This week’s Fossil Friday is a scute from a nodosaur (the spiky ankylosaurs without tail clubs). Nodosaurs carried rows of bony armour and spikes; scutes like this one formed part of that protective covering.
This specimen was collected in 1987 from the region around Dinosaur Provincial Park by Donald Sabo. It is catalogued as APS 1987.12.
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2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals
very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan
A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period. The study, led by researchers at Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History and Department of Earth Sciences as well as Yunnan University in China, has been published today (02 April) in Science.
3-Apr-2026
Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
A new study compares the bite efficiency of #fossil #reptiles using advanced #engineering #simulations.
An international team of researchers has investigated the biting capabilities of extinct predatory marine reptiles, revealing how these formidable predators could coexist within the same ecosystem. This work sheds new light on the hunting strategies of long-extinct predators that dominated the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs.
Fossil worms in the Ediacaran! Newly described fossil deposit in China suggests some continuity of the fossil record between the late Ediacaran and the Cambrian.
The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival programme is online: https://fossilfestival.com/
I will be talking at 13:30 on Sunday June 14 and again with Dr Dean Lomax at 15:00. See you there!
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In a paper published online March 18 in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, paleontologists described a new species of harvestman found in two pieces of Eocene-aged amber from Ukraine and the Baltic region.
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