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Daring to Dig: Brittney Stoneburg

Speaking of Geoscience [2024-01-17 19:30:24]   recommend this post  (1122 visits)

By Caren Shin, 2023 Science Communication Intern  Brittney Stoneburg is a vertebrate paleontologist and museum professional. She specializes in mammals from the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago) and Pleistocene periods (2.6 million years ago to [...]

GRAY WHALES: ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS

ARCHEA [2024-01-14 09:35:00]   recommend this post  (899 visits)

Young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus The lovely fellow you see here is a young Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus, with a wee dusting of barnacles and his mouth ajar just enough to show his baleen. Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to [...]

THE GIANT FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE

ARCHEA [2024-01-16 09:56:00]   recommend this post  (891 visits)

Titanites occidentalis, Fernie AmmoniteThe Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis, from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. This beauty is the remains of a carnivorous cephalopod within the family [...]

SAKARA MADAGASGAR: OXFORDIAN OUTCROPS

ARCHEA [2024-01-14 10:00:00]   recommend this post  (888 visits)

This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pattern of its septa. This lovely measures to a whopping 230 mm and hails from Oxfordian outcrops near Sakara, Madagascar. Lovingly prepped [...]

Daring to Dig: Carmi Milagros Thompson

Speaking of Geoscience [2024-01-16 23:33:14]   recommend this post  (856 visits)

By Caren Shin, 2023 Science Communication Intern Carmi Milagros Thompson is a museum specialist and paleoecologist. They study fossil marine (saltwater) invertebrates from the Caribbean to investigate how the past ecosystem and environment has [...]

JELLYFISH: DANCERS OF THE DEEP

ARCHEA [2024-01-15 17:06:00]   recommend this post  (834 visits)

This lovely ocean dancer with her long delicate tentacles or lappets and thicker rouched oral arms is a jellyfish. Her brethren are playing in the waters of the deep all over the world, from surface waters to our deepest seas — and they [...]

NEVADA FOSSILS: CARNIAN-NORIAN BOUNDARY

ARCHEA [2024-01-15 11:00:00]   recommend this post  (812 visits)

Time Slows at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State ParkHigh on the hillside up a long entry road sits the entrance to Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in central Nevada. A worn American flag and sun bleached outbuildings greet you on your way to the outcrops. Away [...]

I Won't Live Forever Because of the Dinosaurs!

Geology in the West Country [2024-01-20 13:19:00]   recommend this post  (762 visits)

 I Won't Live Forever Because of the Dinosaurs! Mammals were at the bottom of the food chain when dinosaurs were the top predators and therefore to survive mammals became small, nocturnal and short-lived. They had to reproduce rapidly and did not [...]

We are late bending the climate change curve – but bending it still matters

Highly Allochthonous [2024-01-16 22:53:12]   recommend this post  (736 visits)

The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic introduced us to the idea of ‘bending the curve’: that acting early to reduce infection rates made a huge difference in whether the peak in infections was manageable or not. The exponential nature … [...]

Asbest als Auslöser von Autoimmunerkrankungen

Mente et Malleo [2024-01-18 22:55:04]   recommend this post  (637 visits)

Die Lehre aus dem Libby-Desaster Libby ist eine kleine Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Montana mit knapp 2600 Einwohnern (Stand 2000). Vor gut 30 Jahren war sie Schauplatz eines handfesten Umweltskandals, dessen Auswirkungen auch heute noch spürbar … [...]