I Miss Doing Microscope Work. Can We Make A Thread Of Our Favourite Thin Section? This Is Mine

Obi on Shane Madej’s instastory on April 29, 2019.

Psst NASA is currently running a poll to decide the name of the next Mars rover!

These are the nine finalists! The poll closes in five days, so go vote here! The winning name will be announce in March :)

A mural seen through blue and red foil. The artist is Insane51

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Did you know many regular sidewalks can have body or trace fossils on them? Here I show you a sidewalk in southern Brazil (Dois Irmãos-RS) with marine invertebrate displacement trace fossils. These rocks are from the Late Carboniferous Rio do Sul Formation (Paraná Basin). Your strolls in town will never be the same now!

Villanueva State Park, New Mexico

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We are prepping some plant fossils so watch this space! 👀

Fluorite - Schacht 78 Mine, Frohnau, Annaberg, Saxony, Germany

What did South Eastern Australia look like 130 million years ago? This watercolour landscape is part of my on going work recontructing fossils discovered last summer in Boola Boola Forest, Gippsland Victoria. They date back to the Early Cretaceous period - the golden age of the dinosaurs.

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On our dig we found fossils of every species shown in this illustration. The plants in the foreground and fossil shown here is Otozamites douglasii, a member of the cycad-like Bennettitales which are completely extinct now. However the rest of the scene depicts plants that have similar modern decendants: Cladophlebis ferns down low, a forest of conifers including Bellarinea richardsii (Podocarp family), and very tall Brachphyllum tyersensis (Belonging to either the Araucaria or Cypress family).

The American Museum of Natural History takes you along on a dinosaur dig in the Morrison Formation of the US west, host of many of the famous Jurassic dinosaur bones found in North America.