#fossil the day

[northernmaineminerals]

Massive Arietites Ammonites in Natural Matrix with Custom Base from Nancy, France ☠️😵‍💫☠️

Nature is Art 🫠

#NorthernMaineMinerals

[naarisz]

Gale's missing modern au scene from the patch 8 animation. The others left the game, while he was preparing gamer snacks. :DD

[amnhnyc]

What can we learn from a dinosaur feather preserved in amber? Let’s go behind the scenes of the Museum’s collection of amber fossils to find out!

[miiilowo]

IT'S NATIONAL FOSSIL DAY IN THE US 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 here's my favorite. it's name is Borealopelta and was found in Alberta. It's the only known one in it's species (borealopelta markmitchelli) (named after one of the people who helped prepare it) (it took him Seven Thousand Hours / 5 and a half years), and took 14 days to excavate out of its site. and yes it's in the ankylosaur clade if u thought it looked like one that's because it is

It's one of the best, if not THE best, preserved dinosaur fossils currently known . They found it's ORGANS preserved inside. It's ORGANS !!!!! It's rare for soft tissue to survive fossilization, so this has always been really really super duper cool for me and I like it a lot and it makes me very happy. I recommend looking into + at it on your own time because it's absolutely fascinating. it really just looks like an animal that went to sleep

The theory as to why it's so well preserved is that it likely died at or near the sea, sunk down to the floor and was quickly buried under the sand. Instead of being squished by layers and layers of sediment and rock, water carried in minerals and sort of made an Internal Rock Cast. They also discovered from studying the scales that it was likely an earthy reddish-orange tone . Nice for camouflage :-)

[pollo-finster]

🐉 ANCIENT BATTLE ! 🦖 Happy pokemon day 2025!

[macaronichewtoyz]

so so sleepy, its hard being an awesome space dinosaur girl

[ghoulgeists]

YIPPEE FOSSILGIRL <3 I made a new dnd character :] she's an earth genasi and she's sillayyyy

[xaoca]

Focus stacked image (composed of 59 frames) of a complete stock of a trilobites of the species Austerops speculator found in Jebel Oufatene, Morocco. The length of the fossil is approx 3 centimetres (1.2 in) and it lived in the Early Devonian period and is approx. 400 million years old.

[fleebites]

here’s some of my Pokemon art on this Pokemon Day :)

[velozee]

Happy Valentines Day

Here is my favorite couple from Thuringia, the Tambacher Liebespaar (tambach lovers). A fossil of two skeletons of Seymouria sanjuanensis from the Bromacker quarry

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalTeaDay 🫖☕️:

Teapot with Fossil Decoration British, Staffordshire, c. 1760–65 Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration 4 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (10.8 × 18.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 37.22.6a,b

“Though it's got a surprisingly modern look, this teapot was made in the 18th-century in Staffordshire—the heart of Britain's pottery industry. The area’s limestone yielded prehistoric fossils, and potters often turned them into whimsical motifs for teapots.”

[alaskan-wallflower]

yall darry isn’t an old man he’d understand brainrot slang and how to use technology y’all forget he’s twenty fucking years old he’s not grandpa joe 😭🙏

[scrawlingwithstyle]

*chanting*

I-SO-PODS! I-SO-PODS!

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[amnhnyc]

Who’s this fuzzy potato? It’s the hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri)! Found in parts of eastern North America, this burrowing mammal creates tunnels that can extend up to 78 ft (24 m) long. Though it typically weighs only 2.2 oz (62.8 g), this critter’s powerful forelimbs can generate force more than 30 times its body mass, allowing it to slide through the soil with ease. Its diet includes worms, insects, and snails.

Photo: crazybirdy, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[gayvampyr]

yeah i have seasonal depression. usually starts around the time the temp gets above 65°F

[housecow]

Housecow: I dont like history.

Also housecow: Has a particular interest in fossils and historical artifacts.

Come on man 🤓

that’s not history history >:(( that’s like. deep time.

if someone came up to you randomly and asked if you liked history, they’re like 100% going to tell you some boring shit about WW2