So proud to have a Cretaceous wasp Diameneura marveni named after me, now a thylacine has been too! What a great honour! You can read about the new thylacine discoveries in the Journal of Vertebrate Zoology and in an article in the Independent newspaper

The 2.75 inch Opabinia from the middle Cambrian was an unusual little critter that belongs to the group known as arthropods. #FossilFriday

Trilobite fossils from upstate New York reveal 'extra' set of legs phys.org/news/2024-09-t… via Phys.org

I am an American nationalist. A nation is NOT just lines on a map, it is a PEOPLE (I hate most of them), it is a CULTURE (that I consider degenerate), and it is a sense of common national project (ethnic cleansing my neighbors is the only one of these I don’t vigorously oppose).

The Ordovician bombardment be like

Scientists assumed Ichthyosaurs resembled eels, even tadpoles, with their long-kinked tails. As fossils surfaced showing soft-tissue tail fins, the view changed, giving Ichthyosaurs a more dolphin or tuna-like appearance! But what about their sea neighbours, Plesiosaurs? 🧵

Zhenghecaris shankouensis, one of the few peytoiid radiodonts known from the shallow Cambrian waters of the Chengjiang Biota.

And We even have a photo of that!

Calibrating the genomic clock of modern birds using fossils | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Pleistocene North America’s bird fauna was absolutely insane (if not a little frightening)!

🚨Paper alert🚨Meet Polygoniella turrelli, our latest addition to the remarkable Cambrian Marjum Biota of Utah. This 500-million-year-old sponge displays a complex anatomy that has no equivalent amongst poriferans of that time. Lucas Del Mouro Javier Ortega Hernández doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

Exploitation of East European workforce in Western countries is staggering and normalised to such a degree no one really cares

I think there’s a tough fight going on on the river road right now. Which is disconcertingly historically accurate for 80 years ago #OTD. One for Al Murray 🇺🇦.

A rare ‘flat-headed’ pachycephalosaur (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosaurida... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

They didn't want to be here but North Carolina Republicans, faced with heartbreaking news, are now forced to consider terminating this candidacy in the final trimester.

New painting, the "giant cicada" Palaeontina oolitica, from Middle Jurassic England.

A restoration of the Walcott Quarry side of the Burgess Shale, depicting a brine pool, with various fauna. #paleoart #paleontology #cambrian

#OTD in 1944, Nijmegen. Champagne, left by the previous owners. #WW2 #HISTORY

Primates discovered a fossil?

The fable of the rabbit and the tortoise has been tested in real life. 😂