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The Brymbo Fossil Forest is offering students the chance to get involved in palaeontological excavations of a Carboniferous fossil forest in North Wales. QR code on image directs to further details.

🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨

Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - See below for more details ⬇️

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Well done!!!!!!!

It’s a 400 million year old plant that used to be called Rhynia major but is now called Aglaophyton majus. Worth looking up. Usually it is seen in section in the rock as are all fossils in the Rhynie Chert. However David Edwards extracted this one some how……… but has not been seen since mid 1980s…

Yes- should really be calling Aglaophyton……….

Who’s ever seen a Rhynie Chert fossil like this? A Rhynia prepared by the late David Edwards, recently returned to us by his family.

That’s amazing Alexis!

Poor use of the word fossil.

On the left- Archaeopteris in the Smithsonian today. On the right - Prototaxites in the New York State Museum last week.
Neither supported by modern anatomicsl studies.
Long way to go with this stuff………

A couple of days in the Catskills and New York State museum. Here Bill Stein mulls over our latest theory, Prototaxites is a big halloween hand which grew out of New Yorkers front laws during Halloween, 380 million years ago.

Great news Flint!

Update from our expedition to Mars: No new early Tetrapods.

Does this work for you?

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I used to use the full fat version with year 3. There’s also a nice simple Chalinor and Collinson one I can send if you don’t have it….

Maybe a fungus?

Which one?

Some of those reconstructions go back to Knight and Goldrung and not a cladoxylopsid in sight…….. I think I had better work on getting some up to date reconstructions out there!

So sorry. He was always a joy to spend time with, to watch and to read. A huge legacy.

Three primative plants on a size chart. On the left is a green thick stemmed plant with horizontal stems which curve upwards, with branded tuberous roots growing down. Behind it is the pale silhouette of a hand. Middle is a plant composed of dense intertwining clusters of narrow dichotomising stems. A callout bubble showing the roots is on the left of it. On the right is a green stemmed plant with outh curved arching horizontal stems and upright dichotomising stems which end in orange brown oval shaped sporangia.

I'm taking a look at the Rhynie Chert again, so I made a quick size chart of the plants I've already illustrated from it.
These plants are some of the earliest land #plants, being from the Early #Devonian. From left to right: Asteroxylon, Horneophyton and Aglaophyton. #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart

Headspace - Fall Of America YouTube video by Musical World

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Very interesting - straight into next week’s year 1 lecture!

Great stuff Flint….

Did the same yesterday…..

Me!

A photograph taken side on of the wonder bay in Hintze Hall containing four fossilised tree stumps.

These four trees grew in very different climates and atmospheres. Their preserved structures can provide clues about the ancient environments they once lived in.

Scientists use these specimens to chart historic climate change and make predictions about the future of our planet. 🌍