My namesake, mentor, and dearest friend. RIP. We miss you.
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My namesake, mentor, and dearest friend. RIP. We miss you.
More info in the alt text.
A story of a Very Bad Day, as told in fossils, with amber, iridium, tektites, seiches, and immense tsunamis.
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-dinosaur-killing-meteor
A meteor impact 66 million years ago generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction event. The death scene from within an hour of the impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.
#palentology songs thread (help me find more!) 5/x
check out Trilobite from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3tiIwYFPhk
https://www.trollart.com/music/albums/ #Ketchikan based band, the Ratfish Wranglers, they put out albums like Dancing to the Fossil Record and Cruisin’ The Fossil Freeway
#playlists
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#EvolutionaryBiology: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_evobio
#Genetics: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_genetic
#Genomics: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_genomic
#Immunology: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_immuno
#Microbiology: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_micrbio
#MolecularBiology: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_molbio
#Neuroscience: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_neursci
#Palentology: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_paleo
Nevermind bringing back the Thylacine, scientists should go the Full Tim and bring back Thylacoleo.
@elduvelle snakes do not use legs for walkies :) modern snakes in general do not have legs but pythons and boas (considered to be basal snakes) do have vestigial hind legs/limbs. From what I gathered, the vestigial hind limbs are used to aid in mating and holding onto tree branches
References:
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/do-snakes-have-legs/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31069-7
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5484524/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/20/498575639/how-snakes-lost-their-legs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.287.5460.2010 (paywalled)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04413 (paywalled)
https://www.nature.com/articles/386705a0 (paywalled)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2011.539650 (paywalled)
I'm also a lover of photography, art and finding out more about #animals, #fish, #birds #birding #insects #reptiles and #dinosaurs #palentology. My interests in #numenera #cyphersystem #ultraviolentgrasslands #UVG #ElectricBastion and #traveller were both because I'm interested in the development of fictional worlds the more bizarro, weird and left open for expansion. But I also enjoyed Uresia, Unknown Armies, Over the Edge and even grim dark like Warhammer Fantasy.
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