CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event
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Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

big tiddies burnin down ciddies

Mysterious Giant Blobs Of Material Near Earth's Core - Astrobiology In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth

the craziest thing I've read all year is this theory that 2 "continents" that used to be on Theia are now buried deep under our feet

astrobiology.com/2023/11/myst...

a portrait of ptychotherates, a short-snouted carnivorous dinosaur from the late triassic

gorgeous press art of the new herrerasaurian ptychotherates by megan sodano 😍 this was done for kelly izler's article discussing the taxon for virginia tech news
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I would totally let everyone know that dinner is ready by playing the organ.

a life reconstruction of 3 isodapedon, with a proterochampsid in the background

a figure from the paper showing the phylogenetic position of isodapedon, and just as interestingly, strongly suggesting that hyperodapedon is a paraphyletic assemblage, and that only the type species (h. gordoni) should be considered valid

new rhynchosaur named 🥳 a warm welcome to isodapedon varzealis, described by schiefelbein et al. from the santa maria formation of late triassic brazil!
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(art by caio fantini)

Really nice food for thought in this thread.

Warming, stress and survival: terrestrial vegetation dynamics during the Toarcian hyperthermal event Abstract. Rapid global warming imposes profound stress on terrestrial ecosystems, both past and present, making it essential to understand how ecosystems r

Warming, stress and survival: terrestrial vegetation dynamics during the Toarcian hyperthermal event url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

i jumped and squeaked and peed a little

Fossil Explains Why You Can Breathe the Way You Do Key Takeaways Ethan Mooney discovered the oldest breathing apparatus in Captorhinus aguti, a 289-million-year-old reptile, during neutron scan analysis.

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Now free on Youtube : "The Making of Gorillaz: The Mountain, The Moon Cave & The Sad God" (Director's Cut / The Line Studio).
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF2B...

The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China Animal diversification across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was a crucial event in Earth history, fundamentally altering our planet and its biosphere. However, Ediacaran fossil assemblages show li...

At last! Ediacarans and Cambrian animals in the same site! Amazing! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Been watching Poirot daily for a few months and it's hard not my dialect to be taken over in a Poirot fashion.

The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China Animal diversification across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition was a crucial event in Earth history, fundamentally altering our planet and its biosphere. However, Ediacaran fossil assemblages show li...

The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Top right: Sketch of a salamander illustrating the defined movements of the proximal (hip) and distal (elbow) limb joints measured in this study. Middle left: A muscle map for the giant salamander Dicamptodon, used as model comparator for the stem tetrapods. Lower row: left (blue rectangle) cover image for the journal Palaeontology; middle, musculoskeletal model in a mid-stance pose; right, plot of muscle moment arms.

Musculoskeletal function of stem tetrapod limbs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @crocodilejulia.bsky.social @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social

dimetrodon resting on a low tree. scanning the beach for possible washed up snacks

#Paleoart #TheDinosaurMann

Eunotosaurus reconstruction by Andrey Atuchin

Eunotosaurus has a plesiomorphic inner ear shape & few distinct traits that could link it to turtles specifically. Our dataset shows inner ear shapes contain phylogenetic signal, but also many shapes that likely evolved convergently. @olorotitan.bsky.social created this beautiful reconstruction

art by gabriel ugueto depicting a young phytosaur called rutiodon basking on a riverbank and being pestered by two small, long-necked quadrupeds called tanytrachelos

i keep forgetting that phytosaurs are pseudosuchians which is so ridiculous because what else would you call this

Pokécrustacea: the crustacean-inspired Pokémon Rafael M. Rosa, Daniel C. Cavallari & Ana L. Vera-Silva Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Emails: rafaelmassonr…

Maybe relevant? 🦀

jgeekstudies.org/2020/08/20/p...

in a gloomy, dimly-lit forest stands the giant dicynodont lisowicia; its presence seems to have startled a small, slender theropod standing in front of it

happy #fossilfriday! this is lisowicia, a dicynodont from late triassic poland. i have discussed this one before, but my previous coverage was not very comprehensive, and i can’t allow that to stand as a lisowicia superfan so strap in
(art by sarah barrett)

A graphical abstract showing a snippet of the Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts package. It shows a past and present environment, and underneath a graph shows sea level, upper forest line and shallow water range over time.

🧪 🐡 Find out more about Temporal Altitudinal Biogeographic Shifts here: buff.ly/yfNsqLO

Interested in something similar? Get in touch!
✉️ enquiries@sciencegraphicdesign.com

schematic diagram showing hypothetical vertebrate assemblages and corresponding time samples in a 15 m sequence of fluvial deposits over 30 kyr with various time-averaging and about 50% time sampling completeness.

The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Great Decoupling 2: Changes in Ocean Biochemistry Driven by Strengthening Stratification As the ocean carbon sink flattens, new research reveals how the biochemical impacts of warming and stratification are fundamentally compromising the sea’s ability to sustain life and regulate climate.

The world’s largest carbon sink is hitting a wall.
New research shows that ocean stratification is triggering a "triple whammy" of deoxygenation, acidification, and marine heatwaves.
In our second article, @umsonst.bsky.social and I unpack the biochemical impacts of ocean stratification.

my neurodivergent ass thinking I’m fitting in but basically responding to emails like “ah yes and a handful of regards to you too good sir! Weather is happening and such.”

Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]

Landscape Features

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Graphical representation of the current database landscape and a possible idealized scenario for the structure of the palaeobiological database landscape.

Table 2 | A roadmap to sustainable funding

We can learn unimaginable amount of things bout the history of life, climate, geosystems and the processes of evolution from the fossil record. But we need strong database curation and financing infrastructure.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

>:c

Warshaw, E.A., Singh, S.A. & Benton, M.J. Trophic ecology outweighed intrinsic constraints in shaping skull evolution of carnivorous Permian synapsids. Commun Biol (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s420...