I *love* fine art, but if you visit Toronto, consider swapping out a gallery to explore your own deep history at the ROM's brand new 10,000 sqft 'Dawn of Life' exhibit. rom.on.ca/en/about-us/ne…

こちらのイベントは次の土曜日（カナダ時間金曜夜）開催です。
まだまだ当日まで申込受け付けています。
どうぞお気軽にご参加ください😊

Trilobite tracks from the Filon 12 Quarry of the #Devonian of Morocco. Found by Melina Jobbins. Happy #FossilFriday !

The Venus’ flower basket is a glass sponge made up of 1000s of tiny pores, which draw in water so the sponge can feed on bacteria & plankton. This process helps keep our oceans clean as a small glass sponge reef can filter 80K liters a second & remove 90% of the water's bacteria!

For this #FossilFriday , a nice chamber of a cephalopod (Treptoceras?) from the Humber River in Toronto ! With extra little fossils in there including some beloved crinoids.

Fossil Friday #208: Mamayocaris jaskoskii #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #crayfish #pit11 #arthropod #lobster

A beautiful lobster from Mazon Creek!

esconi.org/esconi_earth_s…

The Upper Cretaceous rocks of Alabama yield many large oysters. Here are a few large examples from a single site with ~78 million-year-old limestones. Specimens Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums. #FossilFriday ! #fossil #paleontology #RollTide

Finally I present: Argovisaurus martafernandezi at the Paleontological Institute UZH Science
It has been a long process of several years of preparation, identification, digitization, #3Dprinting and finally showcasing it. White = reconstructed; Creme = preserved. (1/n).

New occurrences of the bone-eating worm Osedax from Late Cretaceous marine reptiles and implications for its biogeography and diversification | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

#OnTheBeamlines : Congratulations to researchers from Royal Sask Museum
University of Regina on this discovery that fills a 17-million-year gap in the fossil record of insects. We're pleased BMIT-BM beamline helped enable this work bit.ly/3xyMOeP #ants #BigMuddy #fossils
Government of Saskatchewan

Cloudy, but still found the eclipse to be very impressive.

What an amazing experience. No description can do it justice, and I’m so thankful we had a break in the clouds right at totality.

#Eclipse 2024 #Eclipse Solar2024 #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #nikon #sun #moon #photograghy

#FossilFriday A painted plaster cast of an articulated juvenile hadrosaur (Lambeosaurinae) from southern Alberta
#paleontology

Bonus #FossilFriday , I believe this is a phyllocarid carapace (“Ceratiocaris” deweyii) from the Rochester Shale. Compared to another partial specimen I have, this one is rather small.

For this #FossilFriday , I am thrilled to announce my first publication! Today in Nature Communications we publish a new study enlisting phylogenetically-informed statistical models to conduct one of the most comprehensive tests of Bergmann's rule to date. 🧵

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Please consider this wonderful opportunity to volunteer with the Manitoba Museum. Your expertise, knowledge, and skills will contribute to realizing our strategic plan and fulfilling our mission. I’m happy to answer any questions you may have. #MyMBMuseum #Manitoba #Volunteer

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?!

Me: Yes, but not that kind of ...

Flight attendant: Pilots are arguing about the phylogenetic position of extinct nonradial echinoderms

Me: Tell them to come over here

Only a few days left to register to #CSVP2024 🐟🦎
Don't miss your chance to come talk about vertebrate fossils with other researchers! And visit lil' old Winnipeg in the process 🙂
Link to the circular and registration instructions: csvp.ca/meetings/

While researching how trilobites, pill millipedes and roly-pollies converged into a 'spherical' shape, I found another interesting case: robots! I have found at least four cases of robots inspired by pill bugs.

It's out! New paper describing the ribs and vertebrae of Tiktaalik that shows axial regionalization and sacral ribs, which would have provided linkage between its vertebral column and its pelvis Neil Shubin
pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…