This week's #NewBooks at the library: I adopted damaged copies of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants (look out for a review in the near future) and David Attenborough's Life Trilogy Boxset.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Paleobotany #Palaeobotany #Plants #Botany #NaturalHistory @bookstodon @princetonupress

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline’ in @AnnBot by Rosalie Hermans and co-authors is now #free for a limited time 🧵(1/7)

👉 https://doi.org/pdrp

#Palaeobotany #Archaeology #AoBpapers

1 across: A red alga playing bridge.

Or at least, the fossil of one - Solenopora - in the Jurassic #PortlandStone parapet of Waterloo Bridge, London.

#FossilFriday #Palaeobotany #UrbanFossils @LondonGeology

Did you know that the Antarctic used to be warm enough to have forests? This fossil fern, from King George Island, grew in the understorey there during the #Cretaceous.

#FossilFriday #Palaeobotany

Horsetails like these have a deep fossil history; they evolved from a group of leafless plants 400 Mya and grew in Devonian forests and Carboniferous swamps. They form a major part of coal deposits.

And did you know that some Palaeozoic equisetids were large trees, up to 30 m tall?

#FossilFriday #Palaeobotany

Estella Bergere Leopold (1927–2024), passionate environmentalist who traced changing ecosystems
The trailblazing palaeobotanist investigated how climate change affected Earth in the past — and firmly believed science should be used in its defence now.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00905-z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estella_Leopold

#conservation #EstellaLeopold #environmentalists #ecosystems #palaeobotany #botany #science