A couple of Neobisium carcinoides pseudoscorpions sieved from Hornbeam leaf litter on a random road verge in Norfolk today while out cycling with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social
#pseudoscorpions #invertebrates
This is one of our coolest horseshoe crab fossils. Tachypleus syriacus- featuring a fishy friend!
Cenomanian in age, from the Hjoula Lagerstätte of Lebanon 🇱🇧
I finally have something worth posting here! A new paper on wormsI never expected to see fossilised! Juracanthocephalus is the first body fossil of Acanthocephala and remarkably provides links with rotifers and other gnathiferans.
Published in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shaky footage but here's a few seconds of a Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus) gliding across a lichen covered wall at Hethel church today.
𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴 (Brongniart, 1822) (Phacopida: Encrinuridae)
Wenlock Series (upper Silurian)
Coalbrookdale Formation
Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, England
Thrilled to finally share our new paper on giant scorpions from the Early Devonian!
Behold Praearcturus gigas!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/S54Y6Y...
I hear you complaining about winter - but have you considered lichens, mosses, ferns and Mistletoe?
First new paper in a little while 😊
More palaeoscolecid work with my frequent collaborator Xiaomei Shi, plus my former PhD supervisor Xiaoya Ma and also Guangxu Zhang who collected this material from a new locality.
Open access - enjoy!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/D9CUYK...
Video
An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephal...
