Effect of the habitat and tusks on trunk grasping techniques in African savannah elephants - Costes - 2024 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Wiwaxia is one of my favourite weird prehistoric animals! It is found during the 'Cambrian Explosion'. Around 540 million years ago, we find a massive variety of life suddenly in the fossil record. #FossilFriday
(Photo: Martin Smith; Art: Andrew Kerr)

April 25, 2015, birthday of Polish palaeontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. She led #fossil expeditions to the outcrops in Mongolia revolutionizing our knowledge on Mesozoic mammals 🐭
nature.com/articles/52015…

The Piltdown Man hoax fooled experts for decades! 🙈 For April Fools' Day, dive into the ultimate prank in paleoanthropology with our podcast episode 'The Unsolved Case of a Fake Human Fossil' youtu.be/VdfKh5NSk6Y

March 31, 1850, birthday of Charles Doolittle Walcott, American paleontologist famous for the discovery in 1909 of well-preserved Cambrian fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, #Canada
siarchives.si.edu/history/charle…

A gorgeous example of one of the most aesthetically pleasing of trace fossils, _Zoophycos_, the feeding trace of a deep-sea animal (probably a type of worm). #ichnology

We've often considered Mammut from the Ringold Formation (Washington) to be the earliest record of M. americanum. Here is that specimen...in bright shiny plastic, cropped to fit our new 3D printer. Thanks to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture for letting me scan it last spring.

Nice article! Features a picture of an Illinois State Museum holotype specimen

Meet our youngest female volunteer at #SallamLab as a scale next to the Basilosaurus fossil in #Egypt
#FossilFriday
#International_Womens_Day #InternationalWomensDay   #WomensDay #WomenEmpowerment

I don't often get to actively celebrate #worldwhaleday but last week I was at GeorgiaSouthern giving a Darwin Day talk & had a chance to see the stunning Georgiacetus fossils! Snapped these photos on Darwin's 215th birthday—Darwin would've loved a whale with legs & toes! 🐳

#MosasaurMonday A couple weeks ago I was at
GeorgiaSouthern giving a Darwin Day talk and had a chance to check out their awesome museum GA Southern Museum—which has this equally awesome specimen of Tylosaurus on exhibit. The skull is really nice and worth another trip!

It’s #FossilFriday !
For your viewing pleasure I present a single sectioned tooth of a Pliocene elephant relative. Modern #elephants have amazing teeth too, replacing giant molars constantly! —Check out the two elephant skulls with Ashley Reynolds, Doctor Cat Lady for scale

#FossilFriday ! 🦈Fossil teeth Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums collection were used to describe two new, ~330 million-year-old shark species, co-occurring in Alabama and Kentucky. AL teeth collected by Gabe Ward. News story by Chase Egli: tinyurl.com/bdd8s5bn. Image credit: Benji Paynose/NPS

#FossilFriday . Mosasaurs ruled the oceans during the Late Cretaceous globally. This ~60 cm long skull is a cast based on an original specimen from Alabama in the Alabama Museum of Natural History UA Museums collection. Cast is on display in Smith Hall along with some original bones. #RollTide #fossil

Get comfy, little guy! Did you know that a giant anteater can spend the first year of its life on its mother’s back? Fortunately for mom, piggyback rides end before babies are fully grown. An adult giant anteater can weigh up to 85 pounds (39 kg)!

These are common fossils found alongside shark teeth in the Charleston area - tooth plates of the burrfish, Chilomycterus schoepfi! These fossils are likely to be Pliocene (2.5-5 myo) or Pleistocene (<2.5 myo). Burrfish are common here in South Carolina waters.

Elephant poopsicles in the field!

Calling all #PaleoNerds to celebrate our podcast episode 70! A major milestone. 🎂

In which Ray and Dave have a fun and very lively interview with paleontologist and science writer Meaghan Wetherell, an expert on the camel/sheep/pig like Oreodonts... 🐷

paleonerds.com/podcast/meagha…