’s top collections overseas prompts call new rules to help keep items in country
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/16/block-export-of-national-treasure-uk-fossils-says-mp
#Fossils #Dinosaurs #Science #Dorset #UKnews #Archaeology #Museums #Culture #England #Heritage #NaturalHistoryMuseum #TheGuardian #NicolaDavisSciencecorrespondent
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#science #nature #fossils #technology
A new research study has found that Cynodonts (ancestors of mammals) gave birth to live young earlier than thought. They lived during the Triassic Age. Using mass and examining growth lines they determined that live young rather than eggs were produced. This has meant that live birth of mammal line has been pushed back by 95 million years. More evidence is required to test the theory fully. https://phys.org/news/2026-08-million-year-fossil-story-mammalian.html -
Mammal ancestors may have made the evolutionary leap from egg-laying to live birth at least 90 million years earlier than thought.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammal-ancestors-birthed-live-earlier
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🌿 Before trees existed, Earth was ruled by 26-foot-tall mystery organisms called Prototaxites — and scientists now suspect they may belong to an entirely new kingdom of life.
For over 170 years, these towering fossils defied classification. They weren't plants, weren't fungi, and weren't like anything alive today. A 2026 study found they lack chitin, a defining feature of fungi, and have unique internal structures found in no known organism.
Some specimens grew to 26 feet tall and 3 feet wide, dominating a world where the tallest plants were just a few inches high. How they got enough energy to grow so large is still a complete mystery.
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Ancient flowering #plants may have used #dinosaurs to spread their #seeds
#Fossils upend a long-held theory about #angiosperm #evolution
Over 74 million years ago, there was a richer garden of fruit- and seed-bearing plants than scientists thought. A #fossil analysis suggests that tall forest trees spread winged seeds and fed animals with fleshy, blueberry-sized fruits long before the reign of the dinosaurs ended.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowering-plants-dinosaurs-spread-seeds
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More exciting palaeo events!
Friday, August 14, 6:30 - 9:15 pm: The End of Oak Street Premiere @ Napier Theatre, Drumheller, AB (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology)
Saturday, August 15, 1 - 4:30 pm: Tyndall Stone Tour @ Calgary, AB (Alberta Palaeontological Society)
Monday, August 17, 2026, 6 - 9 pm: Tyrant Lizard Kings and Queens, Eh? A Tale of Canadian T. rexes @ TELUS Spark Science Centre, Calgary, AB
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Good morning! These shells are remenants of the ice age and the #fossils are even earlier evidence. #LakeChamplain #Ecology #photography
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One of UK’s best fossil collections sold overseas in ‘loss to the nation’.
Lack of funds left British museums unable to pay eight-figure sum for collection, which went to Abu Dhabi institution
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/aug/09/one-of-uks-best-fossil-collections-sold-overseas-in-loss-to-the-nation #globalmuseum #museums #collections #fossils #funding -
Tiny fossils solve a 113-million-year-old ocean mystery.
Around 113 million years ago, most of the tiny, shelled plankton near the ocean surface died out.
Their shells became smaller and thinner before many species disappeared from the fossil record.
https://www.earth.com/news/ocean-acidification-caused-plankton-to-stop-building-shells-113-million-years-ago/ #globalmuseum #fossils #oceans #history -
A New #Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, #paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern #frogs. Immaculately-preserved #fossils disprove that, scientists say. To their surprise, esearchers found no evidence of a transient larval phase in the early animals, thereby “falsifying hypotheses of an ancestral origin of metamorphosis."
https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/
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Meet Spea labreae, a New Species of Ice Age Toad Discovered at La Brea Tar Pits.
The first new extinct toad species and the first description of the Mexican burrowing toad at the Tar Pits help us understand the impacts of climate change on species distributions, past, present, and future.
https://tarpits.org/stories/meet-spea-labreae-new-species-ice-age-toad-discovered-la-brea-tar-pits?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #fossils #toads