Mastodawn

#silentsunday #murtal #spielberg #miocene #geology
Das Fohnsdorfer Becken mal wieder gefüllt, wie in der Urzeiten. Vor 8 Millionen Jahren wäre das Becken aber mit einem seichten Meer und nicht Wolken gefüllt. 😁

The Fohnsdorf Basin once again filled, as in the before time. 8 million years ago this Basin was filled with a shallow sea instead of the clouds seen here.

Plazi Species Nov 14

#NewSpecies!
New snail from middle #miocene #romania just surfaced:

Thericium chamaeleo

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/211887DE-3554-DC7F-FF54-8356F6AFFCDC
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5625.1.1
#Zootaxa #ThericiumChamaeleo

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #fossils #fossilfriday #paleo #paleontology

Adam Yates Nov 13

Its great when fossils you found, and helped others find, get used for research. Today the scores of wallaby bones that we have found at Alcoota are getting some attention
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251591

#Alcoota #Miocene #AustralianWildlife

spookyskelebloke Oct 31

#PaloeMori day 30! The forest donkeebra. Ya, I got nothing. #paleoart #miocene #mammal

spookyskelebloke Oct 23

#PaleoMori day 22! ♫ Bear dog, bear dog, alone in the world is a little bear dog. ♫ I tend to just not be very good at drawing living mammals, but these guys are just weird, man. #paleoart #miocene #mammal

Harvati lab at Uni Tübingen Sep 26

Team member Melania Ioannidou presented yesterday her poster at #ESHE2025! ✨ “Rethinking dental traits in hominin origins: Insights from Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Late Miocene, Greece).” 🐵🦷 Congrats, Melania! 🤗
#Miocene #apes

charring auh Sep 4

#Sahelanthropus is an extinct genus of hominid dated to about 7 million years ago during the Late #miocene The type species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, was first announced in 2002, based mainly on a partial cranium, nicknamed Toumaï,