#precambrian — Public Fediverse posts

2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan

2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan

2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan

2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan

2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan

The Thraxinoid, An Alien I created as part of my thesis project for my senior year of art school, "The Aliens of New Theia". An intelligent, docile tribalist species. The entire concept was built around the idea of a divergent evolution breaking off from earth during the pre-cambrian era.
#alien #3D #3dmodeling #creature #art #texturing #zbrush #photoshop #conceptart #concept #design #theia #cambrian #precambrian

The Thraxinoid, An Alien I created as part of my thesis project for my senior year of art school, "The Aliens of New Theia". An intelligent, docile tribalist species. The entire concept was built around the idea of a divergent evolution breaking off from earth during the pre-cambrian era.
#alien #3D #3dmodeling #creature #art #texturing #zbrush #photoshop #conceptart #concept #design #theia #cambrian #precambrian

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

🦴🎸 Scientists at Memorial University of #Newfoundland renamed ancient seafloor #fossils "Lydonia jiggamintia" after punk rocker Johnny Rotten, identifying them as 560-million-year-old filter-feeding #animals rather than decomposed organic matter. The spiky, tube-covered creatures may be ancestors of modern sponges and represent some of #Earth's earliest animals from the #Precambrian period.

👉 https://www.newsbeep.com/au/178471/

#paleontology #evolution #sponges #science

@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring goblet-shaped Diskagma of the Paleoproterozoic, and Horodyskia of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/04/episode-444-diskagma-and-horodyskia/

#fossils
#preCambrian
#proterozoic
#Paleoproterozoic
#Mesoproterozoic
#Neoproterozoic
#Ediacaran

@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring goblet-shaped Diskagma of the Paleoproterozoic, and Horodyskia of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/04/episode-444-diskagma-and-horodyskia/

#fossils
#preCambrian
#proterozoic
#Paleoproterozoic
#Mesoproterozoic
#Neoproterozoic
#Ediacaran

@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring goblet-shaped Diskagma of the Paleoproterozoic, and Horodyskia of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/04/episode-444-diskagma-and-horodyskia/

#fossils
#preCambrian
#proterozoic
#Paleoproterozoic
#Mesoproterozoic
#Neoproterozoic
#Ediacaran

@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring goblet-shaped Diskagma of the Paleoproterozoic, and Horodyskia of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/04/episode-444-diskagma-and-horodyskia/

#fossils
#preCambrian
#proterozoic
#Paleoproterozoic
#Mesoproterozoic
#Neoproterozoic
#Ediacaran

@KateShaw has made a new episode, featuring goblet-shaped Diskagma of the Paleoproterozoic, and Horodyskia of the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/04/episode-444-diskagma-and-horodyskia/

#fossils
#preCambrian
#proterozoic
#Paleoproterozoic
#Mesoproterozoic
#Neoproterozoic
#Ediacaran

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

Unaweep Canyon - Two Creeks Flow Out Of Either End Of This [Colorado] Canyon In Opposite Directions
--
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/unaweep-canyon <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01112.1 <-- shared paper
--
[seems like a motorcycle road trip is in order - and happy to visit this beautiful part of the world again]
#geology #colorado #paleovalley #UnaweepCanyon #unaweep #precambrian #unique #divide #water #hydrology #underfit #drainage #EastCreek #WestCreek #Dolores #Uncompahgre #UncompahgrePlateau #erosion #Gunninson #canyon #Tabeguache #mapping #geologicmapping #fieldwork #Cenozoic #gravel #sediment #rockcore #coring #lacustrine #geomorphology #geomorphometry #dating #landform #volcanics #tectonics

First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland https://phys.org/news/2024-09-evidence-life-colonizing-deep-bedrock.html

Late #Cretaceous and Early #Paleogene Fluid Circulation and Microbial Activity in Deep Fracture Networks of the #Precambrian Basement of Western Greenland https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011646

"These ages overlap with tectonic events related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean... deep fracture networks in western #Greenland opened and were colonized by #microbes, such as sulfate reducers, during these events."

First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland https://phys.org/news/2024-09-evidence-life-colonizing-deep-bedrock.html

Late #Cretaceous and Early #Paleogene Fluid Circulation and Microbial Activity in Deep Fracture Networks of the #Precambrian Basement of Western Greenland https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011646

"These ages overlap with tectonic events related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean... deep fracture networks in western #Greenland opened and were colonized by #microbes, such as sulfate reducers, during these events."

First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland https://phys.org/news/2024-09-evidence-life-colonizing-deep-bedrock.html

Late #Cretaceous and Early #Paleogene Fluid Circulation and Microbial Activity in Deep Fracture Networks of the #Precambrian Basement of Western Greenland https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011646

"These ages overlap with tectonic events related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean... deep fracture networks in western #Greenland opened and were colonized by #microbes, such as sulfate reducers, during these events."

First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland https://phys.org/news/2024-09-evidence-life-colonizing-deep-bedrock.html

Late #Cretaceous and Early #Paleogene Fluid Circulation and Microbial Activity in Deep Fracture Networks of the #Precambrian Basement of Western Greenland https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011646

"These ages overlap with tectonic events related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean... deep fracture networks in western #Greenland opened and were colonized by #microbes, such as sulfate reducers, during these events."

First evidence of life colonizing deep into the bedrock of Greenland https://phys.org/news/2024-09-evidence-life-colonizing-deep-bedrock.html

Late #Cretaceous and Early #Paleogene Fluid Circulation and Microbial Activity in Deep Fracture Networks of the #Precambrian Basement of Western Greenland https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GC011646

"These ages overlap with tectonic events related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean... deep fracture networks in western #Greenland opened and were colonized by #microbes, such as sulfate reducers, during these events."

For years I've been keeping an eye on the disputed Francevillian biota -a possible experiment in multicellular life that well pre-dated the Ediacaran/Cambrian foray we all see today.

Recently we got a new paper on the subject suggesting that it existed in an inland sea cut off from the wider world, which prevented it from thriving and led to its extinction when O2 levels in the atmosphere went south again:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926824001669

No free version, unfortunately, until 2025.

#Precambrian

For years I've been keeping an eye on the disputed Francevillian biota -a possible experiment in multicellular life that well pre-dated the Ediacaran/Cambrian foray we all see today.

Recently we got a new paper on the subject suggesting that it existed in an inland sea cut off from the wider world, which prevented it from thriving and led to its extinction when O2 levels in the atmosphere went south again:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926824001669

No free version, unfortunately, until 2025.

#Precambrian

For years I've been keeping an eye on the disputed Francevillian biota -a possible experiment in multicellular life that well pre-dated the Ediacaran/Cambrian foray we all see today.

Recently we got a new paper on the subject suggesting that it existed in an inland sea cut off from the wider world, which prevented it from thriving and led to its extinction when O2 levels in the atmosphere went south again:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926824001669

No free version, unfortunately, until 2025.

#Precambrian

For years I've been keeping an eye on the disputed Francevillian biota -a possible experiment in multicellular life that well pre-dated the Ediacaran/Cambrian foray we all see today.

Recently we got a new paper on the subject suggesting that it existed in an inland sea cut off from the wider world, which prevented it from thriving and led to its extinction when O2 levels in the atmosphere went south again:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301926824001669

No free version, unfortunately, until 2025.

#Precambrian

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240124132716.htm

#palaeoarchaean #precambrian #evolution #biology

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240124132716.htm

#palaeoarchaean #precambrian #evolution #biology

@deuxcvsix

🤔-PS Ich bin übrigens nicht #Precambrian sondern bi: #Paleogene und #Neogene

Jedem Tierchen sein Plasierchen 🙃

@deuxcvsix

🤔-PS Ich bin übrigens nicht #Precambrian sondern bi: #Paleogene und #Neogene

Jedem Tierchen sein Plasierchen 🙃

@deuxcvsix

🤔-PS Ich bin übrigens nicht #Precambrian sondern bi: #Paleogene und #Neogene

Jedem Tierchen sein Plasierchen 🙃

@deuxcvsix

🤔-PS Ich bin übrigens nicht #Precambrian sondern bi: #Paleogene und #Neogene

Jedem Tierchen sein Plasierchen 🙃

Discovery of oldest 3D-preserved #microorganisms.

#fossil #precambrian

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-discovery-oldest-3d-preserved-microorganisms.html

Discovery of oldest 3D-preserved #microorganisms.

#fossil #precambrian

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-discovery-oldest-3d-preserved-microorganisms.html

More from our visit to Crouse Canyon in the eastern #UintaMountains of #DaggettCounty #Utah. FYI the red sandstone formation you see throughout is the Uinta Mountain Formation, which has been called "the sandstone that fooled the great geologists".

Powell, Hayden, Emmons, and King all thought the rock was mid-Paleozoic but in fact it is *Pre-Cambrian*.

TLDR: They thought it was about 400 million years old but in fact it is 650 million - 2.5 billion years old. So they were off by a bit.

The Crouse Canyon formation here is about 800 million years old.

What is unusual for rock this old is that is it is mainly plain old sedimentary sandstone. Strange for rock buried 15-20,000 feet deep for several hundred million years. Some deeper/old layers are partially or completely metamorphosed, but these upper layers are not.

https://plantsandrocks.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-sandstone-that-fooled-great.html

#GreenRiver #BrownsPark #OutlawTrail #geology #precambrian #sandstone #metamorphic

TIL that the first pre-#cambrian #fossil, Charnia masoni, was originally discovered by a 15 years old girl named Tina Negus, who was discounted by her geography teacher saying precambrian fossils were impossible.
A year later it was rediscovered by a boy named Roger Mason, who also took a stone rubbing of the fossil. This time the discovery was taken seriously, and the species is even named "masoni" to this day after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia#Discovery

#fossils #precambrian #sexism #paleontology

TIL that the first pre-#cambrian #fossil, Charnia masoni, was originally discovered by a 15 years old girl named Tina Negus, who was discounted by her geography teacher saying precambrian fossils were impossible.
A year later it was rediscovered by a boy named Roger Mason, who also took a stone rubbing of the fossil. This time the discovery was taken seriously, and the species is even named "masoni" to this day after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia#Discovery

#fossils #precambrian #sexism #paleontology

TIL that the first pre-#cambrian #fossil, Charnia masoni, was originally discovered by a 15 years old girl named Tina Negus, who was discounted by her geography teacher saying precambrian fossils were impossible.
A year later it was rediscovered by a boy named Roger Mason, who also took a stone rubbing of the fossil. This time the discovery was taken seriously, and the species is even named "masoni" to this day after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia#Discovery

#fossils #precambrian #sexism #paleontology

TIL that the first pre-#cambrian #fossil, Charnia masoni, was originally discovered by a 15 years old girl named Tina Negus, who was discounted by her geography teacher saying precambrian fossils were impossible.
A year later it was rediscovered by a boy named Roger Mason, who also took a stone rubbing of the fossil. This time the discovery was taken seriously, and the species is even named "masoni" to this day after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia#Discovery

#fossils #precambrian #sexism #paleontology

TIL that the first pre-#cambrian #fossil, Charnia masoni, was originally discovered by a 15 years old girl named Tina Negus, who was discounted by her geography teacher saying precambrian fossils were impossible.
A year later it was rediscovered by a boy named Roger Mason, who also took a stone rubbing of the fossil. This time the discovery was taken seriously, and the species is even named "masoni" to this day after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia#Discovery

#fossils #precambrian #sexism #paleontology

A sprinkling of #snow made for a beautiful #sunset on the crags and Jewels Hill rocks of Beacon Hill (which are #SSSI & #Precambrian) #LOUGHBOROUGH this evening ❄️🌄

A sprinkling of #snow made for a beautiful #sunset on the crags and Jewels Hill rocks of Beacon Hill (which are #SSSI & #Precambrian) #LOUGHBOROUGH this evening ❄️🌄

A sprinkling of #snow made for a beautiful #sunset on the crags and Jewels Hill rocks of Beacon Hill (which are #SSSI & #Precambrian) #LOUGHBOROUGH this evening ❄️🌄

A sprinkling of #snow made for a beautiful #sunset on the crags and Jewels Hill rocks of Beacon Hill (which are #SSSI & #Precambrian) #LOUGHBOROUGH this evening ❄️🌄

A sprinkling of #snow made for a beautiful #sunset on the crags and Jewels Hill rocks of Beacon Hill (which are #SSSI & #Precambrian) #LOUGHBOROUGH this evening ❄️🌄