Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany
https://www.senckenberg.de/en/career/scientists/#content-0002_1

For #FossilFriday my thoughts on the so-called “dire wolves” (spoiler: they're not dire wolves):

https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/no-they-arent-dire-wolves/

An Oxford Clay display of fossils in two parts. From Jurassic Sea Floor...To Wollaton Hall Store. #FossilFriday #Fossil #paleontology #NottNatHist #museum #WollatonHall

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as easy. This is one of our closest relatives.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by zengogobrick,

Galaxies spiraling through a star speckled sky.
Goniatite fossils of varying sizes in a sea smoothed stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

https://www.europesays.com/1982305/ Fossils of Previously Unknown Iguanodontian Dinosaurs Found in Portugal #Ankylopollexia #dinosaur #europe #fossil #Iguanodontia #Jurassic #LusitanianBasin #noticias #Ornithischia #portugal

An exciting free talk by past APS speaker Sally Hurst! This time she'll be discussing the opalised dinosaur fossils of Lightning Ridge. This is a free event!

Facebook event: https://business.facebook.com/events/1074313864739466/
Homepage: https://www.foundafossil.com/events

Her November talk on the Found a Fossil project was fascinating, so I'm sure this one will be as well!

Ancient #fossil sheds big light on #evolution enigma, solving a 100-year arthropod mystery
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ancient-fossil-big-evolution-enigma.html

"#Helmetia expansa belongs to a rare group of early #arthropods called concilitergans, close relatives of #trilobites. Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains only fossilized under exceptional conditions—like those in the 508-million-year-old #BurgessShale of Canada, where even soft tissues like guts, legs, and gills were preserved."

So, #Trump wants to use "energy" (I assume he means #fossilfuels) as leverage in the #tarriffwar against the #EU.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-says-eu-must-buy-350b-of-us-energy-to-get-tariff-relief/

#Lindner seldomly said sensible things, but he was right that #renewables are #freedom energies. They make the #EU more independent and grant us freedom from #renegades such as #Trump.
(*And* they help avert/reduce the global #climatecatastrophe .)

We're back!

Our next meeting will be this Friday, April 11 from 7:30 - 9pm in rm B108 Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB.

We have two talks this meeting!

Short talk: Dr. Leslie Eliuk: The Mammoth Site, South Dakota
Main Take: Dr. Francois Therrien: What really killed the dinosaurs?

Public is welcome!

We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information, see https://albertapaleo.org/events

Happy #GeologistsDay! The early history of the field of geology is fascinating, and surprisingly explosive – and we explored it in our video on the word “Fossil”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU

‘Sue’, a 444-million-year-old fossil, reveals stunning soft tissue

PALEONTOLOGY / A recently identified ancient arthropod species has given scientists a first glimpse into the internal anatomy of prehistoric marine animals. Keurbos susanae, a 444-million-year-old fossil discovered in South Africa, has been described in a new study published in the journal Palaeontology...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/03/sue-fossil-reveals-soft-tissue-preservation/

Follow @archaeology

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as medium. This marsupial is known from Australia.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by me.

Humans*:
How to destroy the planet you live on(!) in the shortest time ever possible.

*Billionaires

#DeepSeaMining #fossil #war #climatecrisis

Gosh

It's a fossil, but not as we know it.
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-giants-may-be-a-whole-new-kind-of-life-that-no-longer-exists
#fungi #fossil #fossils #Silurian #Prototaxites

Fossil lynx jaw and partial skull from Pleasley, Nottinghamshire, in the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall. It’s a historical figured specimen, usually on display, but currently on loan to the University of Nottingham for analysis.