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In our latest #podcast , we got to chat with Kallie Moore, host of Eons! We talk about scicomm, what it’s like to work on such a cool science show & more. We also cover the latest on #Trex intelligence, dino of the day Xiaosaurus & more!

Listen: apple.co/3wvqGlG

Rachel Mohr (The University of Alabama Ph.D. Student, Department of Geological Sciences and Museum Studies) explains what Fossil Ammonites are and how studying paleontology helped her research project and dissertation on the 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙨 genus.

WATCH: ➡️ bit.ly/3JIm52j

After my visit to Sam Noble Museum, there was only one option for #FossilFriday : the caseid Cotylorhynchus from the Permian of OK. Caseids are named for E. C. Case, first director of UM Paleontology.

Trilobites come in all shapes, and sizes and this #FossilFriday , I have a very distinct looking critter to share! Meet Boedaspis ensifer, a Trilobite that lived 464 million years ago, during the Middle Ordovician. This example was found in the Leningrad Oblast of Russia.

'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis will come to Earth in 2029 — and it could meet some tiny spacecraft trib.al/mQb8VJK

🪸A Race with Mermaids and Tritons
by Collier Twentyman Smithers, 1895

#FolkyFriday

For an #AmphibianWeek #FossilFriday crossover, I wanted to spotlight this mount of the amphibian ancestor Eryops at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, a long way from the temnospondyl's native Texas. Love the artwork depicting Eryops as a dynamic predator instead of a lazy landlubber!

Excited to share our latest work to understand the ecology of the Fezouata Shale led by Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology student Jared Richards & feat. Karma Nanglu Museum of Comparative Zoology U.S. National Science Foundation #OA

Our study tackles the question - how typical is the Fezouata Shale for the Early Ordovician?

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It's Fossil Friday! In this archival image, Museum preparators work on 3 Tyrannosaur skulls. With 4-ft- (1.2-m-) long jaws & massive teeth, T. rex was one of the largest carnivores of all time. It could bite with ~7,800 lbs of force (34,500 N)—equivalent to the weight of 3 cars!

Happy #FossilFriday !
This is IRScNB R 303, an immaculate Mosasaurus on display at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
What's super special about this guy is how clearly the palate is preserved, a region of mosasaur anatomy that is currently the bane of my existence...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” ~ Edward R. Murrow

Love Tolkien. Love Jackson. But I ain't gonna love Middle-earth becoming yet another oversaturated universe for attenuated adventures in a franchise of diminishing returns.

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Celestial art by Paul Lehr (1992). Art from the psyche and hands of a human not an AI

About 50,000 years ago the #CanyonDiablo Meteorite stuck northern Arizona excavating a large crater, #Meteor or Barringer Crater. The crater is about 4,000 ft in diameter and 570 feet deep. Eugene Shoemaker's 1960 geologic map of the crater. lpi.usra.edu/.../barringer_…

Movie for #FossilFriday ‼️ 😀 University of Alabama Geological Sciences PhD Candidate Rachel Mohr published on Alabamian Cretaceous ammonites from the Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums collection in Paleobiology (@PaleoSoc). Check this 4-minute movie about the new paper:
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Paper: doi.org/10.1017/pab.20…

Prattville library board sued over policy that restricts LGBTQ books al.com/news/2024/05/p…

The purpose of art is to lay bare
the questions that have been
hidden by the answers.

—James Baldwin

Vintage elevators, a thread

1. XIX century steam-powered elevator in the house of Guard Captain S. Muyaki, St. Petersburg, Russia.

“To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”

―Bertolt Brecht