#FossilFriday In 1828, Mary Anning found the first pterosaur skeleton outside Germany. W. Buckland made the announcement of Mary’s discovery & named Pterodactylus macronyx in allusion to its large claws #WomenInSTEM #MaryAnning
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/mary-anning-and-the-flying-dragon/

Beach Bones

#FossilFriday #FotoFreitag #Beach #Monochrome

Happy #FossilFriday!

and so it begins. #fossilfriday
(skeletal created by @markwitton)

Happy #fossilfriday!

This is a cast of Cryptoclidus at the palaeontological collection of the University of Tübingen.

These Jurassic marine reptiles were perfectly adapted to their environment, possessing four hydrofoil-like flippers that allowed them to efficiently ‘fly’ through the water.

Life reconstruction based on the mounted skeleton (IGPB R 324) on display at the Goldfuß-Museum in Bonn. ⚒️

#science #paleontology #fossils #jurassic #plesiosaur #cryptoclidus #wwd #tübingen #germany

@clive hey it's #fossilFriday and prototaxites is a fossil! Famous one, too. : )

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Australovenator

In the early 2000s a fossil bed was found near Winton Queensland containing two dinosaurs believed to be stuck in a billabong, 100 million years ago.

In 2009 the fossils were formally named Australovenator and Diamantinasaurus by paleontologist Scott Hocknull et al of the Queensland Museum

The fossil specimens were nicknamed Banjo and Matilda respectively after the song Waltzing Matilda written 100 years before in Winton by Banjo Paterson.

select all fossil organisms which have a Star Wars inspired name:
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Under the T. rex at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall.

#FossilFriday #NottNatHist #museum #dinosaurs #Trex #WollatonHall @GeorgeTheGorilla

It's #FossilFriday! Holotype of the Pleistocene diatom Rouxia leventerae, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Scale bar=10 um! Diatoms produce up to 50% of Earth's oxygen each year. They remind us that small can be mighty, and of the power of numbers. #paleontology @calacademy.bsky.social @calacademy https://flic.kr/p/dT1BWa

New blog post!

Bony armor is rare in mammals. But some sloths just did their own thing.

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https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/sloth-armor/

#FossilFriday #paleontology #fossils #sloth

The mystery of this 10,000-dinosaur graveyard may have just been solved https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/dinosaur-graveyard?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb 🦕 #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #WalkingWithDinosaurs #Science

Ancient Patagonian fossil sperm whale may have been active predator, reanalysis indicates https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-patagonian-fossil-sperm-whale.html 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #FossilFriday

🐂🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 Bison specimens from Martin County, Minnesota. I was short on time, so this museum will need a revisit as I'm certain there are some equine specimens along with the bovine here—can you spot them? 😉
Museum: https://www.mchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40
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#MartinCountyHistory #Pleistocene #Bison #Horse #Palaeontology #Fossils #CitizenScience

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

My 2023 illustration of the huge penguin Palaeeudyptes & Gastornis, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorlPwSvlm7IWs7PxDOtt3dkkLQ_WXwndGBRCLt_5juN9ATLXZ0f

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeeudyptes #Gastornis #Penguins #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday

#FossilFriday Newly named Traskasaurua sandrae, and an elasmosaurid and the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia. Specimen at the Courtenay and District Museum

For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Huasheng Huang.

This is Grimmipollis burmanica (IBED-T 40.976/IBED-T 40.974), a sopberry flowering plant from the late Eocene of Central Myanmar. Named in honour of Dr. Eric Grimm (1951-2020) for his palynology contributions.

#FossilFriday

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:76cwgpx3dvjlt4mfjwbnv7tt/post/3lhyivujvrs2e

“Of the 314 re-discovered specimens, 17 have been verified as Darwin’s, samples collected during his voyages on the HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836.” #FossilFriday

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:52ecd2d4or75ecwgcuw3cg3u/post/3lcdf3w7ikh2d

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as easy. This Aussie dinosaur is know for giving hugs of death.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

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