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The recently re-described Palaeocama anthrax is by far one of the weirdest lobopodians discovered yet! This Carboniferous worm was not only was it covered in hundreds of poisonous spines, but it's also the only freshwater non-Tardigrade lobopodian known! #paleoart #art #sciart

Zebra Schist : What is Zebra Schist? Where is it found? | #Geology #GeologyPage #Rock Zebra Schist is The tightly folded, thinly bedded schists that are derived from sedimentary rocks that are exposed in Kangaroo Island are ... Read More: geologypage.com/2019/05/zebra-…

Lower Devonian crinoid pluricolumnals from Morocco are severely infested by sclerobionts:... - goo.gl/scholar/ZoxmA7 #ScholarAlerts

A fossilized ventral ganglion reveals a chaetognath affinity for Cambrian nectocaridids | Science Advances science.org/doi/full/10.11…

⚠️ A wonderful opportunity to join an online event and learn more about ichnology🤓 ⬇️ #ichnology #online #webinar #event #join #zoom

Ever noticed how ideas often show up when we’re not trying? Maybe during a quiet summer walk, as the mind wanders with the cicadas. Sometimes answers arrive once we’ve closed the laptop. #WeareTransmittingScience #LifeInScience #SummerThoughts ☀️🍃🌻

Palaeocampa anthrax, a fossil worm first described from Carboniferous rocks in 1865 as a caterpillar, is redescribed as a freshwater aysheaiid lobopodian with a unique sclerite armature and probable chemical defences, according to a paper in @CommsBio. go.nature.com/3TSRrbP

Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain - goo.gl/scholar/ZegMvW #ScholarAlerts

𝙂𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙞 Struve, 1982 Phacopidae Odershausen-Schichten, Eifelian/Givetian transition zone, Middle Devonian Stelberg near Lindlar, Germany #trilobites #fossilfriday

#FossilFriday rocks with a trip to Steep Rock MB, can't wait to go back and find amazing Devonian fish 🐟

THE SOLITARY RUGOSE CORAL ACANTHOPHYLLUM IN THE SHELLABARGER LIMESTONE (LATE EMSIAN, LATE EARLY... - goo.gl/scholar/VnSbKE #ScholarAlerts

The final chapter of my PhD is finally published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution! Extremely proud of this culmination of years of work on the avian sternum, and grateful to everyone who contributed. Please reach out if you'd like a PDF 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4155…

472 pages and 4 years later I can finally call myself a Doctor! 🎓🎊 @UOP_SEGG Thank you to my viva examiners @Sansom_Rob and @MariemSaavedra for making it such a positive experience, and to my supervisor @nichnos and everyone who has helped and supported me along the way! 🎉🦐🌊

🌟 I’d like to share my exciting results and insights into 3D modeling, which can not only digitise your fossil (in this case, a baby mammoth tooth from Lithuania) but also remove infilled sediment to reveal its true morphology 🤓 ⬇️ #lithuania #model #palaeontology #fossil

New paper! The 1st publication from our NSF grant is out! Here, we describe a new crinoid from Anticosti Island & use tip-dating approaches to quantify uncertainty in its stratigraphic age cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A Middle Devonian fluvial-delta plain complex from eastern Yunnan, South China: Insights into co... - goo.gl/scholar/zFRznr #ScholarAlerts

Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds at Tonismagi, Tallinn, north Estonia eurekamag.com/research/020/6…

It's Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured is a 2-in- (5-cm-) long Bumastoides from Wisconsin’s Platteville Formation. Partial specimens of the Ordovician trilobite are relatively common finds at this locale, while fully articulated examples, like this one, are exceedingly rare.

Our phylogenetic analysis places Palaeocampa among the Aysheaiids (the classic Burgess Shale animal Aysheaia being its namesake), a group of poorly known lobopodians known from the Cambrian and Ordovician. Palaeocampa is the only known aysheaiid to possess a sclerite armature.

Group of Narthecoceras performing nocturnal activity in the waters of the Ordovician