#paleobotany — Public Fediverse posts

Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural history https://theconversation.com/galaxies-of-life-are-collecting-dust-in-museums-digitizing-microscope-slides-can-uncover-billions-of-fossils-for-natural-history-281304 #paleobotany #botany #science #STEM

New synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further

New synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further

New synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further

New synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further

New synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further

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

So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."

https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview

Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)

Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.

#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science

So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."

https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview

Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)

Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.

#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science

So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."

https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview

Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)

Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.

#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science

So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."

https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview

Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)

Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.

#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science

So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."

https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview

Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)

Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.

#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science

Between 400 to 700 years ago, in mountains near a community in Oaxaca, people in the Nejapan Sierra Sur collected over a hundred different species of seeds. They put them in a bin close to where they retreated when colonial invaders - Zapotecs, Aztecs, later, the Spaniards - came sweeping through the area. This ancient seed bank was their way of ensuring the survival of their complex cuisine.

#ethnobotany #mesoamerica #paleobotany #archaeology

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/124023175.cms

#paleontology fedi: I’m putting together a playlist of Dino-adjacent songs suitable for adults, featuring lyrics relevant to the field. There’s some obvious choices (tmbg, walk the dinosaur, Jonathan Richman), but I’m looking for gems like the #Dinosaur Holiday album- where some #museum staff or grad student went all in and recorded a song you’d choose to listen to (and not, say, less than inspired efforts marketed to children). Did someone in your department defend their #paleobotany thesis in musical form? Did your parasocial pal post to SoundCloud their diss track about the Jurassic Park franchise, and you put it on mixes? I wanna hear it, especially if it is danceable/funky. No AI slop, please. https://museummusic.com/dinosaurholiday.aspx #dinosaurs #paleontologist #prehistory #jurassic #jurassicpark #dino #mezozoic #science #nature

oh good, there's a new episode of Leaf it to Us out, by Dr Aly Baumgartner and Nora ... sorry I forget.

https://leafittouspod.podbean.com/e/episode-8-what-makes-fruit-ripe/

#plants
#fossils
#paleobotany
#fruit

@UllaMR In her 2008 book, Mary Beard says that nobody has studied the muck that covers Pompeii's street pavements under the pumice from the town's last day. It has always just been removed in excavations. Is this still true in 2025?

#roman #archaeology #paleobotany

"The ancient Romans left an indelible imprint on the world they enveloped into their empire. The straight, long-distance roads they built can still be followed beneath the asphalt of some modern highways. They spread aqueducts, sewers, public baths and the Latin language across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. But what's perhaps less well known is the surprising way they transformed Europe's forests."

#ethnobotany #Roman #paleobotany

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250513-what-chestnuts-reveal-about-the-roman-empire

Via Mario Coiro‬ ‪@lepidodendron.bsky.social‬

Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May

#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany

https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_1

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

Leaves from the Palaeocene Konservat-Lagerstätte Menat (France) look like they could have fallen from a tree just days ago, despite being around 60 million years old. They were preserved in the sediments of a maar lake in the volcanic complex of the Massif Central 🍃

#FossilFriday #paleontology #paleobotany

Today is the the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

I'm sure you'd like to listen to some fabulous women talk about space and plants, so here's a reminder of Gardeners of the Galaxy episodes with female Mission Specialists.

The most recent is Dr Emily Sessa, , the director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, talking about some fascinating research in paleobotany. 🧵

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/formidable-ferns-with-emily-sessa-gotg54/

#paleobotany
#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience

A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered.

The first evidence of the species - fossilized leaves - came to light in eastern Utah in 1969.

#paleobotany #fossil

https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-alien-plant-fossil-extinct-family-paleontology-2003118

The world's oldest forest lies undefoot in a disused quarry in upstate New York.

#trees #fossils #paleontology #paleobotany #NewYork

https://noahkalina.substack.com/p/newsletter-163-the-oldest-forest

Archaeoethnologica: Palaeohistoria Nº 63/64 - 2022/2023

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/09/palaeohistoria-n-6364-2022202.html

#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #IronAge #materialculture #paleolandscape #paleobotany #Italy #Netherland #journals #openaccess #holocene

Archaeoethnologica: Palaeohistoria Nº 63/64 - 2022/2023

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/09/palaeohistoria-n-6364-2022202.html

#Archaeology #Prehistory #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #IronAge #materialculture #paleolandscape #paleobotany #Italy #Netherland #journals #openaccess #holocene

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#MetalSucks
Review: Botanist Solidify Love of Plants with New Release Paleobotany
More heavy music about plants.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/05/13/review-botanist-solidify-love-of-plants-with-paleobotany/

#Botanist #Paleobotany #Experimental #ProphecyProductions #Plants #AlbumReview #AvantGardeMetal #HammeredDulcimer

Study: The Maya blessed their ball courts in rituals with hallucinogenic plants - Enlarge / A decorative ring made from carved stone is embedded in the w... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2020387 #environmentaldna #archaeobotany #mayanculture #archaeology #paleobotany #science #botany

Mysterious fruit found to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-mysterious-fruit-oldest-fossils-frankincense.html

#Fossils
#Paleontology
#India
#Fruit
#Frankincense
#Myrrh
#Enigmocarpon
#CT
#Pyrenes
#Seeds
#Paleobotany
#Extinction
#Burseraceae
#Africa
#Madagascar
#Cretaceous

This piece of coalified #wood was pulled directly out of the #KPgBoundary coal in SW #Saskatchewan. The #tree may have been there on the very last day of the reign of #dinosaurs...
@CurrieMuseum
#paleobotany

@EL_Bamforth

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleobotany #MassExtinctions

Wilf, P., Carvalho, M., & Stiles, E. (2023). The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: Heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 1, E14. doi:10.1017/ext.2023.13

Global News BC: B.C. paleobotanist rediscovers Burnaby plant fossils stored at SFU, writes paper https://globalnews.ca/news/9624729/bc-paleobotanist-rediscovers-burnaby-plant-fossils-sfu/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #SimonFraserUniversity #BurnabyMountain #ancientplants #plantfossils #Environment #paleobotany #SFUResearch #BCfossils #Science #Burnaby #fossils #botany #SFU

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleoenvironment #Paleobotany

Li-Li Lu, Yi-Feng Yao, Guo-An Wang, Gan Xie, Kai-Qing Lu, Bin Sun, Jin-Feng Li, Angela A. Bruch, David K. Ferguson, Yi-Ming Cui, Qiang Wang, Xin-Ying Zhou, Feng Gao & Yu-Fei Wang (2023)

Palaeobotanical evidence reveals the living conditions of Miocene Lufengpithecus in East Asia

BMC Plant Biology 23: 155

doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04165-3

https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12870-023-04165-3

#NewPaper #Paleoentomology #Paleobotany #Ichnology #KPgExtinction

Raphaël Zambon, Julien Denayer & Cyrille Prestianni (2023)
Plant-insect interactions in the Selandian (Early Paleocene) Gelinden Fossil Flora (Belgium) and what they mean for the ecosystems after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 111524
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111524
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018223001426

Jurassic vintage plants at the Monash Caufield campus (Agathis robusta, Macrozamia communis & a very large unidentified zamioid cycad)

#jurassic #botany #paleobotany #cycads #conifers

We're making a dichotomous key to ID #plants from a couple specific rock formations in the #paleo collection. Very technical language. *nods*

(This is just an initial outline. The final will actually be broadly usable by undergrads and include pictures.)

#MazonCreek #StanleyCemetary #botany #paleobotany #ItsCorn #Pennsylvanian #Carboniferous #lycopsid

We're making a dichotomous key to ID #plants from a couple specific rock formations in the #paleo collection. Very technical language. *nods*

(This is just an initial outline. The final will actually be broadly usable by undergrads and include pictures.)

#MazonCreek #StanleyCemetary #botany #paleobotany #ItsCorn #Pennsylvanian #Carboniferous #lycopsid

We're making a dichotomous key to ID #plants from a couple specific rock formations in the #paleo collection. Very technical language. *nods*

(This is just an initial outline. The final will actually be broadly usable by undergrads and include pictures.)

#MazonCreek #StanleyCemetary #botany #paleobotany #ItsCorn #Pennsylvanian #Carboniferous #lycopsid

We're making a dichotomous key to ID #plants from a couple specific rock formations in the #paleo collection. Very technical language. *nods*

(This is just an initial outline. The final will actually be broadly usable by undergrads and include pictures.)

#MazonCreek #StanleyCemetary #botany #paleobotany #ItsCorn #Pennsylvanian #Carboniferous #lycopsid

We're making a dichotomous key to ID #plants from a couple specific rock formations in the #paleo collection. Very technical language. *nods*

(This is just an initial outline. The final will actually be broadly usable by undergrads and include pictures.)

#MazonCreek #StanleyCemetary #botany #paleobotany #ItsCorn #Pennsylvanian #Carboniferous #lycopsid

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Paleobotany #Palynology

El Atfy H, Coiffard C, El Beialy SY, Uhl D (2023) Vegetation and climate change at the southern margin of the Neo-Tethys during the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous): Evidence from Egypt. PLoS ONE 18(1): e0281008. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281008

Fern spore stalks in the early morning sunlight in late May.

#fern #nature #green #naturephotography #Photography #photo #photos #plants #nikon #plantphotography #ferndiverse #garden #paleobotany #ferns #spring #springtime

#introduction time!  Well this is an interesting new place to be!

I’m Alan Spencer a Senior Teaching Fellow based at Imperial College, into #paleobotany and specialising in #3dreconstruction. Background in #geology and #archeology.

Interests are: research into 3D reconstruction of fossils. Mostly early seed-ferns, cycads, conifers, & earlier fungi-plant interactions. Augmented reality & 3D virtual classrooms, inclusivity on fieldwork, etc...

Now to figure out how #mastadon works!