#Deeptime

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.

Chaneres Formation

Hanson Formation

Guimarota Formation

Winton formation

Holocene Madagascar

Riversleigh

Kimmeridge Clay

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

Hunsrück Slate

Yixian Formation

Paja Formation

Besano Formation

Pebas megawetland

Fezouata Formation

Ngorora Formation

Kuldana Formation

Madygen Formation

Jebel Qatrani '

Holocene Cuba

Pierre Shale

Crato Formation

Archer City Formation

Tambach Formation

La Brea tar pits

Morrison Formation

Sannine Formation

Ballagan Formation

Shanwang Formation

Austrian Paratethys

For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.

I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.

I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!

[thewiwaxian]

The Phyto-Hallucigenia: An Eternal Cambrian Speculation

Imagine an Earth where the Cambrian period never truly ended, but simply kept evolving with its foundational life forms. Our beloved Hallucigenia, that spiny, enigmatic creature, takes a wild turn.

Around 450 million years ago in this alternate timeline, a symbiotic relationship began to bloom. Certain Hallucigenia lineages, adapting to coastal environments, started forming a profound bond with primitive, multi-cellular terrestrial algae. Fast forward to 400 million years ago, and behold the "Phyto-Hallucigenia"! Their iconic dorsal spines have transformed into elaborate, photosynthetic structures, almost like alien fronds or anemone-like flowers, fully integrating the algae. Their ventral tentacles became root-like anchors, allowing them to slowly burrow and draw nutrients from the damp, ancient algal forests.

This wasn't just a quirky adaptation; it was a game-changer. These plant-animal hybrids became crucial components of their ecosystem, thriving on sunlight and water, moving deliberately through a perpetually strange, vibrant Cambrian landscape. What a fascinating path for evolution when the building blocks are forever alien and familiar all at once!

タイトル：植物ハルキゲニア：永遠のカンブリア紀の思弁

カンブリア紀が真に終��ることなく、その基盤となる生命体と共に進化し続けた地球を想像してみてください。私たちの愛すべき、棘のある謎めいた生��物であるハルキゲニアが、驚くべき方向へと進化した物語です。

この別の時間軸では、約4億5千万年前に共生関係が芽生え始めました。沿岸環境に適応した特定のハルキゲニアの系統が、原始的な多細胞陸生藻類との深いつながりを形成し始めたのです。そして4億年前、ついに「植物ハルキゲニア」が誕生しました！彼らの象徴的な背中の棘は、まるで異星の葉やイソギンチャクのような花のように、精巧な光合成構造へと変化し、藻類を完全に統合しました。腹側の触手は根のようなアンカーとなり、湿った太古の藻類の森の中をゆっくりと burrowing して栄養を吸収できるようになりました。

これは単なる奇妙な適応ではありませんでした。それは生態系を大きく変えるものでした。これらの植物と動物のハイブリッドは、日光と水で繁栄し、永遠に奇妙で活気に満ちたカンブリアの風景の中をゆっくりと移動しながら、生態系の重要な構成要素となったのです。構成要素が永遠に異質でありながらもどこか馴染み深いとき、進化がいかに魅力的な道をたどるかを示しています！

[daisyd22202]

Thoughts on deep time

thinking about how I could technically be drinking dinosaur pee rn.... and how my phone could be made from metal dinosaurs walked over... maybe there was metal in a cave where they lived... awe

[nixtorr]

ive been complaining about how the doctor was pretty alright in stranded while the tardis was dead for a good while now. since july. so i compiled moments where he is decidedly not okay in ravenous because the tardis isnt okay

[noctilucid]

Dannymay Poetry - Day 7 Blood Blossoms

This one's my favorite of the year, I'm really proud of it.

"...Thank you Mia, that was very creative.  I don't think I've ever seen a student fit three poetic devices into a haiku before."  Mr. Lancer glanced to the clock in the back.  "Any more volunteers?"

Danny had scratched down sprawling lines in fits and starts, only to grab a second page.  It was unclear if he'd scrapped a first draft or was continuing, and Sam didn't want to ask and interrupt the creative process.  She looked around the room, and sensing the tide of interest waning, she finally raised her hand.  

"I'd like to go, Mr. Lancer."  

She focused on the solid weight of her boot soles as she walked to the front.  The A-Listers were still tittering, but they'd been whispering back and forth the entire class.  Sam was trying not to let it get to her, but it felt sharper now that it was her turn.  She was a little nervous, truth be told— she probably should have written an extra poem about something frivolous.  She probably should have pulled Danny and Tucker aside and told them about the blood blossoms before presenting.  

She'd meant to.  

She should have anticipated Danny's predicament and not left that conversation for the five minutes before class.  

But here she was.

"So, um.  I've been workshopping this poem for a while actually.  It's about that time that plants took over the town?  It's uh."  And here's the rub.  "It's told from the plants' perspective."  Sam's gaze skirted around the corner her friends sat in, avoiding Tucker.  

Paulina's scoff carried over the quiet shuffle of bodies.  "Of course she'd take the plants' side."

"Shh!"  Kwan leaned forward in his seat.  "She's really good!  Like, creepy, but good." 

And, strangely, hearing that helped.  

Sam took a quiet breath and stood a little taller.  "The title is Honeysuckle Thorns."  She let her hands fall to her sides.  She didn't need the paper. 

Seed growth, new leaf Turning to the daylight heat Wispy fibers spun and white  Cling to crevice in the street  Hot air stings with tar and bleach  Water rush or scarcely reach Crack the choked earth, make a way Through to silence underneath  Cold and packed and over-paved World forgotten as a grave  I can make new life of these I can build, a lost place saved Once a forest, once a moor Once estuary, eons before  Every fibre ages past Is still within my seedroom store  Deeptime memory, centuries mine Algae to moss, up from the brine Horsetail, cycads, ginkgo, pine Flowers unnamed, bright and fine And every crawling, chewing beast Has never bid our growth to cease

      Come, oh Green, and take your place. 

                  □ □ □ □

Up from night, under neon glow Quiet as a spider's feet Through foundation, along pipes From blue of moonlight to blue of screens Rattle of AC, hum of fridge,  Whirl of fan, thump of earbuds  Eyes full, ears full, mouths full Who could hear? Who could see? Until:  Heavy fragrance, honey-sweet And we, sewn deep in green reverie...

                   ▣▣▣▣

          Welcome back, apes.  Come home to the trees that made you.

                     ~*~

What? What pest is this? Biting, grinding, sickle cold Beasts awake, beasts dead,  Beasts, beasts, beasts! Savagery is not your domain alone— Remember now my thorns!

Oleander, manchineel Foxglove, hogweed, nettle-sting Urushiol, quinine,  Capsaicin, tannins, atropine Swollen drops of resin bleed Thorns and trichomes, raphides Every defense, try them all Last, most desperate, salt the earth With blood blossom—! That vilest seed  Might prove the only poison needed

Slow to bloom, and sewn too late  Outlive my need, my dormant hate But one day you will end this deed Go forth, my child, pierce his lungs                           and make him BLEED.

"Repetition, simile, personification." 

Kwan clapped with gusto in an otherwise silent room.  

Sam finally let herself look at the back corner.  Tucker's flat glare told her there would be words later.

Mr. Lancer was trying hard to keep his praise measured, but it was noise that slipped off her brain.  She turned in her paper and hurried back to her seat.  

"They won't germinate for a century anyway," she muttered as she settled next to Tucker.  

"And how long have you known about this?"  

Danny dropped his pencil and flipped his page back to the front, rereading.  The paper trembled a little in his hands.  

There was a pause in the ambient noise of the classroom.  "Last call for volunteers," Mr. Lancer said.  "Going once, going twice...  And we will go back to alphabetical order."  He took a few minutes to scan through his roster, checking off names as he went. 

"And next we have... Mr. Fenton."  He looked up and found Danny in his usual spot.  "Are you ready?"  

Danny shoved back his chair and stood, gathering his pages.  "Yeah," he said breathlessly.  "I am."

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Random Doctor Who Facts You Might Not Know, Part 49

If you recall from a previous part, it is a class 2 intervention for a Time Lord to set themselves up as a god, and the punishment for this is vaporization. (Audio: False Gods) On an unrelated note, the Doctor is referred to ans treated as a god by many races and species in many different stories.

The Fifth Doctor has given Turlough and likely his other companions long, extended lectures on cricket. (Audio: Phantasmagoria)

The Master was connected to everything and nothing while stuck inside the Eye of Harmony. (Audio: Planet of Dust)

Sarah Jane was aware of the Master before they met in the Death Zone. (Novel: Managra) This suggests that maybe she heard of him through journalism or through UNIT, or maybe, of course, the Doctor spoke about the Master often enough that she became somewhat familiar with who he is.

The Twelfth Doctor once performed surgery on Danny Pink when he had been caught in a blast on an alien world. It was very important to both of them that Clara never found out about it. (Audio: War Wounds)

Time Lords have an instinctive fear of the Ravenous, like how sheep tend to be afraid of wolves and how deer freeze in headlights. (Audio: Deeptime Frontier)

By one account, Sarah Jane thought of the Third Doctor as a father figure but the Fourth Doctor as a mad uncle. (Novel: Managra)

The Master keeps a well stocked liquor cabinet. (Novel: Deadly Reunion)

Under the influence of cyberparticles, K-9 would say "no" instead of "negative." (Audio: The Fate of Krelos)

The Fourth Doctor recalled beating Ernest Hemingway at tiddlywinks, and apparently, Hemingway never forgave him for it. (Audio: Death Match)

The First Doctor and Susan were being pursued by the Chancellery Guard when they stole the TARDIS and ran away from Gallifrey. (Audio: The Beginning)

The Fifth Doctor once used his cricket bat to deflect a sword blow, but his cricket bat was damaged by the impact. This saddened the Doctor. (Comic: The Tides of Time)

The Guardians of Time number six in total and is called the Six-Fold God. All the aspects of the universe are split amongst the six of them. Included in the Six-Fold God are the White Guardian of Light in Time, the Black Guardian of Darkness and Chaos, and the Crystal Guardian of Dream and Fantasy (also known as the Toymaker). (Novel: Divided Loyalties)

The Fifth Doctor and Turlough once showed up to stop an evil from committing murder, only to find multiple versions of the TARDIS nearby and that the previous victims, burnt beyond recognition, all had two hearts. The Doctor realized that he was caught in a paradox and that the previous victims were his future selves who had also shown up to stop the murders. (Audio: Repeat Offender)

According to some, the Doctor was the best agent the Celestial Intervention Agency ever had. (Audio: Intervention Earth)

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[ghostsmovement]

Map of the Forgotten

Someone etched this map with forgetting. There’s a silence that echoes beneath the facts of history — a silence not of ignorance, but of erasure. This reflection begins with the question: what if we are not the first? Drawing from memory, myth, and speculative deep time, this entry explores the quiet presence left behind by something long forgotten. It invites us to rethink what it means to remember. From 'Ghosts of Deep Time' — a poetic exploration of lost memory and ancient echoes.

Read more or get the book:

#GhostsOfDeepTime #AncientHistory #LostCivilisations #ForbiddenArchaeology #MythologyExplained #AncientMysteries #SpeculativeHistory #EsotericKnowledge #PrehistoricHumans #DeepTime #PoeticPhilosophy #AlternateHistory #HistoricalMystery #AncientWorld #Hominids #OralTradition #MemoryAndMyth

[ghoststrata]

I'll be performing this Sunday at Performance Space New York. I have prepared a set of 3 short pieces, less than a 2 minutes each. It is a staged monologue with movement and sound. With assistance of my friend Esther, the sound piece was worked with the monologue to talk about geological desires, an idea I've explored for more than a year now on fossil fuel extraction, deeptime and erotism... I am very excited.

[emissarytoearth]

returned to Ada'itsx for the first time since the last time. to spend some time with the Ancestors, to meet the ghosts and hear their stories. to walk the land where so many heartbeats were spend for a Cause. to witness the tangled roots and try to puzzle them out, kitestrings connecting all things, the DeepTime to QuickPresent. healing with kisses the places where bravery left open wounds, like trenches dug in roads to defy the machinery of Progress

[bokkescrapbook]

Deeptime Fécamp

[evoldir]

Fwd: Graduate position: CPG_Stockholm.DeepTimePalaeogenomics

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Graduate position: CPG_Stockholm.DeepTimePalaeogenomics > Date: 10 October 2023 at 06:01:26 BST > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > Two fully funded PhD student positions in DeepTime mammalian > palaeogenomics based at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm > (Sweden) > > PROJECT DESCRIPTION: > The Department of Zoology at Stockholm University invites applications > for two four-year PhD positions based at the Centre for Palaeogenetics > in Stockholm. The PhD student positions will be funded through an > ERC Advanced Grant (PrimiGenomes) awarded to Love Dal�n. The overall > project is aimed at investigating speciation, large-scale biogeographic > processes and adaptive evolution in mammals during the Pleistocene, > through palaeogenomic analysis of remains that are up to two million > years old. One of the PhD student projects will be focused on small > rodents, where examples of scientific questions that will be addressed > include whether morphological changes have primarily been driven by rapid > adaptive evolution or extinctions/recolonisations, and to what extent past > climate change have affected species demography. The second PhD student > project will focus on several large mammal species, where examples of > questions to investigate include the consequences of past environmental > changes on range dynamics, and the importance of hybridisation for the > formation of evolutionary lineages. The PhD students will be admitted > in the subject area of animal population genetics, and will join the > research group led by Love Dal�n (see https://ift.tt/WbDPF0S) at > the Centre for Palaeogenetics located on the Stockholm University campus. > > DEADLINE: > 5 November 2023 > > MORE INFORMATION & APPLICATION SYSTEM: > https://ift.tt/TdpaPVr > > > > > Love Dal�n

[throwupgirl]

everyone make an 8tracks account RIGHT NOW and follow deeptime to see his awesome gif icon!!!!

if nobody got me i know 8tracks sure doessnt either. but only if its the app haha 8tracks the WEBSITE got me!

[robreyart]

Nebular Nook Oil, 24 x 16 inches This new painting, from an earlier study, has been accepted to show next month in the Oil Painters of America's annual National Juried Exhibition! In the nebulous dust of deceased giants, new stars are born. Stretching out their new solar winds, these young stars carve out a space for themselves in the dust, just a few million years old. How many human generations is a million years? It would be approximately 40,000 generations, yet homo sapiens has only existed for less than a third of that time, about 12,000 generations. Prints through link in bio. #cosmicperspective #deeptime #stars #astronomy #sciart #scienceart #cosmos #figurepainting #oilpainting #spaceart #boldbrush https://www.instagram.com/p/CMP42H0Fjpa/?igshid=a8se9ijyjku5

[librarycompany]

"The result of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, -no prospect of an end." -James Hutton

James Hutton (1726 - 1797) is considered the founder of modern geology. A Scottish farmer and naturalist, Hutton intuited the immense scale of Earth’s age through observation, upending the more common view of a young Earth. He was the first to articulate the awed sensation of beyond-human scales of time.

Two hundred years later, the writer John McPhee gave it a name: Deep Time.

From our current exhibition, "Seeing Coal."

James Hutton. Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations (Edinburgh, 1795).

[riva-isms]

The ongoing battle with Stiltgrass. This Is Not A Lawn/Growing In Circles. #ecoart #landart #embodiedpractice #invasivespecies #weeding #contemporaryart #dailypractice #workinprogress #deeptime #hudsonvalley #stanfordville (at Stanfordville, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSec6v6rKXO/?utm_medium=tumblr