New paper out by Dieter Korn and Martina Aubrechtová on a strange group of #Carboniferous #orthoceratoid #cephalopods!
New paper out by Dieter Korn and Martina Aubrechtová on a strange group of #Carboniferous #orthoceratoid #cephalopods!
Es gibt Rätselfossilien, von denen ich noch nichts wusste? Was verheimlicht ihr mir noch alles?!?

Football-sized #fossil creature may have been one of the first land #animals to eat its veggies https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1115870
#Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02929-8
"for tens of millions of years, these early land-dwelling creatures only ate their fellow animals... In a new paper, scientists describe the 307-million-year-old fossil of one of the earliest known land #vertebrates that evolved the ability to eat #plants."
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In #Carboniferous, global #forests appeared, covering #tropical zones with tree-high #horsetails, #clubmosses, and #ferns. #Oxygen levels rose, and #CO2 was bound for transforming peat into lignite and #bituminous #coal. The climate later became colder i.a. due to the decreasing greenhouse gas leading to the Permo-Carboniferous Ice Age period.
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Day 21: Tully Monster
"I Can't Believe It's Not An Invertebrate!" might be the worst margarine brand name ever. What do you think?
(Also lmao I ran out of room in masto's alt text box for trying to describe exactly how goofy this looks)
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