Postdoc investigating the plants of the past at the University of Edinburgh, plants can be rocks too!
Laura Cooper
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We had a great time at the Deep Time Gala organised by @scottishgeology.bsky.social ! I'm glad people enjoyed learning about the Rhynie chert and it's strange organisms!
Who's that in the background I wonder...
🧬 New paper in Cell!
Analysis of 12 cave lion genomes shows that cave lions and modern lions may have diverged more than three times earlier than previously thought – as early as 1.7 million years ago!
AND…they interbred when temperatures dropped!
Paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Our new preprint
On a global scale, plants did not experience a catastrophic mass extinction during the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). However, they still suffered losses, with extinction rates reaching around 30%. doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
Exclusive: Alleging a “pattern of deception” in virus studies done over a decade ago, the U.S. has proposed a ban on federal funding to a prominent coronavirus researcher whose more recent work has incited unproven accusations that he helped start the #COVID19 pandemic. https://scim.ag/3R7nQx1
Great review paper by Maria Gandolfo:
"the fossil record provides essential and irreplaceable insights into plant evolution by documenting extinct lineages, transitional morphologies, developmental stages, and past ecosystems that cannot be inferred from extant taxa alone."
#paleobotany 🌏⚒🌱🌿🔬
beetle moses
Rest In Power
How trees first arose from small plants and changed the world, and why new trees emerge.
HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic
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Understanding plant evolution requires integrating the vast, largely untapped evidence preserved in the fossil record with molecular and genomic data.…
Palaeobotany on the radio at 9am!
@christophermberry.bsky.social and Jenny McElwain talking about the Evolution of Forests on In Our Time on Radio 4.
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#Paleobotany
Anne Knowlton
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Say hi to Praearcturus gigas.
This Devonian arthropod from Britain's identity had been in dispute for ages, but a new study reinterpreted it as a giant scorpion. Though the fossil is fragmentary, the estimated size is about 1 meter long. This is one bug you want to ride into battle.
#Art #SciArt
