aquaticpaleo

[aquaticpaleo]

Remember these guys? I had the whole collection back in 538 Million BC 💜🦑

#cambrian #cambrian period

[aquaticpaleo]

I'm gonna be so real with you I hit follow after just reading your blog title. Paleontology but wet...marvelous.

thank you 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[aquaticpaleo]

Welcome to Trilobite Tuesday! Have you ever wondered how trilobites are found in the field? Often, as was the case for this 3.1-in- (8-cm-) Thysanopeltis, rock after rock must be cracked by hand and carefully examined. The presence of a thin cross-section of calcite—like the crack still visible running through the middle of this critter’s body—indicates that a complete specimen might be buried within the stone matrix.

#dont fuck with me its trilobite tuesday #trilobite #science #fossil #paleontology

[aquaticpaleo]

Nature, 252 mya: LYSTROSAURUS SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

[aquaticpaleo]

[aquaticpaleo]

Research alert! A team of international scientists has discovered the largest known freshwater dolphin, an ancient species that lived in the Peruvian Amazon some 16.5 million years ago. Pebanista yacuruna, which likely measured 10-11.5-feet (3-3.5 meters) long, inhabited what is now the Amazon River basin before this system had its major connection to the Atlantic Ocean. 

“Discoveries by our international collaborative teams tell us the kinds of tropical life that existed during times in Earth’s history when virtually nothing had been known before,” said John Flynn, the Museum’s Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals and a co-author on the new study, which was published in the journal Science Advances. “This is crucial to understanding the history and pathways that led to the remarkably rich modern Amazonian biodiversity.” 

Learn more about this animal, and its surprising modern relatives, in our latest blog post.

[aquaticpaleo]

#this #anomalocaris #cambrian period #paleontology #❤️

[aquaticpaleo]

They turned him into a shaboingboing

#anomalacaris #awesome

[aquaticpaleo]

“A Brief Glimpse”

Pebanista yacuruna, a recently described, large river dolphin, surfaces in between its search for food.

[aquaticpaleo]

#dunkleosteus #paleontology #oceanology #fish #marine biology

[aquaticpaleo]

#its a repost but op said ok to repost #paleontology #tyrannosaurus #spinosaurus #aquatic paleontology #original

[aquaticpaleo]

#fuck yeah #whales

[aquaticpaleo]

[aquaticpaleo]

thank you all for the boops <3

[aquaticpaleo]

Apexpredator of the cretaceous oceans, Mosasaurus Hoffmanni

[aquaticpaleo]

can we pretend that weird crabs in the water are like shooting stars

i could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now

[aquaticpaleo]