#paleontologist — Public Fediverse posts
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought the Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought the Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of
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This bright orange life-form could point to new #dino discoveries
The reflected infrared light of bone-loving #lichen can be detected by #drones
“Rather than finding new sites serendipitously, this approach can help paleontologists to locate new areas that are likely to have #fossils at the surface and then go there to investigate,” says #paleontologist Brian Pickles at the University of Reading in England.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lichen-dinosaur-fossils
https://archive.ph/n32xa
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This bright orange life-form could point to new #dino discoveries
The reflected infrared light of bone-loving #lichen can be detected by #drones
“Rather than finding new sites serendipitously, this approach can help paleontologists to locate new areas that are likely to have #fossils at the surface and then go there to investigate,” says #paleontologist Brian Pickles at the University of Reading in England.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lichen-dinosaur-fossils
https://archive.ph/n32xa
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Tiny #Humans Are Hiding in #Indonesia, a #Paleontologist Claims. That Could Rewrite the #History of Our #Species.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69647077/tiny-apelike-human-ancestor/
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Tiny #Humans Are Hiding in #Indonesia, a #Paleontologist Claims. That Could Rewrite the #History of Our #Species.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69647077/tiny-apelike-human-ancestor/
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#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
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#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
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This subject comes up fairly often, so I'm putting my mini-essay here as an easy reference. Feel free to share, or copy and paste with attribution, as you see fit. Comments, suggestions, and corrections are welcome. 🦖 🧪 🚀 ✍️
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Michael Crichton's main reference when writing #JurassicPark was Gregory Paul's Predatory #Dinosaurs of the World. That's how we ended up with human size "velociraptors," later retconned to the considerably larger #Utahraptor. Although the poor creatures still have broken wrists and a severe case of mange.
Paul is a notorious #lumper, who likes shoving distantly related organisms into the same #taxonomic category. (The opposite of lumpers are #splitters, who try to put every specimen into as distinct a category as possible.) But even he never claimed they were the same species. Rather, he put them into the same genus, making #Deinonychus into another species of #Velociraptor, i.e. V. antirrhopus instead of D. antirrhopus.
This isn't entirely a crazy idea. Lots of modern genera have species with similar body plans but enormous size differences. Consider #Panthera, the big cats, which contains species from P. uncia, the #snowleopard, to P. tigris, the #tiger—even though tigers are generally about five times the mass of snow leopards, similar to the ratio between D. antirrhopus and V. mongoliensis.
However, there are enough other differences between Deinonychus and Velociraptor that even Paul has long since admitted this was a mistake. No #paleontologist now doubts they each belong in their own genus. Unfortunately, since Jurassic Park has so thoroughly cemented the idea of the big V, I doubt it will ever go away.
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This subject comes up fairly often, so I'm putting my mini-essay here as an easy reference. Feel free to share, or copy and paste with attribution, as you see fit. Comments, suggestions, and corrections are welcome. 🦖 🧪 🚀 ✍️
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Michael Crichton's main reference when writing #JurassicPark was Gregory Paul's Predatory #Dinosaurs of the World. That's how we ended up with human size "velociraptors," later retconned to the considerably larger #Utahraptor. Although the poor creatures still have broken wrists and a severe case of mange.
Paul is a notorious #lumper, who likes shoving distantly related organisms into the same #taxonomic category. (The opposite of lumpers are #splitters, who try to put every specimen into as distinct a category as possible.) But even he never claimed they were the same species. Rather, he put them into the same genus, making #Deinonychus into another species of #Velociraptor, i.e. V. antirrhopus instead of D. antirrhopus.
This isn't entirely a crazy idea. Lots of modern genera have species with similar body plans but enormous size differences. Consider #Panthera, the big cats, which contains species from P. uncia, the #snowleopard, to P. tigris, the #tiger—even though tigers are generally about five times the mass of snow leopards, similar to the ratio between D. antirrhopus and V. mongoliensis.
However, there are enough other differences between Deinonychus and Velociraptor that even Paul has long since admitted this was a mistake. No #paleontologist now doubts they each belong in their own genus. Unfortunately, since Jurassic Park has so thoroughly cemented the idea of the big V, I doubt it will ever go away.
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New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/4043
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Could #dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the world? A #paleontologist explains
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Could #dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the world? A #paleontologist explains
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Drawing of prehistoric animals that lived during the Eocene epoch #eocene #paleontology #fossils #fossil #prehistoric #paleontologist #fossilhunter #dinosaur #palaeontology #fossilhunting #paleoart #geology #dinosaurs #science #eocenefossil #mastoart
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Graphite sketch of a pakicetus ancestor of today's whales 🐳✏️
#eocene #paleontology #fossils #fossil #prehistoric #paleontologist #fossilhunter #dinosaur #palaeontology #fossilhunting #paleoart #geology #dinosaurs #science #eocenefossil #artcomplex #artgallery #mastoart
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 –1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. 🧵1/
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 –1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. 🧵1/
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Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient #Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever
In their new analysis #paleontologist concluded that #Perucetus probably weighed 60 to 70 tons, which would have made it about the size of a #spermwhale, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s #bluewhale. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/giant-whale-perucetus.html
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Researchers Dispute Claim That Ancient #Whale Was Heaviest Animal Ever
In their new analysis #paleontologist concluded that #Perucetus probably weighed 60 to 70 tons, which would have made it about the size of a #spermwhale, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s #bluewhale. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/giant-whale-perucetus.html
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Why #dinosaur footprints inspired #paleontologist Martin Lockley
https://www.popsci.com/science/dinosaur-footprints-inspired-martin-lockley-trace-fossils/
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The Allure of Amber: Discover some of the secrets and artistic works made with Kaliningrad’s 'Baltic Gold'.
Discovers the source of this precious #mineral with a #paleontologist, and then hear the legends that made it so magical from #AmberMuseum curator #IrinaKrivonos
https://www.rt.com/shows/inland-visions/581083-kaliningrad-amber-baltic-gold/
If anyone wants a direct link to the video, without navigating the RT website. Just ask us.
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime many thought the Earth was a mere few 1000 years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation.
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 – 1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime many thought the Earth was a mere few 1000 years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation.
#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM #printmaking #MastoArt -
🦴🔍 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/why-isnt-pterodactyl-a-dinosaur
Why isn’t pterodactyl a dinosaur?
#AMNH #paleontologist Danny Barta has the answer...
#video #paleontology #dinosaurs #reptiles #history #naturalhistory #science #biology #pterosaurs
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Find ‘em. Name ‘em. Publish ‘em, and move it along. Join Bob for a peek into Holotype: Mesozoic North America from Brexwerx Games.
https://www.meeplemountain.com/reviews/holotype-mesozoic-north-america/#BoardGame #Holotype #Dinosaurs #ScienceGame #Paleontologist
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Beaverton: Paleontologists theorize the T-Rex had kissable lips and an ass that won’t quit https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/03/paleontologists-theorize-the-t-rex-had-kissable-lips-and-an-ass-that-wont-quit/ #satire #canada #commentary #ScienceandTechnology #tyrannosaurusrex #Paleontologist #FeaturedPost #Dinosaurs
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Beaverton: Paleontologists theorize the T-Rex had kissable lips and an ass that won’t quit https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/03/paleontologists-theorize-the-t-rex-had-kissable-lips-and-an-ass-that-wont-quit/ #satire #canada #commentary #ScienceandTechnology #tyrannosaurusrex #Paleontologist #FeaturedPost #Dinosaurs
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An international team led by Stony Brook University #paleontologist Andrew J. Moore, PhD, has revealed that a Late #Jurassic Chinese #sauropod known as #Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum sported a 15-meter-long neck.
#Paleontology #sflorg
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An international team led by Stony Brook University #paleontologist Andrew J. Moore, PhD, has revealed that a Late #Jurassic Chinese #sauropod known as #Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum sported a 15-meter-long neck.
#Paleontology #sflorg
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Hypatia
Queen Seondeok
Margaret Cavendish
#Entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
#Physicist Émilie du Châtelet
Astronomer Caroline Herschel
#Chemist Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
#Paleontologist Mary Anning
Astronomer Mary Somerville
Marine #biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power
#botanist Anna Atkins
Nurse & statistician Florence Nightingale
Mathematician Sophia Kovalevski
Physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
#biochemist & medical research Maude Menten -
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Hypatia
Queen Seondeok
Margaret Cavendish
#Entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
#Physicist Émilie du Châtelet
Astronomer Caroline Herschel
#Chemist Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
#Paleontologist Mary Anning
Astronomer Mary Somerville
Marine #biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power
#botanist Anna Atkins
Nurse & statistician Florence Nightingale
Mathematician Sophia Kovalevski
Physicist Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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"Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest #Brain of Any #Vertebrate"
"#Paleontologist Matt Friedman was surprised to discover a remarkably detailed 319-million-year-old #fish brain fossil while testing out micro-CT scans for a broader project."
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-accidentally-discovers-the-oldest-brain-of-any-vertebrate
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Me, a #paleontologist in a pre-workshop Zoom social with a bunch of #archaeologists, getting everyone chatting about #alligators 😈
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This story just warms my heart. Click through for the best photo of a future paleontologist you could hope for.
Maryland girl finds ancient tooth from a 50-foot-long megalodon in the Chesapeake Bay
#Shark #SharkTooth #Megalodon #paleontologist #HappyNews
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148441701/ancient-shark-tooth-megalodon-fossil-maryland-christmas
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A pair of #paleontologists regale a curious couple with #fieldwork tales while they await the train to carry their #fossil spoils back to the big city. #paleontology #paleontologist #gardenrailroad #gardenrailway #lgbtrains #modeltrains #modelrailway #modelrailroad #uintatherium #yuntabeest #parasaurolophus #ammonite
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@jesseadamsstein - I feel like hashtagging #paleontologist #paleontology #dinosaur #museum #NaturalHistory might help.
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If you like #paleontology andwant to chat with an irl #paleontologist then check out this stream. Its awesome :D
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It's been a crazy semester, but I'm finally introducing myself over here! 👋
I'm Sarah, a #paleontologist and evolutionary #biologist studying dinosaur and bird evolution! I study how color is expressed and has evolved in birds, and also work on Southern Hemisphere #dinosaur #fossils. I'm currently a post-doc at UT Austin.
I've been pretty inactive on social media recently, but am trying to get back into it. So stay tuned for more bird and dinosaur science! 🦖 🦆 🦜 🌈
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Just migrated from another Mastodon server, so professional re-#introduction time. Personal one up next.
➡️ Fields: #paleontology #MuseumScience
➡️ Job: #paleontology and #zooarchaeology collections manager at #IndianaUniversity
➡️ Research: #alligators #Lystrosaurus
➡️ Image: #paleoart parody of #Twitter death as a skeletal silhouette#paleontologist #palaeontology #TwitterMigration #MuseumScientist
#science #scientist #museum #museums #alligator #NaturalHistory #zoology
