I'm advertising a PhD project on the palaeontology and geoheritage of Smokejacks Pit (the type locality of Baryonyx and Paludohadros) along with @simonwills.bsky.social and @neilgostling.bsky.social. More info and how to apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fauna, palaeoenvironments and geoheritage in the UK’s most prolific dinosaur quarry at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Fauna, palaeoenvironments and geoheritage in the UK’s most prolific dinosaur quarry at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Is there a better way to celebrate #MolluscMonday than laser-ablating archaeological limpets with very fancy, much scientific machinery? This week I'm in Mainz 🇩🇪 playing around with LIBS to explore my usual obsessions: past environments and coastal lifeways, seen through the limpet keyhole 🐚🧪🏺

Time to start work?

🚨 Beware ‼️

A leaf? Nope. A #mollusc!

Brian G Weber Photography@briangweber.com · 3w ago

Today I saw one of the weirdest and coolest sea slugs I've ever seen and it was in New Hampshire. This is Elysia chlorotica, a slug that eats algae and steals its chloroplasts to use for photosynthesis. Yes, this slug is solar powered! #seaslugs #underwaterphotography #macro #om1 #NewEngland 🦑 📷

Thx to @wildflowerhour.bsky.social every Monday my feed fills up with wildflowers and fungi. Since moving back to France I can’t join in anymore. I wish the French were more into noticing nature, but we’re already world champions of burning poubelles, and you can’t be #1 at everything I guess.

I thought had an agile mind before seeing this

« Two Earthlings » John Brosio (2009)

Another cool find for #FossilFriday: 66 Mya, a theropod dinosaur munched on a toothed diving bird, and we know it because its feathers were preserved in the dino's 💩 #PaleoSky ⚒️🧪🦕

A gorgeous specimen for #FossilFriday : the internal cast of a Jurassic bivalve (Pleuromya cf. uniformis), turned into a talisman with a religious Islamic inscription : ‘There is no god but Allāh [and] Muḥammad is His Prophet’ #PaleoSky ⚒️🏺🧪🦑🦕

Why does Monster Hunter World feel so alive? Because its ecosystems are surprisingly rich. Our authors explore how the game creates a biologist's wonderland through behavior, ecology, and evolution-inspired design. 🦖 #geekstudies #biology #scicomm #mhw #monsterhunter #モンハンワイルズ

Monster Hunter: World – a biologist’s wonderland

Gabriel Ribeiro de Melo & Helba Helena Santos Prezoto Centro Universitário Academia – UniAcademia, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Emails: gacornirm (at) gmail (dot) com; helbaprezoto (at) …

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So a bird (wood pigeon ?) crashed into our window, and the detail of the feather structure imprinted on the glass is just… 🤯🦉

🦉Since we moved, we've been blessed with a tawny owl calling from somewhere in our garden almost every night. I've always been a hopeless owl chaser and have never managed to find one myself (let alone photograph one). Any tips? Where to look, best time to go out…

Casual Anthropocene wednesday

I’ve been quiet lately: fieldwork on an uninhabited island, workshops with students, buying our dream house (and its forest), moving in 2 dogs + 2 kids, a baby due this winter… Not much time left for shitposting. The hardest part? Staying focused while limpets still occupy 99% of my brain.

cant be normal about Cenozoic molluscan taxonomy I’m so so sorry

DeepBio@Leeds' @barankarapunar.bsky.social publishes cool science on new marine vertebrate fossils from the Dolomites indicate that apex predators reappeared rapidly after the P–Tr mass extinction, earlier than previously thought. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @palaeoleeds.bsky.social

New insights into the extinction and recovery of marine vertebrates across the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event in the Dolomites, Southern Alps, Italy

The impact of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction on marine vertebrates is incompletely understood due to their scarce fossil record. To better understand marine vertebrate extinction and recovery...

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I missed #MolluskMonday this week, so #FossilFriday is doing double duty with a small inoceramid. These bivalves could grow well over a meter across in the Cretaceous Interior Seaway, and it is generally suspected that they harbored some variety of sulfur metabolizing bacteria as chemosymbiotes. ⚒️🧪🦪

The vertical design (D) has a very cool detail : the species’ call is also represented

Jean-François Cudennec@limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

Completely obsessed by these euro banknote design proposals 🦉 Ursula, give us the bird money !

The bluest blue I’ve ever seen 💙 Gentiana sp. (Brachyphylla maybe?)

Completely obsessed by these euro banknote design proposals 🦉 Ursula, give us the bird money !

#MolluscMonday: the diamond-shaped cross section of a Pinna shell in life position, silicified and infilled with chalcedony. Lower Lias (Early Jurassic), Glamorgan coast, South Wales.

This summer the fields turned yellow, the beaches turned green and the only thing left to harvest is what rots in the sand. But Argentina lost, so it’s all good.

Yeah intensive livestock farming may be a monstrosity against animal welfare and both a climatic sanitary plague, but at least coastal ecosystems are devastated.

#FossilFriday‼️ 😲 Who does not like a well-preserved, large Cretaceous oyster like this Exogyra ponderosa? This one comes even with a repair scar! Campanian-aged Demopolis Formation, Alabama. Specimen: The University of Alabama Museums Research & Collections. #paleontology #fossil

Where intertidal rocky reefs are composed of “soft” rock - such as the sedimentary mudstones and sandstones of the Point Arena Formation in Mendocino County, California - sea urchins create circular niches by abrading the substratum. #MarineLife #SwelterShelterNSF 🌊🦑

Anthropocene is cancelled. Welcome to Pyrocene 🔥

Limpets graze biofilm using their radula, a tongue like structure covered in tiny teeth, leaving specific markings on the rocks. Modelling works shows that these animals are close to the optimum when it comes to cover a surface by crawling, and without passing two time on the same spot 🦑🌊🌍🌿

Labeled #limpets for #MolluskMonday! #MarineLife #InverteFest #MolluscMonday 🦑🌊

End of heatwave has been postponed, again. And another one has been scheduled for the end of July. Dreaming of « The atrium of a Roman house during heavy rain » by Luigi Bazzani, 1882.