#fossil information

[oreburghminingmuseum]

Velocivolt Rock/Electric Reconstructed from a bird fossil found in Galar, Velocivolt is a small flightless bird pokemon. While it lacks the electric abilities of its older form, Nykazolt, Velocivolt is a pokemon capable of incredible speed and agility, presumably to keep it safe from predators.

Nykazolt Rock/Electric The evolved form of Velocivolt, its feathers are charged with incredible electric power, and it often shakes them loose as a form of attack, though it will also slice apart foes with its deadly electric arm blades. These blades can also be used to glide an impressive distance with a running start.

Some extra information: - It is thought that this fossil pokemon once lived in rocky and mountainous terrain due to their claws built to dig and grip onto sheer mountain surfaces. - The pads of the pokemon's feet are almost rubbery, and thought to act as a grounding mechanism for large electric attacks. - They're carnivores- presumably feeding on smaller mammalian pokemon and pokemon eggs.

Thank you [Anonymous] For donating this fossil so we can continue to learn more about this species of pokemon!

#fossil information #galar fossils #pokemon irl #pkmn irl #rotomblr #rotumblr #art post #fakemon

[dinodorks]

[ The skull is mounted on a custom steel armature, which allows for it to be seen all the way around. ]

"After seven years of work, the best preserved and most complete triceratops skull coming from Canada — also known as the "Calli" specimen — is on display for the first time since being found in 2014 at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta. A museum news release calls the specimen "unique" because of where it was discovered, the age of the rock around it, and how well it was preserved. Following the floods that tore through Alberta about 10 years ago, the Royal Tyrrell staff were engaged in flood mitigation paleontology work when the triceratops skull was discovered in 2014. Triceratops fossils are rare in Canada. This skull was found in the foothills of southwestern Alberta — an area where dinosaur fossils in general are uncommon — and nicknamed "Calli" after Callum Creek, the stream where it was discovered. Transported via helicopter in giant, heavy chunks, the skull and most of the jaw pieces were extracted over the course of a month in 2015. The rest of the triceratops' skeleton was not found. Roaming the earth roughly 68 to 69 million years ago, the museum says this skull was buried in stages, evident by the fossilization process.  "Paleontologists know this because the specimen was found in different rock layers, and the poorly preserved horn tips suggest they were exposed to additional weathering and erosion," reads a museum blog about the triceratops skull.  "The rest of the skeleton likely washed away," noting that the lower jaws were found downstream. From 2016 to 2023, Royal Tyrrell technician Ian Macdonald spent over 6,500 hours preparing this fossil, removing over 815 kilograms of rock that encased the skull. This triceratops skull is the largest skull ever prepared at the museum and its third largest on display."

Read more: "Canada's biggest and best triceratops skull on display in Alberta" by Lily Dupuis.

#palaeoblr #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaur #Triceratops #Fossil #Cretaceous #Mesozoic #Ceratopsian #Extinct #Prehistoric #Photo #Article #Information #Museum #Royal Tyrrell Museum

[captainbunnysaurusrex]

i think Ellie would love her creations no matter how they came out unlike a certain frootloop

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#danny phantom #ellie phantom #dani phantom #fanart #my art #thats one of jazz's headbands #fun fact! she is saying “id never throw you away to that green one” :) #i feel the dinos wouldnt grow to their full past sizes due to gaps in the dna left over in a fossil #i do not know alot of dino information but i know enough to know they had some sort of feathers #so now they have feathers

[good-night-space-kid]

I went on a little trip around eastern Iowa for geology club and we got to see a bunch of cool stuff!! Among the coolest though was a stop at a road cut near Decorah where we found a bunch of fossils. This road cut exposes the Platteville formation of the upper Ordovician!

The one I was most excited to find as I had really hoped we would find some is what I believe to be part of the cephalon (head) of a trilobite!!!!!!

I also scored this amazing hunk of an almost complete Isorthoceras sociale (a straight nautiloid) that was sitting in the talus at the base of the slope

I also found a handful of these gorgeous little gastropods (~1 in diameter)

We also found tons of little brachiopods but I don’t have great pictures of any of them.

If you’re ever in the Iowa area and want to see some cool rocks please shoot me a message! We had a great time and if you’re ever in the driftless region, try to get up to one of the outcrops because they’re almost always full of fossils!

#geology #fossils #paleontology #Ordovician #platteville formation #just in case anybody is ever looking for that specific information lol #but for real I love the Midwest and I’m studying geology so I would love to talk #so if you’re ever going to be in the area just message me and I’ll do what I can to find cool geo stuff for you #Iowa #Iowa geology

[mialovespokemon]

College is not fun guys.

#I have a four page paper on different fossils that can be found in the Galar region. #If anyone had any information about that I would be deeply appreciative #pokeblogging #pokemon irl #pokemon #rotomblr #pokémon

[tomorrowusa]

More climate news that Republicans will tell you to ignore.

This is by Jeff Masters, a professional meteorologist and co-founder of Weather Underground – a pioneering weather site started in 1995.

September 2023 smashed the record for the most extreme month for heat in Earth’s history, recording the highest departure from average of any month in analyses dating back to 1850, said NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information on October 13. NOAA, NASA, Berkeley Earth, and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service all rated September 2023 as the warmest September on record, crushing the previous September record by a huge margin. And famed climate scientist James Hansen warned today that the world is on the verge of exceeding the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold seen as key to protecting the world’s people and ecosystems — a claim still hotly contested within climate science. According to NOAA, September global temperatures spiked to a remarkable 1.44 degrees Celsius (2.59°F) above the 20th-century average. The September 2023 global temperature anomaly of 0.46°C (0.83°F) surpassed the previous record-high monthly anomaly from March 2016 by 0.09°C (0.16°F). Using NASA data, September 2023 was 1.7 degrees Celsius above the temperature of the 1880-1899 period, which is commonly called “preindustrial” (the difference between the 1951-1980 baseline reported on the NASA website and the 1880-1899 period is 0.226°C). This is the first time that a monthly temperature has exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperature threshold in the NASA database.

Rightwingers make up bizarre excuses to keep us using fossil fuels. It's not unexpected that religion would make an appearance on the climate-denial stage. In the 2010s, hate monger Bryan Fisher told listeners and viewers that it was an insult to God not to use fossil fuels.

Back to reality...

The year-to-date period of January-September is the warmest on record globally. According to NOAA’s latest Global Annual Temperature Rankings Outlook and the statistical model it uses, there’s a greater than 99.5% chance of 2023 being the warmest year on record. At the start of this year, few experts foresaw 2023 as being a contender for Earth’s warmest year, as the bulk of El Niño’s warming comes during the second year of each El Niño rather than the first — so it’s possible that 2024 will be even warmer than this year.

There's a climate-denial industrial complex with deep pockets willing to spend big to buy politicians to keep fossil fuel corporations cranking out carbon.

We need to support viable candidates and politicians at every level of government who favor the transition to Earth-friendly energy.

#climate change #fossil fuels #jeff masters #james hansen #record heat #september 2023 was the warmest september on record #national centers for environmental information #noaa #berkeley earth #copernicus climate change service #bryan fisher #climate-denial industrial complex #election 2024 #Youtube

[disappointingcabbage]

He body too big for he gotdamn head!!

#was informed of the existence of this absolute lad today #absolute unit #he body too big for he gotdamn head #absolute lad #vertebrate morphology #bio major #they/them in stem #they/them #cotylorhynchus #look at him #fossil #prehistoric lad #if you put wings on this man #he’d be that fucking dragon from the dnd movie #doofy lookin ass #i love him your honor #he’s just a little guy #he’s a silly little guy

[autoacafiles]

Do the fossilizes realise at some point that they spent their early life more or less being cannibals?Would they feel regret it or be like "Okey, now we have unlimited lifesource our days of eating people no longer matter"

Some regret their choices, but they generally understand that they were working off what information they had.

Others miss the hunt's high stakes, but catching the occasional bad guy provides a similar enough feeling that they can't really complain.

And the newer members never really hunted in the first place so they don't quite get why the older ones tend to be so awkward around the neighbors.

#Extra Information #Fossilizers

[savetheplanarians]

Etymology. Species named in recognition of Buc-ee’s roadside attraction travel centers that have re-popularized beavers in Texas.

#I know exactly one person who will care #that a fossilized beaver species from Texas #has been named after Buc-ee's #please make sure this information is disseminated appropriately

[filosofablogger]

Playing Both Ends Against The Middle

I was thoroughly disgusted, but not surprised by the latest from Judd Legum et al at Popular Information about the fossil fuel industry’s latest attempts to keep themselves afloat while killing the rest of us.  Read on … 1500 environmental lobbyists are double-dealing with the fossil fuel industry By Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby 6 July 2023 Hiring a lobbyist is about…

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#environmental lobbyists #F Minus #fossil fuel industry #greed and wealth #Judd Legum of Popular Information #Mississippi River Delta

[oreburghminingmuseum]

Coelevish Rock/Water Reconstructed from a fish fossil found in Galar, Coelevish are the unevolved counterpart to the much larger Dunklevish. Coelevish feed on small crustacean pokemon and have a generally mellow demeanor, they have hard armor on their face and aren't bothered by many other aquatic pokemon species. Dunklevish Rock/Water An incredibly large fossilized fish pokemon- Dunklevish- despite its dopey appearance is an incredible predator of the deeper seas. It will eat just about anything that can fit in its mouth, and is a very fast swimmer. Hard armor on its face and sides also protects it from most attacks. Some other facts: - This pokemon has an incredible bite force despite its appearance! - It also has the habit of spitting up its preys bones after consuming it.

Thank you [Anonymous] For donating this fossil so we can continue to learn more about this species of pokemon!

#fossil information #galar fossils #pkmn irl #pokemon irl #rotomblr #rotumblr #art post #fakemon

[dinodorks]

"Four people allegedly stole and sold $1 million worth of dinosaur bones and other fossilized materials from federal land in southeastern Utah, according to a federal grand jury indictment returned on Thursday. The defendants allegedly purchased, transported and exported 150,000 pounds of paleontological resources between March 2018 and March 2023. There are two Utahns accused of the crime: Vint Wade, 65, and Donna Wade, 67, who own Wade’s Wood & Rocks in Moab. Steven Willing, 67 from Los Angeles, California, and Jordan Willing, 40 from Ashland, Oregon, were also arrested. The defendants have been charged with conspiracy and theft of property against the United States, as well as multiple felony charges for violating the federal Paleontological Resources Preservation Act. The Wades of Moab allegedly bought paleontological resources that were taken from federal land from “known and unknown unindicted individuals,” who allegedly stole the dinosaur bones for the Wades’ own personal use, according to the indictment. The Wades allegedly collected these stolen fossilized materials in order to sell them at “gem and mineral shows.” They are also accused of selling the illegally removed resources to Steven and Jordan Willing. The Willings’ company, JMW Sales, then exported dinosaur bones to China, according to the indictment. They allegedly tried to hide the exports from the federal government by mislabeling the dinosaur bones and deflating their value."

Read more: "Four people accused of stealing and selling $1 million worth of dinosaur bones from southern Utah" by Anastasia Hufham.

#Palaeoblr #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs #Utah #Article #Information #Photo

[taylortruther]

honestly situations like this frustrate me SO much lol bc i feel like if it was literally any other celeb in question ppl would be open to convos about media literacy/analyzing sources, whether complaining about specific individuals' decisions we have no way of changing is truly the most effective form of climate activism, etc. but since it's taylor you'll get raked over the coals by both other fans and the whole internet for being a Delusional Swiftie if you say ANYTHING but "yeah she sucks 🙄"

mmm i don't know if this is fair because, as people have pointed out, people weren't fact checking when it was about kylie jenner lmao. the internet is very reactionary. BUT i see what you mean. it'd be one thing if people who hated taylor were saying things like only spineless morally-bankrupt people would 'defend' her jet usage!! but it's another thing entirely when that post comes from a fan lmao. the call is coming from inside the house!!!!

#and by defend i mean it's mostly people pointing out that the issue is much larger than taylor #the information was framed in a sensationalist manner because it's a marketing firm's 'report' and even they said it was an arbitrary list #and also people pointing out that there's not a REASONABLE solution due to fossil fuels use being so normalized and essential

[theropoda]

thinking about how even though the earliest body fossils of tetrapod transitional forms (panderichthys, tiktaalik, qikiqtania etc) we have all date from the late devonian (375 million years ago), we have fossils of trackways (ancient footsteps, basically) dating to the fucking middle devonian which is 395 million years ago. tiktaalik and his kin were not the first.

#honest to god information that leaves in me an excited sense of dread like wtf man #i would LOVE to see a body fossil of an early tetrapod from the middle devonian like how far fucking back does it go? #crayzay ......... #t #paleo

[confinesofmy]

i don't know what comes over me sometimes. i guess it's autism related. i was looking up arrowheads specifically bc of an interest in the ferruginous sandstone we have here, then i started looking into stratigraphical grouping to try and find out more about my area's various rock types, then i discovered my county has over a dozen fossil samples. now, one hour after i started, i'm searching for a good book on basic paleontology (oxymoron) so i can maybe find a fossil. because i've got some rocks. how hard can it be. simultaneously i'm still interested in the arrowheads. history has proven you can knap sandstone in our area, my only question is how. 🤔 what sort of tools could i make with our local sandstone. 🤔 it is 11pm on a sunday. i wish i could say i was about to drop it for the night but i fear that's not the case.

#did you know if you go to mindat.org you can find information regarding your county's fossil records and stratigraphic classifications? #but watch out! #adam yaps

[theguardianvoice]

West Indian Ocean coelacanth: The once-'extinct' Lazarus fish that can live for 100 years

Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 million years ago — until the West Indian Ocean coelacanth was found by chance living off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Coelacanths first appeared over 400 million years ago, but their fossil record stopped around the same time as the dinosaurs disappeared. Their unexpected reappearance means they are what is known as a Lazarus…

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#Animal Lives Matter #Animals #Coelacanth #Environment #Fish #Information #Living Fossil #Ocean Wildlife