The ecology of Archaeopteryx - Discover Ecology Discover Ecology - As the oldest known dinosaur to use aerodynamic surfaces comprised of asymmetrical feathers for flight, Archaeopteryx undoubtedly occupied a unique ecological niche unlike that...

The ecology of Archaeopteryx | Discover Ecology

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Lamellar surface area calculations support respiratory function of trilobite exopodites Abstract. Trilobites had biramous appendages with an inner endopodite (walking leg) and outer exopodite (gill) connected to the body through the protopodit

Lamellar surface area calculations support respiratory function of trilobite exopodites royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Lepas (Lepas anatifera)

Las Lepas (Lepas anatifera) es una especie de falso Percebe que vive pegado a objetos flotantes.

El otro día encontramos un árbol flotando a la deriva en #torrevieja, habían cientos de estos animales adheridos.

#lepas #fotosub #buceo #submarinismo #scuba #mediterraneo

It's happening 😍#IrritatorBelongstoBR

Black-and-white psychedelic poster of Opabinia. No longer an up-to-date reconstruction, but still not bad.

Black-and-white psychedelic poster of Marrella.

If you've ever wished these old pieces had some truly eye-watering color, your time is coming 🐡

👏👏👏 ¡Felicitaciones!

My first magazine as editor. I'm beyond happy.

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Polychaete annelids from the earliest Cambrian Period | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Evolutionary bioenergetics of sporulation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Intertidal surface covered in coralline algae, with many depressions each filled with a chiton...more than 20? Between them are smaller limpets and other snails

A lot of chitons for no reason 🦑

Multicellularity for free - Nature Ecology & Evolution A model of competition between unicellular and multicellular forms suggests that multicellularity can become ecologically stable without direct benefits, provided both forms use a varied environment i...

Multicellularity for free | nature ecology & evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event - Nature Ecology & Evolution Morphological and stable isotope analysis of Early Triassic lycophyte leaves suggest they were similar to extant Isoetales and thus may have made use of crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis—a t...

CAM photosynthesis may have conferred an advantage during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event | nature ecology & evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MolluscMonday Rare example of an Ordovician orthocone nautiloid with a fractured shell. Photographed in the stone floor of the King’s Gallery at Hampton Court Palace last week.

Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions Dolomite, a calcium magnesium carbonate, requires cycling of saturation conditions to grow.

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Stony ball form of a bryozoans. Porous surface with many holes.

Stony ball form of a bryozoans. Porous surface with many holes.

4 colonies of a Stony ball form of a bryozoans. Porous surface with many holes.

4 individuals of a Stony ball form of a bryozoans. Porous surface with many holes.

ANTARCTIC Cerioporine bryozoans! id'd by Phil Bock! Weird kind of stony ball forms! Can only imagine what they were like alive! #bryozoanstoday.

#FossilFriday Space, the final frontier. Branching cyclostome bryozoan battling it out for living space with two cheilostome bryozoans on a shell from the Early Pleistocene Nukumaru Limestone, Whanganui Basin, New Zealand.

Interesting new study of boron isotopes in some modern bryozoan skeletons for the geochemically inclined doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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A new hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from a cynodont-dominated site (Upper Triassic) of southern Brazil Abstract. We describe Isodapedon varzealis gen. et sp. nov., a new hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Carnian deposits of the Candelária Sequence, sout

A new hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from a cynodont-dominated site (Upper Triassic) of southern Brazil url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Last day to register for Larwood 2026 1-3 June in Oslo!
#bryozoa #marineinverts

Three panel comic. Panel 1: at a house party, a guy is standing next to his buddy, a human-size horseshoe crab. They’re both holding red solo cups. The guy is looking to the other side of the room and excitedly says to the crab, “hey, there’s another horseshoe crab here!” The crab replies, “ugh.” Panel 2: the guy says, “what’s wrong?” The crab says, “he’s one of those guys who flaunts it too much.” Panel 3: we see the other horseshoe crab in question, engaged in conversation with a group of smiling people standing around him. This second horseshoe crab is wearing a cap with a horseshoe on it, and a novelty t-shirt that reads: I SURVIVED 5 MASS EXTINCTIONS. IS IT FRIDAY YET?

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 🧪⚒️
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When the Earth Had Supermountains YouTube video by PBS Eons

When the Earth Had Supermountains | PBS Eons www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDv...

Here are 5 remarkable snails that lived during the Ordovician Period. All collected from the Ellis Bay Formation (Hirnantian) of Anticosti Island and reposited in the Invertebrate Paleontology collections at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 🐌🐌🐌 🧪

Look at the size of the one on the left!

What it takes to solve the origin of life: An integrated review. Part 1–Experimental methods and data repositories The Origin of Life Early Career Network (OoLEN) presents a comprehensive review of common techniques and methods used across diverse research on the origin(s) of life. Part one focuses on experimental...

What it takes to solve the origin of life: An integrated review. Part 1–Experimental methods and data repositories | Cell Reports Physical Science

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Glorious little Bolinopsis microptera with its dazzling rainbow ctenes, black spots on its meridional canals and lovely lobes.

Ctenophore Day is tomorrow!
Here’s one I saw this morning 😊

#CtenophoreDay 🐙🦑

The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa | Plos One journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Paleocene Bryozoans from Kazakhstan Upper Paleocene (Thanetian) bryozoans from the Turgay Trough in northern Kazakhstan

Upper Paleocene (Thanetian) bryozoans from the Turgay Trough in northern Kazakhstan | Palaeontologia Electronica palaeo-electronica.org/content/2026...

Synchrotron data reveal nautiloid characters in Pohlsepia mazonensis, refuting a Palaeozoic origin for octobrachians Abstract. Pohlsepia mazonensis, from the late Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte (311–306 Ma), has been suggested to be the oldest fossil octopus. This

Synchrotron data reveal nautiloid characters in Pohlsepia mazonensis, refuting a Palaeozoic origin for octobrachians | Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...?

On the origin of metazoan reefs Abstract. Tropical shallow marine metazoan reefs have been biodiversity hotspots throughout their history, where this high biodiversity is thought to origi

On the origin of metazoan reefs | Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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