Paleontologists in China have identified a new armored, jawless fish whose batwing-shaped skull may have helped it glide through Devonian seas.
Image credit: Dinghua Yang.
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@eartharchives.orgPaleontologists in China have identified a new armored, jawless fish whose batwing-shaped skull may have helped it glide through Devonian seas.
Image credit: Dinghua Yang.
@agaunews.bsky.socialThe Ammonite launches Numiscollect's distinctive new Fossil-3D series of palaeontology silver coins #coins #numismatics #silver #fossils #dinosaurs #prehistoric #nature #ammonites #oceans #agaunews
https://agaunews.com/ammonite-kicks-off-fossil-3d-coin-series/
@koprolitos.bsky.socialLos #fósiles del @museoreinasofia.es: un repaso a diferentes obras de #arte contemporáneo inspiradas en la #paleontología de la mano de @charliecharmer.bsky.social.
▶️ koprolitos.blogspot.com/2026/09/los-...
#paleontology #fossils #painting #art
@eartharchives.orgColossal Biosciences now estimates that it will de-extinct a woolly mammoth sometime in the 2030s.
Image credit: Leonello Calvetti—Science Photo Library.
@eartharchives.orgCranial fossils of a nodosaurid ankylosaur unearthed more than two decades ago on the Japanese island of Hokkaido have been recognized as belonging to a new genus and species.
Image credit: TotalDino / CC BY 4.0.
@brianbrachiopod.bsky.social"Do you have any idea what the time is?"
What kind of fucking silly question is that?
The ONLY POSSIBLE answers are 'Yes' or 'No' (& possibly 'This question is beyond my paygrade').
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
@geosociety.bsky.socialNew in #Geosphere: Lowe et al. present a new framework to give #PacificNorthwest fossil floras greater utility for future studies.
🔗 geosociety.co/Lowe_et_al
Credit: Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
#Fossils #GSAPubs
@eartharchives.orgA 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque from a remote Indonesian island is the first known portable art from the Austronesian Painting Tradition, offering a rare glimpse into the symbolic world of ancient seafarers.
@eartharchives.orgNew Monash University research argues that our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ago should be included under the Homo group of species.
Image credit: Ian Towle, Monash University
@eartharchives.orgThe 400-year-old Greenland shark may hold surprising secrets to keeping eyes healthy for a lifetime.
Image credit: Ghislain Bardout.
@kate-e-olsen.bsky.socialInspired by @themorganic.bsky.social little man is getting an ammonite - in magenta of course #crochet #fossils 🧶🦖
@brianbrachiopod.bsky.socialThe world is round. ROUND, I TELL YOU!
(Some folk choose to disbelieve this concept).
Anyway, it's DAMN COLD up here.
@johnmoffitt.bsky.social
@flojohorman.bsky.social
#PaleoArt #SciArt #Fossils #Travel #PalaeoArt
[The eagle-eyed among you will spot Scotland down there].
@esconi.bsky.socialPBS Eons: What Drove Life Into The Trees? #fossils #paleontology #evolution #trees #Permian
https://youtu.be/yN4Ck8CSdWU There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the evolution of arboreal living....
https://esconi.org/2026/09/pbs-eons-what-drove-life-into-the-trees/
@eartharchives.orgAt least seven shark species once inhabited the nutrient-rich waters that covered what is now Egypt’s Abu-Tartur Plateau, revealing a diverse Late Cretaceous marine ecosystem.
Image credit: Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images.
@lapworthmuseum.bsky.socialDid you know tiny #fossils once helped solve one of geology's biggest debates? Charles Lapworth used graptolites to establish the Ordovician and end a long-standing dispute. Learn more at the #Museum!
Content: Jin Yu.
Image: Andy Jones.
@eartharchives.orgTwo Denisovan leg bones from Taiwan came from tall individuals. But we can’t generalise to a whole species just yet.
@eartharchives.orgResearcher argues that nearly 5 million years of hominin fossils should belong to Homo, as traits like large brains and tool use fail to clearly separate species.
Image credit: Roman Yevseyev.