Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons https://phys.org/news/2025-07-ancient-bone-worms-ate-mosasaur.html #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #FossilFriday
I recently visited Lyme Regis with a number of friends for the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival and had a blast! You can find out more about what I got up to and my thoughts here: https://stevenallain.co.uk/Blog/scifri-lyme-regis-fossil-festival-2025/ Hopefully, I'll see you there next year! #SciFri #FossilFriday #Fossils #LymeRegis
I searched for "Stegosaurus" and got _Osteology of the Armored Dinosauria_ by Charles Whitney Gilmore , 1914
A link to the internet archive copy, bc reasons:
https://archive.org/details/osteologyofarmor00gilm/page/n6/mode/2up
I think this volume is still referenced by paleontologists working on stegosaurs today; see for example the description of Miragaia
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2674496/pdf/rspb20081909.pdf
and search for Gilmore
Another piece of Cotswold limestone loaded with Jurassic life
#FossilFriday #fossils #cotswolds
This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.
This one I would rate as medium. This marine reptile is known from Europe.
Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).
This was designed by Dunkleosteus_11
#LostBones #FossilFriday
An in-person, eye-to-orbit visit is always best! This is the Scheirel bison skeleton, currently on display at the Paynesville Area Historical Society. It was reconstructed by William Scheirel after a dredging operation on his property in October 1975.
Originally displayed at Zapf's Leather Shop in Paynesville, the skeleton was donated to the historical society in the mid-1990s.
#FossilFriday ‘I’m interested in pushing the frontiers of science, not sailing my boat on calm seas. If you’re worried about storms, you shouldn’t be on the ship. Frankly, I find storms exciting.’
Elizabeth Vrba (1942–2025). Image: University of Michigan #womeninSTEM #evolution
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/the-legacy-of-elizabeth-vrba/
Agatized (fossilized) coral flakes with the distinct asterisk-shaped coral polyps from the Wetherington Island Site (8HI473), Tampa, FL. The fossil coral in the region dates from the Late Eocene to Oligocene ca. 38-25 mya. #Archaeology #fossils #FossilFriday
This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Arambourgiania
In 1943, a railway worker found several fossil fragments, including a cervical vertebra that was 61cm long.
Amin Kawar brough the fossils to Dr. T. Harding, Director of Antiquities at the British Residence in Amman.
In 1953, it was sent to National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.
In 1954, Camille Arambourg interpreted it as a wing metacarpal
In 1959, he named it Titanopteryx philadelphiae.
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Alligator lizards are a thing, and they have armor! And we have their fossils!
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https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/armor-plated-lizard/
The study of Late Devonian #ovules and #seeds is crucial for understanding #evolution of seed #plants. Here, Liu et al. follow some "prickly" clues to describe two new species of Late Devonian Cosmosperma!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13140
@WileyEcolEvol
#PlantSci #evolution #JSE #botany #FossilFriday
#Spiders have always been perfect!
Wang et al. find that new mid-#Cretaceous macrothelids had a similar living mode to extant spp., with similar retreat construction #behavior, #habitat preference, and #mating position.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13139
@WileyEcolEvol
#evolution #JSE #FossilFriday
The fossilised lower jaw of a sea 'croc', Metriorhynchus, from the Jurassic Oxford Clay of the UK. If you want to see it for yourself, this specimen is now on show in the 'Snappy Families' display case in our 'Discovering Dinosaurs' gallery.
For #FossilFriday, we have a fossil from our editor Jack Cooper.
This fossil is MUSM 1964; an upper anterior tooth from Otodus megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, from the Late Miocene Pisco formation of Peru. The shark may have reached over 20 m long; and was at the very top of the marine food web before its extinction in the Pliocene