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Lucy Jackson
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Had an absolute blast speaking at the #LymeRegis #FossilFestival today as part of the student talks series! I spoke about weird fossil echinoderms, recent research showing that #starfish are all head no trunk and shared some of my own research, thanks to all who came along! 😊
Last week I gave my talk “Starfish before they were star-shaped” as part of the monthly Reading “Cafe Scientifique” talk series. This was my first time talking to the public about my research (!) and it was lots of fun sharing the weird world of extinct echinoderms with them!
And if anyone’s at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival this Saturday I’ll be giving the talk again! ⭐️
Happy weekend!
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Belated #FossilFriday from the schools day at the Lyme Regis fossil festival, I ran an activity where the children drew what they thought ammonites, belemnites and crinoids looked like in life, we then spoke about taphonomy and how we figure out what extinct animals looked like from their fossils!
I recently picked up a Helicoplacus for my collection. One of the earliest and strangest echinoderms.
Happy pride, mollusc-botherers 🤘
Day one of the #Redcar #fossil event was excellent. Spoke to hundreds of people, at least. Got to show all those people very old mud and tiny dead things, and some younger mud and dead things from Redcars #Jurassic rocks #geology #paleontology
#Pride in Nature 🏳️🌈 tours coming on Sunday 14 & 21 June at 1pm. Book your FREE place & discover the stories that are sometimes left untold... Tours led by expert volunteers. Everyone welcome. Book ahead https://ow.ly/sAOu50Z4C8K University of Cambridge Museums #PrideUK #LGBTQ+
Vesicle pipes!
(in the Esperanza Basalt, Baja California Sur, Mexico)
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Lucy Jackson
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David Clark
University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
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Last week I gave my talk “Starfish before they were star-shaped” as part of the monthly Reading “Cafe Scientifique” talk series. This was my first time talking to the public about my research (!) and it was lots of fun sharing the weird world of extinct echinoderms with them!
Interesting reconstruction of the enigmatic Cambrian echinoderm Helicocystis, which is one of the oldest stalked echinoderms with radial symmetry. Fossils like Helicocystis are important because they help us understand how echinoderms evolved from bilateral to pentaradial body plans
