Tom Gauld for New Scientist cartoon. #humor #science #paleontology #dinosaurs #physics
Currently in the Western Science Center #Paleontology Lab:
Several Pleistocene horses from Riverside Co., CA,
A Pleistocene tortoise from Blythe, CA,
Parts of several Cretaceous dinosaurs and tortoises from New Mexico,
A Colombian mammoth scapula from Murrieta, CA,
Several pieces of a Pliocene right whale from Santa Cruz, CA,
A Miocene rhino jaw from Kyrgyzstan,
Two Miocene sperm whale skulls from VA
and a modern cow skull being dissected for our dermestid beetle colony. #museum #palaeontology

Did you miss our Paleo 2026 symposium? No worries! We're slowly posting the recordings of the talks, and the first one was released today.

Join Dr. Julien Divay as he explains the surprising utility of fish microvertebrate fossils, what they can tell us about the palaeoenvironment, and what further work is needed!

https://youtu.be/XuSDwXmxclQ

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #fish #alberta

Tracing Faunal and Environmental Changes Through Time: The Power of Fish Microvertebrate Fossils

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Smilodon, a prehistoric sabre-toothed cat, had a pair of 28 cm long canine teeth. Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch until roughly 10,000 years ago. #Paleontology
Complex life emerged before the Cambrian explosion. Via @live_science #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #paleontology

Complex life emerged before th...
Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandworm

Weird Dune-like sandworms emerged millions of years earlier than the Cambrian explosion.

Live Science

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🦴 Watch over 150 million years of #fossil evidence from around the world in this #data viz from the American Museum of Natural #History. You can see when and where #dinosaurs appeared on #Earth as the continents shifted from the Late Triassic onward.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/every-dinosaur-fossil-known-to-science-data-visualization-amnh-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=dino-fossils-amnh

#animals #birds #cretaceous #dataviz #fossils #informationdesign #jurassic #maps #nature #paleontology #pangea #science #spinosaurus #titanosaur #triassic #trex #tksst #video

Weekly Alberta Palaeontology Events!

Sunday, April 12, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.: First Steps: Dinosaur Eggs & Babies @ Online (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology)

For more information: see https://albertapaleo.org/events/calendar

#palaeontology #paleontology #fossils #dinosaurs #events

How to eat an elephant: Fossil find in Tanzania shows oldest signs of butchering these giant mammals

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape of what is now Tanzania nearly two million years ago. Now, imagine a group of our ancestors standing over its carcass, then butchering it and eating it.

Phys.org

🦖🦴 Watch over 150 million years of #fossil evidence from around the world in this #data viz from the American Museum of Natural #History. You can see when and where #dinosaurs appeared on #Earth as the continents shifted from the Late Triassic onward.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/every-dinosaur-fossil-known-to-science-data-visualization-amnh-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=dino-fossils-amnh

#animals #birds #cretaceous #dataviz #fossils #informationdesign #jurassic #maps #nature #paleontology #pangea #science #spinosaurus #titanosaur #triassic #trex #tksst #video

New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian. Via @arstechnica #paleontology

New fossil deposits show compl...
New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.

Ars Technica