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Dr David Gelsthorpe
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Photo from our archives of flat as a #pancake trilobite Ogygiocarella, inspiration for original ID of these fossils as flatfish! #PancakeDay 🥞#TrilobiteTuesday
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Huge eruption of Etna Volcano in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 (12.02.2025)
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Hear more about this discovery made by researchers from @UniofOxford and Birmingham incl. Professor in Micropalaentology @KirstyMEdgar, also the Chair of the Lapworth Museum Management Group, and Professor of Palaeobiology Richard Butler, previous Academic Keeper at the Museum 👇
Uni of Birmingham@unibirmingham
The teams uncovered multiple enormous trackways, dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago). They're part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ & include footprints from the predator Megalosaurus & herbivorous dinosaurs twice that size. Hear from the team 👇
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Prof Alice Roberts talking about recently discovered dinosaur footprints is the story I need to hear having watched three different Jurassic Park movies over Christmas and the New Year 😬
Can't wait to see the episode of Digging for Britain with @theAliceRoberts on BBC 2 iplayer from Wednesday 8th of January - dino footprints!👣
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Fantastic dinosaur trackway in Oxfordshire soon to be featured on @theAliceRoberts Digging For Britain on 8th Jan bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Wonderful footage of beavers reinforcing their dam. As ecosystem engineers they excel at building and maintaining dams. When water levels rise or damage occurs, they instinctively repair them within 24–48 hours, keeping habitats resilient and functional.
All at no cost to humans.
Beaver Trust@BeaverTrust
Nature’s Rapid Response Team Witness a beaver family as they diligently maintain & reinforce a dam in response to rising water levels in their territory. Woody-leaky dams are a well-known river restoration tool for slowing water and creating habitats that benefit many species.
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Not the most obscure, but there are fossils of jewel beetles from Messel (Eocene Germany) that still shine 🪲✨
🦕 thegaminghyena 🦖 (🦣 #NewPleistocene arc 🦥)@crocutamatata
On this note, what's the most obscure paleontological find you guys know about that is extremely underrated? I'm saying the mastodon hair that was described as almost beaverlike
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Trilobites with antennae are as unnerving to me as dinosaurs with feathers. What an amazing fossil!
kompsfossilsnminerals@kompsfnm
This Olenellus getzi from the Kinzers formation of Pennsylvania has got to be one of the most impressive trilobites I’ve ever seen with my own eyes! I had the chance to meet this bug at the Yale Peabody Museum yesterday.
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This #TrilobiteTuesday, one of my favorite Middle Cambrian #trilobites from Manuels River, #Newfoundland: the very rare Anopolenus henrici. Almost complete, but the genal spines (projecting back from the sides of the head) have come off; one of them is lying across the thorax.
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I didn't realize how big the roots of #pliosaur teeth were. This one is from the Britton Fm (Eagle Ford Group) on the grounds of DFW airport. What a chunker of a #plesiosaur tooth! #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossils #Cretaceous @PerotMuseum
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It's really quite simple;
If we had more #beavers in our landscape, we'd have fewer flooded homes and flooded businesses...
Tony Juniper@TonyJuniper
As #COP29 draws to a close in Baku, perhaps it is a good moment to be reminded that despite the complex global politics, there are practical things we can do on the ground here in England. & in acting to build resilience to climate change impacts, we can restore Nature too.
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This morning’s view of the new eruption in Iceland. Stunning 🤩
Link to livestream below
#Iceland #IcelandVolcano
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Video showing the lava taking over the Blue Lagoon car park....
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Incredible helicopter view of the new eruption in Iceland 😍
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An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies.
Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, + that rewilding reverses nature loss.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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I’ve come to Creswell Crags, where the story of British art started, some 12,000 years ago…
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Yes, I've shared this image before - and I'll share it again! Easily the most majestic #trilobite I've ever held in my own hands, this remarkable 34 cm long Paradoxides davidis comes from Middle #Cambrian rocks at Manuels River, #Newfoundland, #Canada.
#TrilobiteTuesday
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#ExploreYourArchive #EYAMystery
Have you heard the tale of "The Sheldon Duck"?🦆
In 1601 a duck flew into an Ash tree and never left! Sometime later the "duck tree" was chopped down due to rot at the bottom and this fascinating imprint the size of a real duck was exposed.🌳🪓
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