Another recording from the Paleo 2026 symposium has been posted! Learn about recent research on placoderms (early armoured fishes like Dunkleosteus) with Dr. Melina Jobbins of the University of Manitoba!

https://youtu.be/uP6ta7MP1ZY

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Fishes in a Suit of Armour - The Story of Placoderms, One of Our Oldest Jawed Relatives

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An extinct echidna the size of a small child once roamed Victoria, new fossil shows

More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.

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New blog post! Western Science Center has a mobile museum, and we use it a lot. Here's how it came together:

https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/maxs-mobile-museum-2/

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Max's Mobile Museum

This is the 4th in our monthly series of posts celebrating Western Science Center's 20th anniversary. Western Science Center has an interesting challenge for a small museum. We are the only natural history museum in Riverside County, which is roughly the size of New Jersey and has more than 2.

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A study of a bone which was found about 120 years ago has found that it was a skull fragment from the extinct Giant Echidna. First described in the 1860s, remains have never been found in southeastern Australia until now. Using 3D scans and measurements the fragment was identified. The Giant Echidna lived during the Pleistocene Era, was over 3 feet long and weighed about 33 pounds. https://www.discovermagazine.com/an-extinct-giant-echidna-roamed-ice-age-victoria-filling-a-huge-gap-in-its-australian-range-48957

"The only birds to make it out of the Cretaceous were modern-style species. Their survival came down to circumstance: where they happened to live and the features they happened to possess served them in good stead when the world went to hell."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-asteroid-extinguished-all-the-dinosaurs-except-for-birds-heres-why/

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An asteroid extinguished all the dinosaurs except for birds. Here’s why

Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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Happy 93rd birthday to #JayMatternes! Read more about this underrecognized illustrator in this fully authorised career retrospective full of mesmerising #Paleoart and #WildlifeArt

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/08/22/book-review-jay-matternes-paleoartist-and-wildlife-painter/

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Book review – Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter

Eight years in the making, this fully authorised career retrospective of Jay Matternes is full of mesmerising palaeo- and wildlife art by an underrecognized master of the genre.

The Inquisitive Biologist