Sorry, I don't normally post memes, but I just came across this one I had saved to my computer and wanted to share it. I think it is so funny! (Ya, I know, I'm weird.)
Sorry, I don't normally post memes, but I just came across this one I had saved to my computer and wanted to share it. I think it is so funny! (Ya, I know, I'm weird.)
“A Paleontologist’s Dream”: The Breakthrough That Changes How We Date #Dinosaurs.
The team applied high-resolution uranium–lead (U–Pb) dating along with elemental mapping to analyze tiny traces of uranium and lead preserved within the calcite structure of fossil dinosaur eggshells
https://scitechdaily.com/a-paleontologists-dream-the-breakthrough-that-changes-how-we-date-dinosaurs/ #globalmuseum #paleontology
Pondering the origins of #morphology in the #Ediacaran period. There was an article posted yesterday about how different features of organisms seem linked, talking about fern vascular structures and leaves and stuff. The way that kind of thing happens probably started 600 million years ago. Just one of the things I like to think about.
#evolution #paleontology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota#Morphology
A petition to stop the dissolution of 'Geology' (including palaeontology) at the University of Leicester: https://c.org/PYDT54ynd2
"If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy."
#Geology #EarthScience #Leicester #paleontology #palaeontology #UniversityOfLeicester
A petition to stop the dissolution of 'Geology' (including palaeontology) at the University of Leicester: https://c.org/PYDT54ynd2
"If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy."
#Geology #EarthScience #Leicester #paleontology #palaeontology #UniversityOfLeicester
I wish I had clouds like these for my photos more often! This is the southern end of the Marble Mountains in California's Mojave Desert. The Marble Mountains are famous for the Latham Shale Formation which contains one of the earliest trilobite species at ~540 million years old! After about 15mins of splitting shale, I found this Olenellus clarki(?) cephalon. Finding fossils is kind of like time traveling. 🤩
#Fossils #Geology #Desert #Paleontology #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable
I wish I had clouds like these for my photos more often! This is the southern end of the Marble Mountains in California's Mojave Desert. The Marble Mountains are famous for the Latham Shale Formation which contains one of the earliest trilobite species at ~540 million years old! After about 15mins of splitting shale, I found this Olenellus clarki(?) cephalon. Finding fossils is kind of like time traveling. 🤩
#Fossils #Geology #Desert #Paleontology #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable
Lost my original account when the historians.social server shut down. 😭 Hoping friends & followers find me again here…please spread the word, thanks!
Charles Willson Peale (USA, 1741–1827)
The Exhumation of the Mastadon, 1806
Oil on canvas H 127 cm (50 in) xW 158.7 cm (62.4 in)
Peale Museum NRHP 9000863
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_W_Peale_-_The_Exhumation_of_the_Mastadon.jpeg
#Paleontology
Lost my original account when the historians.social server shut down. 😭 Hoping friends & followers find me again here…please spread the word, thanks!
Charles Willson Peale (USA, 1741–1827)
The Exhumation of the Mastadon, 1806
Oil on canvas H 127 cm (50 in) xW 158.7 cm (62.4 in)
Peale Museum NRHP 9000863
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_W_Peale_-_The_Exhumation_of_the_Mastadon.jpeg
#Paleontology
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