#palaeozoic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #palaeozoic, aggregated by home.social.
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Giant #salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-giant-salamander-creature-predator-ice.htmlClaudia Marsicano et al.: Giant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late #Palaeozoic ice age https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07572-0
"40 million years before #dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious #predator lurked in swampy waters. It lay in wait, its jaws open wide... Meet #Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat-shaped head."
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Early #JawlessFish was Filter-Feeder, #Paleontologists Find https://www.sci.news/paleontology/rhinopteraspis-dunensis-12846.html
The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a #Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in #Palaeozoic jawless fishes https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2258
"The images revealed the structure and arrangement of finger-like bones that project from the lower lip of the #animal’s mouth, which the #scientists believe acted to control the mouth’s size and shape as it captured food particles from surrounding water"
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The Impact Of Vegetation On Meandering Rivers
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00249-6 <-- shared paper
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