Today Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 is visiting an afterschool program at Park Hill Elementary in San Jacinto, CA! #scicomm #museum #Education #paleontology
Today Max’s Mobile Museum #M3 is visiting an afterschool program at Park Hill Elementary in San Jacinto, CA! #scicomm #museum #Education #paleontology
I went to a fossil collecting site I hadn't been to in 48 years. The last time I was here was in 1977, when I was 19, with a geology field trip. We were on our way to the Grand Canyon. This is the cephalon, the head part, of one of the earliest trilobites. The rock was laid down in a shallow sea 550 million years ago. Today, the Latham Shale Formation is found in the Marble Mountains on old Route 66 in California.
I went to a fossil collecting site I hadn't been to in 48 years. The last time I was here was in 1977, when I was 19, with a geology field trip. We were on our way to the Grand Canyon. This is the cephalon, the head part, of one of the earliest trilobites. The rock was laid down in a shallow sea 550 million years ago. Today, the Latham Shale Formation is found in the Marble Mountains on old Route 66 in California.
The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️
#TheLaBreaTarPits#LosAngeles#California#Fossils#Merchtodon#Paleontology#Photo#Photography#Plushtodon#LetyDoesSelfies
The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️
#TheLaBreaTarPits#LosAngeles#California#Fossils#Merchtodon#Paleontology#Photo#Photography#Plushtodon#LetyDoesSelfies
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A Psittacosaurus creche (fossils show these babies lived in groups possibly with an adult carer), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
#Art#Painting#PaleoArt#PalaeoArt#SciArt#SciComm#DigitalArt#Illustration#Dinosaurs#Reptiles #Palaeontology#Paleontology#Psittacosaurus#JurassicPark#JurassicWorld#CampCretaceous#WildlifeArt
🌇 Guten Morgen Chicago 🌇
Another beautiful sunrise from the shores of Lake Michigan, which seems more like one of the Great Inland Seas. Every morning, watching these sunrises the likes of which I've not seen since childhood on the Eastern Seaboard, feels like being at the Atlantic ocean.
How about some science curiosity...
> During the middle Pleistocene era, the area now submerged under the Great Lakes had been a lowland river system. As glaciers advanced and retreated they carved these areas into the Great Lakes and filled them as they melted.
> The preservation of fossils in Michigan resumed when the last glaciers withdrew from the state. Between 17,000 and 13,000 years ago, much of Michigan's icy covering had disappeared.
> After the glaciers melted much of the state was covered in large lakes made of glacial meltwater. By 10,000 years ago many of these lakes had dried. Forests of spruce and fir grew on the newly exposed terrain.
> - The Pleistocene (plaɪstəˌsiːn), referred to colloquially as the Ice Age, is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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> - The Cenozoic Era (siːnəˈzoʊ.ɪk, lit. 'new life') is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66 million years of Earth's history.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology_in_Michigan
- https://legacy.igws.indiana.edu/FossilsAndTime/LakeMichigan
#chicago #sunrise #morning #photography #paleontology#lakeMichigan
Thinking about fossil marine invertebrates that Kielan-Jaworowska studied at the beginning of her career, made me think of this pattern made from my linocut animal prints with collaged washi papers from the Cambrian Period (from 538.8 million to 485.4 million years ago). 🧵
https://www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/16990670-cambrian-sea-by-minouette
#linocut #printmaking #pattern #surfaceDesign #paleontology #sciArt #Cambrian #BurgessShale #trilobite #wiwaxia #Opabinia #InverteFest #invertebrate #fossils #MastoArt