FOSSIL HUNTRESS
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Thursday 1 July 2021
OH CANADA — CANADA'S PLANNED, FUNDED, HIDDEN & ONGOING GENOCIDE
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Murdered & Missing Children Art by Roy Vickers You may be seeing orange shirts and #215 & #everychildmatters in the news, especially...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
FOSSILS, TEXTILES AND URINE
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Yorkshire Coast You may recall the eight-metre Type Specimen of the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus , found in an alum quarry in Y...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
TEMNODONTOSAURUS CRASSIMANUS
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Temnodontosaurus crassimanus This big beastie is the ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus crassimanus , who graced our ancient oceans 180 milli...
Monday 28 June 2021
CAMBRIAN MYSTERIES OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
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Mount Stephen, Canadian Rockies High up on the mountain tops of the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia — on the western edge ...
Sunday 27 June 2021
IN PRAISE OF FOSSIL LAGERSTÄTTEN
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A Lagerstätte is a sedimentary deposit with extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation — sometimes preserving soft tissues when we ...
Saturday 26 June 2021
CAMBRIAN BIVALVED ARTHROPODS
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Bivalved Cambrian Arthropods had a carapace that covered their cephalothorax — their fused head and thorax — and is most often the only stru...
Friday 25 June 2021
CHELICERATES: EURYPTERIDS, SPIDERS AND HORSESHOE CRABS
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Sanctacaris uncata , (Briggs & Collins, 1988) Chelicerates first emerged in our ancient oceans some 508 million years ago, as the arthro...
Thursday 24 June 2021
FIBULACARIS NEREIDIS: A NEW BIVALVED CAMBRIAN ARTHROPOD
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Fibulacaris nereidis / Artwork by Danielle Dufault @MesozoicMuse Fibulacaris nereidis is a new species joining the ranks of the Cambrian biv...
Wednesday 23 June 2021
PAKUCARIS APATIS: A PAC-MAN-LIKE-CRAB OF THE GODDESS OF DECEIT
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Pakucaris apatis . Illustration by Danielle Dufault, ROM Meet Pakucaris apatis — the Pac-Man-like Crab of the Goddess of Deceit Apate — fro...
Tuesday 22 June 2021
MEET ACICULOLENUS ASKEWI: A NEW UPPER CAMBRIAN TRILOBITE
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A new species of trilobite from the upper Cambrian McKay Group was introduced in March of 2020: Aciculolenus askewi . The species is named ...
Monday 21 June 2021
GUT TRILOBITE: TAGMOSIS IN AGLASPIDID ARTHROPODS
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Orygmaspis (Parabolinoides) contracta with gut structure This specimen lovely chocolate brown trilobite specimen is Orygmaspis (Paraboli...
Saturday 19 June 2021
ORYGMASPIS: ASAPHID TRILOBITE
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This calcified beauty is Orygmaspis ( Parabolinoides ) spinula (Westrop, 1986) an Upper Cambrian trilobite from Furongian strata of the Mc...
Thursday 17 June 2021
GENTLE GENTOO PENGUINS
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These black, white and grey cuties — looking very smart in their natural colouring akin to formal wear — are gentoo penguins. They are forag...
Wednesday 16 June 2021
TRIASSIC FOSSILS OF SVALBARD
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Ice, Snow, Reindeer & Ichthyosaurs — Svalbard is just what I imagine my version of Valhalla to be like, without all the mead, murder and...
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