Evidence of #BarneyTheDinosaur's ancestor found!! Fossil Tour Guide Discovers Giant, Purple #Dinosaur Footprint While Walking Along a U.K. Beach
#Fossil #FossilTourGuide #IsleOfWight #FossilDiscovery #PurpleDinosaur #DinosaurFootprint #UKPaleontology #Paleontology #Iguanodon #EarlyCretaceous

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fossil-tour-guide-discovers-giant-purple-dinosaur-footprint-while-walking-along-a-uk-beach-180986110/

Libanoculex intermedius, an Early Cretaceous mosquito found in Lebanese amber. It is said that both female and male Libanoculex were consuming blood, but I am not fully convinced on that yet.

#libanoculex #mosquito #cretaceous #earlycretaceous #lebanon #amber #fossil #invertebratepalaeontology #invertebrate #insects #palaeontology #sciart #scientificillustration #watercolour