14-Jan-2026
Tiny Titans of Recovery - Ancient traces reveal minute fossil life in #SouthAfrica’s Cederberg mountains
UCT-led study uncovers #fossil #ecosystem that helped kick-start life after global catastrophe
^at the end of the #Ordovician, ie 444 million years ago
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global mass extinction.
The Age of Fishes began with mass death, fossil database reveals https://phys.org/news/2026-01-age-fishes-began-mass-death.html
#MassExtinction triggered the early radiations of jawed vertebrates and their jawless relatives https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb2297
"from this biological havoc, known as the Late #Ordovician Mass #Extinction, came an unprecedented richness of vertebrate life. One group came to dominate all others, putting life on the path to what is known today as jawed #vertebrates... they only became dominant because this happened"
A #Dilophosaurus studied from the gorgeous, terrifying Hunted by Moonlight Dinosauria episode and a #Boedaspis trilobite!
Ordovician (Geological periods 🌍)
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period 486.85 Ma to the start of the Silurian Period 443.1 Ma. The Ordovician, named after the Welsh tribe of the Ordovices, was defined by Charle...
Quite a bit of #Chrysotile was extracted from the Jeffrey Mine, Quebec. It is located on a line of oceanic lithosphere attached to North America during the growth of the Appalachians.
The town of Asbestos, home of the mine, has been renamed 'Val-des-Sources'.
Much of the expense of renovating buildings in Quebec is the cost of removing the asbestos insulation.
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐
michael
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Vickysaurus
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Bill Minarik