#palaeobotany — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #palaeobotany, aggregated by home.social.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I adopted damaged copies of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants (look out for a review in the near future) and David Attenborough's Life Trilogy Boxset.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Paleobotany #Palaeobotany #Plants #Botany #NaturalHistory @bookstodon @princetonupress
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Bizarre #fossil may have been an entirely new type of #life. Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil #Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a mysterious life form that went extinct long ago. http://archive.today/2025.03.21-191932/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473272-bizarre-fossil-may-have-been-an-entirely-new-type-of-life/ #science #palaeobotany #paleobotany #biology #botany #mycology #taxonomy
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These Triassic fossil cycads absolutely blow me away every time I see them.
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"Strategies for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration must acknowledge the long duration of human impacts and the degree to which ecological changes today differ from prehuman dynamics."
Loving the abstract's conclusions already! I think it is always important to see the bigger picture in everything. Easier to make everything relevant with bigger lens.
https://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.abd6706
#biodiversity #conservation #archaeology #palaeobotany #palaeoenvironment
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#intro interests continued.
#familyhistory researching: #ww1 #britisharmy #TheTigers #Leicestershire Regiment plus #ww2 #RoyalEngineers and #RAF #BomberCommand support #LongLongTrail
Follow: #archaology #palaeobotany #ancienthistory #AncientDNA #medievalhistory #TimeTeam old and new
Enough about me, where do your interests coincide?
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Lepidodendron yorkianum from the Carboniferous (from #BritishGeologicalSurvey R.L. Kidston photo collection). Looking similar to one of today's clubmosses http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=63645
#clubmosses #FossilFriday #Lepidodendron #palaeobotany #fossil