NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
The Turtle Death Layer coughed up a fossil with teeth marks, revealing a conflict between turtle and gar! 🐢
Paleontologist Jason Bourque recently described a new, extinct species of musk turtle that lived in Florida during the late Miocene.
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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old mummy with a papyrus fragment of the “Iliad” sealed in a clay packet outside its wrappings. It is the first time a literary work has been found playing a functional, spiritual role in the mummification process.
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🚨 There’s a new T. rex in town! A newly described species of giant mosasaur—growing up to 43 ft long—has been named Tylosaurus rex, or “king of the tylosaurs.” One of the largest mosasaurs known to date, this T. rex might be every bit as fearsome as the original “tyrant king.”
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New research describes Tylosaurus rex from more than a dozen previously known fossils.
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Hey, we're a bit SLOW on wishing you a happy #WorldTurtleDay 🐢!
Stupendemys was the LARGEST TURTLE OF ALL TIME!
Researchers estimated the weight of the turtle to be 2,500 lbs. or the weight of as much as a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla 🚘 = 🐢!
Good news for all Jurassic ichthyosaur lovers! fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...
In this paper we did 3 things: 1) assess a specimen of UK Stenopterygius, 2) Find new metrics to differentiate the Stenop species 3) ammend some taxonomy (no more Magnipterygius). Congrats to Timothee on his first paper!
Want to learn or teach about 290-million-year-old vomit?
Check out our educational resource! We break down how scientists study regurgitalites to find out what prehistoric creatures ate. Plus our free worksheet helps kids to think big about fossilized vomit.
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Last week, @science.org revealed 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, a giant predatory octopus from the Cretaceous 🐙
This discovery reminds us how even a single lump of rock can totally change our perspective on the history of the world.
Read more about the new sea monster here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Despite abundant and productive Toarcian ichthyosaur-bearing localities in continental Europe, in the UK, Toarcian ichthyosaurs may often be fragmentary and/or too poorly preserved for positive identi...
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Learn how paleontologists study fossilized vomit to explore what prehistoric predators ate.
Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smalle...
Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢
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