A fossil of a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile from the Mesozoic Era (Pterodactylus antiquus) It's wings, limbs, body, head, feet etc, are all over the place in this fossil, and look a little manic tbh. It makes for a nice design though, artistic. Extra info: These fossils are often found in fine-grained limestone, which helps preserve delicate structures like wing membranes. (Here it looks like the stone is a very smooth cream coloured marble or slate. Unlike dinosaurs, pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived from approximately 215 to 66 million years ago. They were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight. They had hollow bones and wings made of skin stretched between a single finger and their body.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMovies

"From Here to Eternity" - 1953

#Fossil #Pterosaur (specifically) #Pterodactyloid - #PterodactylusAntiquus the first flying reptile in #prehistoric times. #Jurassic #Dinosaur 🦕 #Movies

It Wasn't the Carbon Tax After All The energy transition was already speeding up. The fossil industry was already losing ground. The geopolitical moment we're in is set to speed things up. Cue the counter-spin at full throttle.

Alex Cool-Fergus in the latest Weekender: The #energy transition was already speeding up. The #fossil industry was already losing ground. The #geopolitical moment we're in is set to speed things up. Cue the counter-spin. energymixweekender.substack.com/p/it-wasnt-t...
@alexcoolfergus.bsky.social

Was ist eigentlich aus dem "Milliardenbetrug an deutschen Tankstellen" geworden? #Fake Projekte in #China zum #Greenwashing der #Fossil Konzerne? Die #Frontal Sendung, die auf YT 2,5 Mill. gesehen haben vor einem Jahr? Kommt da noch ne Konsequenz?
youtu.be/IpRMNelV_Fg
#Klimaschutz und so?

Zum Winter hin werden sich die #Fossil - Kosten wieder senken.
Das sind ja unsere Energie-Speicher der technikoffenen Zukunft!
@bundestag.de

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Das ist doch nur noch ein Trauerspiel, mit dieser inkompetenten #Fossil - Marionette im Wirtschaftsministerium! Null Plan, Null Ahnung, einzig und allein am Profit der #Öl - und #Gas - Industrie interessiert, statt dem Land und den Menschen zu dienen! Wie lange kann die sich noch halten? […]

#StopptDasReicheln
Diese Person erreicht keinen Rentenanspruch während diesem Mandat.
Unsere #Fossil - Handpuppe

Wer folgt?

Auch am 18.04.26 dabei...

Das ist doch nur noch ein Trauerspiel, mit dieser inkompetenten #Fossil - Marionette im Wirtschaftsministerium! Null Plan, Null Ahnung, einzig und allein am Profit der #Öl - und #Gas - Industrie interessiert, statt dem Land und den Menschen zu dienen! Wie lange kann die sich noch halten?

Scientists were able to extract the protein collagen from preserved blood vessel structures recovered from the cortical bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#tyrannosaurusrex #tyrannosaurus #dinosaur #dinosaurs #palaeontology #fossil #paleontology #science #biology

It’s the age of the dinosaurs, which is why we’re talking about…a fish??? 🐟

Wanna learn more? Head to bit.ly/triassic-fish  & tune in next week for another #FossilFriday feature from the Paleo Research Institution’s collection
www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/

#Fossil #Paleontology #Triassic

By the way: um im Bild zu bleiben...
DE leert jeden Tag einen Supertanker #Fossil Öl

#StopptDasReicheln
Nur wer wird folgen?
Schlimmer geht immer... ein #Fossil

A tiny artwork of an ammonite fossil with a dark background in browns. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Watercolour and mixed media on white acid free artist watercolour paper. Approximately 7.5 x 7.5cm, will fit a 3 x 3 inch photo frame.

Ammonites, which evolved about 416 million years ago, were once the most abundant animals of the ancient seas.
folksy.com/find/item/86...

#ammonite #Fossil #OriginalArt #Drawing #Watercolour #MixedMedia #Miniature #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #bsnm #ShopIndy #SciArt

Steeply dipping, thin-bedded slabs of bright white color carbonate. Syncline like structure in the middle of the picture. Picture: Thomas Hammerich

⛏ #FossilFriday

📷 Paleogene sedimentary rock (limestone) with Syncline-like structure/tectonic tilting

🔎 Originally deposited as horizontal marine sediments, later tectonically uplifted & bended/tilted.

📍 South Bay, Kaikoura, New Zealand 🇳🇿

🦑 #geology #geoscience #paleontology #fossil

Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period. The study, led by researchers at Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History and Department of Earth Sciences as well as Yunnan University in China, has been published today (02 April) in Science.

2-Apr-2026
Spectacular #fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals

very exciting stuff we heard about at the recent #Oxford Planets day as well.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121553
#science #evolution #precambrian #paleontology #animals #bodyplan

Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators An international team of researchers has investigated the biting capabilities of extinct predatory marine reptiles, revealing how these formidable predators could coexist within the same ecosystem. This work sheds new light on the hunting strategies of long-extinct predators that dominated the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs.

3-Apr-2026
Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
A new study compares the bite efficiency of #fossil #reptiles using advanced #engineering #simulations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1122694

#science #ecology #paleontology #biomechanics

#FossilFriday.
Ichthyosaurus bones.
Note the bite marks.

#ichthyosaurus #fossil #bitemarks #paleontology

Ammonite fossil found in Aslfa by a friend while we were together.

Typical marine fossil, likely dating from around 100–400 million years ago, when this area was underwater.

#Ammonite #Fossil #Paleontology #Geology #Travel

tRump is fueling the green transition 👍🥳

#epstein #Iran #israel #Gaza #oil #fossil #sun #energy

500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Claw That Rewrites the Origins of Spiders Learn how a fossil from Utah’s Wheeler Formation reveals where early spider relatives lived, how quickly complex animal body plans emerged after the Cambrian Explosion, and why those traits took milli...

500-Million-Year-Old #Fossil Reveals a Claw That Rewrites the Origins of #Spiders

www.discovermagazine.com/500-million-... #science

This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as medium. This is a flagellicaudatan sauropod known from the middle Late Jurassic.

Reply your guess and I will post the answer tomorrow.

The was designed by Ambrosino.

I hope more explicit #climate #disasters will have this effect. I.m.o. There is plenty of visible havoc, and still many seek historic soothing. Away from #fossil is just too scary!

New study finds respiratory evolution drove body size differences in early land vertebrates

New study finds respiratory evolution drove body size differences in early land vertebrates
@stevebrusatte.bsky.social
#evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science #vertebrates
👇🏼👇🏾
is.gd/ehR3sj

An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Fossils of Orrorin record the first convincing evidence of hominid terrestrial bipedalism in the Late Miocene, at about six million years ago. Bipedalism in the slightly older (7 Ma old) Sahelanthropus has recently been called into question. Here we present the first known hominine postcranial element from Azmaka (Bulgaria), a 7.2 Ma old nearly complete femur, which we tentatively attribute to cf. Graecopithecus. The Azmaka hominine represents a candidate for the ancestral form of positional behaviour from which bipedalism documented in later hominins evolved. The Azmaka femur lacks many of the specialised attributes of arboreal quadrupeds. At the same time the combination of locomotor features of this femur indicates a complex locomotor repertoire. Qualitative and quantitative morphological analyses demonstrate that the Azmaka femur combines certain attributes of terrestrial quadrupeds and bipeds and clusters mostly with early bipeds and partially with African apes. The morphology indicates a transitional form of bipedalism. The wooded-grassland savanna environment of the early Messinian locality of Azmaka suggests that terrestrial bipedalism likely evolved in a non-forested setting. The early Messinian age is critical to our understanding of mammalian palaeobiogeography and the intercontinental dispersals between Eurasia and Africa. We hypothesise that the descendants of the Azmaka hominine may have dispersed from Eurasia into Africa under the influence of climatic and environmental changes in the eastern Mediterranean. If such dispersal occurred, it may have been associated with subsequent re-occupation of more forested settings in both the ancestors of African apes and hominins.

This #OpenAccess article from 'Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments' describes a 7.2-million-year-old femur showing a transitional locomotor repertoire combining terrestrial quadrupedalism with early bipedalism, suggesting bipedalism evolved in open landscapes. bit.ly/3PIQkN1 #EvolSky #Fossil

The chin is an evolutionary puzzle. Researchers may have finally solved it

The chin is an evolutionary puzzle. Researchers may have finally solved it
#evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science #paleoanthropology
👇🏼👇🏾
is.gd/cvIIK6

Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal About Coral Survival - GEOSCIENTIST Reefs of Time explores exotic fieldwork and science to highlight the importance of the theory of uniformitarianism for coral survival.

“Reefs of Time is a joy to read,” writes @cornubiangeologist.bsky.social in a lovely book review for @geoscientistmag.bsky.social.
As the author, it’s a joy to read his review! geoscientist.online/sections/boo... @princetonupress.bsky.social #scicomm #coral #fossil #geology #geoscience #booksky

War and Chaos are ruling this era. Bad for the people and the #planet. But no problem for #oil and other #fossilfuel companies.

#fossil #fossilfuels #gas #petrolpump #Gaza #Ukraine #Iran #Sudan #Trump #climate #climatechange #chaos @cartoonmovement.com @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social @joop.nl

10,000 dermestid beetles cleaning flesh from animal carcasses without damaging bone structure for my @thepalass.bsky.social grant research, 'A novel #experiment using simulated #scavenging to investigate patterns of #skeletal #disarticulation in the #fossil record' #taphonomy #palaeontology

Intriguing preliminary results already coming from my
@ncn.gov.pl #Miniatura 9 grant research, 'Investigating patterns of #skeletal #disarticulation in the #fossil record using controlled simulated mass #burial #experiments' 👍🤫 #taphonomy #palaeontology

Eine Hälfte des versteinerten kopffüßer. Erinnert mit seiner Aufteilung an ein Schneckenhaus. Verschiedene braun, rötliche Töne in den Kammern.

#Quarz ( #Calcit oder #Chalcedon) in #Ammonit . #Kopffüßer #Fossil #Macro #Photography 'Objekte die mit "Q" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag

Kommt alle hin.

#Reiche
#NieMehrCDUCSU
#Lobbyschweine
#TaxTheRich
#Fossil